Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

One of my favorite things to do is modeling and recreating broken plastic wheelchair parts that cost a shitload of money but I can model and 3D print for super cheap. Rick is a teacher here at Lane Tech that works with wheelchair dependent students and he comes to me with the broken parts. Manufacturers charge way more than the families can afford.

Hey friends. Please read this open letter that I signed onto. It's a collective statement by college and university faculty from across the US who teach African American Studies in defense of the Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course that was blocked/censored in Florida.

#academicfreedom #litstudies #africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #advancedplacement @litstudies

https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c

An open letter from 200+ African American Studies professors regarding Florida’s rejection of the AP pilot course. https://medium.com/@afamprofshighered/open-letter-in-defense-of-ap-african-american-studies-e61768fb8f9c

Ella Irwin also explicitly directed Twitter to ban journalists like me. The fact that she has used her access to people's private messages should be a wake-up call to everyone on Twitter, especially journalists; how can you protect sources in a place like that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

Three of the five House Republicans that will serve on the committee voted against certifying the 2020 election. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ethics-committee-election-deniers-kevin-mccarthy-jan-6-1234671754/

Many of the conservatives who are pushing hardest for book bans in public schools homeschool their kids or send them to private schools.

They still push for this because destruction of public schools as an engine of egalitarianism, democracy and social mobility serves their larger ideological goals of having an unequal society with "good people" like them at the top, served and exploited by exploited and ignorant poor underneath.

My sympathies to parents and teachers of school-aged kids in Florida. You deserve better.

#parenting

@alexwild

Sick of #twitter ?

Just go to the Playstore, search for Twitter. Don't reinstall it, but rate it with one star. Then select the three dots in the top right, with 'Flag As Inappropriate'. The next screen asks why you think it is inappropriate. Mark it as 'Contains Hate Speech', and submit.

Google does take these reports seriously. It's worth the effort.

"As Josh Hawley found out," Raskin said.

Jamie Raskin warns McCarthy that releasing Jan. 6 videos might be hard on Republican egos
#news #politics

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/january-6-tapes-release-raskin/

“…a former colleague of Mrs. #Roberts has raised concerns that her recruiting work poses potential ethics issues for the chief justice. Seeking an inquiry, the ex-colleague has provided records to DOJ and Congress indicating she has been paid millions of dollars in commissions for placing lawyers at firms — some of which have business before the Supreme Court”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sullivan-roberts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I often get the sense that quite a few people do not actually know what I write about and instead make assumptions about what I must write about based on another set of assumptions about who I must be.

But, if you ask me, I write about democracy, and this column — about the near-total absence of accountability for American police departments — is very much about democracy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/opinion/tyre-nichols-police-accountability-democracy.html

Poor people who defend capitalism aren't capitalists, they're the capital. They're not sitting at the table, they're dinner

Guy walked by shouting “Broccoli” … “Cauliflower” … “Cauliflower” … “Broccoli.”

I think he has Florets.

Who will educate children when teachers finally become fed up with dodging bullets https://wp.me/p2odLa-xFr #Education

Another purposefully misleading headline from our mainstream media

“Biden refuses to negotiate with republicans!!!1!”

Republicans don’t want to pay the bill for a budget they already passed. They want to hold the nation hostage. And it’s on the president to give into their demands?

The United States of America does not negotiate with terrorists.

The Push for School Choice Is Accelerating https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/the-push-for-school-choice-is-accelerating/2023/01 #Education

I don’t know if my mastodon follower reach is enough to get traction but can anyone direct me to resources in the UK for trans and non gender conforming people who get illegally terminated from work as a teacher? Like are there legal groups addressing that there?

Crista V. Worthy: Bullies are banning books with zero public discussion networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/c… #Education

Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the first-ever #SocialSecurity check, and Republicans are celebrating by trying to cut this vital program.

I will keep fighting to protect and expand Social Security benefits for San Antonio's seniors and people with disabilities.