Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

When a school board, a library or a state bans books, it’s not a show of strength. It’s a sign they’re ruled by fear. Fear of knowledge. Fear of opposing views. Fear of democracy.

A new real-world effectiveness study documents 85% reduction of deaths and 55% reduction of hospitalizations for Paxlovid, independent of vaccination status, age, variants https://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00011-7/fulltext…
@TheLancetInfDis

So, I thought I'd dust off the #SecretSciFiNetwork for a pair of questions.

What is your favorite #SciFi trope?
I mean what will you watch every time they make a movie about it?

And what's your least favorite SciFi trope?
What are you tired of or never really liked.

As always, please boost to reach as many science fiction lovers as possible, and include #SecretSciFiNetwork in your response.

And of course no gatekeeping, no arguing. Plenty of room for different takes.

Using the new U2 navigation system, the streets have no name and I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

WOW- the more you lie the more the GOP loves you. Female George Santos as LIES found in newly elected GOP lawmaker's backstory https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/

All female doctors and health workers in Kabul have been ordered to wear the full hijab and cover their faces with black masks while working by the Taliban Ministry of Public Health.

“We female doctors have studied for a lifetime and gained the expertise to what, perform operations under the burqa?”

“If the order is not removed, no female doctor will be able to continue working.”

'Muqtaba'
Female Doctor,
Afghanistan.

#Afghanistan
#LetAfghanWomenWork

https://rukhshana.com/en/taliban-orders-female-staff-in-kabul-hospitals-to-cover-their-faces-and-wear-all-black-hijabs?s=09

A new #exhibition of anti-war posters in st. petersburg by the veteran russian #artist and activist Yelena Osipova has been closed the day after it opened after police confiscated all the works.

Speaking to RFE/RL, she said her protests against russia's invasion of Ukraine would continue.

(4 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/JJ-uJ-LS1SI

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

Covid-19 infection rates are increasing in England again.

But don't worry, folks, I'm sure that herd immunity that the covid minimisers promised us back in the summer of 2020 will kick in any day now.

#covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveypilot/10february2023

#GeorgeSantos has taken his fraud on the road: from Brazil to Amish Country to the US Capitol.

Yet Kevin #McCarthy wants him to have access to classified #China briefings.

For my ED friends who like following the AI/ChatGPT stuff (wars? arms race? explosion? Or some other non-military word) as it connects to education, The Sentient Syllabus Project is a useful public substack:

https://sentientsyllabus.substack.com/p/reading-between-the-lines?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Teachers in 1930s Germany hid books to avoid being arrested.

Teachers in republican Florida are hiding books to avoid being arrested.

Any questions?

-- Jeff Tiedrich

Judge slams January 6 rioter for 'threatening' a Black cop with a Confederate flag and sentences him to 3 years in prison

https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-with-confederate-flag-sentenced-to-36-months-in-prison-2023-2?amp

Republicans- so afraid of a successful non-white person what we can’t even read about baseball anymore.

Florida school district pulls children's book about Roberto Clemente off shelves:
https://triblive.com/sports/pirates/florida-school-district-pulls-childrens-book-about-roberto-clemente-off-shelve/

@AlliFlowers Yes, especially when you realize the the parent organization of "He Gets Us" “has donated more than $50 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom — a nonprofit that’s led big policy fights over abortion and non-discrimination laws at the Supreme Court and in states around the country.”
https://www.levernews.com/email/908cc945-c075-411c-9f6f-990effe1d1db/?ref=lever-daily-newsletter

Justin Baragona writes,

"Former Twitter officials revealed on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump not only received preferential treatment for years, but he also directly requested the site remove tweets that he didn’t like. At the same time, they also noted that President Joe Biden hadn’t contacted Twitter to take down any tweets or censor content."

#Trump #Twitter

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-twitter-officials-confirm-to-congress-that-trump-not-biden-tried-to-censor-tweets

Ward Sutton #newyorkercartoons
#USPolitics #Floriduh #DesantisBookBan

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