Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@MSNBC
Here in America, using your first amendment right to redress the government is more severely punished than trying to overthrow the government.

The message is clear.

If you don't like something the government is doing, the government does not want you to protest, but instead turn to violent coups as your first option.

I've never stopped masking, but I thought people were overreacting when they suggested that masks would go from socially demonized to outlawed.

To those people, I apologize. And of course it's Eric Adams because even a city with NYC's track record of terrible terrible mayors, he manages to be the worst.

In February, the CDC quietly added this update to its guidance for certifying deaths due to #COVID19.

"Documented serious post-COVID-19 conditions include cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, renal, endocrine, hematological, and gastrointestinal complications, as well as death."

They've also given "long Covid" an official name: PASC (Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19).

#Covid #SarsCov2 #PASC #LongCovid

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf

💪🏼”5 women who say they were denied abortions despite grave risks to their lives or their fetuses sued #Texas, 1st time that pregnant women have taken legal action against bans that have shut down access to #abortion since the SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade.

..Their…complain… “catastrophic harms” to women …”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/us/texas-abortion-ban-suit.html

@rchusid @usernameswift After moving a test in my class to online rather than in person due to a #COVID outbreak, I posted how one of their freedoms in the "free state of Florida" (quotes for #irony ) is that they absolutely can wear masks when not feeling well or wanting to keep feeling well. Of course, I framed it that way because we faculty in the #FreeStateOfFlorida are not allowed to mandate masks in our classrooms.

One hundred sixty-six years ago today, March 6, 1857
Dred Scott v. Sandford
(1857)

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney read the majority opinion of the Court, which stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a federal territory. It moved the nation a step closer to the Civil War.

I appreciate those who share photos via #CatsOfMastodon. The joy people take in their cats is contagious.

Yep

Take Michael Knowles' speech and replace "Transgenderism" with "Judaism" and maybe you'll see why this is a problem.

#TransGenocide

If Florida schools choose not to teach important subjects in their curriculum, could the Department of Education and individual state Boards of Education declare diplomas issued at those schools invalid in other states?

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3885499-frost-on-desantis-targeting-black-lgbtq-transgender-people-its-fascism/

Definitely should

@jeffmoore @edutooters @edutooter Interesting thread, lots of reading to check on. My naive assumption was that Conservative objection was primarily to taxes that go to public schools. The donor class doesn't send their children to public schools so they see those taxes, in particular, as theft.

All the other talking points like imaginary CRT, specific books in libraries, parental oversight, are just to rile up the idiot base against their own best interests.

Harvard Professor Cornell W. Brooks brilliantly dissects the GOP attacks on 'CRT' and reveals the danger of Ron DeSantis's demagoguery and its threats to the nation. A new episode of the Weekend Show airs live at 8p ET/5p PT! https://youtu.be/5VocwmyZp04

@Rasta

“CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? I SAID MY FOOD DISH IS EMPTY.”

Jeffries: ‘No indication’ Capitol Police vetted Jan. 6 footage Tucker Carlson plans to air | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3884866-jeffries-no-indication-capitol-police-vetted-jan-6-footage-tucker-carlson-plans-to-air/

#Hakeem_Jeffries #Insurrection #Jan._6

We're heading full-speed toward full-on white Christian nationalist rule, first in the states and then nationwide, as Republicans at all levels and in all branches rush to oppress all Americans and secure their own undemocratic control before their base dwindles into a permanent minority.

WaPo: "Florida bills would ban gender studies, transgender pronouns, tenure perks
A raft of laws proposed by the GOP majority would transform how Florida educates children"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/05/florida-bills-would-ban-gender-studies-transgender-pronouns-tenure-perks/