Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

1. This week, a federal investigation found that three Kentucky-based McDonald’s franchises illegally employed at least 305 children.

Two ten-year-olds were working cleaning and taking drive-thru orders until 2 AM

And they weren't even paid!

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The founders of America CLEARLY wanted to avoid a nation founded on ANY religion. That was the whole point & unique to America!

WTF do these @GOP believe this religious #Christofascist BS? Listen to James Madison, FATHER of the Bill of Rights:

The Florida legislature just passed a bill allowing the state to kidnap trans children from their parents

Also, Florida now prevents minors from receiving life saving gender-affirming care

SB 254 passed the Florida senate 26-14 and house 83-28

This should horrify everyone.

Reminder: HB 1297 will allow FL to execute medical professionals for “assaulting minors” if they even try to administer care

This is fascism. It must be stopped.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254

Republican members of the Oregon Senate on Thursday extended their boycott of Senate proceedings into a second day, delaying action by the majority Democrats on bills on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care

https://ground.news/article/oregon-republican-senators-break-quorum-for-2nd-day

https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/whats-the-difference-between-a-good?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=87274&post_id=119089135&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Florida Bans Restrictions on Fertilizer Despite Risk to Water Quality - Quality of life does not get in the road of profits in DeFascist Land. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/05/04/florida-bans-restrictions-on-fertilizer-despite-risk-to-water-quality/ via @dianeravitch #DeFascist

https://bipartisanreport.com/2023/05/04/herschel-walker-caught-in-potentially-criminal-scandal-involving-secret-535000/

Both are based on bad thought processes, neither deserves to stand today.

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Can't speak for all liberals. But my objection to the religious right hasn't ever been how they choose to live their private lives. I think their ideas about everything are a real bummer, but it's not for me to say if you want to impose that meshugas on yourself.

I do, though, strenuously object to their attempts to impose their religious notions in common areas of public life and -- now -- even to dictate how others live their private lives.

That's the difference. There's no bothsidery here.

2/ For those of you not in New York, Peter Luger is a very old, like your oil baron great-grandfather went there old, steakhouse in Brooklyn. If this wasn’t purportedly said in the context of a sexual assault, it would be kinda funny that Trump said that.

Right now, the jury is seeing video of Trump's deposition testimony.

Trump is being asked about a photo of himself, Carroll, his then wife Marla Maples, and Carroll's husband. Trump has denied ever meeting Carroll.

Indeed, you can't teach a class on composition without having students write about *something*. And the professor, Julie Moore, gets that:

“They don’t write in a vacuum either because the topic comes from somewhere,” Moore said. “And then they have to learn to write to specific readers and at a specific time and place and at a specific context and in a specific genre so they’re learning that writing doesn’t happen in some nebulous.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-mccarthys-support-for-ukraine-is-meaningless-if-he-lets-the-us-default-on-debt

In the UK they are stopping people who are wearing a mask from voting. It’s unacceptable to exclude high risk people from democracy.

@StillIRise1963
In Canada, the Proud Boys are tagged as a terrorist group. It was unfortunately founded in 2016 by a Canadian living in the U.S. In addition to the Proud Boys, 2 other neo-Nazi networks, Atomwaffen and The Base, were also declared as terrorist groups.

The Proud Boys which participated in the deadly U.S. Capitol riot of Jan. 6 is now in the same category as the militant groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida. That's how you deal with terrorists!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/proud-boys-terrorist-group-canada/

If you have a billion dollars, covering a $6,000-a-month tuition is the same relative cost as someone with $60,000 being asked to pay 36 cents.

If you could earn the close friendship of a Supreme Justice for 36 cents a month, wouldn't you?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-harlan-crow/

Whooey!! When @SenRonJohnson decides to lie about something, he doesn't hold back.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/johnson-gop-has-never-voted-raise-debt?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=74160