Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Everyone call your representative.

Tell them that if Republicans refuse to pay for the debt created by their tax cuts, then we have no choice but to roll back those tax cuts to balance the budget.

If people demand the rollback of tax cuts every time Republicans refuse to raise the debt ceiling, the lobbyists will make certain they stop playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

A 6-year-old boy was shot to death while he was playing in the front yard of his family’s Kansas home

Another 6-year-old was shot dead while playing video games in his house in Virginia

What’s it going to take?

So far in 2023:
There have been 14,428 gun violence deaths
192 mass shootings
603 children under 18 murdered

We didn’t flinch any of the times children were slaughtered at school, at home, or anywhere

So what’s it going to take?

#ItsTheGuns

Brydge, the once-thriving startup making excellent iPad keyboards, is ceasing operations. I spoke to nearly a dozen former Brydge employees about what happened. Many of them are still owed 6 weeks of salary.

Former Brydge employees attribute the company’s failure to mismanagement and hostile leadership by its two CEOs, high turnover rates, and a lack of financial transparency.

It's a long one, but I hope you read it and enjoy it.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/04/brydge-keyboards-out-of-business-update/

There is zero chance that a justice appointed by a Democratic President would not have resigned weeks ago under remotely similar circumstances. Zero.

What is it about Republican appointees that has them thinking this is all perfectly fine and dandy rather than evidence of gross corruption of the Supreme Court?

Clarence Thomas had a child in private school. Harlan Crow paid the tuition
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/4/2167459/-Clarence-Thomas-had-a-child-in-private-school-Harlan-Crow-paid-the-tuition

#Conservative #judicial activist #LeonardLeo arranged $25k payment to #GinniThomas for consulting work specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork per documents reviewed by WaPo. In January 2012, Leo instructed #GOP #pollster #KellyanneConway to bill a nonprofit group he advises and use that money to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the nonprofit #JudicialEducationProject filed a brief to #SCOTUS in a landmark #VotingRights case. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

Hello! I have not tried this out yet but as I'm hosting the #aoir2023 conference it would be good to connect with folks here

#introduction: I am a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. I work at the intersections of LGBTQ+ media studies and game studies primarily, but I teach on a range of (mostly qualitative) methods and new/emergent media. For more here is my "hopefully updated this summer if I have time" website: https://adrienneshaw.com/

Masked teens board school bus and attempt to shoot 14-year-old student in the head - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/masked-teens-board-school-bus-and-attempt-to-shoot-14-year-old-student-in-the-head/

Buwahahahaha!

This man was killed while doing yardwork because his neighbor thought he was a Democrat.

Got that?

If you call a Republican racist when they say or do something racist, they whine endlessly about how their “freedom of speech” is being attacked, then they turn around and do something like this.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article268513477.html

'Our work will continue': Merrick Garland speaks after Proud Boys and Oath Keepers convictions - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/our-work-will-continue-merrick-garland-speaks-after-proud-boys-and-oath-keepers-convictions/

Ivanka Trump Appears to Be on Thin Ice With the New York Attorney General - Vanity Fair https://apple.news/Aieo3om1mRse4ncBbqo5e4Q

Justice Clarence Thomas:

You’re a pubic hair on the Coke can of judicial ethics.
You’re a festering carbuncle on Lady Justice’s ass.
You’re a supplicant Black man, as susceptible to White patriarchy’s will as you are to its wealth.
You’re the slave who isn’t in bondage because you’ve been sold, but because you’ve been bought — and you welcomed the transaction.
You’re too lacking in dignity to be credibly called a prostitute.
You’re Harlan’s whore.
#ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #HarlanCrow #corruption

Wandering the stacks at Copperfield’s #Books 📚

Just to recap, Clarence Thomas let a GOP megadonor take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house and let her live there rent free, pay for his grandnephew to attend a private boarding school — all in secret until now.

How is he still on the Supreme Court?