Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“Until we throw out the bums in office who rely on thoughts and prayers—and stand in the way of gun laws that can save lives and slow the bloodshed—then we can all continue to decry the horror while the soundtrack of our lives is a drumbeat of mass shootings.”
https://america.substack.com/p/the-sickening-cynicism-of-thoughts

A Former NFL Player Persuaded Politicians That His Child ID Kits Help Find Missing Kids. There’s No Evidence They Do.
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At least 11 states have agreed to distribute fingerprinting kits sold by Kenny Hansmire’s National Child Identification Program.

Some are spending millions even though similar kits are available for free.

#Children #Kids #Missing #Fingerprinting #Identification #NFL

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenny-hansmire-persuades-politicians-to-fund-child-id-kits?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

New in Public Notice: The Republican war on higher education https://www.publicnotice.co/p/republican-war-higher-education-desantis

Our NRA World: Texas 2yo shoots himself in the head while playing with a gun. It happens. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/05/07/child-shot-in-face-hospitalized-after-gun-goes-off-in-north-side-home-sapd-says/

"Shannon Watts, who founded the advocacy group Moms Demand Action after the Sandy Hook killings more than a decade ago, countered Sunday that “faith without works is dead. Prayers without action are empty.”

She called on Self to do more to protect Americans. Mass killings like the one in Allen are “the logical outcome of lawmakers giving unvetted, untrained civilians unfettered access to arsenals and ammunition.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/keith-self-shooting-prayers-allen-texas/

#ThoughtsAndPrayers #Guns #GunViolence #GOP #USA

Our NRA World: Gunslinger drops his gun at an Alabama gas station. The gun discharges and wounds one person. It happens. https://whnt.com/news/decatur/morgan-county-sheriff-says-one-injured-in-accidental-shooting/

Billionaire supported "researchers" are selling America education snake oil using phony Denver study. https://tultican.com/2023/05/05/selling-denvers-portfolio-model-by-confusing-correlation-with-causation/ #privatization

A walkout by most Republicans in the Oregon Senate aimed at delaying action on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care bills extended to a fifth day Sunday. https://trib.al/U8bmTjo #news #worldnews

Constitutional scholar Lawrence Tribe now believes Biden should invoke the 14th Amendment and pay the nation's debts.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/lawrence-tribe-changes-his-mind-14th?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=74316

“They’re lying to you,” he said. “This isn’t about mental health, which every other country has problems with. It isn’t drugs, which every other country struggles with. It isn’t computer games, which every other country has. It’s the guns. It’s obviously the guns.”

. “Let’s stop treating the GOP as the party of law and order and treat them, more accurately, as the party of gun violence, of school shootings, of mall massacres.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mehdi-hasan-republican-guns_n_64587226e4b00eb7e63c9e35

stephen king on allen tx & a first responder

Allen, Texas: First responder took a little girl’s pulse before realizing she had no face.
Time for responsible gun laws.

@tristansnell
How's this idea.
Replace the SC with a Supreme Panel, composed of random picks from the numerous federal judges. Pick 3 every 2 years. Thus each serves 6 years on the Panel.

So Federal Judges still get lifetime appointments, but not lifetime on the Panel.

Such an arrangement would be very hard to stack or corrupt.

How did American classrooms and malls become #NRA-sponsored slaughterhouses? Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the twisted history of an utterly imagined "Constitutional right." #guns #crime https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2023?r=nb32g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Greg Abbott Can 'Go to Hell,' Texas Senator Angrily Reacts After Shooting

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-can-go-hell-texas-senator-angrily-reacts-after-shooting-1798879

#Newsweek #TexasSenator #GregAbbott #GunViolence #TexasShooting #PoliticalOutrage #Politics #News

@statmonkey if God’s control is absolute pack your desk because we clearly have no need for congressmen

#Allusions are one of the trickiest #LiteraryDevices to teach young people, largely because allusions by their very nature expect the reader to already understand people and events generally considered to be “common knowledge.”

You see the problem.

https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/recognizing-allusions

#ELA #teachers #education #edutooter

Okay, look, America.

It's *Canada* Geese, not Canadian Geese.

It's just a name, they don't belong to us, they're not our fault.

Sorry, though. 😉