Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@EugeneMcParland It is amazing work. Evgeniy Maloletka also won World Press Photo of the Year for one of those same images. He says he only realized later that he was documenting war crimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPaIVikuUQ

@dethtron5000

Guns dont kill people.
Elected Republicans kill people.

Our series on the stillbirths crisis in America by reporter Duaa Eldeib was just honored as a #Pulitzer Prize finalist.

The entire series, including the recent guide on what you need to know about stillbirths, is available to read for free here:

https://www.propublica.org/series/stillbirths

#PulitzerPrize #Pregnancy #Parents #Parenting #Babies #Stillbirth #Health #HealthCare #COVID

US House Members Unveil Stock Trading Ban: Bipartisan Restoring Faith in Government Act

https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-bipartisan-stock-trading-ban

#CommonDreams #RestoringFaithinGovernmentAct #StockTradingBan #USHouseMembers #Bipartisan #GovernmentAccountability #Politics #News

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Tacopina: This is an absolutely outrageous case. She had a political reason, she desired status & sucked her friends in. What about the rule of law? It's everything for us. On the facts, this is your courtroom. Just you. Not some journalist who comes in for a day

Tacopina's closing line asks jurors to "please" have the "courage" to do what is "right" here.

ME: YOU WANNA TALK COURAGE, TAC? SEE: CARROLL, E. JEAN. Game. Set. Match... asshole.

"Entire [Editorial board of Neuroimage] resigns over actions of academic publisher [Elsevier] whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

Extremely relevant to discussions I've had here yesterday about #academic #publishing

$2700 to publish in their journal. Elsevier made nearly $3 billion in revenue with 40% profit margin last year.

Another example of #academia being pay to win

#scicomm

“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