Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Missouri’s attorney general is trying to block a ballot measure by arguing that legalizing abortion could deprive the state of $51 billion in future tax revenue. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/missouri-ag-legalizing-abortion-cost-51-billion-1234731843/

James Cho, 3

Sofia Mendoza, 8

Daniela Mendoza, 11

Christian LaCour, 20

Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26

Elio Cumana-Rivas, 32

Cindy Cho, 35

Kyu Song Cho, 37

What say you, Ted?

@fsinn
Republicans: OMG, we have to persecute trans people because some of them are reading children's books to children!

Also Republicans: Let's train children to become combat medics. They should know how to apply a chest seal to a dying friend under fire because we don't feel like reducing the number of mass shootings that happen.

Via @emptywheel: 1/...🧵

Maybe #HarlanCrow thinks that, by dint of purchasing himself a #SCOTUS justice, he’s effectively President under the Mazars precedent.

Jay Willis:

Harlan Crow's lawyers fired off a pound-sand letter to the Judiciary Committee explaining why investigating Crow's patronge of Clarence Thomas "raises substantial separation of powers concerns," and all due respect to "Michael D. Bopp" but I don't think this is your call dude.

Louisiana man shot child playing hide-and-seek, sheriff says - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-05-09/louisiana-man-shot-child-playing-hide-and-seek

A Louisiana man has been charged with aggravated assault and battery after allegedly shooting at children who were playing hide-and-seek outside his home, striking a 14-year-old girl, officials said.

#ClarenceThomasResign #ImpeachClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #JohnRoberts

US ethics watchdog calls on Clarence Thomas to resign over undisclosed gifts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-resignation-crow

Americans getting massacred everyday and Republican leaders obsessed with pronouns and bathrooms which is really none of their business.

North Dakota governor signs bill restricting transgender pronouns, bathroom use |
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3994587-north-dakota-governor-signs-bill-restricting-transgender-pronouns-bathroom-use/

👀 Via Roger Sollenberger: 1/...

NEW: Milo Yiannopoulos used Marj Taylor Greene’s campaign credit card to buy Kanye West campaign web domain, then transferred it to Ye the same day for $3,000 above cost, per receipts & a person w knowledge.

Legal experts told me the transactions raise a number of questions—whether Milo stole the campaign’s card and converted Greene campaign funds to his personal use while making an impermissible and unreported in-kind donation—which they said could be criminal

We need to provide free breakfast, lunch, and dinner to all students regardless of the income of their parents. Schools should not be charging for food for anybody. Schools are funded by taxes, it is criminal that we charge children to eat.

#school #schools #schoollunch #schoollunches #hunger

"Our right to practice our faith freely is respected up to the point where doing so involves harming others."

- Pete Buttigieg

If you want to know why the protection of reproductive rights is so important and why abortion bans are anti-life, see this story. Elect people who will protect abortion rights.

Republicans aren’t. And won’t.

Oklahoma woman with non-viable pregnancy told to wait in parking lot ‘until you bleed out’ due to abortion ban |
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/jaci-statton-oklahoma-abortion-ban-pregnancy-b2333380.html

When assault weapons can cross state lines but women cannot...

Father-son #journalism team (plus a few others at AL.com) win #PulitzerPrize for #local #reporting because local #news is just as important as “the #newspaper of record” etc etc., despite the financial “headwinds” that have dogged community news business in the 21st century https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/business/media/archibald-ramsey-john-pulitzer-prize-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Mother's Day is fast approaching. Remember, we are all here because she got....

Republicans have voted against Veterans with their budget. No Veterans should go without housing, health care

Column: With each horrific shooting, Texas’ governor looks more inept

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-05-07/with-each-texas-shooting-gov-greg-abbott-looks-more-inept

#LATimesOpinion #TexasShootings #GregAbbottIneptitude #GunControlDebate #MassShootings #TexasGovernor #GunsInAmerica #Politics #News

The Troubling Focus on Testing Rewards, Testing Pep Rallies, and Test Prep Bootcamps - Isn’t it time to end high-stakes standardized tests, President Biden?; like you promised. https://go.shr.lc/41gTLuh via @shareaholic #BStesting