Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) arrested and is charged in a 13-count indictment, according to DoJ.

@AlliFlowers @nedhamson @Paulie
Reflecting on that election, I remember having to write an at-home essay about the election. (I was in Honors English.) I had wanted Kennedy to win, but I knew my teacher was rooting for Nixon. I wasn't all that politically wrapped around the axle in 1960, so I blamed Nixon's loss on his nerves, "wipe out the farmers...uh...farm surplus" and the sweat glistening on his upper lip, versus Kennedy's polished, smooth delivery. Easy A.

@AlliFlowers A true cat scan!

Public universities in Texas being unable to attract global talent once Republicans make tenure illegal is not a theoretical problem. It's already started.

#UTAustin #HigherEd #Texas

Republican Senate Judiciary Members received $450,000 from Harlan Crow. #RepublicanCorruption https://www.commondreams.org/news/harlan-crow-senate-judiciary-committee-republicans-supreme-court-reforms

I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in for people that the entire "controversy" over Bud Light's partnership with Dylan Mulvaney was that she exists and the right doesn't want trans people to exist.

She didn't do anything. They sent bomb threats to beer bottling plants and cowed a brand into submission over a popular trans woman merely existing.

The right is saying they get decided who is allowed to live their lives in peace and who isn't, and they'll enforce it with threats and violence.

One of the most dangerous things about #Trump is how his crew of grotesque, self-defiling asslickers always ends up trashing American institutions - like the right to a jury trial - while they're falling all over themselves to defend him. It's always "Trump First," America last.

So glad to see he’s doing better and is open and honest about his struggle with depression. This may save someone’s life. If you’ve never had depression, it’s hard to understand.

People who are dealing with this deserve support. And we should have a healthcare system that takes care of it for everyone.

Sen. John Fetterman Talks About Depression, Treatment–
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/fetterman-talks-about-battling-depression-and-seeking-treatment-in-emotional-interview/3562695/

Pentagon Confirms Ukraine Used Patriot SAM to Shoot Down Russian Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile, — U.S. Brigadier General Ryder
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

@StillIRise1963 Someone who talks about how they can't bring themselves to vote for Democrats because they are "the lesser of two evils & that's still evil!!!" are usually white/white-adjacent men who know that they will be just fine in a GOP dominated world because their whiteness & maleness means they can "pass" as one of the evil guys, i.e., they won't be targeted as the enemy. They are just assumed to be "one of the guys." They can play chicken with other people's lives.

A Kentucky woman’s fetus had no brain. She was still denied an abortion and had to go out of state. https://www.wkyt.com/2023/05/08/powell-co-woman-forced-travel-out-state-abortion/

@AlliFlowers It might seem that way from an outside perspective but not to me. I think Welsh is perceived as having a lot of consonants because W and Y are vowels in Welsh.

George Santos Charged in Justice Department Probe - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AjpGx1bHESD-4e2jvC9kBoQ

So he spent £6000 instead of £30 by taking a helicopter instead of the train, but he also generated ~1100 kg of CO2 instead of ~10kg per person for the train. (No idea how many people were in the helicopter)

“Sunak uses helicopter for trip that would have taken just over an hour by train”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/09/sunak-helicopter-train-southampton-prime-minister-rail

Helicopter use cannot be casual - it must be a last resort, when there are no other options.

(Back-of-the-envelope calculation based on fuel consumption)

#climate #flying #emissions

FL Baptist youth pastor used church's wifi to download child pornography.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2023/04/14/putnam-county-youth-pastor-teacher-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/

A 14-year-old girl was shot in the head for playing hide and seek in the wrong yard. The homeowner saw shadows, grabbed his gun, and shot at people running away. At no point was his life in any danger at all--he was fearful for no reason, but he had the gun and used it anyway.

Let's call these people what they are: Cowards. He was a man-sized baby with a weapon who shot first because he was too cowardly to take a moment to evaluate a situation.
https://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article275197271.html