Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“8 more women are joining a lawsuit against the state of #Texas, saying the state's abortion bans put their health or lives at risk while facing pregnancy-related medical emergencies.

The new plaintiffs have added their names to a lawsuit originally filed in March by 5 women & 2 drs who say pregnant patients being denied #abortion under TX law despite facing serious med complications.” #legal #WomensReproductiveRights https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177425651/texas-women-sue-abortion

We don't need to ban TikTok. Just have every parent sign up and post nagging comments on their kid's videos. Reply mom and reply dad can be the new reply guy. Kids usage metrics would drop so fast you'd think it was owned by Zuckerberg.

Invasive giant spider in US is actually 'shyest ever documented,' study finds
Joro spiders have spread all over Georgia and its neighboring states, but they don't owe their success to a combative nature — quite the opposite, in fact.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/invasive-giant-spider-in-us-is-actually-shyest-ever-documented-study-finds #spider #invasive #joro #shy

@RollingStone we're gonna need a new green book, aren't we. And a rainbow book...

Test Scores Reflect Media, Political Agendas, Not Student or Educational Achievement - A fair reading of data says no crisis and not miracle just a lot of people with no expertise trying to sell bad phonics only pedagogy. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/05/21/test-scores-reflect-media-political-agendas-not-student-or-educational-achievement/ via @plthomasEdD #privatization

OK, maybe #Trump can get away with shooting someone on 5th Ave., but what about a $2 million pardon bribery scheme?

Why was a scandal ignored for 28 months? And as Trump runs on a promise of 1/6 #pardons, can we curb this dictatorial power?

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/rudy-giuliani-selling-trump-pardons-20230521.html#loaded

Fani Willis, the DA leading a major investigation into Trump, announced remote work days for most of her staff during the first 3 weeks of August

Judges in Atlanta are asked not to schedule trials for that time

The governor, state reps, state senators, the AG, the sec. of state, head of the GA GOP will be implicated

This will be a giant RICO case

and the new law to remove prosecutors won’t be able to stop Fani in time.

We’re watching history unfold.

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@AlliFlowers The new low, just how low can the GOP go? As low as they need to…🤬

New York homeless men say they were offered money to pose as military veterans and falsely claim they were pushed out of a hotel to make room for migrants

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/us/military-veteran-migrants-hotel-new-york-false-claims/index.html

#CNN #NewYorkHomelessMen #MilitaryVeterans #FalseClaims #HotelDisplacement #MigrantAccommodation #Politics #News

I"ve been working on creating a trans travel guide, initially focused on the USA. Today was a tough day, doing both UT and TX, but I ended today's work with VT, which is a pretty awesome state (linked below) which is trying to use government power to protect our rights.

Like it's illegal for the Proud Boys or whoever else to block us from entering a doctor's office for trans-related care.

https://github.com/jmaslak/trans-travel/blob/main/us/vt.md

If I believed in Jesus, what would Jesus do...

Trans girl denied graduation ceremony after US school’s dress-code ruling

ACLU says verdict of federal judge not to reverse decision in Gulfport, Mississippi, is ‘as disappointing as it is absurd’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/21/trans-girl-mississippi-high-school-graduation

#TransGender #TransRights #TransPhobia #US #USJustice

Republicans are not pro-life. They just don't want to kill kids until they become a moving target.

To peel back the layers then, here we go:

Glover, a shirtless black man, is dressed from the waist down as a Confederate Civil War reenactor. Onscreen, what he reenacts are various recent racially motivated shootings, all while moving as if partially possessed by the ghost of T.D. Rice, creator of the minstrel show Jim Crow character, in turn based on the dancing of a physically handicapped stable hand.

https://www.godyears.net/2018/06/watch-childish-gambino-song-this-america-twice.html

Then, there's the cakewalk.

#AI #RhymesWithCakewalk #BlackHistory

@BenRossTransit with #AltText:

Ukrainian refugee flees to Columbus OH with her 2-yr-old child. Moves back to Kyiv because the bus service is so bad. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime/a-short-week-in-kyiv/sharetoken/TPAoYMHwcLIP