Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

FL Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Ties To The Proud Boys. Via The Daily Beast:
The parent who got a Florida school to ban the poem has ties to the far-right Proud Boys and conservative firebrands Moms For Liberty.
The links follow an expose on Florida mom Daily Salinas by the Miami Herald. In an interview with the Herald, Salinas said she "is not for eliminating or censoring any books," but wants materials to be appropriate and for students "to know the truth" about Cuba.

@StillIRise1963 Here we are, in a world in which little (white) kids can't be traumatized by learning about history, racism, or the existence of gay people, but we can tell 4-year-olds that somebody might come into their school and shoot them. (But we won't do anything to keep that from happening--it's on the kids to run/hide/fight and apply tourniquets. Deaths and injuries are THEIR FAULT--they didn't run/hide/fight hard enough, or they applied the tourniquets wrong.)

AP:

BREAKING: #SouthCarolina’s fascist, misogynist governor signed a bill banning most #abortion around six weeks of pregnancy, setting up an anticipated legal challenge from providers. The law goes into effect immediately. #legal

https://t.co/osqoownmZU

Carol Burris: When Will Secretary Step Up and Defend the Public Schools? - The Republican Party is now clearly on a mission to destroy public education. Why can't he say that public money belongs in public schools? https://dianeravitch.net/2023/05/25/carol-burris-when-will-secretary-step-up-and-defend-the-public-schools/ via @dianeravitch #education

Via Kyle Cheney:

Prosecutors now making case for #terrorism enhancement for #Rhodes' sentence, describe him as someone "who for weeks if not months orchestrated and then led this conspiracy, who repeatedly advocated for the use of force."

He organized an "armed force," they say. #Jan6 #legal

Defense: "J6 wasn't a thing until #Trump made his infamous tweet" on Dec 19, 2020

Dear Microsoft
If Excel knows that I'm missing a parentheses at the end of my formula, JUST ADD IT!!

#Excel #Microsoft #MSOffice #Office

Why am I sitting here crying about human suffering from almost 100 years ago?

Because it can happen here, again.

I don't think that we have another FDR in us.

@StillIRise1963 Democratic candidates should lead with facts about repugs hating your children. No schools but work, no healthcare but work, no individuality just work until you die early. Sounds like the 1800s where families had children because of no birth control or healthcare, and they needed them to survive. They sent their children to work to try and keep the family fed and sheltered. The rich held all the money and power and everyone else were indentured to them.

Is Mark Meadows cooperating with Jan. 6 investigators? If so it’s 'game over': legal experts https://www.alternet.org/trump/mark-meadows-2660614345/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

AOC is right: GOP is holding our economy, Social Security and Medicare HOSTAGE. My new article provides the exact dates programs from Social Security to Medicare will not be able to make payments if the GOP causes a debt ceiling default. https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/aoc-is-right-gop-is-holding-our-economy

@StillIRise1963

"Employers have struggled to fill open positions after a spike in..deaths & illnesses from COVID-19, decreases in legal immigration.."

First, they kill off their workforce, and then they try to make up for it by recruiting kids??? This is their way of keeping wages and salaries low, the result of a reduced labor force.

Dafuq is WRONG with people?!?

"A source close to Trump’s legal team said Trump’s lawyers have had no contact with Meadows and his team and are in the dark on what Meadows is doing in the investigation, fueling speculation about whether Meadows is cooperating with the special counsel’s probe – or if Meadows himself is a target of the investigation."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/politics/meadows-dc-political-operation-legal-woes-trump/index.html

#press

Illinois General Assembly

Bill Status of HB1286
103rd General Assembly

Synopsis As Introduced
Amends the Equitable Restrooms Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any multiple-occupancy restroom may be identified as an all-gender multiple-occupancy restroom and designated for use by any person of any gender.
https://ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1286&GAID=17&GA=103&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=143396&SessionID=112

In #Georgia, #Republicans have elected a district chairwoman who believes that Earth is flat and everyone displaying globes is in on a conspiracy. #GOP #ItsACult

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kandiss-taylor-globes-anti-flat-earth-brainwashing-1234741082/

@trainingmontage @Radical_EgoCom

Here you go.

("First they came for the socialists" is historical fact. The first concentration camp, Dachau, was built to imprison socialists. If the Nazis had not arrested communists and socialists, including lawmakers, they couldn't have achieved the two-thirds majority to pass the Enabling Act of 1933 and gain absolute power.)