Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Astonishingly, the pro-democracy group Protect Democracy is suing the state of Virginia to restore the voting rights of many felons, using a 150-year-old law which readmitted the state to the Union. Way to go! (Via Marc Elias.)

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/virginia-readmission-act/

#VotingRights

HBCUs produce 46% of all Black women STEM graduates.

https://uncf.org/the-latest/the-impact-of-hbcus-on-diversity-in-stem-fields

Reducing funding for HBCUs would have a direct and awful impact on the number of Black women doctors, scientists, and software engineers.

Because Black women doctors have such a huge positive impact on Black patient life expectancy, reducing the number of Black women STEM grads would have knock on impacts on Black infant mortality and life expectancy, not to mention net worth, education and quality of life.

I don't blame them for declining. HBCUs survive by being cautious and suspicious. And at the time, it was difficult to see how the changes to college sports equity were inevitable.

I asked the group to offer the opportunity to join the league for free because HBCUs are a critical pathway to creating Black STEM graduates, and HBCUs are horrifically underfunded.

Many of the wealthiest Black Americans are athletes. Athletes give back to their Alma Maters. Very few top Black athletes attend HBCUs.

Wfla com Tampa Florida: “In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.”

https://www.wfla.com/weather/climate-classroom/off-the-charts-earths-vital-signs-are-going-haywire/

#ClimateChange #climate #weather

My state is a fucking PARODY. This is a JOKE— like from the movie Joker

Freaking phosphogypsum with “small amounts” of Uranium and Radium

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-radioactive-roads-phosphogypsum-potentially-cancer-causing-mining-waste-bill-signed-ron-desantis/

I am against #religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - R. Dawkins

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2770

"Former Donald Trump campaign official Mike Roman is cooperating with prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s team in the ongoing criminal probe related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election,..."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics/mike-roman-trump-campaign-cooperate-special-counsel-probe/index.html

#press

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michelle-obama-statement-supreme-court-affirmative-action_n_649db1c4e4b0035bc5c55309

@AlliFlowers This makes me sick. Damn people.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maryam-khan-attack-connecticut_n_649d7e05e4b0035bc5c4fb40

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/affirmative-action-military-academies_n_649da85ee4b030efa11ee89c

Christie bashes DeSantis’s Jan. 6 remarks: ‘Did he have a TV?’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4073202-christie-bashes-desantiss-jan-6-remarks-did-he-have-a-tv/

#ChristieDeSantis #Jan6Remarks #TVNews #PoliticalCampaigns #MediaCriticism #NewsAnalysis #Politics #News

Prosecutors are prepared to hit #Trump & his allies with new charges, sources say

The #DOJ is prepared to seek #indictments against multiple figures in Trump’s orbit & may yet bring between 30 to 45 additional #criminal #charges against the former president in the coming weeks

#SupersedingIndictment #crimes #ClassifiedDocuments #obstruction #espionage #law #legal #justice
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-giuliani-more-charges-b2366597.html

The SCOTUS took a torch to affirmative action dog-whistling to white nationalists and turning a blind eye to racial bias and blatant racism in our country. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/military-academy-exception-supreme-court-affirmative-action/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

More Evidence That Trump’s SPAC is a Scam
3 investors in an entity connected to it were arrested for insider trading
https://newrepublic.com/post/174033/heres-even-evidence-trumps-spac-scam

Floridian trio got away with >$22 million by illegally trading shares in Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC) a shell company set to merge with Trump Media Technology Group (TMTG).

Michael Shvartsman, Gerald Shvartsman, & Bruce Garelick made the trades based on nonpublic information.

#DWAC #SPAC #DonaldTrump #TMTG #fraud #InsiderTrading #RepublicanParty

Mark Meadows' memoir talks about the 4-page Iran attack plan doc that Trump was brandishing, and Meadows has testified before the grand jury.

Republicans: We need MORE Police in school to Protect Children!
The Law: Police LEGALLY DON'T NEED TO PROTECT CHILDREN! https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66061166

Trump ‘Standing Order’ to Declassify Documents Not Found by DOJ, ODNI - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-29/doj-odni-have-no-record-of-trump-standing-order-to-declassify#xj4y7vzkg