Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"The Onion" on SCOTUS decision of dismantling affirmative action:
"It was the perfect plan. If I played my cards right, I could all but ensure that my descendants would apply to schools, give the college no choice but to admit them, and force some so-so white kids into their second- or third-choice schools."
-Cicero Thompson

https://www.theonion.com/i-decided-to-become-a-slave-so-one-day-my-descendants-c-1850592638

I can’t discriminate against you because of your religion but you can discriminate against me because of your religion?

Fuck the illegitimate Supreme Court

Self help group for people who can’t stop talking: On and On Anon

The early decisions by the SCOTUS this past week were a tease so when we felt like Democracy will stand they decided to F us hard on Friday by stealing more Rights! FUCK the illegitimate SCOTUS!!!!!!!

These cats have yet to learn that I can't feed them breakfast while they are holding me down in bed.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

@StillIRise1963 As a Jew, I'm acutely aware of this fact.

Weimar Germany was undone by many factors. One of the big ones was the relentless right-wing hold and weaponizing of the courts from 1919 on.

We face similar dangers now.

I once was proud of my country
… I was a fool

I once thought we were improving
… I was wrong

I once had hope we’d live up to our words
… I was naive

I once thought living abroad was a luxury
… I now see it may be necessary

#SCOTUS #LGBTQ+ #TransRightsAreHumanRights

I'm going to stop serving Christians at my business because my religion doesn't tolerate bigots.

Basically, #SCOTUS has assumed the office of President, exerting the power to make any & all key decision as to how the nation operates. We're back where we were before the Revolution, controlled by an small unelected body: 4 rich white guys plus two token minorities, all corrupt

I ask every few years: Can anyone name a single policy that improved the lives of most Americans, that was initiated and championed mostly by conservatives?

(I honestly believe you have to be a moron to not understand what America conservatism is about, at this point. And we have a lot of morons.)

@Hey_Beth
Rest-In-Peace Alan 🙏🌹

“I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health,” Kennedy added. The presidential hopeful stated that if he assumed office, he would target medical journals and redirect funding grants away from epidemiology.

It cannot be overstated how dangerous this guy would be to America, and the world if he was allowed to occupy the White House. He's a true monster.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rfk-kennedy-anti-vaccine-panel-conspiracies-hiv-spanish-flu-1234779689/

Killing debt relief, John Roberts wrote Biden 'modified' the governing statute “in the same sense that the French Revolution ‘modified’ the status of the French nobility — it has abolished them."

Reflecting, of course, his natural position: preserving hereditary aristocracy.

'Embarrassing': Sotomayor slams SCOTUS decision that marks 'gays and lesbians for second-class status'

In her dissent

“The majority protests that Smith will gladly sell her goods and services to anyone, including same-sex couples,” she wrote. “She just will not sell websites for same-sex weddings. Apparently, a gay or lesbian couple might buy a wedding website for their straight friends. This logic would be amusing if it were not so embarrassing.”

#SCOTUS

https://www.alternet.org/sotomayor-2662087621/

@otownKim
The timing is bad since Biden said yesterday that he's not for expanding the court..I hope this changes his mind.

Revealed: New Orleans archdiocese concealed serial child molester for years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/new-orleans-archdiocese-cover-up-serial-child-molester?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

US honeybees suffer second deadliest season on record

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/23/us-honeybees-second-deadliest-season?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Universities must end Legacy admissions NOW.

After all, that’s just affirmative action for rich white people.

Between 1900 and 1950 malaria killed ~100 million people globally. The CDC was founded in 1946 to combat malaria, and that's why it's based in Atlanta. By 1951, malaria was eliminated from the United States. We need that same ambition from our public health agencies today. https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/history_cdc.html