Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

https://www.rawstory.com/classroom-teachers/ “The legislation would also completely eliminate funding for a number of Education Department programs, including Federal Work-Study, Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, Promise Neighborhoods, and Child Care Access Means Parents in School.” People wise up. These folks don’t care about teachers, the middle class, working poor or anyone. You give folks great tax breaks. Then cut education funding.

We cannot leave any city and village under russian occupation, where violence and humiliation of people reign – address by V. #Zelenskyy President of #Ukraine 15/07/23

Extract
I am grateful to all our partners – every leader, every politician, public figure, every country who really supports us in the fact that only the complete liberation of our entire Ukrainian territory will allow the full force of the international rules-based order to be restored.

Full address🔗 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/mi-ne-mozhemo-zalishiti-zhodnogo-mista-j-sela-v-rosijskij-ok-84357

@AlliFlowers BOO! His usual AHole self. The GOP really wants to dismantle Washington DC Federal Entities, and move the pieces to “friendly territory” where they can be remade in Master’s effigy.

@AlliFlowers Ted Lieu was impressive.
I hate being negative, but I can’t think of a better more appropriate time. Trump is a blank, blank, blank, blank, blank (fill in all the usual despicable adjectives. A pertinent question is when will 1/3 of the US get their heads out of their asses or are we down for the count? Will this be the Right imploding or will it be the great National unraveling? 🤔

"It's Official: Smartphones Will Need To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027"

Good, now make it mandatory by 2025 instead. And make the battery the same on all smartphones, similar to the earlier USB-C decision.

I can hear the screams of the lobbyists, but I don't care. 4 years is way too long. The emergency is NOW.

https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/23/07/13/2037211/its-official-smartphones-will-need-to-have-replaceable-batteries-by-2027

Womp womp

Via @KlasfeldReports

News—

Timothy Shea, one of three former Steve #Bannon co-defendants convicted in the We Build the Wall fraud case, LOSES his bid for a new trial and to toss a count before sentencing. #legal

NEW: Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch is demanding access to information about Mississippi residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states.

She and 18 other Republican attorneys generals say investigators need access to the information to enforce their states' laws banning abortion and gender-affirming care.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/34705/mississippi-attorney-general-wants-info-on-out-of-state-abortions-gender-affirming-care

Our Python advocacy team at Microsoft is hiring! We're specifically looking for someone to create content around AI on Azure, but we also dabble in all things Python.
Job req @ https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1585697/Senior-Cloud-Advocate

(Also, there are lots of other MS jobs open now, good time to apply)

Defense bill that targets abortion access, trans health, racial equity passes U.S. House https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/071423_house_defense_bill/defense-bill-that-targets-abortion-access-trans-health-racial-equity-passes-us-house/
The U.S. House approved an annual defense authorization bill loaded with GOP rollbacks of Pentagon policies on abortion and transgender health care, as well as efforts to boost racial equity - though it is highly unlikely the bill will pass the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate.
#Tucson #Arizona

I'm bad at posting and I've never had anything that has aged this well this quickly. Bummer.

Chuck Schumer moves to declassify UFO secrets like JFK records

https://www.newsweek.com/chuck-schumer-declassify-ufo-secrets-jfk-records-1812978

#ChuckSchumerUFOs #DeclassifyUFOs #UFOsecrets #JFKrecords #GovernmentTransparency #ExtraterrestrialEvidence #Politics #News

I’m hiring.

My team, which is overseeing the modernization of IRS IT with $10 billion+ from the Inflation Reduction Act, needs a coordinator. Someone early career who is beginning to see how much room for improvement there is with Federal IT, and is equipped for a high-profile mission. Must be active USG employee.

Please boost.

https://openopps.usajobs.gov/tasks/5842

5th Circuit pauses order restricting #Biden administration’s #tech contacts

The stay follows a request from the Justice Department, which warned the sweeping order could chill law enforcement activity #DOJ #legal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/14/5thcircuit-biden-socialmedia-stay/

Let me propose a new variation on an old theme:

First they came for the #trans people.
They didn't come for anyone else because we beat their sorry asses.

Working from home is an act of reclamation. I shed not one single tear for the end of the abuse that going to an office enables (paying for each day's travel, constant interruptions, terrible work environments designed by executives who don't feel the pain of these environments, etc.)

Rezone that office space as residential and do something about housing affordability.

#QuoteToot

https://fosstodon.org/@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place/110712456514615065

@Threadbane . Yep, that's Florida today. We are truly infiltrated by gop #fascists.. Not to mention the foreign mobs in so Florida money laundering with trump.

Take voting restrictions in your state seriously.