Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

At 109, an age that makes her fearless against reprisals, Viola Ford Fletcher is releasing a memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” detailing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—when “a white mob laid waste to the once-thriving Black enclave known as Greenwood“—which she saw at age 7.

The book, published by Mocha Media Inc., will be “widely available for purchase on Aug. 15.”

#blackhistory
https://apnews.com/article/viola-fletcher-book-memoir-tulsa-race-massacre-0042fdce69750104e9dd6aef69f63de0

My neighbor sure talks a lot about “Cheers” characters.

Or is that the Norm?

... Addendae (cont'd)

This miscreant:

Tuberville is showing how much power one lawmaker wields under Senate rules
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187530846/tuberville-senate-rules-abortion-military

Since February Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has been blocking every personnel move in the U.S. military that requires confirmation: now least 270

Tuberville likes to say "there is no one more military than me." He has not served in the military but regularly features AL service members on his senatorial website 🤨

#TommyTuberville #RepublicanParty #neofascism

Teacher: William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of over 1,700 words. He was a linguistic genius.

Student: Can I make up words and use them in my papers?

Teacher: Absolutely fucking not.

Fun fact: the first episode of The Twilight Zone delayed by the #SAG-AFTRA and #WGA #strikes in 1960 was “The Mighty Casey,” a cautionary fable about replacing baseball players with #robots.

#SAG #strike #writer #labor #unions #uspol #AI

We're all friends here, so let's fight book banning.
Please Repost to get this to those who can use it.... Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living in the U.S. can access the entire collection of e-books and audiobooks from the Seattle Public Library. "We believe in your right to read what you want, discover yourself and form your own opinions." Fill out the form to get a Books Unbanned card.

https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned#GetaBooksUnbannedCard

Ohio taxpayers to subsidize private school tuitions at greater rate than urban public school children @StephenODyer https://open.substack.com/pub/10thperiod/p/taxpayers-to-subsidize-private-school?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #privatization

David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!

#ALweather #ALwx
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RFK Jr. says COVID was ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews

https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/

#RFKJr #COVIDTargeting #EthnicBias #Jews #ConspiracyTheory #PublicHealth #Politics #News

Biden Raised $72 Million in Second-Quarter to Open Campaign

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/biden-raised-72-million-in-second-quarter-to-open-campaign

#Bloomberg #BidenCampaign #Fundraising #SecondQuarter #Election2024 #PoliticalFunding #Politics #News

#IndictJaredKushner
In 2016 Kushner & Kislyak wanted to set up a secret communications channel between Trump’s transition team & the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities?
He should have been arrested
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https://washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html…
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https://vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/jared-kushner-campaign-shell-company…

Dem shouts at Gaetz for defunding DOD diversity: 'What are you so afraid of?'
Watch now on #CLTV

https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2023/07/dem-shouts-gaetz-defunding-dod?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=76964

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? 🤔