Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Very high turnout so far in early voting around Columbus, Ohio.

Yet another data point for how salient abortion rights are for folks. Remember this is the referendum the GOP rushed for August to change the rules of an abortion November referendum. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/early-vote-counts-for-the-august-ohio-special-election-higher-than-expected-issue-1-franklin-county/70414392007/

Maybe they could have combined Barbie and Oppenheimer and made a blow-up doll.

LB: We told you. WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING. They will not stop until we are locked into the Handmaid's Tale. This fight is central to all the fights. It is a Civil Rights issue. It is a Black Issue. It is a labor issue. It is a LGBTQ+ issue. It most assuredly is a women's issue. The fight is the same, and this is one of the key battlefronts, which we are losing. #AbortionRights #Contraception #BansOffOurBodies

We’re looking to buy a place in Ireland (because renting here is nigh on impossible these days) and so I approached a mortgage broker and they just got back to me with this gem:

“Bank of Ireland will not consider your mortgage application because you run a not-for-profit.”

How bloody lovely.

Congratulations on creating a system that rewards the worst of the worst and fucks over those striving to work for the common good. I, for one, wont be shedding a tear should it burn to the ground.

Forcing people to use a bathroom that doesn’t match their identity is harmful in all sorts of ways. I’m really glad to see more and more of these anti-trans attacks being overturned.

It’s also never a bad time to remember that who gets to appoint judges matters. This one was appointed by Bill Clinton. If you want to get rid of the right wing agenda, make sure voting is on your own agenda.

Federal Judge Rules Wisconsin Trans Student Can Use Bathroom-
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-judge-rules-wisconsin-trans

DRUG BREAKTHROUGH!

Experts urge health regulators to approve ‘turning point’ dementia drugs

As results show 35% slowing in cognitive decline, health leaders say swift decisions crucial
#News #Breaking #BreakingNews #USA

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/17/experts-urge-health-regulators-approve-dementia-drugs-donanemab-lecanemab?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

HERE'S A TRICK to silence a Christian Trumpite.

"Everytime she meets a Trump supporter who claims to be Christian (she’s a devout Christian herself)

she asks them to name “One thing- not 2 or 3 or 4” but one thing Trump has done that Jesus would approve of.

“Nobody has ever named one thing” she told me
of the hundreds of Christians she’s asked."

Trump Plans to Expand Presidential Power Over Agencies in 2025 - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

This is chilling stuff. He's openly outlining plans for centralizing authority under the executive branch so he can continue to fire anyone who stands in his way, and staff agencies with his toadies.

Democratic Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon also signed bills protecting trans rights and reproductive rights and a ban on ghost guns this week.

Since people tell me repetition works- elections matter. And both parties are not the same.

Gov. Kotek signs Oregon rent increase limit into law-
https://www.kptv.com/2023/07/07/gov-kotek-signs-oregon-rent-increase-limit-into-law/

I want working mass transit.

Oklahoma: $39 Million in Federal Pandemic Funds Tilted Towards Private Schools, Not the Neediest - Is grifting a central GOP policy guideline? https://dianeravitch.net/2023/07/16/oklahoma-39-million-in-federal-pandemic-funds-tilted-towards-private-schools-not-the-neediest/ via @dianeravitch #fraud

#VoteBlueIfYouWantToRead #GOP #Fascism

GOP Advances Education Cuts That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers from Classrooms https://truthout.org/articles/gop-advances-education-cuts-that-could-remove-220000-teachers-from-classrooms/

One of the advantages to Trump of being indicted in so many states is he will have such a wide selection of locations to request being incarcerated in.

@nedhamson same thing is happening in Ohio. A complete perversion of the purpose of public schools. The GOP’s attacks on the public make it public enemy number one.

Or is it because the deity is imaginary?

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2972

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-wallace-ronna-mcdaniel-biden-vacation_n_64b37105e4b09a3b488d348b Chris Wallace Swiftly Pulls Brakes On RNC Chair's Biden Vacation Concerns

"No president is ever on vacation," argued the CNN host before pointing to one of former President Donald Trump's hobbies outside the Oval Office.

#GOPLiesAboutEverything #VoteBidenHarris2024 #GOPHypocrisy

No one should be worried about if they can afford their next meal. Charities do good work, but their existence is a sign that the system does not work for everyone.