Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Here's the deal.

Running for office is easy when you take corporate money. The average donation is a cool $5000 & you don't have to care what voters think—because you don't need them to fund your campaign

Running for office is hard when you're 100% people funded—like we are. The average donation is ~$25 & we care what voters think—because we serve people, not corporations

But that's how we build a nation truly committed to justice.

So come on—help us win the hard way: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/qasim-founding-donor

" #Trump’s 2024 campaign is once again spitting on campaign finance laws, this time by hiring a strategist who was convicted of crimes related to a political bribery scheme—and who Trump later pardoned."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hired-adviser-john-tate-who-he-pardoned-for-campaign-finance-crimes

#Theists:
If #God talks to you, do you ever disagree with anything he says? No? Hmmm, I wonder why…

____________________
an #atheist vs #faith

Borrowing this.
Marked safe from getting a target letter.

Today in 1994, 29 years ago: The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.

#OnThisDay

Hitler did not operate the gas chambers himself. But he was responsible.

Bin Laden did not fly the planes himself. But he was responsible.

Trump did not storm the Capitol himself. But he was responsible.

Justice matters.

"...Very fine people on both sides..."

#Charlottesville tiki torcher who just did some time on his 2017 conduct has now been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol on #Trump's behalf. #Jan6 #legal

https://nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/charlottesville-tiki-torch-carrier-arrested-storming-capitol-jan-6-rcna94866

I’m convinced we relegate “arts and crafts” and manipulatives to lower grades & don’t give older students a chance to interact with these activities enough just to seem “advanced”

that notion that in k12 “advanced math” looks like taking notes not glue & paper & art.

If you feel like you “don’t have time” think about what will have more of a lasting impact. What will they remember in 10 years? You doing the proof from the book? or trying to make an ellipse by slicing a cone made of clay?

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/18 “On July 18, 1946, a white mob shot a 37-year-old Black veteran named Maceo Snipes at his home in Butler, Georgia. A day earlier, Mr. Snipes had exercised his constitutional right to vote in the Georgia Democratic Primary, becoming the only Black man to vote in the election in Taylor County. For this he was targeted and lynched.”

An interactive map of cultures with three or more genders, courtesy of PBS.

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/

https://metrozone.newsroomlabs.com/article-intro/10404954?brid=2861ea0a&lang=en
Israel Struggling to Recover Ancient Artifacts Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago: Report
Israel lent several antiquities to the White House in 2019, including ancient clay lamps for a White House Hanukkah event. Unfortunately, Donald Trump was president at the time, which means the artifacts are now at Mar-a-Lago, and Israel can’t figure out how to get them back #GrifterTrump #TrumpCrimeFamily #CrookedTrump

@AlliFlowers

Race to the bottom anyone?

Yes indeed, this is another reason why we all have to get more people to help vote out the far-right.

“Countries need to be sharing more information on destabilizing actions, on things that look strange, and we need to be less naive and more aware.”

This is serious shit with severe consequences to consider. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/17/an-arctic-great-game-nato-allies-russia-face-off-far-north/

Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights – LGBTQ Nation (Me: Fascism anew in Italy)

In conjunction with its crackdown on the rights of same-sex parents, the Italian government has begun retroactively stripping same-sex parents of their legal connection to their children. Michela Leidi told the Daily Mail that she “cried for ten days” after receiving a letter informing her she would be removed from her daughter’s birth certificate. “It was as if I…

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/17/italy-begins-stripping-lesbian-mothers-of-their-parental-rights-lgbtq-nation-me-fascism-anew-in-italy/