Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Mass #dieoff of #penguins off the coast of #Uruguay... "Nearly 2,000 dead penguins were found in ten days on the eastern coasts of Uruguay. The cause of this carnage, which remains unexplained, does not seem to be avian flu, local authorities said....90% are young specimens that arrive without fat reserves and with an empty stomach." #oceans #marine https://www.rtbf.be/article/pres-de-2000-manchots-retrouves-morts-en-10-jours-sur-les-cotes-de-luruguay-11231147

Boom: Ohio just confirmed there WILL be a constitutional amendment on the ballot this November to codify abortion rights.

Huge victory for abortion rights organizers, and a potential game changer for reproductive rights in Ohio.

There is a but, though (1/2). https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/25/will-ohio-abortion-rights-measure-make-the-november-ballot/70437268007/

This is why, for all its flaws, we have tenure in #Academia.

Tenure is meant to protect freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of knowledge.

It is meant to be an institutionalised system to protect democratic debate and to speak, without fear, in the public interest.

Tenure is the hill.

@academicchatter @academicsunite

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

RFK Jr also lies about Polio vaccines.
#vaccines #antivaxxers

https://open.substack.com/pub/pauloffit/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-should-stop-talking?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lsj6

Study: COVID deaths fell 84% in UK cancer patients after vaccine rollout https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-covid-deaths-fell-84-uk-cancer-patients-after-vaccine-rollout

Black women were denied sovereignty over their own bodies. They were robbed of the milk in their own breasts to nurse the infants of the master’s family — even if that meant the mother’s child had to wait. That’s but one of the great many cruel, shameful realities that slaves had to endure.

Florida’s brazen racists are exceedingly bold in moves to normalize their hate. Their targets have been through this shit before. We’re not new to this rodeo, and we’re not the clowns.
#Florida #racism

Check out this incredible example of #indoctrination The first comment is mine, the next three frames are her response. I hope she can eventually find her way out.

@GatekeepKen America, funding the world while we tell our own people HELL NO you can’t have free college, while we are sinking into debt we’ll never be able to pay back, currently $32B. Not only that the Congress had been robbing Medicare since they day it was created. They will tell you that has to go too, then standby for the meltdown unless the climate gets us first. 😳

The rebrand is yet another sign of a company in bigoted freefall

Twitter's rebrand into 'X' may be reason for Jews to leave – The Forward https://forward.com/culture/555243/twitter-x-rebrand-elon-musk-antisemitism/

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Far-right activist Ammon Bundy loses defamation case and faces millions of dollars in fines | AP News https://apnews.com/article/ammon-bundy-idaho-hospital-defamation-verdict-extremism-56af8016c6ae1c47861e9e2861ed99da

For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story https://apnews.com/article/7c9c5e6b7ce18c9180f943b512bb4032

Biden Demands America Confront Dark History With Racism at Emmett Till Ceremony: ‘Silence is Complicity’ https://www.mediaite.com/biden/biden-demands-america-confront-dark-history-with-racism-at-emmett-till-ceremony-silence-is-complicity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@AlliFlowers
How did my grandfather's party turn into a cult that worships a criminal and hates universal free public education?

Every day I wake up and no matter how rough I'm feeling about myself I can at least be glad that I'm not as much of a loser as Elon Musk is.

“Evidence-based practices” are only effective if the evidence isn’t fabricated.

I know it a small detail, but it’s kind of important.

It's time to #ArrestGregAbbott! #Texas #GregAbbott #HumanRights

Abbott vows not to comply with DOJ over floating border wall https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/24/texas-doj-buoys-suing-00107831

WHY ?