Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Israel’s Slippery Slope

Israel's right-wing government has raised alarms around the world with its plans to disempower the judiciary. But while most of the criticism has focused on the implications for Israeli democracy, the "reforms" pose an equally salient threat to Israel's economy, labor market, national wealth, and security.

#Israel #Netanyahu

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-judicial-reforms-bad-for-economy-start-up-nation-fall-down-by-nouriel-roubini-2023-07

@QasimRashid

“Stop inter generational wage theft. Pay Workers. Tax Billionaires!”
Ironically, that’s exactly what made America great in the past — and it could Make America Great Again!

#RaiseTheWage #taxtherich

Now in the giant medical building where our family doc practice moved to. We're here for my son's school physical. And we're the only ones in the entire building wearing #masks.

The receptionist specifically pointed out "you can take off your masks." She wants us to remove our masks (else she could have said nothing).

WTF, no thanks, ma'am! I told them I'm against spreading germs in either direction.

I should not have to justify or explain myself wearing a mask in a fcking medical setting!

@Probertd8 You mean the Joe Biden who's presiding under a much improved, very good economy, has kicked ass in a few other ways, and despite some obvious drawbacks, won easily last time? Yes.

Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25.

This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage

"Although older Black Americans have twice the rate of dementia as whites, they were screened out of clinical trials of these drugs at a higher rate, according to interviews with 10 researchers as well as 4 Eisai and Lilly executives."

https://nordot.app/1058675607118741554?c=592622757532812385

In the news: the family of Henrietta Lacks have been compensated, more than 70 years after cells from her cancer, taken without her consent became an industry worth billions. https://apnews.com/article/henrietta-lacks-hela-cells-thermo-fisher-scientific-bfba4a6c10396efa34c9b79a544f0729

Jul 31: Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms affect millions. New treatment studies bring hope https://apnews.com/article/long-covid-brain-fog-virus-treatments-d5ac01c9f4209691ddcd7a1b5c78353e “'This is a year or two late and smaller in scope than one would hope but nevertheless it’s a step in the right direction,' said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University in St. Louis, who isn’t involved with NIH’s project but whose own research highlighted long COVID’s toll." #PublicHealth #Healthcare #COVID #COVID19 #longCOVID

RE: https://m.ai6yr.org/@WXFanatic/110814632427852371

I have updated the Mastodon links list to include a note on where to find said bots

https://rentry.co/wxlinks-mastodon

Big shoutout to @ai6yr and @lckrohjr for the instances beforehand as well as @akrherz and @GWESOfficial for the official migration!

Coming next from DeSantis 2024 - How the atomic bomb benefited the Japanese.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/benefits-slavery?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77586

Donald Trump isn’t being politically targeted.

He’s a lifelong criminal who avoided prosecution by donating to and co-opting prosecutors.

Now he’s finally run into prosecutors he couldn’t buy off.

That floating prison barge for the UK? It’s owned by Bibby Lines, who began its operations running slave ships in the 1800s.

Yeah, you read that right.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvR5ozZIzzT/

#Enslaved #Prison #FloatingPrison #UK #UnitedKingdom #ModernSlavery #MigrantBarge #Colonization

⚡️🇺🇸Russia must return all deported children to Ukraine - State Department (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3742821-russia-must-return-all-deported-children-to-ukraine-state-department.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
#Submarines4Ukraine

@jaireeo will be hosting an online seminar: "Mastodon: an Introduction for Scholars" at on Aug 1 at 12 ET. For more info: https://iupui.libcal.com/event/11014556

#iupui #highered

Memphis, Tennessee, police shoot suspect after he fired shots outside Jewish school #crime #hate #Memphis #TN https://apnews.com/article/jewish-school-shots-fired-outside-memphis-police-97f4709feea7600cc5d41cfdd5b3bb34?utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=mastodon

“Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous… It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.”

Le Guin gold https://t.co/CjrADDs32s

Percy Jackson and the Virginity Thief

#rejectedsongbookormovietitles
#HashtagGames

The defederated server of my defederated server is my friend.