Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

...this is just an extension of Project Blitz, the Christian Right’s playbook to revise history to promote a theocratic vision for the country.

California county adopts error-laden "American Christian History Month" proclamation
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/california-county-adopts-error-laden?utm_medium=email

The Loose Cannon in #Florida responded to our government's request for a hearing on Waltine Nauta's lawyer's conflicts & disclosed the existence of a secret grand jury investigation in another district while denying government's motion to seal their filing.

Jack Smith can appeal and may tee up the issue of her fitness to be on this case at all.

The contrast between how people treated Jamie Foxx's apology and how people treated RFK Jr's antisemitism illustrates once again the perniciousness of white supremacy.

Marginalised people are always held to a higher standard than the groups that oppress them

RFK Jr. has never apologised for his remarks.

I remember, in college in the '90s when authoritarians were all in the past, I was studying authoritarian leaders - Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini -- wondering whether there was a deeper "playbook" that guided them, or if it was a defect in their personalities that led to their rise to power.

With Trump, I can't imagine him following an authoritarian playbook (or any book, for that matter) but I see his personality disorders leading directly to his authoritarian tendencies.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1191813216/new-charges-against-trump-focus-on-lies-scholars-see-an-authoritarian-playbook

It’s important to put your cat into the charging box at least once a day

#cats #catsofmastodon #catcontent

Reminder: Today's MAGA-GOP is a white nationalist, FASCIST movement that seeks to impose their right wing "religious" beliefs as law. We must utterly defeat this MAGA-GOP in order to save both our freedoms and our democratic Republic.

Woman sues conspiracy newspaper which claimed the Covid vaccine killed her son. The woman and her lawyers have been subjected to death threats and harassment from anti-vaxxers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66424582

Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavskyi, commander of the Tavria group of of forces reports that Russia is using chemical munitions.

He claims in the area of Novodanilivka, 2 MLRS barrages containing a chemical substance (presumably nitrochloroform) was used. No one was injured.

In 2019, a panel of US judges permanently dismissed all 83 ethics complaints filed against Brett Kavanaugh around the time of his confirmation hearing without considering their individual merit.

EIGHTY-THREE ethics complaints filed against Brett were not investigated.

What crimes did he commit? Whose rights did Brett violate?

EIGHTY-THREE PERSONS BRAVE ENOUGH TO FILE THE COMPLAINT. #corrupt #scotus

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-ethics-complaints-dismissed_n_5d4442a1e4b0acb57fcb6356

@flexghost So either Ramaswany doesn't want to celebrate "the progress we have made as a nation since 1855" or he doesn't believe we've made any progress since then. Either way it's time to cancel useless candidates like Ramaswamy.

8-year-old Chicago girl fatally shot by man upset with kids making noise, witnesses say https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2023/08/07/8-year-old-chicago-girl-fatally-shot-by-man-upset-with-kids-making-noise-witnesses-say

"In a rare interview, Bostelmann wept at one point. For the most part, though, she was defiant, insisting the 2020 election was not stolen by #JoeBiden.

'I’m a #Republican who stands up for the truth and not for a lie,' Bostelmann said."

A #Wisconsin #election official fights to keep her position against one of the state's most prominent — and litigious — #conspiracy theorists, in this new piece by Megan O'Matz

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-elections-commission-marge-bostelmann-republicans

@vjack Evangical: but, but Beelzebub, an angel of another flavor will protect me and honor my religious views. I only have to let him borrow my soul for a while to smite evil abortionists. Yes, he swore he’d do that and give me front of the line privileges to the good place! Seems equitable to me. 🫢🙄

Whatever else you read today, don't miss the opinion piece by Margaret McMullan in today's WaPo.
"How I ‘bribed’ a justice to take a no-expenses-paid trip to Mississippi" tells you all you need to know about the differences among SCOTUS judges. #SCOTUS #justice

lots of people talking about Zoom training AI on audio/video/messages without opt-in — bear in mind that legallly this is a definite no-no because of the way the European Electronic Communications Code (#EECC) modified the #ePrivacy Directive in 2020 to apply confidentiality duties to over-the-top services like #Zoom.

Smoothbrain Republican hypocrisy in under a minute.

Vivek Ramaswamy: “Cancel Juneteenth or one of the other useless ones we made up”

Also Vivek Ramaswamy (~two months ago):

@AlliFlowers I live in Texas and have MAGA coworkers. I still got trained and licensed. I want to make sure that my headshots are accurate. :-)