Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Billboard: Stop Book Bans and stand up for the freedom to read. https://demcastusa.com/2023/08/17/billboard-stop-book-bans-and-stand-up-for-the-freedom-to-read/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I’m developing an online program to help people overcome their internet addiction.

Apple needs to add Mastodon to the list of social profile choices in Contacts. Adding a custom Mastodon field does nothing when an address is clicked in iOS 17 beta. Overdue. cc @pschiller

@emptywheel

The rich are financially supporting an anti-democracy conspiracy.

Conspirators are being paid.

Sure would be nice if a former Xitter employee happened to have a backup of these DM's to share with the public.

Sure would be nice if Jordan and McCarthy had a forensic audit on their campaign finances. Their donors fund fascism.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jim-jordan-under-scrutiny-for-nearly-dollar3-million-in-unreported-campaign-funds
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/07/rep-jim-jordans-re-election-campaign-settles-federal-election-commission-case-with-60000-payment.html
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/jim-jordan/summary?cid=N00027894
https://www.fastcompany.com/90535573/that-guy-yelling-during-the-antitrust-hearing-this-week-google-funds-him
https://www.salon.com/2021/03/04/jim-jordan-hit-with-fec-investigation-over-2-million-in-campaign-donations-after-trumps-election/
https://www.axios.com/2021/04/01/dcs-tech-money-shame-game

Trump Appellate Judge on why #mifepristone should never have been approved: “Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them. Expectant parents eagerly share ultrasound photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child. Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients — and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted.”

These people don’t even try to make legal arguments. He’s just saying Babies R Good.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fifth-circuit-mifepristone-abortion

Mark Hamill doing an impression of Harrison Ford from when they first met in 1977.

#MarkHamill #humour #StarWars #scifi #HarrisonFord

"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend."

Animal Farm, a beast fable in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, was first published in England #OTD in 1945.

Orwell initially encountered difficulty getting the manuscript published, largely due to fears that the book might upset the alliance between Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. via @wikipedia

#books #literature

#GQP #DomesticTerrorists

A reminder for instructors of #ProfessionalDevelopment for #teachers :

When you make accommodations for neurodivergent people, the experience for neurotypical people also improves.

Just like in the #classroom

#ActuallyAutistic
#TeacherLife

The AEA Donated Millions to Republicans. Now Republicans Are Attacking Them

#Alabama Republicans continue their long-standing struggle with teachers and the education system, now setting their sights on the AEA... despite the AEA financially supporting them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ml78I5h674

Mark Meadows attempts to have charges in Georgia dismissed because he was "just following (Trump's) orders."😱

Sorry, buddy, it didn't work at Nuremberg and it ain't gonna work now.
#markmeadows #followingorders #Indictment #trump #fakeelectors

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/mark-meadows-fights-georgia-indictment

Trump's recent social media post, possibly attempting to influence a witness, could violate his pretrial release conditions. This brazen act adds to his criminal resume and demands attention. If justice is to retain legitimacy, this transgression cannot go unaddressed.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-indictments-truth-social-posts-arrest-prison-rcna100079

“If you are a service member stationed in a state that has rolled back or restricted health care access, you are often stationed there because you were assigned there. It is not that you chose to go there...So, a service member in Alabama deserves to have the same access to health care as a service member in California, as a service member stationed in Korea.”

That's right. Fuck #Tuberville and straight to their freaky religious Hell with all #Alabama Republicans.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-08-16/abortion-military-promotions-pentagon-tuberville-11069153.html

The failure of Republican governance in a nutshell.

DeSantis takeover has left Florida's New College in shambles as new year starts
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/16/2187597/-DeSantis-takeover-has-left-Florida-s-New-College-in-shambles-as-new-year-starts

CBC Breaking - City of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories is to be evacuated due to encroaching wildfires

#CDNpoli