Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@ElBeeToots @AlliFlowers @Patrickoldhiker @wolleysegap @lednabwm Good point about the 'newest testament'. They left out the Sermon on the Mount but deified the apostle Paul, famous misogynist.

@AlliFlowers @Patrickoldhiker @wolleysegap @lednabwm I think they're following the Newest Testament, which was written by copy-pasting the best (ahem) parts of the Old and New.

Jim Jordan's whole purpose in life is to shut down DOJ efforts to bring traitor Donald Trump to justice. Jim Jordan CANNOT be Speaker of the House!

#GymJordan #HouseSpeaker #TraitorGym #GOP #DOJ

#Israel forces have carried out local raids in #Gaza to search for hostages taken captive by Hamas, the Israeli military says. Follow live https://breaking.iavian.net/article/348117

House Minority Leader #HakeemJeffries urges Republicans to elect the next Speaker and criticizes party "extremists." After #SteveScalise withdrew his Speaker nomination, Jeffries suggests traditional Republicans partner with Democrats for a bipartisan solution. Jeffries might contend for the Speaker role if Democrats nominate him.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4253663-jeffries-calls-for-traditional-republicans-to-break-with-the-extremists/

NEW JERSEY
Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Federal prosecutors added the new criminal charge against the New Jersey Democrat and his wife.

By ERICA ORDEN
10/12/2023 12:55 PM EDT
Updated: 10/12/2023 06:53 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors accused Sen. Bob Menendez on Thursday of secretly acting as an agent of the government of Egypt while serving as the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, adding to the slate of criminal charges for which the New Jersey Democrat was indicted last month.

Prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office unveiled an updated indictment adding the charge of conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent, alleging that Menendez; his wife, Nadine Menendez; and a New Jersey businessman, Wael Hana, used his Senate position to benefit the government of...

#congress

#senateforeignrelationscommittee

#egypt

#bobmenendez

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee-00121225

Okay, big news for everyone with a WordPress blog, including people with a free blog on wordpress.com!

You can now turn *any* WordPress blog into a Fediverse server which can be followed from Mastodon etc.

I've updated the instructions on how to do this at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

Just to repeat, this is now available to ALL WordPress blogs including free tier ones. The free tier has slightly different instructions, but effect is same.

(via https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/)

#WordPress #Fediverse

I am so angry that the Israeli government had to release photos of mutilated murdered babies in an attempt to refute denial. This is a spectacle of death and the dead should be protected from it. It is profoundly disrespectful and it shows the contempt in which many hold the Jewish victims of violence, even the ones too young to have learned their first word.

But the thing is, public documentation will never be enough. The Holocaust is the most well-documented genocide and that does not stop Holocaust denial, not at all. “People love dead Jews” but only when it serves their narrative. Otherwise we are lying manipulators with a sinister agenda.

I have not seen the photos and hope never to. If more people would see the victims of massacre and war as real people, they would stop clamoring for such “evidence” which serves no purpose other than to desecrate the dead. #Israel

About 35 days until the next government shutdown deadline. No work appears to be happening on any funding bills because there’s no speaker. Nor has the House had either a symbolic or real response to the events in Israel. No sign there’ll be a speaker anytime soon. The Senate has been doing appropriations work, but w/o the House, they have nowhere to send their versions of bills which would require negotiation anyway.

Genuine question: in light of how we've witnessed disinformation spread in the pandemic, is anyone anywhere on earth effectively addressing the digital literacy and science literacy gap?

I'd love to know about who is doing good, *effective* work.

@edutooters

Rocky Horror Picture Show and Tell

#ChildProofAMovie
#HashTagGames

Harold and the Purple Crayon and Maude

#ChildProofAMovie
#HashTagGames

The Jerusalem Post reports

“Four out of five Jewish Israelis believe the government and Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu are to blame for the mass infiltration of #Hamas terrorists and the massacre of #Israel's South, a new Dialog Center poll released on Thursday found.

An overwhelming majority of 86% of respondents, including 79% of coalition supporters, said the surprise attack from #Gaza is a failure of the country's leadership, while a staggering 92% said the war is causing anxiety”

Children of the Candy Corn

#ChildProofAMovie
#HashTagGames