Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

8/ Ha!

Via George Takei:

House Speaker candidate unfamiliar with how to win non-gerrymandered election.

Meanwhile, via Tamar Hallerman:

Judge McAfee rejected requests to dismiss charges against Ken #Chesebro and #SidneyPowell in the #Fulton election interference case, appearing to clear the way for their trial to begin later this week. #legal #Georgia #TrumpIndictment

6/ Via Rupar:

lol Byron Donalds gets a vote and we're going off the rails already. Buck then votes for Emmer. lots of murmuring

Connolly: "No to election deniers. Hakeem Jeffries!"

Republicans didn't like that

Jim Jordan loses for the second time. Add his name to the undistinguished list of GOP Losers that populate our politics.

#Poltiics #USPol

5/ Via Scott MacFarlane:

A new defector. Rep Vern Buchanan (R-FL) does not vote for Rep Jim Jordan on second ballot

Via Angry Staffer:

That’s 4.

We’re only in the Cs.

Time to tap out, Gym.

And Chavez DeRemer votes McCarthy. It's over for Gym. He'll lose by more this time.

4/ @emptywheel cont'd:

Aguilar: 212 to 200. No amount of election denying is going to take away those vote totals.

In addition to not passing a single piece of legislation, never placed a piece of legislation that has made it to a committee.

Hellbent on banning abortion nationwide. Giving cover to Jan6.

15 days should be enough.

2/ OFFS.

Via Matthew Gertz:

A selling point for Jim Jordan according to his nominator today is that he has the "courage" to gut Social Security and Medicare.

Cole: Unlike any other speaker we have had, he has had the courage to talk about a long-term plan and to get at the real drivers of debt. We all know what they are. We all know it's medicare, social security..

Lol, weeee! 1/...

Via @atrupar on #House #GOP #Speaker vote:

Don Bacon votes for McCarthy -- the first GOP defection from #JimJordan

Wife of NC congressman Don Bacon receives anonymous text messages warning her husband to back Jim Jordan as Speaker or he 'will not hold any political office ever again' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12643181/amp/nc-don-bacon-jim-jordan-speaker-vote-texts.html?ito=smartnews Absolutely freaking bizarre. The GOP #GQP Banana RepubliKKKans are a disaster.

The Treasury Department sanctioned two senior #Hamas officials, a #Gaza Strip-based #crypto exchange and its operators and six individuals who help manage the militant group’s investment portfolio. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/18/treasury-crypto-sanctions-hamas-00122179

Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about Al Ahli hospital blast - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Pete Aguilar is just trolling Republicans now. Says Jeffries got 212-200 and is qualified to be Speaker. LOL

"While we continue to collect information, our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts, and open source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion in the hospital in Gaza yesterday."

- Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council

#Israel #Gaza

Picked up a tutoring gig. I am horrified by the quality of high school chemistry textbooks.

Also, some teachers are waaaay too restrictive when trying to prevent cheating.

I understand not letting students keep exams (I do that in my college classes). But not letting students keep their study guides is just cruel. And, since they work the study guides at home, where they have cameras and can make copies, not returning those study guides is useless to prevent cheating, but punishes less advantaged students.

Awesome!

Now... What should #Trump Tower and Mar-a-lago become to keep the MAGAts away? Homeless shelters? Universalist Unitarian churches? Democratic HQ?
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House where Adolf Hitler was born to become police station to stop Neo-Nazi pilgrimage
https://news.sky.com/video/house-where-adolf-hitler-was-born-to-become-police-station-to-stop-neo-nazi-pilgrimage-austria-says-12975146

A Virginia woman was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat.

#CatsOfMastodon #GiftedArticle

https://wapo.st/4909cfk

Hamas cyber actors launched low-level cyberattacks combined with a disinformation campaign to control the narrative.https://www.polygraph.info/a/7315940.html

https://joshgilmansblog.wordpress.com/2023/10/13/why-you-might-have-lost-all-your-jewish-friends-this-week-and-didnt-even-know-it/?fbclid=IwAR1ndMLs1tr4IOTJMfB4pAIJW1TQvniQposZLtNshuwxeaNq4thrSisnmi4_aem_AQHwa9qaaeWbDgkJWsVzD-NqbtxAKrMZT7hPLSF7bZZX8-me8_4bVD_AopaV1GYpLE4