Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"If someone asks you to make your organization more inclusive, they're not asking you to go out of your way.

They're asking you to fulfill your responsibility."

#Ableism #WeAreBillionStrong #DisabilityInclusion #Equity #accessibility #AXSChat #SDGs

The suspect hasn't even been caught and we're already hearing about how his mental health is to blame. Not, you know, the fact that guns are easier to get than a driver's license.

#massshooting #lewiston #maine #guncontrol

There’s already been another #MassShooting today in #America

5 people shot dead on Garland Highway in #SampsonCounty, #NorthCarolina, sheriff says

A homicide investigation is underway in Sampson County after five people were found dead in a home, according to Sampson County Sheriff Jimmy Thornton.

https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/homicide-investigation-underway-in-sampson-county-multiple-dead-sheriff/

News from the Dept. of About Effing Time #TommyTuberville #Democrats #Military https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/26/2201791/-Senate-Democrats-eye-end-run-around-Tuberville-s-military-promotion-blockade?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web

According to this Progress Playbook article, Uruguay has been running on 100% renewables for four straight months now – cutting its production costs in half, creating 50,000 new jobs, and becoming a net exporter of electricity in the process.

Impressive! 🌎

https://theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/energy-independent-uruguay-runs-on-100-renewables-for-four-straight-months/

#energy #renewables #environment

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#WSDOTActive #transportation #TranspoJobs #CompleteStreets #planning #PlanningJobs #MobilityJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #RoadSafety #VisionZero #UrbanPlanning

@stux

I've been struggling to put thoughts into words, but this is exactly it: "I think one of the most depressing things for me, and I imagine most Jews right now, is the knowledge (not fear or concern, but verified knowledge) that if my family and I were murdered, you ghouls would debate if we had it coming."

I know there's a lot going on, but the Senate just passed a reckless amendment that would prohibit the enforcement of mask mandates on public transportation at the federal level for the next fiscal year.

Shamefully, 10 Democrats voted in favor of a ban:
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO
Brown (D-OH)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Manchin (D-WV)
Rosen (D-NV)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Tester (D-MT)

The unanimous election of Mike Johnson to Speaker of the House has settled any lingering doubts. The Republican Party is dead. There is only the MAGA party.

If you are voting Republican, you are voting for Trump and the end of the Democratic Republic.

NEWS: Here's the ruling striking down Georgia's congressional and legislative maps as violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.298498/gov.uscourts.gand.298498.286.0_1.pdf

Pentagon says 900 US troops have deployed or are deploying to Middle East amid heightened tensions

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/26/politics/us-troops-deploying-middle-east?cid=ios_app

@CaringKinderSociety

There's plenty of complexity in war, but some things aren't complicated at all.

Civilians are, categorically, not POWs. And treating civilians as if they were, is a war crime.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.33_GC-IV-EN.pdf
#GenevaConventions