Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@tadbithuman @AlliFlowers Ruled by various Islamic caliphates after the Byzantine Empire. No independent state of Palestine has ever existed.

In general (note that), parents have as much of a right to tell teachers how to practice teaching as they do to tell doctors how to practice medicine: none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. The big fat goose egg. Nada. Both teachers and doctors are trained professionals who know best. School boards who tolerate this need to shut it down or be replaced with people who will shut it down at the source.

NRA Proudly Shares Clip Of Mike Johnson Opposing Gun Laws After Maine Shooting #NRA #MikeJohnson #GunControl #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-mike-johnson-guns-second-amendment_n_653f889ae4b0a78a26a3f049

Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is an apocalyptic accelerationist doctrine VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world.

That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.

And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.

Mike Johnson as speaker in THIS moment is almost everything these "End Times" cheerleaders could have wanted, and I genuinely believe that there needs to be an internal audit and then reinforcement and potential reorganization of the president and vice president's secret service details.
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🎶🎶I'm not kidding!🎶🎶

New York AG Considered Investigating Giuliani Over Ukraine (Jose Pagliery/The Daily Beast)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-ag-considered-investigating-giuliani-over-ukraine
http://www.memeorandum.com/231030/p9#a231030p9

Amid some dangerous and extremely disappointing statements from student organizations about Israel and Gaza, I am impressed that University of Ottawa law students from Muslim and Jewish student associations came together to make this thoughtful and united statement. While their statement leaves much unsaid, it is commendable that they focus on common ground, in shared pain and mutual respect.
#Ottawa

Yay! April 15, 2024. Ken Paxton has been under investigation since the Spanish-American war. Finally, a trial date. #KenPaxtonForLifeInPrison #Texas

Judge sets trial date in Texas AG Paxton's long-delayed fraud case https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4283414-texas-ken-paxton-trial-date/

JUST IN: United Auto Workers union reaches tentative contract agreement with General Motors, potentially ending weeks-long strike at Detroit's Big Three automakers. #UAW #GM #strike #autoindustry https://thereportify.com/to/169052https://thereportify.com/uaw-reaches-tentative-contract-deal-with-gm-ending-strike-us/

Overnight, the #IDF has reportedly rescued fellow soldier Ori Megidish from #Hamas. She was kidnapped and taken into #Gaza by the terrorist organization during their invasion of #Israel on October 7th. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-captured-soldier-rescued-from-gaza-during-overnight-operation/

Humpty Trumpty

Cornell University Receives Antisemitic Threats https://www.voanews.com/a/cornell-receives-antisemitic-threats/7332635.html #voanews

DEJA VU: Judge reinstates gag order & Trump promptly breaks it — TWICE https://washingtonpress.com/2023/10/30/deja-vu-judge-reinstates-gag-order-trump-promptly-breaks-it-twice/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

It's time to pull the handle on the Republican toilet. It may need a plunge too. #GOP #MAGA #NoRepublicansEverAgain #EndTheGOP #DefeatMAGA

Kevin McCarthy gets MAGA primary challenger https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4283327-mccarthy-maga-gop-primary-challenger/

@AlliFlowers #ivory can go to the page on the post's home instance. Open the specific post, then either:
* click on the timestamp
* click on the sort of @ underneath the post, like you were going to bookmark it, and "open link to post"

@DavidM_yeg @stevesilberman I’m with you. These comments are frightening. Unless one has lived the Jewish diaspora experience, it’s impossible to understand. And, it’s become clear in the last few weeks, antisemitism curdles many interactions.

4/ Via Kyle Cheney:

Among those they say will testify that what occurred was an "insurrection" and that Trump is disqualified from the ballot:

-MPD Officer Danny Hodges
-Rep. Eric Swalwell
-Extremism and 14th amendment experts

Trump side, led by former CO secratary of state Scott Gessler, says petitioners are relying on "fringe" legal theories to disqualify a presidential candidate for the first time in American history: "This lawsuit is antidemocratic." [Me: So are insurrections, you putz]

It isn’t just older American Jews who are afraid of the rising antisemitism in the U.S and elsewhere. Jewish students in their twenties are coming to me to tell me that they are being overtly menaced on campus because they are Jewish. They are being harassed simply on the basis of their last names. Holding all Jews responsible for the conduct of the Israeli government is definitely bigoted; taunting and threatening people on the basis of their seemingly Jewish names is absolutely racist.

Via Fred Wellman:

It will not shock you to know Chip Roy never served in the military. These are the same words used by bigots and chickenhawk when we desegregated. When women were admitted into the military academies and combat roles. When we flushed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Change is fought.

Aaron Rupar:

Chip Roy on Fox Business says he wants DOD to be focused on "killing people and blowing stuff up."