Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@MugsysRapSheet @nosmaharba @lednabwm @MasterMischief @avi917 No, it's clear what you're saying. It's a preacher's banality, in the same category as "Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve", "If we're descended from apes, why are there still apes?", or for that matter "America is a republic not a democracy".

One can't really argue with such vacuities. At best, one can point out that the person uttering them is embarrassing themselves. But then if they could understand that, they'd be halfway to a cure.

@AlliFlowers Oh come on, anyone can see actually telling the truth is not a Biblical value.

Wow.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

New Florida censorship law sparks ban of around 300 books

"Once again we see a Florida school district erring on the side of extreme caution while navigating vague legislation" - PEN America.

#books #BannedBooks #BookBan #FreeSpeech #Censorship

https://howtobe247.com/new-florida-censorship-law-sparks-ban-of-around-300-books/

"The man [Joe Manchin] knows how to time his sabotage. Two days after the Democrats have a big night across the country, he walks away, virtually handing the Republicans a Senate seat. The man could harsh Pollyanna's mellow."

~ Charles Pierce

#Manchin #Democrats #centrist #OilandGas #AllabouttheMoney #traitor

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45795317/joe-manchin-to-leave-senate/

Your twice weekly reminder that the fight is between those who want to “Terminate the Constitution” and those who do not. Everything else is distraction. #Politics #USPol

Trump and his manipulators and apparatchiks aren't even pretending to hide their goals for a fascist America.

It's been obvious for years now, and you should read/watch this brilliant analysis of a video shown prominently at the Jan. 6 insurrection. (I missed it when it was published, but it's still very much worth looking at.)

https://www.justsecurity.org/74504/movie-at-the-ellipse-a-study-in-fascist-propaganda/

Meanwhile, Big Journalism mostly resists noticing, much less doing anything about, the emergency we face. Time is short.

A Weissmann:

To be filed under: If you say I am a dictator, I will crush you like a dictator👇🏼

P Baker: Spox denies #Trump rhetoric echoes dictators like Hitler, Mussolini & declares those who say it does will find "their entire existence will be crushed when Trump returns to WH" ⁦

Emptywheel:

I bet 1 of reasons why [Stephen Miller] keeps RTing NYT story is bc NYT did him a solid by using good fascist image of Trump backlit rather than, say, showing what kids in concentration camps look like

@eniko I agree, wear a mask. I’m 70, for any large group of people, say entering a grocery store, mask on. COVID along with Flu and other vaccines in themselves, don’t prevent infection, but overall they do minimize the impact on the individual and society to help keep us up and running. #AntiVaxers seem to operate on right wing conspiracy theories.
Based on the track record of Humanity to date, I’m far from convinced we have anything approaching #TheRightStuff. 🤔

@AlliFlowers @MugsysRapSheet @lednabwm @marcas @avi917 @nosmaharba cult of the gurgling sink.

Faculty position in Black Speculative Writing, Vancouver CA

please boost for visibility! and if there are other Black community hashtags I don't know, please add.

#BlackFedi #SFF #job

https://creativewriting.ubc.ca/about/job-opportunities/

Potential graduate students: when you send me email enquiring about graduate studies with me, and your email contains a sentence along the lines of "I am particularly intrigued by your publication <Paper Title>", but don't say what intrigues you, then I know you haven't read it.

I get several of these emails a day, so I know you're using a standard template.

OTOH: If you do tell me something you found interesting about one of my papers, I'll (usually) reply.

#SecretService agents protecting President #Joe Biden’s granddaughter opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked #USSS vehicle in the nation’s capital.

The agents, assigned to protect #NaomiBiden, were out w/her in the Georgetown neighborhood late Sunday night when they saw the three people breaking a window of the parked & unoccupied SUV, the official said.

https://apnews.com/article/naomi-biden-secret-service-shooting-washington-georgetown-997126378e864c5acd0c9a1c6618c4e2

Trump's cruelty-inspired immigration advisor Stephen Miller has just told New York Times that if Trump is elected, he will build "vast holding facilities" where immigrants who will be rounded up will be held. "Miller bragged that the camps would be built using Homeland Security and Department of Defense money so that a new Trump administration will not have to go through the normal route of getting the Congress to appropriate money to cover their cost."

#Trump #camps #StephenMiller
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Watch "James Carville explains everything about Mike Johnson" on YouTube https://youtu.be/mPsQOPY6_MA?si=jx4r8fRZJL8Wz9lF

Watch Jim Carville expose MAGA mike.

So worth your time.

@MugsysRapSheet @lednabwm @MasterMischief @marcas @avi917 @nosmaharba
So, an endeavor in which one tries to convince another of their position is a religion?

So, you're practicing a religion right now, then.