Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Trying something different for our latest Linea video - I narrated a time-lapse drawing I did during Inktober 2023. Spy vs Spy 'Dagger'.

I think this turned out pretty fun, I might have to do more! It's always interesting how I second-guess myself sometimes as I draw, but also how happy accidents usually lead to a solid result. Check it out and don't forget to "like and subscribe" 😂

https://youtu.be/0kd0Q3Wjq4o?si=NSATx55_SFXLhge-

#LineaSketch #Drawing #iPadArt

Why do people keep speaking of "vulture" capitalists?
I prefer the term "vampire." Vultures wait until their meal is already dead. Vampires drain the life out of their victims. Vultures perform an ecological function; vampires are the things of nightmares. Which is better?
#VultureCapitalism #VampireCapitalism

It's interesting to me how comfortable non-Jews are telling (mostly liberal and progressive) Jews what is and isn't anti semitic. I tend to defer to the judgment of ethnic and religious groups to which I don't belong on such matters.

#antisemitism #bigotry

@tdwllms1 @AlliFlowers @GottaLaff
Hate, not Love - that's Christo-fascism!

Trump Attacks Special Counsel's Wife As His Lawyers Argue No Gag Order Is Needed To Restrain Him https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-attacks-special-counsels-wife

TERRORISM FROM WITHIN

Trump staff creating 'pre-vetted pro-Trump army' of 54,000 loyalists to staff federal government

Staffers who worked for former President Donald Trump are reportedly now assembling a database of MAGA loyalists in preparation for an unprecedented purge of federal workers should Trump win a second term in 2024.

"There will be blood in the streets"

#trump #fascist #fascism #MAGA

https://www.alternet.org/trump-staff-army-loyalists/

It's bad enough to expect someone to work until they're 80 yet refuse to hire them after they turn 50. It's worse to attach healthcare to their job or Medicare, yet ignore those who fall between 'too old to hire' and Medicare-eligible. But it's a whole other thing to saddle those same people with the burden of caring for family members with Alzheimer's simply because they don't make enough money to afford care. How much does the middle class have to suffer before we say ENOUGH?

Rant over.

This essay, How Do You Teach Immoral Laws?, by Nicole Hallett articulates what many of us teaching law today must grapple with. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fTRN2b3xIaxR0HTDR82O81eqtro4ox5J/view?usp=drivesdk

I would add to Hallett: Law is always an artifact of human thought and culture, and so, as bound to be immoral as people themselves are and have been. But it can also, like people, be moral, and like people, be a complicated mix. One reason to keep going in law teaching and practice is to try to add to the moral aspect of law. #lawFedi #lawProfs

Daycare TB case exposes over 500 babies, children; emergency declared

The health department has set up multiple clinics to test children as quickly as possible.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/daycare-tb-case-exposes-over-500-babies-children-emergency-declared/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

2/ And via Scott MacFarlane:

Special Counsel blisters Trump in latest filing over whether to allow TV cameras at Trump trial

"He once again demands special treatment"

"Defendant offers no legal argument or case law"

"He has consistently made clear his desire to delay the trial"

Via Emptywheel:

Shorter DOJ: None of those OTHER terrorists got televised trials.

Why should you get special treatment?

Jen Psaki: Trump Will ‘wield power however he chooses, unconstrained by the rule of law’ in a second term.

What #tfg is saying now is the most concerning things we’ve heard from him. He’s telling us exactly what he plans to do and it's not good. We all just need to listen. And act.

#GOPFascists #gqp
https://www.thewrap.com/jen-psaki-warns-trump-will-wield-power-however-he-chooses-unconstrained-by-the-rule-of-law-in-a-second-term-video/

Mike Johnson is a Xtian ‘Dominionist’.
Their plan is to take over the ‘Seven Mountains’ of public life, which are education, family, religion, media, entertainment, business, and government. Sounds pretty totalitarian to me. Due to this I title him ‘sPeaker Mike’. Don’t be fooled by the demeanor; Himmler looked harmless too.

Military families and retired service members lobby to end Tuberville's blockade

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/military-families-retired-service-members-lobby-against-sen-tommy-tuberville-blockade-nominations-promotions/

#MilitaryFamilies #RetiredServiceMembers #Lobby #EndBlockade #TommyTuberville #NominationsPromotions #Politics #News

Donald Trump Jr.'s original testimony could backfire as he retakes stand

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-testimony-new-york-fraud-trial-1843012

#Newsweek #DonaldTrumpJr #Testimony #NewYorkFraudTrial #OriginalTestimony #Backfire #Politics #News

There was a day about 10 years ago that this meme made me laugh so hard that I couldn't feel my elbows. It's still funny.

This morning, on the bay bridge. Promoting violence is not the way.

@Dubhes @mmalc @MugsysRapSheet @marcas @jawarajabbi @avi917 @nosmaharba @lednabwm no one should have a vocation that requires them to mandate how others should believe, regarding matters that it is impossible for any mortal man to know.

Pro-Hitler and Holocaust denier account: X has paid me $3,000 in ad revenue sharing (Eric Hananoki/Media Matters for America)

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/pro-hitler-and-holocaust-denier-account-x-has-paid-me-3000-ad-revenue-sharing
http://www.memeorandum.com/231113/p26#a231113p26