Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@kikebenlloch @unnameduser @andrewstroehlein I am appalled, I find the destruction horrible, I am heartbroken for the dead and injured.
I just place blame differently than you. For example: if Hamas would release all the hostages this would stop today.
But because people know they can’t reason with fanatics, they want Israel to, and blame Israel when it doesn’t.

Does anyone knows someone working for Child protective services in Texas by any chance ?

A friend of mine is seeking help with a horrific story involving a cop and kids in Tarrant county and it seems like nothing is moving forward, I would love to put them in contact with people that can help. They are not on Mastodon but I can forward contact infos.

Please boost for reach, this is apparently quite urgent !

Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row

> For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/portugal-just-ran-on-100-renewables-for-six-days-in-a-row

#Environment #Renewables #Wind #Solar #Hydro #Portugal

"What if the problem isn’t that consumers of media fail to understand the actual stakes of losing democracy?...

“...Donald #Trump is telling us, loud and clear, that he wants to end American #democracy as we know it.”

There is going to come a moment—and for many of the #writers cited above, that moment has already arrived—in which the #media appropriately reports on the enormity of the stakes and nobody flinches."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/11/trump-vermin-speech-democracy-fascism-2024.html

#Journalism #Press #GOP #Politics #USPol #USA #News

Clay Higgins Claims ‘Ghost Buses’ Brought FBI Informants To Washington On Jan. 6. What does it take to remove a fucking loon from Congress?

#ClayHiggins #GhostBuses #LunaticGOP #Louisiana #GOPNuts #GOPFreaks

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The pièce de résistance of her piece is her pondering about #peace.

"Might WE be able to stop the ongoing killing?" -- emphasis mine.

NO.

WE #US can't stop it. Neither can any of the #G7, nor #Israel, for the simple reason that #Hamas wants a #permanentStateOfWar ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111379041814593155

I won't repeat that argument, but follow the above link, or better yet, follow the hashtag #permanentStateOfWar. Go up, down, and sideways, as the affordance arrows show where more content is located.

A first-rate editorial from the Washington Post, urging Congress to ban AR-15 style rifles, bump stocks, and large magazines, all tools of mass shooters. Gift access at https://wapo.st/3MNVSkO. It follows from the Post’s excellent ongoing reporting about AR-15s, how they work and how the gun industry promotes them. #GunViolence

Be the "person that cried fascists".

That way, when you're rounded up into the camps, you'll at least have the smug satisfaction of "I told you so".
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If you see something fascist, say something.

#TTJ #ArtFED #TVAC

"A new COVID strain called Pirola (BA.2.86) — described as the most deadly since the first Omicron mutation — is now circulating in Victoria. It comes as the ability of RATs to detect mutations is revealed."

The TGA’s post-market review of antigen and rapid antigen tests link: https://www.tga.gov.au/products/covid-19/covid-19-tests/post-market-review-antigen-and-rapid-antigen-tests

@MaryAnneThomas @VicGovDH @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/covid-pirola-hits-victoria-as-effectiveness-of-rats-in-detecting-emerging-variants-is-revealed/news-story/f2eb1d3b22c8036f8d5ef5e76f450c67

Glenn Kirschner:
Judge poised to decide if Trump is DISQUALIFIED from being on the 2024 presidential ballot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmDmyc4kh8

#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats

Quote:"A 16-year old won #Blender’s animator of the year with this video on a futuristic street food market. Gold."

That is astonishing result, he have done an incredible work. #b3d #Blender3D #Animation #VFX

For a better resolutions go here. https://younganimator.uk/winner/1699875910225x437970782709919500

I'm over my self-pitying rant.

I will stop reading comments before I stop posting.

I think, though, that helping people understand the First Amendment issues at stake in the gag orders is less important than helping people understand that the real danger to democracy is misinformation and disinformation, and these things cannot be fixed through the legal system.

Aw, HELL no, #Squarespace. This is NOT OK. #NoAI

Rep. Becca Balint Becomes the First Jewish Congressperson to Back a Ceasefire

Her call for a ceasefire comes one week after activists from the Vermont chapter of #Jewish Voice for Peace protested outside one of Balint’s campaign events and days after a meeting between Balint and rabbis from Rabbis for #ceasefire another pro-peace Jewish group.

#gaza #war

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/rep-becca-balint-becomes-the-first-jewish-congressperson-to-back-a-ceasefire/

The problem is this: We are currently in an information disruption.

The way people are getting their information is creating misinformation-rage cycles.

It seems to me that these cycles will not end until we work our way out of this disruption.

The last major information disruption was the printing press and it caused havoc.

The firehose of rage is the result of two things: how people get their information and the complexity of our legal system.

I've been writing about this.

@AlliFlowers Don’t worry. Things will get better soon. It’s very early yet.

Twitter/X has been showing ads run by Apple, IBM, Oracle & Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content.

IBM has since pulled all its advertising after being asked to comment.

Apple as always is ignoring all of the outcry as there’s nothing more important than its highest moral imperative; sell more iPhones no matter whatever it takes.

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle

By Thursday afternoon, 19 Democrats and nearly a dozen Republicans who previously voted "no" or "present" said in statements, posted to social media or told Axios they planned to vote to expel Rep. George Santos.
https://t.co/6vfPUTJfE0

Apparently you need to make sure you denounce genocide as an idea daily if you’re a Jew now. Didn’t know that.

I also didn’t denounce juvenile diabetes or oral cancer, so let me be clear that I don’t approve there, either, since every time I speak, I need to be clear I don’t endorse every other thing I didn’t mention today.

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She has valid arguments for #Palestinian freedom, but that gets drowned in the legal subterfuge she pulls.

The initial order warned: “In the following days, the #IDF will continue to operate significantly in #Gaza City and make extensive efforts to AVOID HARMING CIVILIANS. Evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families and DISTANCE yourself from #Hamas #terrorists who are using you as #humanShields"

#RadhikaSainath mischaracterized this as "literal" #ethnicCleansing 🙄

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