Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

There are a couple of articles today about U.S. schools and struggles with staffing and learning loss and chronic absenteeism. Do they continue to blame remote learning and the brief school closures from 2020 and 2021 or do they admit Covid infections and post-Covid health complications are major contributing factors?

The world’s most powerful military force mistook a woman and a child for a man in rural Somalia, killed them, and decided their deaths were no one’s fault. https://continent.substack.com/p/a-us-drone-killed-a-somali-mother

@AlliFlowers ITFG!

George Santos is getting due process from the House Ethics Committee — and suddenly Republicans are saying they will vote to expel him.

Donald Trump is about to get due process from multiple juries — so if they convict him, will those same Republicans suddenly disavow Trump?

@chargrille

Neither Hamas nor Netanyahu want peace. Neither want a two state solution. Both looking to eliminate the other. Both must go.

Appreciate that @caseynewton has been leading for months now on the need for journalists and, frankly, anyone with a conscience at this point, to leave X. Please people. It’s well past time.

@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.