Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The #cowards are taking more #hostages and using them as #humanShields again

#Iran-backed #Houthi rebels #hijacked an #Israeli-linked ship and took 25 crew members as hostages.

They warned that they would continue to do so until the end of #Israel's campaign against "#Hamas rulers"

Not #Palestinians, mind you, but "Hamas rulers," who Palestinians continue to let fight #inTheirName only for a #permanentStateOfWar.

How is talk of a full #ceaseFire even tenable?

https://apnews.com/article/israel-houthi-rebels-hijacked-ship-red-sea-dc9b6448690bcf5c70a0baf7c7c34b09

To no one's surprise, it turns out that #Hamas genuinely uses #Gaza hospitals as #HumanShields.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-intelligence-hamas-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-hold/story?id=104887035

@AlliFlowers In Kenya there are a few different native ethnic groups but Kenyans all lump Europeans and Americans into the same ethnic group *regardless of whether they are white or Black* and some Americans get very upset when I mention this, like it’s against the rules for Kenyans or anyone to do this.

At some point, do the ultra-wealthy ever stop and think, “OK, I have enough money. I’m going to stop trying to fuck up the world for everyone else.”

“We hope that day will come soon,” said one Syrian refugee. “We hate Putin more than Bashar al-Assad. Why did [Putin] come to our country?"

Last year, the UN agency for human rights estimated that over 300,0000 civilians have been killed since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011.

If Ukraine risks being forgotten by the media, the Syrian Civil War receives even less coverage.

Over the last decade an average of 84 civilians have died every day, many of them as a result of Russian airstrikes.

We have to end this Texas textbook situation. That fucked up state shouldn't be in charge of anything literate people use.

I'll have to remember this one.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

The nation is in trouble, in short, because too many of us are willing to bend the rules of our democratic system to enshrine white Christian nationalism — and themselves as white Christians — as the law of the land. As PRRI subtitles its survey:

“State of the country: Pessimism, political violence, paranoia.”

#PRRI #democracy #WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #strongmen
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#MikeJohnson, new #evangelical Speaker of the House, said about #LGBTQ+ issues in October that the country is in peril.
“The only question is: Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins? Or is he going to give us one more chance to restore the foundations & return to him?” 🤮

"Foundations?" Like when our country was built on enslaving others & engaging in wholesale genocide against #indigenous peoples?

But your god is upset about trans kids?! 🤦🏼😵‍💫

A #Ukrainian military spokeswoman has said troops have pushed back occupying #Russian forces some 3-8 km from the left -- or eastern -- bank of the River #Dnipro. #Ukraine's army has said in recent days that it's taken several positions on the Russian- controlled side of the river near Kherson. Fighting has been reported -- incl by Russian military bloggers -- near #Krynky and Poima. Establishing a bridgehead on the Russian- controlled side has been a long- held Ukrainian objective.

Hey GOP ...

@AlliFlowers @GottaLaff Absolutely... Hamas is authoritarian and, therefore, anti-human rights. Authoritarianism is evil.

@GottaLaff

“Palestinian people deserve state of their own..free from Hamas.."

Q: Who doesn't understand this?
A: A lot of people.

Via Aaron Rupar: (clip of Tapper/Raskin):

#Raskin calls out #DeSantis for claiming he didn't see Elon #Musk's antisemitic post four days after he published it:

"You showed it to him, and he still refused to condemn it."

@tofugolem @sqgl @parismarx

The GOP billionaires funding fascism want to cherry pick who can even get an education.

Every anti-democracy movement begins with gatekeeping on public education.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1933-1938/law-limits-jews-in-public-schools

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/indoctrinating-youth

Education, along with unions, is a driver of social mobility.

Bigotted billionaires want to end social mobility for non-Christians, immigrants, women, & POC.

They never want another success story like Obama to ever happen again.

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He’s calling for a ceasefire, appears to be getting it…also laying out very pro-Palestinian plan for post-conflict, pledging to hold Israel accountable for settler violence

You know, everything that people said he shd do:

“Palestinian people deserve state of their own..free from Hamas..

“I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in W Bank must stop..those committing the violence must be held acctbl.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/18/joe-biden-gaza-hamas-putin/

@AlliFlowers
That's right, they don't think Jews are white. And we know what their intentions are toward people who they don't consider white.

#FoxnewsSunday's Roundtable is talking about young people on #TikTok touting "a letter from Osama bin Laden" about #Israel and claiming "OBL was right. Disgusting."

Several minutes in and NO ONE has mentioned the fact OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD.

Does the Right Wing now believe OBL wasn't really killed in 2011? 🤨

Mosque attack victims shaken after hate-motivated assaults lead to Toronto man's arrest
A Toronto man has been arrested in connection with multiple hate-motivated assaults throughout the city, according to police — including a Saturday morning attack on worshippers outside a mosque.
#cbc #news #News #Canada #Toronto
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/man-arrested-islamophobic-attacks-1.7033113?cmp=rss