Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

While I personally stopped tweeting in May, it was clear that now was the time for Flipboard to stop tweeting as well.

This is a sad outcome given that Twitter was the platform we got started on in 2010 and I was a board member there with Jack, Ev and Dick. But that Twitter is gone now. And the future is the open social web.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/flipboard-stops-tweeting-launches-new-podcast-about-decentralized-social-apps/

Angelo Carusone, president of #MediaMatters, said in a statement, “This is a #FrivolousLawsuit meant to bully #X’s critics into silence.” He added that his org “stands behind its #reporting & looks forward to winning in court.”

On Mon night, #KenPaxton, the #Texas AG (recently nearly impeached), also announced that his office would open an investigation into #mmfa for “potential fraudulent activity.”

#ElonMusk #Musk #birdsite #FreePress #antisemitism #FirstAmendment #1A #law #StopHate4Profit

Vancouver News (CTV): 'It was humiliating': Paraplegic WestJet passenger pulled herself up stairs from tarmac to airplane https://bc.ctvnews.ca/it-was-humiliating-paraplegic-westjet-passenger-pulled-herself-up-stairs-from-tarmac-to-airplane-1.6653542 #CTV #CTVBC #vancouver #BritishColumbia

when i say that American Media is owned by fascists, am not exaggerating.

As Aunty Toni Morrison said, fascism is marketing for power (systemic violence, not life affirming power). somebody has to be broadcaster of said power.

i said 10 years ago in a conference, the internet and broadcasting media as we knew it then was not going to exist in another 10-20 years.

am being proven right.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/08/hearst-social-media-policy/

@Teri_Kanefield @mmaniac90

What about Paul Pelosi?
That came prety close to killing someone after Trump incitements.

If he had been killed would there have been consequences for Trump and consorts?

This is scary. “Texas A&M put professor on leave for allegedly criticizing Dan Patrick | The Texas Tribune” https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

As has once again been made clear, Jewish lives don't matter to most & antisemitism is real — even if many non-Jews pretend otherwise.

Those truths justify a desire for self-defense.

But they don't justify Israel's mass retribution against Palestinians. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sharon-brous.html

#Israel, #Hamas & #US nearing deal on #hostage release, snr ofcls say

President #Biden; Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to Washington; Prime Minister of #Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani; & Jonathan Finer, the US deputy #NationalSecurity adviser, all independently stated that agreement was close.

#terrorism #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #HumanitarianCrisis #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/19/israel-hamas-gaza-hostage-deal/

it should be illegal to let children and elderly people onto the web without an ad-blocker

Are MakerSpaces the new computer labs?

That is, computer labs moved from being a special room to being in every room.

Is there an advantage to creating separate spaces for "MakeSpaces"?

Or, should MakerSpaces, at least the concept, be in every classroom?

Schools need to NOT look like prisons: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/a-place-to-play-is-a-release-from-prison

Congress wants to approve additional aid to Ukraine in an aid package before Christmas.

The package will include aid to Israel, Ukraine and changes to the immigration system.

If both parties are unable to agree on this before the New Year, the chance of getting all four parts of the plan decrease significantly.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congressional-leaders-are-aiming-pass-ukraine-israel-supplemental-aid-rcna125845

‘They will pay’: Trump shares social media threat as his lawyer argues gag order is unfair

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/20/they-will-pay-trump-shares-social-media-threat-as-his-lawyer-argues-gag-order-is-unfair.html

#CNBC #TrumpThreat #SocialMediaThreat #GagOrder #Unfair #LegalArgument #Politics #News

#ALweather #ALwx
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Twitter gives special counsel Jack Smith 32 of Trump’s private messages

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/twitter-trump-messages-special-counsel-b2412467.html

#TwitterMessages #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith #Trump #PrivateMessages #USPolitics #Politics #News

Yaserji arrived in Turkey as a refugee himself twelve years ago, after his home in Aleppo was destroyed. Yet, twelve years into the war, he opened up the orphanage just in the last year – almost as an act of defiance.

“It is the Russians, and Putin, that are in complete control,” he said. “They can stop at any point bombing schools and hospitals and kids. They can stop at any point creating more orphans and they decide not to.” 

I rarely block other users.

But for @ebdullahkhan I will make an exception.

#blocked