Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“It’s open season on #journalists,” this time in small town Alabama, where 69-year-old #reporter and 72-year-old #publisher are arrested, jailed. In other words, they’re being prosecuted by people they’ve known most of their adult lives. Small town officials feel emboldened by the financial troubles of #newspapers #legacymedia. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/27/atmore-news-arrests-alabama/

Via The NY Times:

Mayor Anne Hidalgo of #Paris announced on #X that she was quitting the social media site because it had devolved into a “gigantic global sewer” for disinformation, hatred, anti-Semitism and racism, and a “tool for destroying our democracies.” #Twitter #Musk

@politico

Bottom line: Neither #Trump's civil fraud trial, nor any of his other trials, will have any effect. He is above the law now.

If we don't all show up and vote next year, the law as we have known it since the end of Jim Crow won't even exist any more.

Social media should be fun, if you're not having fun you should log off

>> please just don’t trust Amnesty

#Amnesty accuses #US State Dept of targeting groups that advocate "using peaceful means, such as boycotts" but one look at violent #BDS protests in front of #DNC, their disruptions in Congress, Bay Bridge, & such give away the lie

US "is using false & politically motivated accusations of antisemitism to harm peaceful activists"
That, in itself, is an Amnesty lie

#BDSMovement #BDSHorseShoe #HorseShoe

@notwithstanding @randahl @martin
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2020/11/state-departments-attack-on-the-bds-movement-violates-freedom-of-expression-and-endangers-human-rights-protection/

Real shame. 🎻 Rudy Giuliani joins your self-inflicted club.

“Far-right attorney John #Eastman, one of #Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case, told conservative publication The Federalist his legal expenses in the case have left him in a dire financial situation.”- Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/john-eastman-fulton-county-mugshot/

#Science is littered with #zombie studies. Here’s how to stop their spread. Just by citing a #zombiepublication, new #research becomes #infected: A single unreliable #citation can threaten the reliability of the research that cites it, and that infection can cascade, spreading across hundreds of papers. A 2019 paper on #childhoodcancer, for example, cites 51 different #RetractedPapers making its research likely impossible to salvage. https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4326865-science-is-littered-with-zombie-studies-heres-how-to-stop-their-spread/ #KM #education #medicine

@IntentionallyBLANK

In 2020, Trump pardoned drug smuggler and predatory lender Jonathan Braun, w/ help from son-in-law Kushner, and Alan Dershovitz. Braun was being worked on by DOJ to turn in top drug kingpins, but escaped justice scot-free. Story never told but now coming out. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/politics/trump-pardon-braun.html

@taylorlorenz Quote posts are coming! Long overdue, but better late than ever!

https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

for the 4th straight fucking year public health has insisted they are well prepared for a surge in hospitalizations and everyone should continue as if an ever evolving, immune depleting virus was no big deal

McMaster Children's Hospital treating kids in hallways as they can't handle the load, wait times at ERs rising sharply all over Canada

Main question: why the hell prepare to fail every time, vs prevent the surge from happening?

We have the tools, use them - mask up

#Covid #Covid19

@Alarod_123
There are no perfect people.
There can be no perfect
political leader.
Look for those who clearly
respect your most important
values and have track records
for getting good things done.
Who do you see?

For some reason, this cracked me up.
But then I think pineapple absolutely belongs on pizza! ;)
What do you think?
#Pizza #PineappleOnPizza

Folks, I don’t shame people for their fashion choices, but I will say this — I have seen multiple teen girls with quite painful avulsion injuries and fractures caused by excessively long acrylic nails. Just know that if you have those 2-3” long acrylic fingernails and one gets forced backwards, it can tear the entire natural nail off, peel the nailbed apart, and break the bone underneath. So enjoy the sweet nails, but be careful, and if you’re gonna fight, close your fists before striking.

STORM OF THE CENTURY!

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the wind speed now reaches 29m per second and waves are about 9 meters high (a 10-11 point storm on a 12 point scale)

It is reported that this is the strongest storm in the Black Sea in the last 100 years!
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange

NSW premier Chris Minns has tested positive for COVID.

#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/nov/27/australia-politics-live-immigration-detention-housing-cost-of-living-energy-emissions-education?filterKeyEvents=false#maincontent