Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"Alllll his trials….."

Ron Johnson Says It Out Loud: Other People's Children Aren't My Problem - When the conservative world is intent on busting up public education, their principle says it is not society's responsibility to tend other people's children. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/ron-johnson-says-it-out-loud-other?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #monsters

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/george-carlin-daughter-ai-generated-special_n_659fe889e4b0712b12c3c235

George Carlin's Daughter Slams AI-Created Special: 'No Machine Will Ever Replace' Him

The hourlong program, "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead," was generated by artificial intelligence, allegedly without the consent of the comedian's family.

#AI #GeorgeCarlin

St. Paul, Minn., makes history with all-female city council, a rarity among large U.S. cities.

AP reports on the multifaith, multicultural group, all under age 40: https://flip.it/0EA8O0

#StPaul #Minnesota #USPolitics #Politics #Women

BREAKING: Appeals court allows Alabama ban on gender-affirming medical for minors to be enforced while further review of the ongoing case continues. Background on the case and underlying appeals court panel decision at Law Dork here: https://www.lawdork.com/p/appeals-court-ruling-alabama-trans-care-ban

A President with complete criminal immunity is the very definition of a dictator.

Niklaus Wirth, Titan of Computer Science and Creator of Pascal, Dies at 89
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/11/niklaus-wirth-rip

Trump vowed he’d ‘never’ help Europe if it’s attacked, top EU official says

‘By the way NATO is dead,’ the former (and potential future) US president added in private meeting.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-vow-never-help-europe-attack-thierry-breton/

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #US #UnitedStates #Trump #DonaldTrump #NATO

What the actual fuck?! Donald Trump gave his unhinged rant during closing arguments of the NY fraud trial anyway[*], and then stormed out of the courtroom!

Here's coverage from MeidasTouch:
https://youtu.be/pxDpgZW_gAc?si=-YtAQPr4hyf3uCAO

Anyone else in the country who tried to pull that shit would be held in contempt of court and cooling off in a jail cell.

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[*] After having been denied the unusual request to do so since he would not agree to follow the rules of the court for closing arguments.

11/ Kyle Griffin:

Wallace says Trump's financial statements were false in every year from 2011 to 2021--- false by as much as $2.2 billion.

Since abortion training for med students is becoming impossible, a new California law removes the red tape for anyone anywhere to receive training on abortion. We love when people are educated in their field w/o being punished for it. Go Cali!
https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/california-medical-students-abortion-training-sanctuary/

ICYMI: A fire chief in Montana who tried to hide his face as he allegedly assaulted police at the U.S. Capitol with a barrage of pepper spray on Jan. 6, 2021, has been arrested after online sleuths helped track him down.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/it-got-spicy-sedition-hunters-help-nab-fire-chief-accused-of-attacking-capitol-police-on-jan-6/

Florida puts the “total” in “totalitarian” by proposing a  convoluted law that would create an anti-abortion hall of horrors that could effectively ban medication abortion in all 50 states. Check out the highlights of this oppression smorgasbord.
https://truthout.org/articles/unhinged-and-extreme-new-bill-in-florida-would-enact-near-total-abortion-ban/

Horrific, a US governor on the US-MX border would apparently like to shoot migrants at the border as a deterrent:

Texas Gov Greg Abbott tells Dana Loesch the "only thing we're not doing is shooting people" crossing the border because "the Biden Administration would charge us with murder." -Heartland Signal

Republicans are truly domestic terrorists. They'd kill their 'enemies', if given the chance.
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#GOPDeathCult #GOPRacism #ImmigrationReform

Republicans are killing women with their abortion bans and they're perfectly fine with that. Vote blue if you care at all for the women in your life.

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/democrats-dont-want-abortions-at?r=1rtvr5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#Republican #Abortion

As Dean Obeidallah says, "During Fox News’ campaign commercial for Donald Trump masquerading as a Town Hall on Wednesday night, Trump again bragged that he overturned Roe v. Wade. … That’s all true—Trump is 100 percent the reason Roe was overturned."

Meanwhile, there's the real world, in which the effects of of overturning Roe are the precise opposite of "pro-life" for woman after woman endangered by pregnancy….

#Trump #abortion #RoevWade #ReproductiveRights

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/democrats-dont-want-abortions-at

Mike Johnson is facing new threats of removal from a group of rebellious right-wing House Republicans.

https://t.co/OEBGYak41c

It's easy to fault the founders for all the things they got wrong. Once in a while, we should note when they got something right.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-woman-miscarried-home-will-not-criminally-charged-grand-jury-says-rcna132093#

A grand jury refused to charge the Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom.

Grand juries were added to the Fifth Amendment to check a potentially tyrannical government. (Not all states are required to use Grand Juries because Grand Juries were not incorporated through the due process clause but the idea comes from the 5th Amendment)