Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@AlliFlowers that they are. 😃.

Boy, has Alabama bitten off a nasty hunk. This debacle is going to be a real mess.

A librarian helped me find the book my son requested today. She knew the plot & the characters & even pointed me to the newest story from the series in case he might enjoy that too. Then she recommended other #books he might like.

When I thanked her, she simply shook her head explaining, “It’s my job. And I really love my job!”

I share this anecdote simply bc librarians are the best people 📚✨

@gwaldby people with a simple minded view of the world, determined to force a simple minded view on others, have inserted themselves into the most personal, private, and complicated decisions of other people. Reproducing: if one can or can not, if one should or should not, if one wants or wants not, is nothing that anyone else should involve themselves in.

I read this attempt of these Oklahoma police to try to cover up the circumstances of Nex Benedict's death — which was very obviously the result of anti-trans hate — in the same way I read reports of the determation to hold onto the body of Navalny, which is said to show signs of bruising and which Russian officials are pressuring his mother to have buried secretly.

There's a reason many Trump supporters want the US to be a version of Russia.

#Oklahoma #NexBenedict #trans #violence #police
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Alabama Supreme Court declares embryos as 'children'
Next step: A glimpse on milkman’s eye will be considered ‘children’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68373901

#WompWomp

Via Kyle Griffin:

A federal judge is giving election denier #MikeLindell 30 days to pay a $5 million arbitration award for losing his 'Prove Mike Wrong' 2020 election challenge. #legal

Tommy Tuberville Doesn’t Know What He Thinks

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said that he is “all for” the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision that frozen embryos are children, the HuffPost reports.

“He also said he opposes the effects of the ruling. And that he supports fertility treatments like IVF that are now being denied to women across his state as a result of the court’s ruling. And that he wants to read the legislation more closely before saying more — except there is no legislation.”

"Perhaps one way to navigate yourself through this seemingly insoluble morass would be to ask yourself why Biden, who is stipulated #Old, has managed to helm the most successful presidency in modern history. Booming economy, eye-popping jobs reports, first gun violence reduction bill in decades, $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan plus COVID relief, Inflation Reduction Act, ...

Why Biden’s age doesn’t actually matter, and what the press is getting wrong again.
https://archive.is/Hcafx

OK, so apparently we shouldn't be putting our iPhones in rice when we've accidentally dropped them in water. Popular Science explains exactly why and what we should be doing instead.

https://flip.it/c5-2Zj

#iPhone #Apple #Phone #Cellphone

#GOPChristofascists imperil us.

Project 2025: Freedom's defined by God, not man. In the Christian nationalist reading of US history, too many non-Christians enjoy too much freedom & even unconst. actions are justified if they return America to TFG’s imagined national past. If only God can define Americans’ freedom... many Rs view #TFG as the reborn Christ.

R Party’s separation from democracy is accelerating & the extreme theocratic actions of the AL SC...
#VoteBlue https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4479354-america-is-facing-a-threat-of-biblical-proportion-the-rise-of-christian-nationalism/

A judge ruled that the punishment of a Black Texas high school student for his hairstyle does not violate the state's CROWN Act, which prohibits race-based hair discrimination. -- ABC https://breaking.iavian.net/article/357888

@AlliFlowers @michelestrider @deepmud

Market them as 'child tax slaves' and the #GQP will beat a path to the legislature to enshrine it.

In a February 20 post on X, formerly Twitter, attorney Tristan Snell — a former assistant attorney general for New York State — wrote, "Jim Jordan, Chuck Grassley, and James Comer were either duped by Smirnov and the Kremlin — or they were in on it. Either way, DOJ must subpoena every single communication Jordan, Grassley, and Comer had with or about Smirnov and anything related. Immediately. TONIGHT."

#ExpelGOPTraitors
'Tale of the tape': These 10 Republicans brazenly touted indicted FBI informant before he was tried https://www.alternet.org/republicans-fbi-informant/

Now that measles is burning like wildfire through a Florida school, Ron DeSantis' pet quack, "surgeon general" Joseph Ladapo, a veritable Vesuvius of GOP antivaxx and anti-mask lies and BS, is trying to get ahead of another epidemic caused by unvaccinated people. https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-elementary-school-rocked-by-more-cases-of-measles