Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Even Mike Johnson Doesn’t Want to Talk About Biden Impeachment Anymore - The House speaker seems completely done with his own party’s Biden impeachment crusade.

https://newrepublic.com/post/179835/mike-johnson-biden-impeachment-vote

"Jill and I are heartbroken by the recent loss of Nex Benedict. Every young person deserves to have the fundamental right and freedom to be who they are, and feel safe and supported at school and in their communities. Nex Benedict, a kid who just wanted to be accepted, should still be here with us today.

"Nonbinary and transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know. But nobody should have to be brave just to be themselves."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/14/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-nex-benedict/

#LGBTQ #NexBenedict #trans

@SteveBologna "GOP nominee to run North Carolina public schools called for violence against Democrats, including executing Obama and Biden"
This is all very normal for a public official. 🙄

#WompWomp

Via Ron Filipkowski:

After House Repubs grumbled that Mike Johnson turned their leadership summit in Miami into a Bible study session, less than 50% will attend the annual retreat this week. Some grumbled about him moving it from FL to WV because it was more “family friendly.”

Why would you enroll your black baby in a private nursery school operated by white #Christofascists? It's terrible what these #Christians did to this child. He's only 2yo! He was the only black child in the class, and the teachers singled him out for nonstop punishment, disciplining him far more than any other white child in the class. When his parents had the nerve to complain about it, the school expelled the child. Christians are hot garbage.

#ChristianNationalism

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/03/14/alabama-preschool-frequently-punished-black-toddler-lawsuit-says/

"The Federal Communications Commission today voted to raise its Internet speed benchmark for the first time since January 2015, concluding that modern broadband service should provide at least 100Mbps download speeds and 20Mbps upload speeds." Finally. #Technology https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/fcc-scraps-old-speed-benchmark-says-broadband-should-be-at-least-100mbps/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

Did you know? The word “trumpery” appeared in the 15th century with the meanings “deceit” or “fraud”. 100 years later, it was being applied to objects of no value. Then in the 1900’s, it came to mean “showy but worthless”. Today, it is equated with “treasonous shitweasel”.

Positive development:

"Hamas delivers response on hostage deal proposal. An Israeli official said Hamas' response was relatively positive & included for the 1st time the number of prisoners that Hamas demands to be released in the first phase of the deal."
-B Ravid

Israeli officials say Hamas' response to the US, QA & EG proposal, which they've for weeks been waiting for, is a sign of progress-.

#IsraelHamasWar https://www.axios.com/2024/03/14/hamas-hostage-ceasefire-deal-proposal-israel

@Npars01 @AlliFlowers

Oh and government supported "Christian" education which means pseudo biology, watered down history, and forced praying

@timo21 Yes — and this is in many ways a strategic alliance, with the US Catholic bishops and Opus Dei doing a lot of the behind-the-scenes work and putting their white evangelical allies out on Front Street as foot warriors in the culture-war battles. As that goes on and evangelicals take the heat, the bishops and Opus Dei and Federalist Society quietly pack the courts — and the media give those folks a complete pass.

Because the GOP is. A. Death. Cult. https://toad.social/@KimPerales/112088927878739885

@AlliFlowers

Vouchers for public education are all about re-segregation.

Rich people don't want their kids associating with anyone who might instill empathy, critical thinking, and curiosity in their progeny.

To manufacture cognitive prisons and recreate Jim Crow, you need social isolation, restricted access to information, and bigotry for the next generation.

Someone on another instance said they don't understand the argument against allowing trans teens to have puberty blockers and/or hrt, as appropriate.

The argument is simple:

Trans children don't conform to a simple, rigid worldview, and they are few in number - that makes them easy targets. With the right grooming, conservative voters eat stuff like that up. Stuff like, "hey, you too can have power over others".

If you think all this feels kinda predatory, you are not wrong.

@dukepaaron also, let’s not discount how disappointing the secular world is when you still want to be a good person without religious affiliation. Anything promising gets taken over by grifters like Sam Bankman-Fried (effective altruism) or Elon Musk (transhumanism)

#ChrisHayes #AllIn just did a segment on the status of things in the US exactly 4 years ago today, when toilet paper was depleted, store shelves were empty, & nobody had PPE. He should do that segment every week from now til the election. Let us all revisit the unspeakable dying in NY, the morgue trucks, the potters' fields, & all the idiotic statements of Mr. Trump. The Repubs keep saying we were all better off 4 years ago. Let's see, #msnbc. Let us all see & decide, weekly.