Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

It truly is as if we're living in two different nations: one where people understand the reality that more guns results in more gun violence, and one where state legislatures ignore the lessons provided by the rest of the civilized world and bow down to the well-founded gun lobby, giving their fear-addled constituents the toys of violence they demand.

ABC: Two shootings, two different responses — Maine restricts guns while Iowa arms teachers https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/shootings-responses-maine-restricts-guns-iowa-arms-teachers-109391124

@jgkoomey @mrchrisadams
Personally, I don't think that enough Americans speak about how horrible Chief Justice Roberts and his crooked wife are especially since how clear the damage to us and the world Citizens United SCOTUS has caused.

In 2018, Akron-based FirstEnergy donated $2.5 million to a Republican Governors Association-affiliated dark money group backing GOP nominee Mike DeWine in a competitive race for Ohio governor, according to newly released records.
https://floodlightnews.org/ohio-gov-dewine-campaign-got-secret-2-5-million-boost-from-power-company-new-records-show-2/

Tennessee State Troopers remove gun reform activist Allison Polidor from the House Gallery at the Tennessee State Capitol building after Speaker of the House, Republican Cameron Sexton, ordered the gallery cleared, she was detained and later cited. Gun reform activists gathered to protest HB1202 which would authorize teachers, principals, and school personnel to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds in Nashville, Tennessee. REUTERS/Seth Herald

#US
#Tennessee
#schools
#guns

Happy 27th anniversary to Winamp!

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The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!
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Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!

3/ And via Eric Swalwell:

MAGA would rather help a rapist become a father than a family seeking to use IVF.

This is where we are. Republicans desperately trying to re-victimize victims to save fetuses, while starving children. #KristiNoem #abortion

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/kristi-noem-its-tragedy-allow-rape-victims?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=87597

This is not the election to make political statements or purity tests. #VoteBlueUpAndDown

Pritzker says it’s ‘throwing away’ votes if Democrats backed someone other than Biden https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4609357-pritzker-says-its-throwing-away-votes-if-democrats-backed-someone-other-than-biden/

2/ Hoooboy, it gets even worse. Via Burgess Everett

👀 More GOP Rep. Gonzales: "Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties, Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night, now they are walking around with white hoods in the daytime”

GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, umm, not mincing words on CNN as he predicts Mike Johnson will survive motion to vacate

“I serve with some real scumbags”

Yeah, I'm mostly a Mac kinda guy, but I do use Windows. My raging hatred of intrusive advertising has made me seek out and destroy the ads and nags increasingly making their way into software - particularly something as fundamental an operating system. Microsoft is increasingly dumping ads into Windows, so I sought ways to shut them down. To Microsoft's credit, you can turn most of them off. Here's how.

Ugly URL = Gift link.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/tech/article/microsoft-windows-11-system-ads-19408208.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG91c3RvbmNocm9uaWNsZS5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvdGVjaC9hcnRpY2xlL21pY3Jvc29mdC13aW5kb3dzLTExLXN5c3RlbS1hZHMtMTk0MDgyMDgucGhw&time=MTcxMzY0MDc4NTI2Mg%3D%3D&rid=YmE1NjU5MDMtMDM4OS00MDYwLWE1YzItNTYwNzYwZDQ2NDc5&sharecount=MA%3D%3D

LMAO at all the coverage and commentary talking about Mike Johnson’s political “bravery.”

Thinking the coverage should be more tilted towards how foolishly the MAGAt idiots let MTG carry them this far down the rabbit hole.

But every story needs a villian. Just wish we had smarter ones and smarter coverage of them.

#politics

Pardoning re marijuana

Thank you, JOE.

So @GottaLaff just coined #DefendantSleepyFlopSweatMcBrainSpurs for #TFG and I think we all have a civic duty to make that hashtag trend. I humbly ask you to boost this message and use that hashtag as often as possible.

@GottaLaff you had me at #DefendantSleepyFlopSweatMcBrainSpurs

@KathyLK I think there are lots of answers to that question. One big answer is that, early on, men seem to have grabbed power in many of the world's religious traditions and to have then created religious teachings that justify their dominance by pointing to "God."

Finding good advice in the #Bible is like finding a piece of your favorite candy inside a shit sandwich.

Be very careful to wash off all traces of the shit before eating the candy.

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#atheism #faith #god

2/ Via Katie Phang:

Here’s a tip:

As lawyers, we don’t take out lines of credit to pay ourselves our own “legal fees”, and then have a client reimburse us for our own “legal fees” as the client at the same time criminally falsifies business records to hide that they were not, in fact, “legal fees.”

Man, the oil industry is really working hard to use their police and governments to crush any dissent https://social.coop/@afewbugs/112308777582728316

I’d be willing to accept a sentence for Trump of having to spend 8 hours each day being read mean tweets about him on public television for the rest of his life. He can go and do whatever he wants. But 8 hours a day until he dies he has to be berated publicly.