Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Here's your feel good story on the day. Lauren Boebert's trip to the George Washington University campus today did not go exactly as planned as she was serenaded with chants of "Beetlejuice!" by the students. And yes, there is video...

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/boebert-humiliated-by-beetlejuice-chants-at-gw

Rep. Jamie Raskin, co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, has once again proposed a National Day of Reason resolution as a counter to the National Day of Prayer. The resolution celebrates Saturday, May 4, 2024, as a National Day of Reason and urges Americans to focus on the importance of reason, critical thought, the scientific method and free inquiry to resolve problems rather than turning to religion.

(The House will not approve this, but let's do it anyway) #FFRF #atheism

Fucking Florida Republicans are the lowest form of life. Soon Florida will be having 8 year olds working in the fields with the hope of breeding these worker units at first blood. Think I’m joking or exaggerating…think again!

⬆️ @StephanieMoore

>> this is the generation that experienced school shootings and feels abandoned by the adults and systems

I didn’t see them protest school shootings the way they are protesting the war in #Gaza.

The police didn’t break them. The propagandists broke them. These kids have no understanding of who’s driving their actions.

The police don’t want to break their bodies. They want them to go back home, dorm, or class to study. If they want to protest, they can go to a public space.

Democrat Crushes GOP Rival in New York Congressional Special Election - The slim Republican majority in the House just got slimmer.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrat-timothy-kennedy-crushes-gop-rival-in-new-york-congressional-special-election

@barney

The school is not obligated to aid them in any way. If anything, it's obligated to remove them so that paying students who want to learn, not cosplay, can attend classes.

Protesters occupying an academic building claim #Columbia is causing "students to die of dehydration and starvation."

The spokesperson explains "they're obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan." I.e. Columbia should deliver food into the occupied building.

Then she backtracks, and says they merely want Columbia to "not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid."

Then she admits that isn't actually happening.

This is cosplay bullshit.

#Gaza #protest

#GOP ldrs this wk announced plans for new “oversight investigations” of #universities where — in the words of #House #Republican Whip #TomEmmer — “pro-terrorist anti-Semites [are] taking over.”& on Wed they prepared to pass a bill they said would empower the #federal govt to crack down on anti-Israel #protests on #campuses by codifying a definition of #antisemitism that encompasses not just threats against Jews, but also certain criticisms of #Israel itself.
#HouseRepublicans #Gaza #Palestinians

Arizona's Democratic leaders get enough votes to repeal 19th century abortion ban (Anita Snow/Associated Press)

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-1864-ban-repeal-24578e546b69ca087e01034bcaf4aa01
http://www.memeorandum.com/240501/p62#a240501p62

A hotly anticipated cicada double brood will emerge across much of the eastern United States this year. It’s been over two centuries since these two broods last emerged in the same year, back in 1803.

Why that’s bad news for Joe Biden.

#UltraMAGA House Rep. #ThomasMassie from Northern #Kentucky was the *only* #BananaRepublican who joined #MarjorieThreeToes from #NorthwestGeorgia on the steps of the Capitol to blather on about her #MotionToVacate the House Speaker… soon. 😂 👉 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson_n_6632499ee4b0fc2b9527dbe0

Even #MAGA nutjob #PaulGosar DDS from #Arizonistan said he had “other commitments”. ⬇️

"In 1987, Reagan’s appointees to the Federal Communications Commission abandoned the Fairness Doctrine that required media with a public license to present information honestly and fairly. Within a year, talk radio had gone national, with hosts like Rush Limbaugh electrifying listeners with his attacks on 'liberals' and his warning that they were forcing 'socialism' on the United States. "
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-30-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Trump #Fake News

@Netux
Iran is attacking the USA right now through their proxies along with the ongoing war Putin's been waging against Uncle Sam.

Y'all should sue your professors for teaching you that deluded frame of reference of considering everything to be "colonialism". Israel has been our ally for over 75 years and Iran just last month sent over 100,000 pounds of explosives to kill our allies that we were able to repel with the help our Arab allies along with Israel and the UK.

Ukraine is also our ally

Fabice's possibility space.

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#artBot

@zillion @GottaLaff
@n1xnx The political violence of the protesters on campus should not be allowed to drive policy nor impact the public just like the political violence by the Proud Boys and such should not either.

If you choose civil disobedience as your form of protest than you have to be ready to accept the consequences of your crimes.

@thepoliticalcat @ralph058 @TCatInReality @GottaLaff

After WWII it was very easy to convince people of beliefs and personalities out to kill them. Because everyone knew the threat was real. So you could form consensus and act on the threat

But after enough decades, people just forget. And those of us like you and me going "this ideology will kill you," we get laughed at: we're just alarmists, fascists are just people with alternative valid beliefs we can accommodate and get along with

Nope