Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

As a teen I kidnapped a cat from a nearby street & locked it in the garage, with the intention of collecting eventual 'reward'. Pinched tins of tuna from the kitchen to feed it. Felt guilty within a few hours & let it go, only for him to return for tuna twice a week for 8 years

Republicans will believe obvious nonsense in order to demonstrate their loyalty to other members of the in-group.

As it happens, this also makes them unusually gullible to scams.

https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-scam-idiots/

Not only is this a gift of grift to Trumpf, it’s open warfare on secular public education and the Constitutional principle of separation of church and state. And even if you count yourself as a Christian, the version of the Bible Oklahoma seeks does not include the 14 books of the Apocrypha, so, sorry Catholics, your religious liberty is being negated, too.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/

Just Security has created an annotated version of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page brief in the election interference case against Donald Trump — identifying the names behind the redactions.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/05/un-redacting-jack-smiths-filing/

Racists be racist, gotta appeal to fellow racists.

Via Rupar:

beyond parody -- #Trump begins his event in #NorthCarolina by vowing to restore Confederate names to renamed military facilities

@AlliFlowers The ShitGibbon bible does not qualify. It must contain the Constitution: 17 Amendments which *are part of the Constitution* are omitted, so some other bible must be used.

Getting the job done.

I applaud the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance for coming together to reopen the East Coast and Gulf ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding.

Collective bargaining works.

Holy hell. Trump withheld disaster relief to California wildfire victims because California is more Democratic than Republican. He only released it when an aide was able to show him that Orange County has more GOP voters than all of Iowa.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/helene-isnt-the-first-time-trump-inserted-politics-into-a-natural-disaster/

I don’t get shocked when I see Trump do grotesque things. But when I saw Trump in Georgia pulling a PR stunt at a factory, which was pretty much destroyed by Hurricane Helene, using bricks from the rubble as props, it made me furious. Everyone should be.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-disqualifying-depravity-of-donald

#Trump & his allies tried to twist the arms of legislators to appoint #FakeElectors that could be *counted* by #Congress. (#JackSmith includes bonkers new details about this scheme, including the fact that one potential participant referred to its ringleaders as being like characters in the infamous Star Wars cantina, otherwise known as the most “wretched hive of scum & villainy” in the galaxy.)

#criminal #law #insurrection #Jan6 #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

The moment the media chickened out and allowed the term “misinformation” to replace “lie” is the moment everything real in human communication ended.
#misinformation #politics

I asked the teacher
if she had seen the study
which found that young,
healthy individuals
with mild cases of Covid
displayed cognitive deficits,
and the teacher explained
that her district’s superintendent
keeps assuring her
that the problem
is kids using social media.

Moderator: Can you say who won the 2020 election?

JD Vance: Kamala Harris wants to fact-check people on Facebook! That counts as censorship!

That was the exchange of the night. JD Vance cannot say who won the 2020 election, and tried to change the subject to complaining about facts when confronted.

Trump tried to overthrow the government.

Vance: No he didn't, because Kamala Harris wants to fact check people on Facebook.

This debate is completely insane.

The first amendment is not a right to knowingly lie.

#Vpdebate

I live in Québec. You have a new born child, you have a one year paid leave.

The mother or the father can take the paid leave, 6 months each, 3 months for one, 9 for the other, and so on.