Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

If you don't want a lower class person to murder you with a gun in public, then consider passing some strict gun laws.

Or maybe just don't be subhuman shit, playing with the lives of millions for laughs and profit. Dunno, I'm just spitballing here.

Texas’ maternal mortality committee faces backlash for not reviewing deaths from first two years post-Dobbs

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/texas-maternal-mortality-committee-deaths/

Schiff: "This is not just about retribution against those of us on the January 6 Committee. This is about sending a message that nobody better hold him to account in his second term ... he is intent on trying to break down these checks and balances in our system."

New: Texas’ governor has served 404 Media with a subpoena for info about an internal Google database we were leaked. This is a serious threat to press freedom and we are fighting it legally. We object.

https://www.404media.co/404-media-objects-to-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-access-our-reporting/

wow, big shock

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Judaism, Israel, and Antisemitism @judaism-israel-and-antisemitism-DanHakimi

(Nonexistent) God bless the BBC!

Trump Term 1 Israel-Palestine policy boiled down to “sure, Bibi, whatever you want.”
Could see settlements in Gaza and partial West Bank annexation with US acceptance, even approval.

Critics who denounced Biden’s policy as giving Israel “a blank check” are about to see what one actually looks like.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/youll-miss-pax-americana-when-gone-trump-postwar-international-system

#ElonMusk

@tofugolem At this point Conservative Christian opinions should be met with air horns. All they want is to control and persecute others, anything they say are distractions meant to waste time and energy.

I wrote about how Twitter and Threads prove that algorithms are a bad way to curate social networks that need to be timely and reliable. And how Bluesky benefits from turning the job back to humans. https://www.fastcompany.com/91239259/bluesky-starter-packs-threads-twitter-for-you-algorithm

"For some reason, the direct transfer of $18 million by a foreign national being prosecuted by the SEC to the president-elect has not been deemed worthy of meaningful coverage"

Trump v. Clinton: The media double standard on the influence of foreign cash
https://popular.info/p/trump-v-clinton-the-media-double

⚡️Mummy, What Does Genocide Look Like?

"Darling, Forcible Transfer of the group into another group looks like these scenes along the Dnieper river in Kherson.

"You see, Ruschist TV shows genocide for entertainment. It's all they've got now."