Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Daily Reminder: Today's MAGA GOP is no longer a political party, it's a white nationalist, fascist movement that seeks to force their religion upon as law. They must be utterly defeated in order to save our freedoms, our democracy and our Republic.

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel tells the January 6 Committee in a taped deposition that President Trump called her and turned the call over to his counsel John Eastman to discuss the RNC helping the campaign with alternate slate of electors in the aftermath of the 2020 election

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5020753/rnc-chair-president-trump-called-alternate-slate-electors

I asked ChatGPT to answer one of my PhD qualifying exam questions (based on my memory of it). I think what's interesting is that it uses the correct theories based just on author names, not knowing exactly what was on our reading list. (Though it was also an easy educated guess to make based on theorists with those names + their most common work.) It gets those citations correct and then completely fabricates another. I also asked for 10 citations and got 4.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FzGGNe-5KfyIKHsD-hikWGEsJwNitLQLweF857eBVX4/edit

Arkansas city elects 18-year-old as youngest Black mayor in US - Jaylen Smith, who lives at home with his parents, will be next leader of Earle, population 1,785It is not even a year since Jaylen Smith was learning the power of the youth vote as a student government leader at his high school in Arkansas. Now the pioneering teenager is about to put his... #Arkansas #Georgia #theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/arkansas-city-elects-youngest-black-mayor-jaylen-smith

Marc Fogel, 61, is a teacher who’s lived and worked in Russia for a decade

Russians sentenced him to 14 years of hard labor for…marijuana vape cartridges. Familiar?

Fogel's family says he suffers from chronic pain and the marijuana was medicinal. They want the U.S. government to bring him home

I’m happy for Britteny Griner but non-famous people need help too.

Corporate profits reached $2.08 TRILLION in the 3rd quarter. Outside of the financial sector, that's a record high.

Did any of the latest inflation reporting bother to mention this? Of course not.

Corporate greed is driving up prices — and the media will hardly talk about it.

It's now 701 days since Donald Trump's Jan 6 terrorist attack. Not only has Trump not been charged with even one crime, he's now running for President where he's actively spewing more lies to delegitimize our democracy.
Long past Time for Merrick Garland to INDICT TRUMP!!

Think about things before they are said

Years ago, when my son was about 4, he suddenly began expressing worries that "Indians" were going to "scalp" him and "take his hair". I couldn't figure out where he got this from, as we knew a LOT of Native Americans from a variety of nations and nobody at home had ever said that.

I thought.

After months of re-education, I finally figured it out.

It was the song "Please Mr. Custer". It was on a whacky hit tape.

It's that simple.
#Prejudice #racism

When I hear about the coup attempt in Germany & the desire of these violent extremists to insert Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss as the leader after a planned execution of the German chancellor, it sounds ludicrous, laughable. But that's the thing: These people are deadly serious.

Because the plots of these anti-democratic extremists often seem so ludicrous, they can succeed because the public--& too many leaders--don't take them seriously enough. This tendency is how Trump got as far as he did.

@JenRoberts I know many excellent teachers who are not good test takers. I don’t accept that bad test taking is always a result of stress or that stress is always responded to in the same way, regardless of context 🤷🏻‍♂️