Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Tennessee Has Banned Drag Performances In Public, And Other States Are Considering Similar Bans. A step along the road to Fascism - dehumanizing the LGBTQ+
Community and directing anger and derision at them is a prelude to violence - and it's already happening. Goebbels would be proud.

That is similar to Bills passed in 1930s Germany. Everyone knows what happened next.

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/

Maryland mayor resigns after being arrested on more than 50 counts of child pornography - CNN https://apple.news/ABDi6ja1BTqKePLzpuHHp-g

Stop DeSantis before it's too late.

#NeverDeSantis #DurSantis

Batshit Bill Would Force Bloggers Who Write About DeSantis to ‘Register’ With the State

Venice’s Canals Have Run Dry During a Winter Drought, Leaving Gondolas Stuck in the Mud

https://www.openculture.com/2023/02/venices-canals-have-run-dry-during-a-winter-drought-leaving-gondolas-stuck-in-the-mud.html

This is what Fox News wants.

#Cartoon by Michael deAdder

Ron DeFascist shows how not to run an education system - His bullying vulnerable people and pandering to White grievance are morally objectionable and anti-American. The price is an accelerating decline of the state’s education system. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/28/desantis-florida-school-performance/ #DeFascist

https://thegrio.com/2023/02/28/its-time-the-supreme-court-adopted-a-binding-code-of-ethics/

One year after Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine, my friend and esteemed colleague, NBC News Chief International Correspondent Richard Engel, is on the ground speaking with ordinary civilians who bravely joined an underground resistance to help liberate the city of Kherson from Russian occupation.

If you haven’t watched this amazing special⁩, you must.
https://youtu.be/pEetVTw4Cds

ANOTHER SANTOS SCOOP: The GOP fabulist raised PAC money for a voter registration project but then sent some of those funds to a gay rights project associated with top Trump aide Richard Grenell, who helped raise campaign cash for Santos' campaign. Grenell wouldn't talk to us about his relationship with Santos. A top donor to Santos says Santos misled him.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/another-santos-scandal-he-diverted-voter-registration-money-to-a-gop-allied-gay-rights-site/

@therobburgessshow

Duvet,
you make everything so groovet,
I'd like to stay under you
all of Tuesdet.

Republicans' WAR ON SCIENCE: 2 bills introduced at the ST level could spell trouble for science EDU. WV St Sen approved a bill: allow teachers to tell students: the Universe is the result of intelligent design (dev. to avoid prohibitions on teaching creationism) -In FL: ST HSE: considering a bill: that'd say the leg. disapproves of college courses that cover "theoretical or exploratory" topics being used to fulfill GE requirements-seemingly RULE OUT MOST SCIENCE CLASSES-: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/west-virginia-likes-teaching-intelligent-design-florida-against-theories/

FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.

Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?

Keep in mind that Ted Cruz, for all of his supposed patriotism, had no problem getting paid to defend a Chinese company against a patent lawsuit filed by a US company -- and the Chinese company was caught red-handed violating the patents.

Cruz doesn't give a damn about America or his constituents. He wants money, and someone to stroke his ego.

Jimmy Carter's most important legacy is probably his least well known. Before Carter, 3.6 million people per year were infected by Guinea Worm, a neglected tropical disease. Today, that's down to *13* cases per year, a reduction of 99.99%. And it throws his post-presidency into stark relief from Trump's who is golfing and ranting on social media while trying to get richer. https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/jimmy-carters-hidden-legacy

“#COVID is being used as the gateway to go after all school-required #vaccines, and we’ve already started to see legislation proposing that.”

Senior Reporter Lise Olsen visits with Dr. Julie Boom and Rekha Lakshmanan of the Immunization Partnership to learn how they're supporting the health of Texans and fighting the return of rare disease:
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-vaccines-covid-preventable-diseases/

#TXlege #politics #news #Health #healthcare #science #USpol

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/377/293/707/?TAP=1181&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=828d8dc5-fb81-47b9-a838-8d078bb11476

Ted Cruz (below) says wearing a Ukraine flag is “virtue-signalling” like wearing a Covid mask

Ted Cruz has been seen wearing an AR-15 pin, virtue signaling the celebration of the slaughter of 19 children and two adults in his state