Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The Glass-Steagall Act was the law of the land until 1999.

It prohibited banks from using their deposits to pursue high-risk investments — separating Wall St. from Main St.

I say bring it back!

Florida: Legislators Plan to Lower Age to Buy Guns from 21 to 18 - Owning the libs is making Florida more dangerous, less equitable and more callous. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/03/14/florida-legislators-plan-to-lower-age-to-buy-guns-from-21-to-18/ via @dianeravitch #DeFascist

@StillIRise1963 I figure a lot. Cops around here love those open and shut cases and they won’t investigate anything they can possibly mark down as “accidental” or “natural causes.” Anyone who’s a member of a marginalized group is in danger. Especially if they don’t have family willing to stand up for them. When we all realize that and band together as allies, it may make it stop. There are more of us than there are of them.

I was let go from my job yesterday. If you know anyone that has a need for a creative yet pragmatic #AgileCoach, #ScrumMaster, #ProductManager, #ProductOwner type of #Agile worker, let me know! (Boosts for reach appreciated!)

We have opened a junior faculty position (tenure track) for #machinelearning in #astronomy

Application deadline: 2023-04-27

https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12796377/junior-professorship-w1-with-tenure-track-leading-to-a-w2-tenure-track-professorship-/

DeSantis is punishing the Hyatt Regency Miami for hosting a Drag Christmas ball back in December. He’s actually taken away its liquor license.

DeSantis is out of control, obsessed with oppressing freedom and gender identity expression and willing to abuse state power to do it.

The Family Research Council is now recognized as a tax-exempt "church".

Below is a link to the IRS publication dealing with churches and religious organizations. How on God's green Earth does the FRC not violate the rules on pages 4 to 7 ?!

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1828.pdf

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
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I love this Senator! She represents everything good about government

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-warren-feds-powell-should-recuse-himself-bank-review-2023-03-14/

Woody Guthrie fam re “This Land is Your Land” has message for Sen Josh Hawley: This song is not your song to “co-opt.”

Hawley intro'd This Land is Our Land Act which wd “ban Chinese corps & indivs assoc w Chinese Communist Party from owning US agric land.”

Guthrie’s daughter: “In this partic case co-opting or parodying of the lyric by those not aligned w Woody’s lyrics— i.e. misrep by autocrats, racists, white natlists, anti-labor, insurrectionists, etc-is not condoned" https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3899663-this-land-is-not-his-song-woody-guthries-family-rejects-josh-hawleys-use-of-lyrics/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016347112 Texas removed six Black children from their homes. Their adoptive parents drove them off a cliff. - TexasTribune

#thicktrunktueday there might be dragons

Is #DeathSanits' intent to close New College & reopen it to remove 'wokeness'? He says higher education in FL must be "one free from indoctrination, an environment open to the pursuit of truth & the cultivation of intellectual autonomy for all students." It'd mandate state-sponsored indoctrination of white conservative values. A former trustee says 13 major donors told her they're canceling >$29M in planned contributions since Go DeSantis began transforming the school-: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/13/florida-governor-ron-desantis-new-college-takeover-donations-risk/11465232002/

Just a big fucking NO! #NeverSherriffClarkeForAnything

Sheriff David Clarke Dusts Off Cowboy Hat and Eyes Run for Senate https://www.thedailybeast.com/sheriff-david-clarke-dusts-off-cowboy-hat-and-eyes-run-for-wisconsin-senate

"Her embryo had become implanted in scar tissue from a recent cesarean section & she was in serious danger. The muscle separating her #pregnancy from her bladder was as thin as tissue paper; her placenta threatened to eventually invade her organs like a tumor...

"But it was Aug. 24 & performing an abortion was hours away from becoming a felony in #Tennessee."

Harrowing, heartbreaking look at #abortion bans from @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-abortion-ban-doctors-ectopic-pregnancy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

State leaders who seek to abolish tenure are doing so exactly because they don't want academics to have free speech. They don't want the public to know what the actual science says. Thus, tenure is essential for keeping our public discussions exposed to the best science we have.

On a personal note, I know that a lot of what I write is unpopular with the State Gov't of Texas. Over the years, I've leveled a lot of (deserved IMHO) criticism in their direction about climate and energy policy.

House Republicans Quietly Halt Inquiry Into Trump’s Finances
G.O.P. leaders are declining to enforce a court-supervised settlement for Mazars, Donald J. Trump’s former accounting firm, to turn over records in an investigation into whether he profited from the presidency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/politics/house-trump-finances-investigation.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

NEW DATA: Between 2017 and 2021, Canada poached ~45,000 skilled workers who went to college in the U.S.

We're educating some of the world's best talent only to lose them. And we have our broken immigration system to thank for that. https://www.niskanencenter.org/previously-unreported-data-the-u-s-lost-45000-college-grads-to-canadas-high-skill-visa-from-2017-to-2021/

#StopCopCity

Autopsy Suggests “Cop City” Protester Sitting Cross-Legged, Hands Up, When Shot 14 Times by Police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jM180izV6M