Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Tennessee House speaker admits he's powerless to stop reinstatement of expelled Democrats https://www.rawstory.com/cameron-sexton-justin-pearson-justin-jones/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

School choice? #Vouchers? In his newest article for the Texas Observer, Correspondent @drdrbrockman explains how the #Republicans' attack on public #schools is also an attack on the separation of church and state:
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-choice-is-just-a-ploy-to-defund-public-ed/

#education #politics #news #religion #Christianity #USpol #TXedu #Texas #TXlege

Via Klasfeld:

#Trump and #EJeanCarroll must say in writing whether they intend to be present throughout the trial beginning later this month — and if so, on what date and times.

They have until April 20 to do so. #legal

China's military is rehearsing the encirclement of Taiwan during three days of military drills.

Beijing - which views Taiwan as a breakaway province of China - called the operation a "stern warning" to the island's government.

The exercises began hours after President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States.

The Taiwanese Defence Ministry said 71 Chinese military planes and nine ships crossed the Taiwan Strait median line.

The line is an unofficial dividing line between Chinese and Taiwanese territory

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65219219

@Pineywoozle @thepoliticalcat @aapis @BlueDot @WizardBear @LeRoyWesterling @nunya
@1finekitty
“The United States and our allies must impose severe sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his fellow oligarchs. At a time when thousands may die as a result of his war, Putin, one of the richest people in the world, should not be allowed to enjoy the billions he stole from the Russian people. The United States must also work closely with international partners to provide humanitarian...

"Numerous signs" Fani Willis is set to criminally indict Donald Trump and DOZEN of his allies https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/numerous-signs-fani-willis-is-set-to-criminally-indict-donald-trump-and-dozen-of-his-allies/49663

Is there some kind of contest among the GOP we know nothing about?

Some kind of competition for who can be the biggest, cruelest, meanest, vilest bag of shit?

Iowa Attorney General Halts Plan B and Abortion Assistance for Rape Victims

https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-attorney-general-halts-plan-164500566.html

Official: Kidnapped Ukrainian children punished for refusing to sing Russian national anthem.

Children complain of beatings and other punishments for refusing to sing the Russian anthem and for mentioning that they are Ukrainians.

As punishment, Ukrainian children were not allowed to go for walks and were forced to rewrite Russian texts

The children said they were told that their parents “abandoned” them and that they should not return to Ukraine, where “no one is waiting for them.”
#Ukraine️

Third dose of #Pfizer vaccine during #pregnancy protects the baby 53% more than two doses during pregnancy! Rates of hospitalization in Israel for a baby younger than 4 months were 0.4% for 3-dose mothers, 0.6% for 2-dose mothers, and 0.7% for unvaccinated mothers. A baby born to an #unvaccinated mother had a 1 in 143 chance of being hospitalized for #COVID in the first 4 months. 6/

#TWiVTLDR

Happy Easter. People who die don’t come back after three hours much less 3 days. Snakes can’t talk. Nobody has ever lived to 500+ years of age.

These people believe in the most asinine bullshit and somehow that’s my problem and now little girls who get raped by their dads or uncles or neighbors or PASTORS (not drag queens oddly) are going to be FORCED to birth that baby at 12.

That’s where we are. People believe absolute insanity and it informs legislation. Christofascists are unfit for office

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/majority-nashville-council-members-say-will-vote-reinstate-expelled-le-rcna78706 This is good news, kinda. I mean it shouldn’t have happened to begin with.

Easter Mouse

Say, where one ends and another begins?
#dogsofmastodon
#caturday

Me: I’d like to buy a large supreme pizza with olives please.

Clerk: We only accept cash or card.

"Florida health officials removed key data from COVID vaccine report"

Let me translate that for you, the chief medical official for Florida **intentionally** lied about the clear relative benefit of getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2023/04/07/florida-surgeon-general-covid-19-vaccine-study-heart-problems-men/

The story of #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas is a primer on why we need #journalism #journalists: to hold the most powerful people to accountable. May not work every time but it’s in the history books, on the record. To me that’s worth a lot.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-04-06/the-times-reported-about-justice-thomas-gifts-20-years-ago-after-he-just-stopped-disclosing-them

Many people say "Seeing is Believing." Religion requires us to reverse those.

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
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