Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I just used @resistbot to send a very polite and respectful letter to Senator Feinstein to thank her for her long service in the Senate and to make a request of her. If you live in California, consider doing the same.

Airman Jack Teixeira’s Unit the 102nd Intelligence wing has had its mission suspended after what could only be called a colossal leadership failure in SCIF operations and protocols.

The Search for #LongCovid #Treatments Takes a Promising Turn

https://www.wired.com/story/long-covid-treatments/

#covid

The politics of dancing

Bolshoy Theater drops ‘Nureyev’ ballet from repertoire, bending to Russia’s anti-LGBT censorship law — Meduza

#ballet #LGBTQ #Russia
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/04/19/bolshoy-theater-drops-nureyev-ballet-from-repertoire-bending-to-russia-s-anti-lgbt-censorship-law

National Weather Service accounts were not granted API exemptions by Twitter | Mashable #SpaceKarenMusk strikes again! What a pusillanimous wretch!

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-exemptions-nws-public-service-safety-weather-accounts

I need a new word to describe all of the vile horridness which is today's Republican party 🤔🤔🤔

Florida education officials voted on Wednesday to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, expanding on a law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis
#BREAKING #news #GOP #Politics #USA #democrats #Republicans

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-education-board-vote-extending-ban-gender-identity-lessons-2023-04-19/

4. There is also an exception for an abortion that is necessary for the life of the mother.

But in order to invoke that exception, you TWO DOCTORS to certify in writing that it is necessary

In other words, the assumption is that doctors are liars

Fulton County DA says fake Trump electors are incriminating one another and wants lawyer disqualified

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/politics/fulton-county-trump-fake-electors/index.html

#trump

Marjorie Taylor Greene silenced in committee after accusing Mayorkas of lying (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill)

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3958825-marjorie-taylor-greene-silenced-in-committee-after-accusing-mayorkas-of-lying/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230419/p95#a230419p95

#Teaching

Total silence

I told them all, flat out, point blank: “You are smart, you are capable, you are kind, and you are good kids” and I see a girl almost imperceptibly shake her head. THESE KIDS ARE 9!

Shaking their head and not believing it when an adult tells them truths about themselves!!!
I said “no way, not in here girl. I am telling you right now that you are a good kid, and you make me happy every day.”

More silence, more CONFUSION. You gotta tell your kids this stuff more. Even if they can be little buttheads sometimes. They need to hear it because they don’t believe it.
At the end of the talk before we went outside for a mask break, the little girl came up, arms open wide and hugged me.

It was my first hug from her this year.

FREEBIE GIFT ARTICLE:

Lots of Americans Are Losing Their Religion. Have You?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/opinion/religion-america.html?unlocked_article_code=7KN_s3AyLaL3ypXdqOlWuE31PiC-vxhj9esyeXOqBb6z7HH4PFWyA8vwpfItjZiZ3PQefd7JSeCe0X3-H3T7iYCE-uKJIttPDEoJpWcL4kxp72yMVBmHravdYsEiKFWlpAF-n56_8gjoliZswSmyM5xPnGr2wwBReqNL9-EsJN2BubCo3Rp4Vet3YOzyL39YtaijYMaVoph56w13XjfR0uuYwC-jPxPkjEK2xu2n0GOrGysW9vQzg7N3-Kr7MMVOqEO2GgUz2IySW5VuvcydA6NrEfjSxAMH1NTvZg49KQc8naVUV7fAgGjkoFm36VAbd_hMuXkn5YOGLA&giftCopy=4_Disclaimer&smid=url-share

please remember, that in the state of alabama, it is still illegal to wear a fake mustache to church for the purposes of causing laughter. you have been warned.

I find the Christians who believe they are going to heaven when they die just because they accepted Jesus as their lord and savior peculiar.

We are talking about the god who drowned every single baby on the earth because they were evil.

For all his “independence and integrity,” Justice Thomas could not, for the life of him, figure out normal instructions on normal federal tax forms that require normal federal tax filers to disclose the earnings of spouses. For four years, despite Ginni Thomas receiving nearly $700,000 in income from the Heritage Foundation, Justice Thomas said that she had no income. He said oops, later, “due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.”

#ImpeachClarenceThomasNow #SupremeCorruption

Today is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. CNN has a powerful interactive where relatives share family stories of loss and survival during the Holocaust and the monthlong fight against the Nazis in Poland.

It includes Wolf Blitzer's and Dana Bash's personal family histories.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/world/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-80-anniversary/

#Holocaust #HolocaustRemembranceDay #History #Warsaw

Texas teen at the supermarket accidentally opens the door to the wrong car. She’s shot.

Kansas City teen goes to get his little brothers and accidentally rings the doorbell of the wrong house. He’s shot.

Car full of teenagers looking for a party accidentally turns into the wrong driveway. They’re shot.

OH dad mistakes 16-y-o daughter for an intruder, shoots her. She died.

These stories happen every day in America and school security or mental health access won't solve them. Only #GunControl.