Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“They’re lying to you,” he said. “This isn’t about mental health, which every other country has problems with. It isn’t drugs, which every other country struggles with. It isn’t computer games, which every other country has. It’s the guns. It’s obviously the guns.”

. “Let’s stop treating the GOP as the party of law and order and treat them, more accurately, as the party of gun violence, of school shootings, of mall massacres.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mehdi-hasan-republican-guns_n_64587226e4b00eb7e63c9e35

stephen king on allen tx & a first responder

Allen, Texas: First responder took a little girl’s pulse before realizing she had no face.
Time for responsible gun laws.

@tristansnell
How's this idea.
Replace the SC with a Supreme Panel, composed of random picks from the numerous federal judges. Pick 3 every 2 years. Thus each serves 6 years on the Panel.

So Federal Judges still get lifetime appointments, but not lifetime on the Panel.

Such an arrangement would be very hard to stack or corrupt.

How did American classrooms and malls become #NRA-sponsored slaughterhouses? Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the twisted history of an utterly imagined "Constitutional right." #guns #crime https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-6-2023?r=nb32g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Greg Abbott Can 'Go to Hell,' Texas Senator Angrily Reacts After Shooting

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-can-go-hell-texas-senator-angrily-reacts-after-shooting-1798879

#Newsweek #TexasSenator #GregAbbott #GunViolence #TexasShooting #PoliticalOutrage #Politics #News

@statmonkey if God’s control is absolute pack your desk because we clearly have no need for congressmen

#Allusions are one of the trickiest #LiteraryDevices to teach young people, largely because allusions by their very nature expect the reader to already understand people and events generally considered to be “common knowledge.”

You see the problem.

https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/recognizing-allusions

#ELA #teachers #education #edutooter

Okay, look, America.

It's *Canada* Geese, not Canadian Geese.

It's just a name, they don't belong to us, they're not our fault.

Sorry, though. 😉

Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature of 44.1C (111.38F), as weather experts and authorities told the population to remain indoors during the hottest parts of the day.

Scientists have said global warming is aggravating adverse weather. Neighbouring countries registered record temperatures during a heatwave in Asia in April.
#News #climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/07/vietnam-records-highest-ever-temperature-of-441c

Elect people who know right from wrong. It’s a simple test you can apply to any political zealot on the right or the left, to any judge, school committee member, sheriff, or pastor. If we can no longer do that simple thing, if the money and the power and the media have forever changed our ability to tell what is right and to desire what is right, crawling our way back to decency will take generations.

On Tuesday, President Biden is scheduled to meet with House Speaker McCarthy, Leader Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Leader McConnell at the White House.

"More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the “greed” of #publishing giant #Elsevier."

👉 ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global #science #journal over ‘unethical’ fees
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

#science #research #APCs #ethics #journals #subscriptions #libraries #academiclibraries

Weapons of war don't belong into civilians' hands.

The U.S. military is the only admissible & well-regulated "militia" empowered & armed to defend the nation.
An army of civilian lunatics armed with guns to kill masses of people in no time is not, what U.S. forces approve & are there for.
How credible is the U.S. military defending American lives abroad, while Americans are allowed to use military-style weapons to slaughter their fellow-Americans at home?

"...

"Our father, Eugene Stoner, designed the AR-15 and subsequent M-16 as a military weapon to give our soldiers an advantage over the AK-47,” the Stoner family told NBC News late Wednesday. "He died long before any mass shootings occurred. But, we do think he would have been horrified and sickened as anyone, if not more by these events."
..."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-ar-15-inventor-speaks-out-n593356
#SaveLives #RespectLife #GunReduction #GunControl #GunControlNow #YourLivesMatter #YouMatter

The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.

🥥 Heidi and #TedCruz are praying and #praying, and still the shootings go on and on.
Anybody see the problem with this picture of the man who gets the most money in #Congress from the #NRA URGING #Prayer as a solution to #GunViolence in the USA? 🥥
https://nationalzero.com/2023/05/06/heidi-and-i-are-praying/

This is nominally a list of all the horrible things Desantis has recently done in Florida, but it's also a blueprint for what's in store for the rest of the country as Republican sadism continues to advance: https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/wellthat-happened