Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

90% chance of #cyclone formation in the Atlantic in the next 7 days. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=7

College Board, the nonprofit that administers high school Advanced Placement courses, has formally rejected Florida's demands to censor all mentions of sexual orientation and gender from AP Psychology classes.

They rightfully are calling it censorship. It's a welcome reversal from the Board's initial acceptance of Florida censorship laws in an African-American history class https://allaccess.collegeboard.org/our-commitment-ap-students-families-and-educators

“Because we’re all pretty aligned on what women are for, and it sure isn’t speaking for God.” - Southern Baptists

https://apple.news/As8-KKc-BTBWjOUNHVxKqeA

Excellent: Opinion: the SC is making religion an all purpose excuse for ignoring the law: The sincerity requirement needs an overall, Congress should amend the law to make the plaintiff’s burden more demanding, make the govt’s burden easier, or exempt certain regulations from being attacked through the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Change is needed, or litigants will continue to use religion as a pretense to break the law: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-18/supreme-court-303-creative-colorado-gay-wedding-website-religious-liberty

@LadyDragonfly Trans people know all about what happened in WWII we were among the first groups targeted, we were the canary in the coal mine.

Supporting the progessive Christian/Religious Left is a more contentious, but probably important component. This is best summed up by the organization Christians Against Christian Nationalism.

https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/

There are many #Exvangelical people from athiests to progressive Christians joining in on this fight. If you hate all religion, I get it. The current fight is against White Christian Nationalism, though. The lesbian Episcopal priest is not your enemy. The fascist demagogues and racists are.

#TVAC #ArtFED

🥥 On #FathersDay, thank YOU #PresidentBiden! 🥥

About 76 percent of conservative Republicans said colleges affect the country negatively while 76 percent of Democrats believe colleges and universities have a positive effect on the country

The “anti-intellectual attack” on higher ed will take years to undo

https://www.vox.com/policy/23762357/republican-attack-higher-education

The men were reportedly handing out KKK recruitment cards.

KKK Members in Kentucky Pull Gun on #LGBTQ+ Activists — Police Let Them Go https://www.advocate.com/news/kkk-kentucky-lgbtq-gun-threat

No human technology has ever come close to the sophistication of a dandelion. It takes more patience than we have for a planet to make things like this.

Turns out RFK stands for:

Republicans’
Fake
Kandidate

Even when he was president, Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to declassify a U.S. nuclear weapons-related document that he is charged with illegally possessing, security experts said, contrary to the former U.S. president’s claim.
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #BREAKING #BreakingNews

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-lacked-power-declassify-secret-nuclear-arms-document-experts-say-2023-06-18/

@crooksandliars
#Texas
#TexasGOP
#AmericanTaliban

Un****ing-believable!! 🤬 includes Texas Tribune link.

“ The law is designed to override local ordinances in Austin and Dallas (read: Democratic cities) that require 10-minute breaks for construction workers every four hours so that they can drink and take shade. San Antonio has been considering a similar requirement, The Tribune says, the new law also prohibits other cities from doing so in the future.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. -- Anonymous [Misattributed to Sinclair Lewis]

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2632

In my hands is a signed launch-day Xbox 360. Looking up, Bill Gates is smiling at me. Everybody in Best Buy is smiling.

I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 16 years. I put the Apple Vision back on.

I hold the Xbox 360. Everybody in Best Buy is smiling

I believe that Trump thinks that because he would do something illegal or immoral, everyone else does the same thing. That justifies it in his mind.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4055545-trump-claims-biden-pressed-doj-to-create-indictment/

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/18 “On June 18, 1963, sheriff’s deputies in Gadsden, Alabama, used electric cattle prods on and arrested over 450 Black protesters who were holding a sit-in to oppose segregation.”