Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@GottaLaff
It's only a matter of time before old signs reappear:

"No colored allowed"

"Gentlemen only; no women allowed"

"Non-whites need not apply"

These two cases have flung the door open wide for discrimination on any basis.

What @dwiner said ⏵

Affirmative Action is a way to try to right generational wrongs that have caused damage to entire portions of our population, damages that continue to reverberate today.

Given that the US continues to underfund public primary education in poor and underprivileged communities where generally minorities live in higher proportion, yes, this is breaking history and the future for many in this country.

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Breaking History and Our Future-
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/john-roberts-supreme-court-brown-v-board-of-education.html

@GottaLaff Indiana can go fuck itself. No abortions for residents of Indiana including (especially) the Christian three headed ones! Thanks SCROTUS now I can put signs in my store windows that that say “No Republicans, Christians, Gun Lovers or other filth served here”, “Pigs, Dogs, LGBT Persons & Decent Humans served gladly”. Christians Need Not Apply, Buddhists, Jews and Zoroastrians only! I want to speak consistent with my beliefs no matter how vile or repellent.

2/ Via David Dayen:

Roberts isn't even right on the facts: that "bankrupt borrowers may have their loans forgiven" just writes the 2005 bankruptcy bill out of the picture.
But these amateur lawmakers unfortunately have the gavel.

to recap: google is mad at people using youtube ad blockers because they don't want to give away their content for free, and mad at the canadian government for charging them to use news stories because they want to get their content for free.

NPR: Five local cases of malaria in the U.S. have been reported --mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite bit and infected the individuals. How worried should we be? Is climate change a factor?#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/06/30/1184861514/what-we-do-and-dont-yet-know-about-the-malaria-cases-in-the-u-s

@DEDGirl GOP knows this and complains for show, but they want poverty and no real education for everyone but white straight “Christian” men.

If you're not a very wealthy (10%) white cis, straight man, you should be very worried about your future. Your only way out is though solidarity. You won't be okay on your own, no matter how hard you want to believe it. You should trust those telling you this because we've been right all along.

@psychictides @TonyStark

Y'know, I was prepping a long response to this... but nah. Your comment says everything it needs to about how likely you are to read it.

Voting isn't about what you think you can change in one session. It's about establishing a precedent of change you want to see in the future, about continuously pushing the status quo the direction you want it to go.

The right didn't get where they are just because they voted Trump. It was a parade of candidates leading up to him.

How do we unforgive the PPP loans?

A man left three antisemitic messages on my medical clinic phone on June 29th: "Hi Nili. This is Mr Hitler… I would like you to suck my balls… Jew piece of s-… F- yourself."

This is the hate we have to listen to IRL.

It is a crime in Canada.

I will not stop calling it out.

Opposition to student loan forgiveness really fucks me up, you know? Especially the "shoulda learned a trade" assholes.

With the amount of pressure that gets put on kids to believe and then ACT on the belief that college is how you achieve a "better future," in american society? And then you want to mock and punish those same kids when that pressure WORKS?

The fuck is that?

Trust and believe, forgive all student loan debt and make college free and watch how quick we find out what "bettering ourselves" can really mean in this society.

"I wish that the USA #SCOTUS was as principled as the Brazilian one" is definitely a phrase that I didn't expect to think/say today.

I will be reinstating my out of office message.

What's the matter? It's the same distance?

END LEGACY ADMISSIONS RIGHT ᵃᶠᵗᵉʳ ᵐʸ ᵏᶦᵈˢ ᵃᵖᵖˡʸ ᵗᵒ ᶜᵒˡˡᵉᵍᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉⁿ ˢᵗʳᵃᶦᵍʰᵗ AWAY.

All I’m saying is that if Jack Smith made Monday another Trump Indictment Day then the U.S. could have a four-day weekend.

KARMA!

Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to Abortion Bans: In lawsuits challenging state abortion bans, lawyers for abortion rights plaintiffs are employing religious liberty arguments the Christian right has used for decades.

GIFT ARTICLE:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/health/abortion-religious-freedom.html?unlocked_article_code=ernJHE03HI_Y_T9vOTih5A0O773LXF52AhgKZ8E2tWwi4efhjXVXz3eUs4Bddp5XNTqixHb2xUbQUiuUIRPLlC5z-gZ7I3HrTgVmllUehCLI6A4F4SyTjd5xuYK4uoTcV1iIdwrs9_4KeqIP0ur3Rs4PT5HjQEAQzNiJMs12_EUyOse7rFunoO0ZrfliRdrZ5EaoLhkg7TOrIqak6nWVu-xxpXcS0yjNEJQunfEgxpuZbbWZh7BfyLMAHaoBjtRquZVaWCmFqb5v7ku7-9qx3k1X2-padIY2tszdn-u1IJS3SyRt3w0KRxjtQmdVct4Y487OLbnBwB05PH0UVWWqydfovg&smid=url-share