Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I'm bad at posting and I've never had anything that has aged this well this quickly. Bummer.

Chuck Schumer moves to declassify UFO secrets like JFK records

https://www.newsweek.com/chuck-schumer-declassify-ufo-secrets-jfk-records-1812978

#ChuckSchumerUFOs #DeclassifyUFOs #UFOsecrets #JFKrecords #GovernmentTransparency #ExtraterrestrialEvidence #Politics #News

I’m hiring.

My team, which is overseeing the modernization of IRS IT with $10 billion+ from the Inflation Reduction Act, needs a coordinator. Someone early career who is beginning to see how much room for improvement there is with Federal IT, and is equipped for a high-profile mission. Must be active USG employee.

Please boost.

https://openopps.usajobs.gov/tasks/5842

5th Circuit pauses order restricting #Biden administration’s #tech contacts

The stay follows a request from the Justice Department, which warned the sweeping order could chill law enforcement activity #DOJ #legal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/14/5thcircuit-biden-socialmedia-stay/

Let me propose a new variation on an old theme:

First they came for the #trans people.
They didn't come for anyone else because we beat their sorry asses.

Working from home is an act of reclamation. I shed not one single tear for the end of the abuse that going to an office enables (paying for each day's travel, constant interruptions, terrible work environments designed by executives who don't feel the pain of these environments, etc.)

Rezone that office space as residential and do something about housing affordability.

#QuoteToot

https://fosstodon.org/@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place/110712456514615065

@Threadbane . Yep, that's Florida today. We are truly infiltrated by gop #fascists.. Not to mention the foreign mobs in so Florida money laundering with trump.

Take voting restrictions in your state seriously.

#ALweather #ALwx
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Flood Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
944 AM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023

...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in
Mississippi...

Chickasawhay At Leakesville affecting Wayne, Greene and George
Counties.

For the Chickasawhay River...including Waynesboro, Leakesville...
Minor flooding is forecast.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/f/2023-O-CON-KMOB-FL-W-0033_2023-07-14T14:44Z

Writer Who Defended Hitler on Twitter Fired By Seattle Times After One Column

https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/david-volodzko-hitler-lenin-fired-seattle-times-01h58rqx76wv Wow!! What an utter #DumbAss #Racist #Fascist

#ALweather #ALwx
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Special Marine Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
940 AM CDT Fri Jul 14 2023

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Special Marine Warning for...
Coastal waters from Okaloosa-Walton County Line to Pensacola FL out
20 NM...
Water https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/vtec/f/2023-O-NEW-KMOB-MA-W-0177_2023-07-14T14:40Z

Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty | The White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/07/13/ordering-the-selected-reserve-and-certain-members-of-the-individual-ready-reserve-of-the-armed-forces-to-active-duty/

Twitter is paying high profile far right content creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

Jayapal proposes amendment to Defense Authorization to fund clinical trials of Corbevax https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/JAYAPA_055_xml_Corbevax%20final%20final230710144724657.pdf This would give us a non-mRNA, open-source, Covid booster that would likely cost less than one-twentieth the price of the boosters from Pfizer and Moderna. Remember, drugs are cheap. Government-granted patent monopolies make them expensive.

One thing I learned during 35+ yeas in education: What students think they can do is more predictive than what their tests scores are.

Via Roger Parloff:

In #defamation case by #Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss, Judge Beryl Howell orders #Giuliani to pay $87,172.50 in attys fees immediately & threatens additional "severe sanctions" up to
* default judgment
* paying plaintiffs' attys fees for whole case. #legal

Huffington Post headline: GOP Rep. Eli Crane Sparks Fierce Criticism After Saying ‘Colored People’ On House Floor
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will have to change its name, apparently. We seem to have moved beyond the words themselves to word order. Would "people of color" have been acceptable? Griping about Crane using "colored people" just makes the Democrats look petty and shallow. Snide remarks and insults are in order, but not this phony high dudgeon.