Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

See, this is how Mastodon-style defederation works outside social media:

"Attorney General Bonta: California Will Restrict State-Funded Travel to Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming due to the passage of anti-trans legislation."

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-california-will-restrict-state-funded-travel-missouri

This is a terrific ad - I wonder if MTG received an in-kind contribution from the DNC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTi8V4PWHK4

It will take only 4 minutes to read this story about GOP officials being charged w/forgery and other felonies in the fake electors scheme. Do it!!!!!!! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/us/politics/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

There are 25,000 (ish) homeless people in Canada.

There are 27,000 (ish) "places of worship".

#ReligionPoisonsEverything

Goddammit, #AssociatedPress, it's not an accident! It's criminal neglect. It's child endangerment. It's failure to secure a deadly weapon. It's absolute irresponsibility. One child dead and the other traumatized forever because someone thought they needed to own a firearm, and needed to have it loaded and unsecured around small children. Stop calling it an accident!
https://apnews.com/article/california-child-shoots-baby-accident-52082a0f0bfb941991d5c13824dff23a
#firearms #guns #gunSafety #ChildAbuse #news

“The letter mentions three federal statutes: Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States; deprivation of rights under color of law; and tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant. It does not offer further details, nor does it detail how the special counsel believes Trump may have violated the statutes, the source tells Rolling Stone.”

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Special Counsel’s Jan. 6 Target Letter to Trump Mentions Conspiracy, Tampering’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-target-letter-special-counsel-conspiracy-tampering-1234791030/

Being okay with racism makes you a racist. In a fundamentally unequal society, there's little practical difference between hating POC and being wholly indifferent to their well-being.

- Heath Wong

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #anarchism #activism

AG Mayes says Horne can’t defund Arizona's dual-language education https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/071823_dual_language_horne/ag-mayes-says-horne-cant-defund-arizonas-dual-language-education/
Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne doesn’t have the power to punish schools for using dual-language instructional models, according to Attorney General Kris Mayes - though Horne is preparing to sue schools teaching students in two languages.
#Tucson #Arizona

Hobbs talks tribal commitments in historic speech to Navajo Nation Council https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/071823_hobbs_navajo/hobbs-talks-tribal-commitments-historic-speech-navajo-nation-council/
Katie Hobbs made history on Monday, becoming the first sitting Arizona governor to address the Navajo Nation Council, congratulating the council on its 100 years as a governing body and discussing her office’s commitment to Arizona’s tribal nations.
#Tucson #Arizona

History Educators from roughly 10th grade through college: Anyone interested to try out some teacher materials w/ a grand strategy PC game about Early Modern History this year? You can get free copies of the game for your class to use as you try out the materials. DM or email me if interested!
(grateful for boosts)

#GamingthePastInEd
#HistoricalGameStudies

Remember: a seditious group of Republican Attorneys General sent robocalls spreading election lies and urging Republican voters to riot at the Capitol. They also threatened to nullify 2020 election results. How many are still in office waiting to undermine democracy once again? #GOPTraitors #GOPSedition #RepublicanAGs #KenPaxton #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

music to my eyes

thank you, Joyce White Vance (via @JillWineBanks )

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-surprise-indictment-in-michigan

Alabama’s Proposed Congressional Map Is Still Biased Against Black Voters | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/alabama-redistricting-congressional-map-black-voters/

Each defendant has been charged with:

• One count of Conspiracy to Commit Forgery, a 14-year felony
• Two counts of Forgery, a 14-year felony
• One count of Conspiracy to Commit Uttering and Publishing, a 14-year felon
• One count of Uttering and Publishing, a 14-year felony
• One count of Conspiracy to Commit Election Law Forgery, a 5-year felony
• Two counts of Election Law Forgery, a 5-year felony

Indictments everywhere coming fast. If you don't subscribe to @joycefultingles Vance's Civil Disobedience, you should. Read today's about Michigan fake electors indictment and what it means to SpecCounsel Smith's coming case against Trump and you'll see why .
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/a-surprise-indictment-in-michigan?r=8av9n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

A group of New York #Republicans passed on punishing George Santos once. Some of them say they won’t do it again.

House #Democrats are planning to force a censure vote within the next two weeks on Santos, New York #GOP’s biggest political liability.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/18/new-york-republicans-santos-censure-00106832