Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I would pay good money for a video game where TX Gov Abbott tries to roll his wheelchair across the Rio Grande, runs into razor wire, and you get to decide whether to throw bricks, used tampons, snakes, or Skittles at him as he goes down.

A New Jersey con man who was pardoned two years ago by former President Trump has been arrested again and is accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-con-man-was-pardoned-trump-charged-fraud-rcna95172

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.

This one hits hard. #climatechange

I fibbed and told my fisherman friend that I thought his amateurish handmade trout fishing lures looked great. Flattered, he gave me one of the most beautiful I’d ever seen. It was...

...pretty fly for a white lie

Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT ends Legacy Admissions - good job Wesleyan (and Johns Hopkins, MIT, and any other school that has ended this practice)!

@AlliFlowers #America needs to get out of the execution game.

@TruthSandwich
You know that dictators don't crack down on religion to further some Atheist agenda, right? They do it because they want the people to worship THEM and they don't like the competition.

The house just striped out everything benefiting LGBTQ from an appropriations bill. Bigoted, no? I'll bet that everyone that voted for this campaigned on their Christian faith.

White supremacisy has been baked into American Evangelicalism since the founding.
@dibi58 @tom4okstate

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin #quote

So why are you in jail? I’m a serial killer- I murdered 10 people over a ten-year period of time and they just caught me. What about you? Oh I’m a mom who helped her daughter get abortion pills online so she could abortion. Meta turned me in. (Damn)

TUBERVILLIAN: GOP senator caught breaking his promise to veterans https://washingtonpress.com/2023/07/19/tubervillian-gop-senator-caught-breaking-his-promise-to-veterans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Sherrod Brown has a tough race ahead of him if the three bozos running for the GOP nomination don't implode on each other.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/07/ohios-republican-us-senate-primaries-are?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=77142

'Time to Ground These Fat Cats': Markey Proposes Tax Hike on Private Jet Travel | "Billionaires and the ultra-wealthy are getting a bargain, paying less in taxes each year to fly private and contribute more pollution than millions of drivers combined on the roads below."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/markey-private-jets

#CommonDreams #TaxHike #PrivateJetTravel #Billionaires #UltraWealthy #Pollution #Politics #News

Instead of complaining about a "two-tiered justice system" investigating disproven Biden allegations, Republicans on the Oversight Committee should look at a real two-tiered system: unfair treatment of people of color.

I have started sending out cold mails to professors in #socialwork seeking a graduate research opportunity/position in their respective labs. if you are or know of a professor who is #hiring and wish to take masters student for Social Work, I'm opened for recommendations to reach out to them.

I'm not country specific. Kindly boost post if you see this. Hopefully, I can get lucky.
@socialwork @sociology @academicchatter @academicsunite @bookstodon @Resister
#disability #GraduateAdmissions #MSW

"pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and be careful not to fall into the wood chipper we built to encourage you to pull harder on your bootstraps" 🙄 if there is a god can these fuckers please get raptured now so the rest of us can build a livable planet