Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

DeSantis is making Florida schools great again, one ban and muzzle at a time | Opinion - Miami Herald https://apple.news/Axzv_BNGPRgaDOy0OisrxoQ This is brilliant! I’m done reading editorials today because after this one the rest will just let me down. Vote Blue

Texas: BASIS Charter School Sells "VIP Car Line" for $2500+ a Pop - Charter school graft even surprises me at times. Charters are damaging for education, equity and democracy. Role them back under elected governance. https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2023/08/13/texas-basis-charter-school-sells-vip-car-line-for-2500-a-pop/ #privatization

NEW: I sat down with voting rights lawyer Abha Khanna — one of the lawyers who successfully argued this past #SCOTUS term’s big Voting Rights Act case — about the win, Alabama’s “straight-up defiant” response, and the broader landscape across the nation. https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna

Raskin compares Trump White House to Putin’s Kremlin | The Hill https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4150805-raskin-compares-trump-white-house-to-putins-kremlin/ by design #uspol #TFG #putin #fascism

As the battle over #bookbans in #schools and #libraries continues to play out in various states across the U.S., the toll it’s taking on #librarians is coming at a great cost — personally and financially. Many librarians are speaking up about fearing for their jobs and safety. NPR’s Tovia Smith traveled to Louisiana where tensions have been flaring up — pitting librarians against book ban advocates in the local community. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193446007 #education #censorship #CivilLiberties

When you are in an online meeting (Teams/Zoom/Jitsi/...), do you turn on your camera?

(retoot to reach more people 👫👬👭🧑‍🤝‍🧑)

A whole lot of Republican fuckers are going to prison. #GOP #GOPCriminals #Georgia #Trump #GOPForPrison

Emails and texts link Coffee County Republicans 'right into the Oval Office': Ex-impeachment lawyer https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-coffee-county-republicans-indictment/

It is despicable that the Covid vaccine manufacturers are going to charge more than $110/dose for the new XBB.1.5 boosters when available in mid-September.

The US government previously paid ~$25/dose, supplied free of charge, and subsidized these companies with untold $ billions.

@marcelias
Cheating is the Republican platform so we've got to flood the ballot boxes enough to get them out of power in every state as fast as we possibly can.

This article is a MUST READ

Decolonization is not a metaphor
By Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang

“Our goal in this article is to remind readers what is unsettling about decolonization. Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.”

#Decolonization #LandBack #Native #Indigenous #NDN #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon #TurtleIsland #TurtleIslandSocial

-->> https://turtleisland.blog/decolonization-is-not-a-metaphor/

A -45% drop in UK students taking German and -37% French A-Levels (courses for 16 to 18 year olds). Really saddening.

Studying languages changed and immeasurably enriched my life, but as a student I still had to defend my choices against idiotic 'but they all speak English don't they' statements.

No, 'they' don't. And even if 'they' do, why not return the favour?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/german-a-levels-halved-why-modern-languages-are-in-freefall-gjzcnp9bq

Persistent immune and clotting dysfunction detected in saliva and blood plasma after COVID-19

https://www.cell.com/heliyon/fulltext/S2405-8440(23)05166-6

Stories of anti-vaxxers who spread deadly misinformation and then died.
#antivaxxers

https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/

Being an admin of a large-ish instance has been quite an eye opening experience into how awful some people are towards trans people. I really don’t understand the energy they put into hating people.

Clarence Thomas had 38 free luxury vacations.

A lot of folks haven’t had 38 vacations of any kind.

The NY Times can’t stop telling us how much Trump’s indictments are helping him—but they are very wrong! My new article on how NY Times and other media outlets peddling this BS are helping Trump create the narrative he wants. https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/the-ny-times-cant-stop-telling-us