Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

— James Baldwin

#quotes #politics

Best of all: occupation of #Waterloo station by #BlackJewishAlliance and comrades to match yesterday in New York at Grand Central.

#NoBillionaires

Religion is the problem.

Did you notice that's happening and no one speaks?

Please boost! UMN Duluth CS is hiring for a tenure-track position -- all areas of CS are open, but we are especially interested in folks working on the CS side of neurorobotics. We strongly value teaching *and* research (2/2 load), and, because we value diversity of all kinds and dislike implicit bias, we're using an anonymized search process. You can find our job site here:

https://scse.d.umn.edu/about/faculty-searches

Read on for why I think UMN Duluth CS is a great place to teach and research.

#cs #tenuretrack #jobs #academia #neurorobotics

There is a challenge that we have, all Jews, with the way in which antisemites have come into the conversation and scream the loudest, mixing legitimate critiques of Israeli policy with antisemitism, disregard for Israeli lives, delegitimization, demonization, and double standards for Israel.

This "muddies the water" and makes it more challenging to determine what is and is not hate speech.

Right now, Jews are suffering. Jews in Israel are under multiple threats, with 500,000 evacuated from their homes, rockets hitting apartment buildings, and the threat of an uprising in Israel.

Hundreds of hostages are still unaccounted for.

And around the world, antisemitism is surging, on top of the 10 year rise that we've already seen.

Jews are hurting. Jews are crying. Jews are scared.

There is room for disagreement and dissent, but without acknowledging the suffering from our own community, it can feel cold, callous, and unfeeling.

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A $5 bill from 1950 before In God We Trust was printed on all US currency.

Since Republicans are so obsessed with the word "abortion, I think we should drop the moniker altogether and put up clinics that say "Mother's health and safety procedures" instead.

If people are the problem and not guns…

How about we do universal background checks on the PEOPLE before we let them have guns?

A "Jews not allowed" sign in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2023.
This is insane.

Edit: added another photograph.

#Turkey #AntiSemitism #Jews #Israel

#Ukraine is a healthy #democracy

Families of exhausted Ukrainian soldiers have been complaining for months about the need to better rotate them and give them breaks.

Zelenskyy ordered an investigation into this a few months ago, resulting in the firing of all heads of recruitment centres for corruption. Now only people who have served in the #war can apply to replace them.

Ukrainian people openly discuss this on TV, and have #freedom to protest in the main square 🇺🇦

https://youtu.be/V5yLk4g1d3g?si=4J-15XHOXwOlf6PM

@soc_i_ety Descartes said Religion was the glue that holds society together. Marx called it the "Opium of the Masses". The two seem to have condensed into "The Opium that glues the bigots together".

If you disallow folks to question practices, you cannot call yourself an educator.

Religion is the glue of extremists.

Apparently it IS possible for Air Canada to suck even worse.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-wheelchair-1.7010937

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-johnson-lgbtq-rcna122550 I’ve picked up plenty of #Bibles, Mike Johnson. I didn’t see your hate anywhere

How can anyone claiming to be a #christian #hate anyone?

NEVER vote for a #republican.

#hypocracy