Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I love Nirvana.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Every once in a while I remember that early in the pandemic, UC Davis asked everyone in the UC Davis community to donate PPE from their own labs, which it routed only to UC Davis Health, a not-free medical center. PPE that came out of people's grant money (which UC Davis already skims off of) and sometimes out of people's own money.

I think about this as UC Davis continues to raise fees, pretend the pandemic is over, and drive disabled people out of their jobs and schooling. #UCAccessNow

Raw Story:
Senate will consider rule change to stop Tommy Tuberville's military promotion blockade

Rules Committee chair, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), said, "This vote in the Rules Committee will allow us to finally move forward with military confirmations, filling critical positions and protecting our military readiness."

The vote will happen a week from Tuesday, on Nov. 14.
https://www.rawstory.com/marginalize-tommy-tuberville-protest-vote/

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Military

🗣️ 📣 ARE Y'ALL NOT SEEING THE #FogOfWar?

#Netanyahu meets #ApartheidClyde at #Xitter and then presents a map of #Israel without #Palestine at the #UN. shortly the #Speakergate clown car begins.

how come Netanyahu ignores #Egypt's intel on #HAMAS and just like that GOP not only boots McCarthy, but he goes quietly... for a christofascist to take his place?

the billionaires funding Netanyahu's fascist coup also fund the USA's christian-zionists

this is not a coincidence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-mike-johnson-is-more-dangerous-than-donald-trump

From jobs to infrastructure to climate action to inflation reduction, Democrats deliver for ALL Americans.

It's not just Donald Trump.

The #media shares blame for normalizing things that would never be considered normal in a non-failed state.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/6/2203966/-Dear-media-you-do-understand-this-is-disqualifying-right-Right?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is being sued by his publisher for contradicting his book’s claim about the 2020 election. https://apnews.com/article/c76972d8f51df9ad74bc7797584c7436

Friends. I’m seeking advice for my niece.

She’s being asked to take on new responsibilities at her job and wants to be properly compensated. They’re asking her to do Microsoft Access work. Her role isn’t technical and has nothing to do with it. (She’s also a Black woman who doesn’t want to get walked over because of it.)

Does anyone have any advice or info about what compensation looks like for that kind of work? Thanks in advance!

#IT #Database #Career #Microsoft #MicrosoftAccess

Haven’t made a fundraising ask all month. Meanwhile my Corp funded opponent loaned himself $1M😐

Y’all—we can’t afford to fall behind. $5 or $500, can we earn 100 quick donors tonight to catch up?

Let’s win this election with 100% people funding. Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/qasimforcongress-social

Same shit, different day. #BlackLivesMattter #BlackMastodon #ACAB

2nd police officer acquitted in death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold, given ketamine

https://apnews.com/article/elijah-mcclain-death-officers-trial-2dc1c1e2597eed1306581517d45c6630

That Speaker Mike Johnson and his son use an app to monitor each other's porn surfing really does show their religious beliefs alone are insufficient to control their own earthly impulses.

His preferred app, "Covenant Eyes", rather suitably brings to mind the phrase "Under his Eye" from The Handmaids Tale.

To be clear, Trump has already been found liable for fraud. That is not the issue in this hearing. The issue is, as I understand it, how much money he owes to people he defrauded. So he should be trying to minimize damage, not proudly advertising how little he cared about accuracy.

@charliejane Tapley really gives herself away when she says that Witter is "fighting [Moms for Liberty] actively", as if she thinks that's somehow criminal.

I know they *wish* it were criminal to disagree with them, but it isn't *yet*. You'd better believe librarians and other freedom-loving people are fighting Moms for Liberty — we can see they want to make it illegal to fight them, and we're not going to let that happen!

Bullies always wish their victims would just roll over.

You couldn't make this up: an antisemite accidentally commits a hate crime against a group of antisemites. In Indianapolis, a woman thought a Radical Hebrew Israelite school – a group that is antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, misogynistic, etc. – was an "Israel school" (i.e., Jewish school) so she drove her car into it.

Just today's reminder that Jewish people and facilities are indeed being targeted. (And even if another group hates me, I don't want their kids hurt.)

https://apnews.com/article/indianapolis-building-car-drove-woman-arrested-36d4d8ee1deb3b412e82a8b8b2a863a7

Consider this your periodic reminder that Reagan thought having an educated populace was a bad thing, and that’s why higher education is so fucking expensive in the US.

It wasn’t always this way. We could—and should—demand better.