Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Today in 1946, Viola Desmond was dragged out of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, injuring her hip.
She was charged by police after she refused to move from the main floor to the balcony where Black patrons sat.
Her case sparked the modern Canadian civil rights movement.

I'm down with this... 🤣😂🤣😂

I am now looking for Technical Support/Provisioning roles in Hampshire, UK. If you happen to know of anything, please let me know!
#getfedihired

Consumer Finance Protection Bureau wants to regulate Venmo, Apple Cash like banks

Digital wallets and payment applications would be affected by move.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/consumer-finance-protection-bureau-wants-to-regulate-venmo-apple-cash-like-banks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/trump-train-attack-biden-bus-january-6 #DomesticTerrorism How a ‘Trump train attack on a Biden bus foreshadowed Jan 6 – and echoed bloody history
Kamala Harris could have been on the bus Trump supporters tried to run off the road in Texas, law enforcement barely responded. History shows the fruits of such inaction
A text chain from late December 2020 “the March in dc”, in which a message purportedly coming from Cisneros’s phone discusses delivery dates for bear mace and a collapsible baton
#MAGATerrorists

And yes, today is Entitlement Barbie day at Trump's NY trial. So this is the testimony Ivanka was terrified to have to give under oath and tried anything to get out of this obligation. Expect something we did not know, which NY AG has on her, from her deposition. Expect the unexpected :-)

When older kids are forced to repeat a grade based on test scores, research finds "large private & social costs in terms of higher levels of long-run criminal convictions": https://is.gd/nLsF3s.
But this situation is actually even worse than it appears. As Walt Haney & others have shown, no one even bothered to claim that the kids would benefit from being retained; the strategy was used en masse to inflate test scores & give the impression that the school/district/state was making progress.

Democrat Dan McCaffery wins open seat on Pennsylvania Supreme Court

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/politics/elections/democrat-dan-mccaffery-wins-open-seat-pennsylvania-supreme-court/521-69228ab3-f166-4e56-bdcd-a178633ed7d8

It’s crazy that, of the two leading US presidential candidates, the guy found liable for rape who is facing 91 criminal indictments after he incited an insurrection *isn’t* the one who is facing vocal calls to step aside for someone else to run. People have lost their minds.

Down in #Floriduh, just a Karen who thinks instructions and rules do not apply to her.

>Florida mother faces criminal charges after trying to run over school staff member during morning drop off: Deputies https://lawandcrime.com/crime/florida-mother-faces-criminal-charges-after-trying-to-run-over-school-staff-member-during-morning-drop-off-deputies/

#KarensGoneWild #KarenStrikesAgain

I’m tired of seeing random people online say in effect they think Israel should be judenrein. I’m not talking about interpretations of slogans, I’m talking about fleshed out statements.

4/ Via Emptywheel:

One thing to watch abt Ivanka testimony: How many journalists repeat Trump's slur accusing AG James of fraud w/o even attempting to explain the fraud he is adjudged of?

Trump has an utterly genius ability to get self-imagined straight journalists to repeat his script over and over. It never ceases to amaze me.

The sound bites of coverage say James is fraud, don't say Trump is.

💪🏼

Via Kyle Griffin:

New York AG #LetitiaJames:

"We uncovered the scheme and she benefited from it personally. And Ms. #Trump will do all that she can to try to separate herself from this corporation, but she's inextricably tied to the Trump Org. and to these properties, that she helped secure financing for." #Ivanka #legal #NewYork.

Mike Johnson’s 'Christian Zionism' is 'fueled by fantasies of a cataclysmic war': analysis https://www.alternet.org/mike-johnsons-christian-zionism-is-fueled-by-fantasies-of-a-cataclysmic-war-analysis/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Unlike her father & her brothers #EricTrump & #DonaldTrumpJr, #Ivanka is no longer a defendant in #NYAG #LetitiaJames’ lawsuit. James alleges that #Trump’s asset values were fraudulently pumped up for years on #financial statements that helped him get #loans & #insurance.

#civil #fraud #trial #TrumpTrial

Like every Republican now, Glenn Youngkin tried to gaslight Virginians about what he really wanted to do on reproductive freedom. A ban on reproductive freedom is a ban no matter what phony timeline or "exceptions" they try to sell.

Thanks, VA voters, for a massive rejection of Youngkin and his far-right, big government, book-banning, anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice agenda.

Virginia Democrats win full legislative control, AP reports:
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/08/1211314220/virginia-democrats-win-full-control-of-the-state-legislature-ap-reports

The GQP comforting itself after last night's #elections:

@wdlindsy I think that finally people (women especially) are realizing that the "abortion issue" isn't really about abortion per se, it is about women's rights. The Hobby Lobby case showed us, first it is abortion and then contraceptives generally they want to ban.

MSNBC published exit polls grouped by age and sex. Men and women ages 18-44 were like 80/20 in favor. Women 45+ were also in favor, but only by 55/45 (or so). The only group opposed? Men over 45, whose split was close to 45/55.

Once again the "party of freedom" (the GOP) merely wants to control people in their way.