Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

It seems a bit absurd to hear people say “Biden’s not perfect so vote for the guy who fomented the Capitol riot instead!” How is voting for someone much worse going to make anything better? Are some people trying to suggest that fascism is somehow a viable option to Biden? A fascist police state is not any kind of viable option at all. And Trump is openly saying now that this is what he wants.

🇳🇿New Zealand COVID weekly update: 20 November to 26 November

🔹New cases: 6,814 (-1,067)
🔹Reinfections: 3,595 (52.76%)
🔹Deaths: 27 (+7)
🔹Hospital: 327 (-22)
🔹ICU: 8 (+6)

🔸52.76% were reinfections

🔹COVID-attributed deaths: 27

Sadly, 41 deaths being reported today.

1 was less than 10 years old
1 was in their 40s
1 was in their 50s
3 were in their 60s
8 were in their 70s
20 were in their 80s
7 were aged over 90

24 were women and 17 were men

#COVID19NZ @auscovid19

Source: https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/our-health-system/data-and-statistics/covid-19-data/covid-19-current-cases/

Holy cow the #DoctorWho special is fantastic! Davies really knows how to write the Doctor. So much good stuff in this thing. Really really encouraging for the franchise. Woot!

Elon Musk's Jet tracker website shows the Biggest Loser traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel tonight.
Just what Jews and Palestinians need at just this moment.
NOT!

If you think it was ever about "saving the children" or "parent's rights", I've got a bridge to sell you.

"A Pennsylvania school board that banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes slipped a last-minute item into their final meeting before leaving office, hastily awarding a $700,000 exit package to the superintendent who supported their agenda."

#Pennsylvania #MomsForLiberty #BookBanning #Corruption #PublicEducation
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Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent’s $700,000 exit deal
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/23/democrats-who-swept-moms-for-liberty-off-school-board-fight-superintendents-700-000-exit-deal-00128561

@EyalL You said this so much better than I ever have. And I think the world has still not grasped that we really mean Hamas will be destroyed. They cannot believe we won’t bend the knee again and live with terrorists among us.

Born in 1917, Egyptian physicist Sameera Moussa studied radioactive isotopes used to create medical images. Her work “laid the groundwork for a revolution in the affordability & safety of nuclear medicine.”

Concerned about the potential use of nuclear weapons during WWII, Moussa organized the Atomic Energy for Peace conference.

She was likely assassinated at age 35 in a case that remains unsolved. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/the-strange-tragic-story-of-egypts-foremost-female-nuclear-scientist/ #science #history

Once again the blatant racism from the Nazi GOP is wide ranging, but then we have the usual suspect screaming about not voting for President Biden not having an actually reason just more Every four years bullshit from people that loves chaos.

@thepoliticalcat @Rasta lol I’m a Christian and I have never been able to find anything even remotely Christian about Christmas. It was a ploy to adopt somebody else’s celebration to get people into the church to fill the coffers. I’m a fan of Christ… Christianity ehh not so much.

VERMONT HATE CRIME!

Burlington, VT police investigating a shooting that sent three Palestinian men to the hospital with gunshot wounds Saturday evening.

"The three young male victims, each of whom is 20 years old, remain under medical care," police said in a statement released Sunday afternoon. "Two are stable, while one has sustained much more serious injuries."

two of the men were wearing keffiyehs, a scarf worn in many Middle Eastern cultures.
#AureFreePress

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/crime/2023/11/26/north-prospect-street-burlington-vt-shooting/71710595007/

resilience in a sticky situation

#Caturday

BC News (CBC): First Nation in B.C. votes to take over child and family services authority for its members https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cowichan-tribes-vote-to-take-over-child-services-authority-1.7040662?cmp=rss #CBC #BCNews via @morganeogerbc #News/Canada/BritishColumbia

Someone should tell our pepper plants it's almost December 😲
#hotpeppers #peppers #gardening #Alabama

Hoar frost on pixie cup from yesterday #lichen #WinterPictures

#pepper fact! The color of a pepper isn't inherently indicative of heat; while it can be used to see ripeness (which can affect heat), not all peppers turn red when ripe, and not all ripe peppers are spicier than unripe ones.

Happily, Ella and Dafna were reunited with their mother tonight after spending more than 50 days as captives of Hamas in Gaza.

Don't get killed on the job in Indiana. Your life is worth only $7K if your employer kills you. For Amazon, that's about a nanosecond of profit on any given day.
https://wapo.st/3N2y7Wu

What do conservatives want?
For more Black mamas to die from childbirth. Apparently.

Racist groups are suing to end the pioneering guaranteed income project, the Abundant Birth Project, for pregnant Black and Pacific Islanders (who experience the *worst* maternal mortality rates). They say it 'illegally discriminates.'

These people make my ass itch.

#Racists #RhymesWithTrackers
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

https://19thnews.org/2023/11/affirmative-action-backlash-maternal-health-program-black-women/