Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The London burrough of Havering uncanceled its Hanukkah celebration, so I went.

It was large with speeches and singing and joy followed by tea, latkes and donuts at the nearby shul.

One might call it "uneventful" except for how excited the rabbi was. He said we would all remember this night.

#mazeldon

🇦🇺 Australia: "Two Melbourne-made COVID vaccines are now ready for commercial partnerships to help bring them to market, with hope that one can be delivered as a nasal spray."

#COVID19 #COVIDvaccines #Nasalspray @auscovid19

Source: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/health/a-spray-for-next-generation-of-covid-vaccines/news-story/51137731d54fa57cd2416bfc05040311

Republican lawmakers in the US being celebrated by Russian propagandists, says Presidet Biden.

#ProtectOurWildlife

"Safe, legal, and rare" stigmatizes abortion and fuels abortion bans with token exceptions that will never be honored in court, all so squeamish, puritanical weirdoes can feel comfortable with themselves for sticking their noses in other people's business.

The same is true of the moral panic over trans people and especially trans kids. Doctors and parents were already involved in these decisions. It's none of your fucking business. Get out.

Far-right Polish MP expelled from parliament after anti-Semitic act | AFP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaBb9cjq7vE&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #worldnews #afp

this is me and i don't like it

#Caturday

MAGA Mike's TREASON

Here is today's speech from MAGA Mike Johnson after meeting with President Zelensky.

Johnson is deflecting responsibility for defunding Ukraine war aid.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5UoT4U7mwTA&si=3taouMybb2zpsz_F

Judge says Rudy Giuliani may have defamed Georgia election workers again outside courthouse https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/12/12/Giuliani-comments-defamation-court/3831702404119/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"#NewMexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham joined with other governors this week to request the federal government ensure that a newly approved over-the-counter birth control pill will be broadly available."

https://nmpoliticalreport.com/issues/women/lujan-grisham-signs-letter-asking-for-availability-of-over-the-counter-birth-control-pill/

#Apple issue. Updated to 17.2 yesterday, and now my share sheet is missing.

Please boost for help.

@dukepaaron @aelliotpr All of this kind of reminds me of the argument about how the swastika didn't start out as a nazi symbol and so we shouldn't automatically assume everyone using it is a nazi. (I first learned about this argument from an ex-boyfriend which is part of the reason he's very firmly an ex, but that's a collection of stories for another day in which I have copious amounts of alcohol and weed). Anyway, if you're using a swastika I'm assuming you're a nazi. Also, if you and your friends are yelling "from the river to the sea" I'm assessing the risk of you and your friends being genicidal fucks as too high for me to dig up some sort of benefit of the doubt on your behalf. See also: If you either regularly make jokes about raping women, or you regularly defend others who do the same as not really misogynist assholes and I just need to calm down, I'm assuming you're a misogynist asshole.

today Alabama and Texas are fighting over "shittiest state"

this contest is now closed please. no other states need apply. I am looking at you, Florida.

holy fuck is right, @obeto
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a46092028/alabama-prison-death/

@tristansnell If it wasn't for double standards the GOP would have no standards.

@maxkennerly

Anti-abortion laws are intended to be cruel & unusual punishment of the innocent.

Roe vs Wade's overturn is a disenfranchisement scheme.

4.6 million former felons can't vote in America.

Women found guilty of abortion or contraception will swell those ranks enormously.

Trauma works similarly.

Deliberate psychological torment, like Jim Crow, is also voter suppression.

Torturing women over miscarriages, rape, or unviable pregnancies is intended to suppress the vote.

Important read from #JenniferRubin on the #Texas #abortion case. Gifted copy.

The Texas abortion case blows up the abortion ban rationale
https://wapo.st/41eOzJ3

oh it's going to be like that is it?

#hornedlizard #hornedtoad