Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Christie's being found not qualified under Maine's rules is no different than Colorado finding Trump not qualified under 14th A text and history. Maine should similarly find Trump not qualified under 14th A.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rules-chris-christie-must-remain-off-maine-republican-presidential-primary-ballot/

A PSA - folks, if you have tested positive for COVID in the past week or two, even if you are fully vaccinated, do your fellow beings a favor by avoiding social gatherings this holiday season. Humanity and Santa will thank you.
And if you have not tested positive, at least wear a mask and avoid close face-to-face animated conversations. Your family will thank you.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/jn1-coronavirus-variant-covid
#Covid

If you have anything you want to sneak into the house, #Christmas Eve is absolutely the best day to do it. You can just rush through the door carrying anything while shouting “don't look! don't look!” and people will happily close their eyes. Next thing you know you’re eating a bucket of KFC safely in the bathroom

@dukepaaron That would make a great wrestling alias or something. “The Zionist Tornado.”

Angry About Your Kid’s After-School Satan Club? Blame Clarence Thomas. | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/177640/satanic-temple-after-school-club-blame-clarence-thomas

@dogzilla @tzimmer_history @eilonwy That’s what I’m seeing. I say disqualify him and let them “bring it on.” Joe can invoke the insurrection act and round them all up, including the congressional co-conspirators.

Either we have a constitution or we don’t. If we’re going to let them trample it out of fear of how they’ll react. We’ve already lost.

Thanks for the thread, Thomas. You said it better than I ever could. But I’ll pass on the substack.

While the west is busy discussing whether Jews are white colonialists (we're not), our black Jewish soldiers die protecting us from Hamas. Unbelievable. RIP Nir Refael Knnanian, Birhano Kasiya, Shy Tarmin, Alexander Shpitz.

#israel #idf #gaza #hamas #black

https://www.usluck.com/149796/season-of-truth-to-all/ Season of Truth to All #Tweets #Twitter

Iowa’s governor is evil. https://apnews.com/article/iowa-summer-ebt-food-assistance-0e878c5c0fc9dd0dd55622cb22a82561

Chinese buffet. We always did Chinese buffet on Christmas Eve and went to a movie on Christmas Day.

Walked into a large hotel the other day and there was some kind of board game convention going on. All the people were loudly banging on about how good they are at their game and how quickly they got their last checkmate.

And I thought, ugh, I've had enough of these chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

#ALweather #ALwx
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FXUS64 KMOB 232247 CCA
AFDMOB

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Mobile AL
411 PM CST Sat Dec 23 2023

...New NEAR TERM, LONG TERM, MARINE...

.NEAR TERM...
(Now through Monday)
Issued at 406 PM CST Sat Dec 23 2023

A large upper cutoff low will evolve over the central US Sunday night
into Monday, with a potent negatively tilted shortwave ejects over
the lower Mississippi Va https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/p.php?pid=202312232211-KMOB-FXUS64-AFDMOB-CCA

You know Alabama Senator #Tuberville is just *itching* to say the N-word!
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Tuberville on Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ comments: ‘I’m mad he wasn’t tougher’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4367999-tuberville-trumps-poisoning-blood-country-comments-mad-he-wasnt-tougher/

@AlliFlowers @johnettesnuggs @todayilearned

You both have good taste. If I was to believe the old Starkist Commercial, either you have good taste or you taste good.

I'm almost positive that Boebert has/does neither.

When the UK and #France handed over Sudetenland over to Hitler, those negotiations were done without Czechoslovakia. No peace negotiations between #Russia and #Ukraine can be done without Ukraine. Early in the war, when peace feelers were being sent out after Russia's failure to take Kyiv, President Zelensky talked about security guarantees. I can't imagine Ukraine taking any deal that doesn't allow them to continue their pursuit of a NATO membership. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-cease-fire.html

@tomcapuder @riggbeck @lednabwm One of the "rules" of classic rhetoric is that it's impossible to prove universal non-existence of something. Purple unicorns may indeed exist in some galaxy of which we have no information and no way to get that information. Thus to debate something's existence in any meaningful way, the burden of proof falls on the person declaring the existence of something. If something exists there will be empirical evidence of its existence.

We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.