Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is ‘Nazi’ Nobody cares about their motives anymore.”

- A.R. Moxon

"Republican Floats Refusing to Invite Biden For State of the Union Until Border is Secured"

Which the GOP has blocked. Funny how that works....

https://www.mediaite.com/news/republican-floats-refusing-to-invite-biden-for-state-of-the-union-until-border-is-secured/

Grr. Some fucker just tried to shame me for expecting medical professionals to wear high-quality masks when doing procedures on me which necessitate me not wearing a mask. It’s to protect both them and me, you rectal canoe! He tried to say there was no scientific evidence masks helped. Blocked that guy. Blargh. I got COVID at the dentist office, FFS. I can’t believe we’re going back to the days when people rolled their eyes at germ theory. #MaskUp

@paulschoe @s1m0n4

If you look for similarities to Nazism, you will find it in Palestinian homes. Gaza had a Hitler 2 shop until IDF recently took it down - it had puppets with knives at the windows.

We are finding Hitler books everywhere in children's bedrooms and Hamas literature.

Jews now and before as a people always wanted to just exist in peace. None of us like the destruction to Palestinians, obviously outside of some, but they don't represent Israelies and have 0 to do with Zionism

I often wonder anymore why it is a couple hundred thousand members of the United States military fought and died in WW2 fighting Nazis. Because here in America these days, it’s gettin’ to be like it never happened. Like, those U.S. troops died for absolutely no reason.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335?fbclid=IwAR3ZpYgUPgu5jiIiji-mOZTIgDTFCEdOkoX-V2OkaEcWVFPLSylyJCy_cTo_aem_ARtntEJNSmw5LgfHvEOjhFTxwTPvuMQsBmvN5mZ8v9inQtQpJ3tdGq8alxQodj7EbFs

Do not argue with a woman when she’s tired or rested.

If you offer her caviar on the first date, you’re quite the roemancer.

The #Iowa legislature, at the behest of the NRA and the politically powerful group Iowa Gun Owners, passed a law banning credit card companies from flagging suspicious gun purchases. So much for the Republican Party being tough on crime. The NRA does not believe in the 2nd Amendment. They believe in the right of criminals to bear arms. Big difference. #GunControl https://littlevillagemag.com/iowa-house-approves-bill-to-prevent-tracking-of-suspicious-gun-purchases-on-party-line-vote/

Red flag: In the US, "#teachers are dead last among all occupational groups and professions in feeling their opinions count at work, that their supervisor creates an open and trusting environment and that they are treated with respect each day. Teachers are also the highest of all professions in experiencing burn-out and stress. And it’s no wonder why half of all teachers are currently looking for a new job."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2024/02/23/to-fix-us-education-free-our-teachers/

#Academia #Education #Schools #Teaching
@academicchatter

@StillIRise1963 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-indicted-black-conservatives-south-carolina-1234975041/

"black people like me because i'm a criminal like black people are criminals"

jesus christ on a pogo stick

The bar the public seems to have is so low,
we don't even hear
HIS DAMAGED SPEECH anymore.

"#Trump …spiraling into "phonemic paraphasias" during his rally speeches, which is "substitution of non-words for words that sound similar—are not normally seen until a patient enters the moderate to severe stages of #alzheimers

"Some examples of Trump’s non-words: Beneficiaries becomes 'benefishes.' Renovations become 'renoversh.'
Pivotal became 'pivobal.' Obama became 'obamna.'
Missiles became 'mishiz.' Christmas became 'Crissus.'
Bipartisan became 'bipars.'
This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability to use language."

UPDATE: SEE COMMENTS BELOW for another article on this in Salon.

UPDATE2: another article posted in comments in STAT. See below.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-dementia/

If progressives want restrictions on the use of location data, all they have to do is publish a database of people that frequent gun stores and ranges. Gun nuts hate the idea of a registry, but most of them carry their phones everywhere, so big data knows who they are.