Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

She didn’t have a chance. I knew she wasn’t going to run. Good. Elect Ruben Gallego.

Sinema announces she won't run for reelection -
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/05/congress/sinema-not-running-00144995

"Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city's most important prisons over the weekend, releasing thousands of inmates."

@NPR reveals 3 things to know about the crisis: https://flip.it/pb_hzY

#Haiti #Caribbean #News #Politics

The "Gilded Age" lives on, but in 2024, Republicans are setting a new standard for human rights violations. Workers wouldn't be allowed rest breaks, even in the severe heat of FL's summers, which has worsened with #globalwarming.

28-11: The FL state Senate just passed a bill to remove local govts' authority to adopt heat standards, such as guaranteed shade and rest breaks, for workers.

The bill would make all local heat protections “void & prohibited.”

#GOPDeathCult
https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-02-29/florida-legislature-bill-miami-summer-extreme-heat-ban-local-heat-protections-outdoor-workers-we-count

👋🏼 #Toodles ! #WompWomp

Via Kyle Griffin:

BREAKING: Sen. Kyrsten #Sinema just announced that she's NOT running for re-election to the #Senate. #Arizona

ADDED: WaPo: Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) entered the race more than a year ago, while Kari Lake, a former gubernatorial candidate and TV news anchor, is widely expected to nab the Republican nomination.

Jamie Raskin Set To ‘Revive Legislation’ That Would Bar Trump From Holding Office Under 14th Amendment https://www.mediaite.com/politics/jamie-raskin-set-to-revive-legislation-that-would-bar-trump-from-holding-office-under-14th-amendment/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

France becomes world’s first country to enshrine abortion rights in constitution
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #France

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/europe/france-abortion-constitution-intl

'Disgusted and insulted': Sinéad O'Connor’s estate demands Trump quit using her music 'immediately' https://www.alternet.org/disgusted-and-insulted-sinead-o-connor-s-estate-demands-trump-quit-using-her-music-immediately/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Imagine if instead of making COVID isolation guidelines as weak as the flu...

We approved combo rapid tests like this and made them free and available for everyone...

So that people could tell how long they need to isolate based on science and not feelings, whatever the pathogen.

More Russian stuff will blow up thanks to the AASM Hammer Missiles that #France is supplying to #Ukraine. They have pledged to supply 50 a month. Also, Russian pilots are freaking out at the high number of planes getting shot down over Ukraine lately. Perhaps a letter to the Czar? https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/3/2227179/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-French-AASM-Hammer-missile-may-have-seen-first-use-in-battle?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web

March is #WomensHistoryMonth. If you stand with women, scream for the Israeli women held hostage in Gaza.

Emily Damari was ripped from her home in Kfar Azza on October 7. Her mother says: “Imagine your daughter injured, perhaps being beaten, abused both psychologically and sexually, maybe even raped, definitely starving and with very little water or air.”

Emily has endured unspeakable crimes. She must come home. #BringHerHome

Via aviva Klompas

You get a law degree.
You build a local practice.
You find yourself elected to represent multiple counties.

And you are comfortable making this claim about students asking for cat litter in the bathroom?

If that's not the definition of UNFIT TO LEAD, I don't know what is.

#SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #CatLitter

March is Women’s History Month.

A reminder that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%.🤯

The "strong 1950s family unit" GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.

Or maybe that’s the GOP’s goal.😐

Meet "Justen Nutt Case," the former stage name of Republican State Rep. Jamie Ray Gragg as a character in a Missouri theme park, who just proposed that teachers should be charged with felonies and branded as sexual offenders for using their students' preferred pronouns. https://www.losangelesblade.com/2024/02/29/missouri-teachers-using-affirming-pronouns-could-face-felony-crime/

Public schools are being defunded in favor of vouchers for private schools in many red states. This harms all who can't afford these schools, even with the vouchers, esp. POC, & the private schools are often overtly racist & discriminate, eg:

"His private school in Fayetteville, NC pocketed $1.8M in public tax$ this school year."

They expressly ban students who practice specific religions like Islam & Buddhism, & also deny admissions to LGBTQ+ students whom they call "perverted." -J Parmenter

The #Oklahoma school which allowed Nex Benedict to be murdered in school by bullies is now under federal investigation. #LGBTQIA https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/01/nonbinary-teen-death-oklahoma-federal-investigation/