Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Anyone who falls back on the normal excuses:

"It's just a metaphor"
"He was only joking"
"He really didn't mean that"
"He was only kidding"
"That's not a dogwhistle"
"He just has no filter"
"That's not what he meant, even though that's what he said"

equals

"I agree with the guy's racist/sexist/violent comments, but he shouldn't be saying that stuff out loud!"

or

"I'm not affected by any of that so it doesn't matter"

EEOC data from 2017/18 shows 75% of people earning >$208K & 71% earning $163K-$207K are men. "There were no states, jobs or industries where women outearned their male counterparts." This pay disclosure requirement was discontinued by Trump in 2019.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2024/03/15/eeoc-data-reveals-75-of-high-earners-are-men/

I would pay an embarrassing amount of money for an uninterrupted split-screen stream of a repo crew removing the T-R-U-M-P from 721 5th Avenue on one side, and Trump's live reaction on the other

"Trump is a mob boss, and his speech should be viewed in that context. …

Trump is adept at skirting up to the line and allowing others to cross it for him. That is what a mob boss does, and why they had to come up with laws like RICO to sweep in the heads of criminal enterprises and hold them responsible for the actions of others within the organization."

#Trump #bloodbath #violence #authoritarianism
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BREAKING: Trump to re-hire Pro-Russian lobbyist and convicted tax cheat and bank fraudster, Paul Manafort.

⚔️ Pro-Ukraine exiled Russian fighters launch cross-border raid into southern Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/14/pro-ukraine-exiled-russian-fighters-cross-border-raid-russia

#ukraine #russia #war

#antisemitism is in vogue here in the US under the guise of "anti-zionism". Goes to the much older idea that Jews don't belong anywhere and should be thankful for their existence barely being tolerated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/jewish-anti-semitism-harvard-claudine-gay-zionism/677454/?gift=Wyf-5OzbrcU8eE-2Wqvm1b5UO1wVIVd2fuM61lHJWhM

@AlliFlowers @shekinahcancook

Gardeners too! That is wonderful as gardens are a taste of what I’d think Paradise would be like.

Watch your step, Katie Britt -- oops, too late.

“Thanks for your last-second endorsement after polls showed I was already gonna win big, insurrection-inciting, gaslighting, corrupt white supremacist President Trump! I love you!

“Now help me get this stinky endorsement off my shoe ...”

-- JD Crowe, Alabama.com

#KatieBritt #TrumpStink #TrumpEndorsement #Alabama #LoserTrump #LoserBritt

Came across this absolutely perfect sign today.

#TFG & his klan are an existential threat to:

“Christian nationalists say America was founded as a “real Christian” nation. They'd excl Christians seen after the Reformation by many conservative Protestants as idolaters, pagans & heretics. Group purity is happening to Rs -agst RINOs. Roman Catholics, Mormons, 7th Day Adventists, Church of Christ, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Unitarians -would be purged until God’s chosen ppl are an island surrounded by an ocean of heresy."

https://www.editorialboard.com/the-anti-catholic-hatred-hidden-inside-christian-nationalism/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4nSUMVLsOS/?igsh=YjI2b2Y5YjV6Zmtr Once again, the West provides. Gaza cynically abuses.

The pattern never changes.

Why would a community in crisis turn its back on its own people, stealing free aid, attacking and killing aid truckers only to then sell it to other community members who supposedly have nothing?

The west has to wake up. These people do not share our mentality. They are showing it in every thing they do.

They have showed it on Oct 7 as teachers, nurses, doctors, women and endless "innocent civilians" cheered and aided in the looting, raping, killing, kidnapping, hiding, and torturing of women, children, babies, elderly...

And they are showing it in every single thing they do since.

All we need is to look and see.

Because the west is next. They are showing this too, very clearly.

#istandwithisrael #neveragainisnow

A poll about the age distribution on the fediverse. How old are you?

#poll #poll4today

"Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it."

#trump #tfg #dictatorship #VoteBlue
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=142669610&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=33r2h&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. - Judy Blume

#Climate

Another stat that just boggles the mind.

The US has ~94 GigaWatts of nuclear power installed.

China, last year alone, installed 216 GW of solar.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-26/china-added-more-solar-panels-in-2023-than-us-did-in-its-entire-history

Oh and the US has 175 GW of solar installed in total. So once again China has installed more solar in one year than the US has already installed in total.

⚡️Ukraine is not involved in the attack on Transnistria, - Moldavian authorities

"We inform you that the incident in question is an attempt to cause fear and panic in the region. The military equipment in the photo has not been working for several years."