Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/zuckerberg-compound-palo-alto-school.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU8.S9jq.QeXW50b-m2-c&smid=url-share

@AlliFlowers Absolutely not! The petitions give the thugocracy a ready made list of people to disappear.

Now that companies are salivating at the prospect of making the oceans "more effective" at countering global heating, here are a few reminders:

1. The oceans are ALREADY absorbing about A THIRD of human caused carbon dioxide

(And are acidifying from all the excess CO2; ocean acidification is global warming's "evil twin").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sink

Unbelievable. Trump has ordered the destruction of satellites monitoring climate change. White House demands NASA destroy vital satellites.

#ClimateChange #Trump #Environment #America #NASA #Space

Woof

#catHumour #dracula #comfycoffins

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It's been difficult to develop a HIV vaccine & treatments for many cancers as they're so effective at evading & attacking immune systems. mRNA-based therapies offer real hope as they allow scientists to test new strategies much more quickly. The faster we do research, the faster we find treatments.

@staringatclouds @Paulos_the_fog

For me, having swore to defend the US Constitution, the internal battle I fight every day is that I should be doing something because they have been taking our rights away even before Trump.

Homeless people don't have a right to exist on public spaces for many years and yet many of those of us who swore to defend the US Constitution are silent.

Measles Spreads Quickly in Rural Alberta Areas That Resisted Vaccines
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/canada/measles-alberta-canada-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cU8.T7Iv.Po1CIHDdjF3o&smid=nytcore-android-share

“A federal judge in Miami on Thursday ordered construction to be paused at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the first state-run detention center in the country opened to accommodate the Trump administration’s arrest of immigrants,” the Washington Post reports.

“The ruling by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams for the two-week halt to new construction at the facility in the Everglades followed a hearing in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and joined by the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians.”

In a few weeks I begin a new school year with my students. I am asking for help with my classroom. TIA!

I teach special education to high school students in an urban district who struggle with emotional regulation impairments. They are wonderful kids who just need a little extra love and support.

Any help (including a boost) is very much appreciated. There are other ways to help in my profile, but here is the link to my Amazon classroom wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/PRZBAFA50CYE?ref_=wl_share

Trump denied media reports, saying Putin does not need to meet Zelensky in order to meet with him.

#Epstein

As I predicted two days ago. It won’t just be the #FBI. DHS HSI, #ICE & DOD will provide surveillance & intelligence.
Straight up police state.

The move means that #transgender #ServiceMembers will now be faced with the choice of either taking a *lump-sum* [meager] separation payment offered to JUNIOR troops [regardless of their actual status] or be removed from the service.

An #AirForce [#USAF]spox told AP that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of HONORABLE service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved.”

#Trump #Hegseth #discrimination #military #LGBTQ #hate

Another blatantly unconstitutional directive from Trump, this time concerning the census and the 14th Amendment requirement that it count every “whole person” in the U.S. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07/trump-us-census-excludes-undocumented-immigrants

#Texas Gov #GregAbbott sues to remove TX #House #Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu from his seat amid #redistricting battle between TX #Democrats & #Republicans.

“What is at stake here? Nothing less than the future of Texas. If a small fraction of recalcitrant lawmakers choose to run out the clock today, they can do so for any, & every, Regular or Special Session, potentially bankrupting the State in an attempt to get their way,” Abbott’s suit reads.

#law #gerrymandering
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5437860-abbott-sues-remove-texas-house-democratic-caucus-chair-gene-wu/

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@Nonilex Uh… sending the military in to “keep the games safe” doesn’t make it seem like you’re in control of your own nation.

Any respectable country NEVER needs military to keep the Olympic Games safe.

This clown thinks this makes him look strong, but it exposes how incredibly weak and pathetic he is.