AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
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So the College Board legit had The Audacity to tweet this out today, after it came out that they had caved to DeSantis and completely neutered the AP African American History course. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon #CollegeBoard #APAAHistory
I am once again asking news #media , ESPECIALLY paywalled news media, to take more responsibility for your headlines and quit contributing to making the world a worse place.
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400-year-old ring that unfolds to track the movement of the heavens.
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Instead of: no one wants to work anymore. Try: no one wants to be exploited anymore.
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This is accurate ;)
(via https://marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolution-of-smart-products.html)
When you’re even passingly familiar with the standards deployed military holds themselves to, even along hostile borders or in combat zones, so many police #excuses show themselves to be sorely lacking.
#police #policing #service #duty #courage #sacrifice #professionalism #maturity #discipline #raiseyourstandards #BLM #endpolicebrutality #accountability
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Joyce Vance notes that as Black History Month begins Feb. 1, schools in Hoover, Alabama, are cancelling Black History Month because a parent complained that it included a visit to schools by author Derrick Barnes to discuss his book I Am Every Good Thing. Barnes has won Newbery and Caldecott awards for his children's books featuring Black children.
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How Salmon Feed Wildflowers And Transform Entire Landscapes | study out of @SFU pub'd by @RSocPublishing @RoyalSociety Open Science
by @GrrlScientist via @Forbes / @ForbesScience
#ecology #wildflowers #SalmonRun #BritishColumbia #nature #science #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/01/29/how-salmon-feed-wildflowers-and-transform-entire-landscapes/
Evergreen reminder that #qualifiedimmunity was never enacted into law, isn’t in the constitution anywhere, and isn’t part of the originalist tradition, either. It was literally just made up by the Supreme Court— in the Civil Rights Era. And it only developed into its modern form where the officer has no requirement to be reasonable or even acting in good faith in the EIGHTIES. The modern #QI regime is younger than I am. We can and have functioned fine without it.
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The Supreme Court is lighting its reputation on fire.
BREAKING: The Court's "independent" validator has secretly been paid more than $1 million by the Court
https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-is-lighting-its?sd=pf
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Jamison Foster writes,
“Cheetoff, a longtime Republican insider who has secretly been paid at least $1 million by the Supreme Court, is the “independent” expert the Court turned to in order to vouch for an investigation in which the Court gave its Justices special treatment. Yikes.”
#SupremeCourt #integrity #ethics
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https://open.substack.com/pub/findinggravity/p/the-supreme-court-is-lighting-its
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Police brutality and murder, aftermath, grief
Tyre Nichols hitting right on the heels of Keenan Anderson and Jason Kloepfer is just more than we were meant for. Those videos are beyond rough. And as impacting as the brutality is, it’s the indifference that really stays with me. The utter lack of remorse or even concern which betrays an much wider problem beyond what gets caught on camera. Take care of yourselves, my friends, in whatever way that means for you.
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This story sparks joy in me. (ht: @ernie ) https://gizmodo.com/marie-kondo-minimalist-house-cleaning-sparks-joy-1850041011
Twitter refugee still learning all the things. She/her, nerd, ADHD, JD, vaxxed, cat staffmember, Open Mind, Open Hearts, Open Doors, unpaid shill for the imperfect. Still pulling for those taco trucks on every corner.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#SlavaUkraini
#BLM
#NeverTrump
#YIMBY
#Neurodiverse
#ADHD
#law
#gardening
Joined Nov 2022
