Tim Bowlin

Happy Fourth of July!

#NoKings
#SKREEEEEE
#NeverAnyFuckingKings

Canada just added a toll-free number for LGBTQ+ Americans after our suicide hotline was shut down by Trump. That’s what true allyship looks like—standing up for people even when they’re not at your table. Thank you, Canada, for showing us what compassion in action really means.

For Homewood’s spotted salamanders, a win and a warning | Alabama Reflector Samford University announced a plan to move a sports field that could have threatened pools used by spotted salamanders in Homewood.

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: A grass roots movement in Homewood led Samford University to move a development that could have threatened the habitat of local salamanders, the focus of a Homewood festival.

#Tradewar #Trumptariffs #Trumpstockmarketstunt #criminal #pyromaniac

Archibald: Alabama’s ‘Methodist Mother Teresa’ turns 100 and still changes lives “Thousands of people consider her their spiritual mother and mentor."

Palate cleanser.

Nina Reeves turns 100 today. In 2022 she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and refused treatment because, hell, she was 97 and wanted to live it out on her own terms. She even quit hospice because she wanted to do more.
She has touched thousands. What a way to live and die.

Lincoln on the Know Nothing Party August 24, 1855: Letter to Joshua F. Speed The American or "Know Nothing Party" was an anti-immigrant political party of the 1850's. I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

Why does Lincoln have the best and most relevant quotes

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When Trump and his punch-me-face VP abuse the Oval Office to ambush President Zelensky for not trusting Putin … #ukraine #TrumpPuppet #Putinisawarcriminal

“There’s room to disagree on this.”

No, there’s not. Fuck Putin and everyone who supports him.

Slava Ukraini.

Frederick Douglass Parade Canceled After 54th Massachusetts Pulls Out The Trump administration’s ongoing crusade to roll back DEI initiatives was never out of a concern for fairness or challenging what it sees as unjust discrimination.

"We should not resist calling this for what it is—a deep animus toward anything that detracts from a white-centered view of American history.

Yes, racism." kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/frederick-...

On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during WWII because of their heritage. Their resilience remind us to never forget the lessons of history. We will continue to fight for justice, equality, and civil rights for all.

Trans rights are human rights, because if one person isn’t free to be who they are, then none of us are free.

The fascists will get around to you eventually.

This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1887. Pinkerton detectives killed a fourteen year old boy in Jersey City, New Jersey during a coal wharves strike. Let's talk about the murderous law enforcement agency and the capitalists who loved it.

New 00Z NBM depiction of snow potential Friday.

2-4” for North Alabama; locally higher amounts. Around 1-2” for the I-20 corridor.

It all begins early Friday morning in Alabama.

A winter storm watch will be issued early tomorrow.

Remember
by Joy Harjo

1/x Thread

Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star’s stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.

JD Crowe: Drawing 2024 to a close Here's a batch of horrible cartoons that try to tell the sordid, tragic tales of this past year.

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Jimmy Carter: Tribute to our greatest former president

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A significant severe weather threat across the southern U.S. is ahead

Any isolated storms this evening and tonight will have to be watched for severe potential, but with the "main show" late tonight the highest concern is widespread straight line winds

Storms could also produce hail and tornadoes.

Phil Williams: In reporting on hate and extremism, 'while the attacks are personal, so is the cause' Rarely in my nearly 40-year career as a journalist have I felt the target on my back as continuously and intensely as I have in the last 15 months.

A personal reflection: “Journalists like myself have a choice: surrender to the fascist mob that wants to intimidate the truth-tellers – or rededicate ourselves to doing what’s right no matter the cost.” www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

National Suicide Prevention Hotline

Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK)
1-800-273-8255 (USA)
1.833.456.4566 (Canada)

This is a great thread!

Account suspended X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules + Follow Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com 13K followers 52.7K following 662 posts Anarchist. Threads.net/brittainforsenate Banned twitter.com/CraigRBrittain by Jack Dorsey 2/1/2017 Banned twitter.com/RealBrittain by Elon Musk 9/19/2024 Facebook page hacked facebook.com/ brittainforsenate 10/3/2023

FTC Approves.. ftc.gov FTC Approves Final Order In Craig Brittain 'Revenge Porn' Case XO Technology January 8, 2016 Tags: Consumer Protection Bureau of Consumer Protection deceptive/misleading conduct Privacy and Security Consumer Privacy After a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order resolving the Commission's complaint against Craig Brittain, alleging used deception to acquire and post intimate images of women, then referred them to another website he controlled, where they were told they could have the pictures removed if they paid hundreds of dollars.

Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages BY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY - SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 11:24 AM STE PITAL MA Craig Brittain, via Instagrama Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after the owner of a company that helps candidates gather the petition signatures needed to qualify for the ballot said Brittain sent him racist text messages when he declined to work for the longshot campaign. The messages sent to Drew Chavez, who owns Petition Partners, is far from the only example of Brittain's online tirades.

Drew Chavez @drewchavez Follow This is why we dont work with candidates any more. And... sometimes I hate my job. Fuckin piece of shit be glad you even get to stay in my country. Can't wait to deport some of your family members. MAGA Deport all invaders and deport anyone who is anti-deportation or pro-amnesty along with them Ok. Thanks for the text. Have a good day. You are trash just like the invaders. Move to Mexico You won't help because you are just like all the other lazy invaders on welfare coming across the border Used to having the people who made this country great feel sorry for you We will win either way and then In will make sure all illegals go back Including the ones in your family fucking invader bye

This is alarming.

A reminder that Craig R Brittain is a racist misogynist that ran a revenge porn site. He blackmailed women to pay to remove their images and videos.

And of course racism and misogyny often go hand in hand.

Imagine how awful you have to be to be banned by Elon.

This is a really great thread!

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“No voting on who gets to be people.”

- @nkjemisin.bsky.social

Done

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.

But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.

The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.

Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

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