Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Covid.gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website https://www.theverge.com/news/651825/covid-gov-lab-leak-conspiracy-website

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s attempt to fire more than 1,400 CFPB employees, which was to include cutting off employees’ access at 6p today, will not go forward for now, federal judge orders.

More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/

Disgusting:

#Bukele, in a social media post, crowed that “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture,’” was “now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” But acc/to a person familiar w/the situation, a Bukele aide placed the 2 glasses w/ cherries & salted rims on the table in front of Sen #VanHollen & #KilmarAbregoGarcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.

#propaganda #law #immigration #Trump

Tyrant #Trump is threatening to fire the Chair of the Federal Reserve, which he cannot legally do (hasn't stopped him from firing the heads of other independent agencies). Why? Because Powell isn't lowering interest rates - because Trump's tariffs will cause inflation. History shows us that national leaders are often eager to juice the economy by pressuring central banks to reduce interest rates... but that violates their all-important independence, preventing them from managing the tricky balance between inflation and recession. If Trump did get his way and had huge tariffs while simultaneously lowering interest rates, inflation would take off like a rocket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/business/economy/trump-jerome-powell-fed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.6EiX.e55UX5nYcLT8&smid=url-share

When I was a kid I used to #pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the #Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
—Emo Philips

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#atheism #faith #god

This is the first step in erasing people for real. Memory-holing humans in a technical age is the step that precedes eliminating them for real. This should terrify everyone, not just Black and brown people.

https://jonathandryan.substack.com/p/youre-alive-they-say-youre-dead-what

#SocialSecurity #immigrants #USpol #fascism #DOGE #Trump

#politics #resist #resistance #mit #education #freespeech #alt

Dictator Donald’s goons picked a legal fight they’re too cowardly to finish. As courts shred their fascist fantasies, they deflect with emoji-laced theater and dictator fanboy cosplay. Torre’s right; this isn’t strategy—it’s fear wrapped in bravado, the stench of impotence masquerading as strength.
https://www.rawstory.com/msnbc-2671800147/

These “What is a woman?” Questioning trans women’s identity types should be very careful. Breast implants are not biological. Butt lifts, face lifts, and hair dyes are not ‘biological’. So, if she wants to condemn women that aren’t ‘100%’ to a narrow standard, she will open the gates of hell for herself and 90% of the women in this country. Maybe she would be better off minding her own panties and not so much snooping in anyone else’s.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/545193/What-is-a-woman-MLA

Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?

The most common question I am asked here in Malay Borneo, when people find out I am from NZ, is how life is in New Zealand since losing the world’s greatest leader, Jacinda Ardern ?

My answer is simple. NZ has gone from the best leader of my lifetime to the worst. #Adern #Luxon #NZPol

Commercial fishing is the most destructive activity we undertake in the ocean. Trump just issued an executive order opening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/climate/trump-fishing-marine-protected-zone.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.yNm1.v_hhT8kU0hkt&smid=url-share

At least we know Abrego Garcia is alive. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/chris-van-hollen-meets-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-rcna201830 Unfortunately, Bukele is using the moment to trumpet his intention to keep him in prison.

Senator Chris Van Hollen is a hero.

How is it that Trump is able to pay El Salvadore to house US prisoners?
Aren't the purse strings supposed to be controlled by Congress?

Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041725_hobbs_vetoes/hobbs-vows-veto-all-bills-until-disability-funding-crisis-resolved/
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.
#Tucson #Arizona

Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-removes-afghan-taliban-list-banned-terrorist-groups-2025-04-17/

#Ukraine #Russia #Taliban #Afghanistan