Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

#DOGE brought armed guards and police officers for a hostile takeover of... the Institute of Peace.
Yes. The Institute of PEACE. Ironic. And wild that #Trump is trying to take down an institution Ronald Reagan founded. Once again overstepping what the president can do
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/showdown-institute-of-peace.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.lSSJ.8rBydopT7sxv&smid=url-share
#USPolitics

Rand Paul says Kentucky schools wouldn't even notice the loss of this financing.

"An analysis by the left-leaning Kentucky Center for Economic Policy found that federal grants provide more than $1 billion annually to Kentucky schools, funding programs for low-income students, special education, school meals, and teacher training."

https://www.wkyufm.org/news/2025-03-12/kentucky-group-that-defeated-school-vouchers-relaunches-to-save-u-s-department-of-education
#Schools #Education #dogurday

Trump tapped TV huckster Mehmet Oz to run Medicare while Oz quietly co-founded a company poised to profit from the very agency he’d control. Undisclosed, unethical, and unmistakably corrupt, this isn’t governance—it’s grift in a lab coat, another MAGA con cloaked in a stethoscope.
https://www.rawstory.com/mehmet-oz-trump-2671393565/

Switched to approval required sign-ups for now due to a nasty spam wave.
Working on a fix to prevent them signing up but we need to test that first. Sorry about the inconvenience.

#mastoadmin

"Your income, credit score, degrees, suburban neighborhood, Christian background, light skin tone, Republican voting record, and Rust Belt zip code won’t save you. Nobody is safe under fascism. Nobody is safe under Trump’s reign of terror."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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Me, wondering why we haven't seen more organizing in response to Trump's attack on Department of Education, googles how KY defeated vouchers. I found this: Kentucky group that defeated school vouchers relaunches to save U.S. Department of Education www.wkyufm.org/news/2025-03...

Kentucky group that defeated s...

Keep 'em coming! 👇🏼

Via Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: Judge #Boasberg rejects #Trump administration call to rescind his restraining order, saying the Venezuelans marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win — because they are entitled to individual hearings/due process.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0766-53

I urge any of my friends on Mastodon.World (if there are any of you) to consider migrating. I'm about to block the domain. The spam is getting out of hand.

So long. Lemme know when you get shit sorted out.

Exclusive: Interim SEC chief cast sole vote against suing #Musk

Days before #Republicans took the helm of the #SEC in Jan, the agency's 5 commissioners held a closed-door vote on whether to sue #ElonMusk.

Since 2022, the agency had been investigating whether the #billionaire, a close ally of #Trump, had violated #securities laws by disclosing too late his purchase of shares of #Twitter, now known as #X, prior to acquiring the company that year.

#law #USpol #DualState
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/interim-sec-chief-cast-sole-vote-against-suing-musk-2025-03-24/

There is as much ceasefire in a Trump brokered ceasefire, as there are Russians in a Russian salad.

Maybe they're paid agitators—or maybe, just maybe, people don’t want a fascist parasite dismantling their democracy, torching their rights, and wrecking their future. You don’t need a paycheck to scream when a Nazi tries to set your house on fire.

And something tells me a lot of them would STILL vote for him.

Emphasizing this again, if you are not in the United States, DO NOT TRAVEL TO the United States. It is not safe for you to do so. This is not being glib or radical or overly cautious. CBP and DHS are fucking riddled with neo-nazis absolutely GIDDY over their leveled-up carte blanche to just fuck with people, and exactly nothing in this malevolence-fueled pricktocracy is worth the risk.
https://saturation.social/@clive/114212692541086109

https://open.substack.com/pub/longmemo/p/every-student-loan-is-now-forgiven?r=rmgks&utm_medium=ios

New Standards in ‘Anything Goes To Prop Up Myself, Don’t Question’ Ethics behavior under the Trump Administration.

“This is unprecedented,” said Richard Painter, who was the White House ethics chief under President George W. Bush. “I’ve never seen the United States government promote a particular company.”

https://www.aol.com/news/playing-favorites-trump-comes-rescue-160019811.html