Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

1) people who dispersed when ordered to disperse were still convicted of terrorism. Free speech and freedom of assembly be damned. If I'm reading this correctly they were charged with (but not convicted of) attempted murder.

2) a person who did not attend the protest was convicted for "corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents"

The documents in question were all entirely legal, as far as I can tell (again, free speech, freedom of the press be damned) and it does not appear that they were in any way considered evidence of a crime.

I can't find a reading of this that isn't "we'll come for your family too."

Texas, as far as I can tell, is fully and openly embracing fascism.

WTF? Trump did the same thing X 1000

BREAKING: Former Trump National Security Adviser, John Bolton, Pleads Guilty To One Count Of Illegally Retaining Classified Information, And Agrees To Pay A $2.25 Million Fine With Sentencing Set For October 28 🏛️💥

www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

John Bolton, former Trump nati...

He is already high as a kite...

Trump's staff fears he won't survive term as 'Weekend at Bernie's' label spreads: report

www.rawstory.com/trump-health...

Trump's staff fears he won't s...

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/headlines-81am25uuz/-/a-zryTcN68Squ6ku1ccwYngA%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0

#goodnews #pride

Mel Brooks is turning 100 years old tomorrow. Everyone knows and loves his comedy. Not everyone knows he served as a US Army combat engineer in WWII and was in the Battle of the Bulge.

Happiest of birthdays to the GOAT of mocking Nazis. ❤️

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-hilarious-way-mel-brooks-taunted-nazis-on-the-world-war-ii-battlefield/

Belarusian oppositioner, actor, film director, screenwriter, public activist:

"History has never seen such shame. First, Ukraine, without a navy of its own, destroys Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and now, without even entering Crimea, begins to liberate it."
#AureFreePress #News #Russia #Belarus #Putin

A sad reminder that we're all being ground down.

Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape charge dropped after accuser says she can’t endure a fourth trial
https://apnews.com/article/harvey-weinstein-metoo-rape-retrial-07e4ae38d2623f5ca790b2382745c7ce?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Top general quit after Hegseth ‘tried to demote him’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2c8adfdb15159116

One of the hardest questions Todd Blanche will have to answer at his upcoming Senate confirmation hearing is how Ghislaine Maxwell—a convicted sex offender and partner-in-crime to Jeffrey Epstein—ended up in a minimum-security prison. Maxwell’s transfer last summer to a Federal Prison Camp violates Justice Department regulations, which require convicted sex offenders like Maxwell to be housed in higher security facilities for the protection of the surrounding community. Maxwell is the only person in history known to have received an exemption from this policy.
#epstein #EpsteinFiles #epsteinclass #jeffreyepstein #GhislaineMaxwell #news

https://www.lawyeroyer.com/p/why-does-todd-blanche-keep-protecting

📰 Ukraine destroys key logistics bridge in Crimea, hits over 60 Russian military targets overnight

🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-destroys-key-logistics-bridge-in-crimea-hits-over-60-russian-military-targets-overnight/

#News #RussianInvasion #RussianWar #Ukraine

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced?utm_term=6a3aa789180a9f6ae0a3219e23bd9be1&utm_campaign=BreakingNewsUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=breakingnewsus_email

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonesmurphy/116800274284509376

If we have learned one thing about Trump’s base, it should be to not confuse attitudes expressed in approval ratings with any potential change in their voting patterns. Millions of Trump voters openly disapproved of his performance and personality across his three campaigns. Yet they would never consider an alternative that shared power with people of color and required relinquishing the full public authority of their whiteness.

Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/climate/noaa-climate-science-data-website.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sVA.FJ-f.GXaHP9hHwvU4&smid=url-share

"She talked about hemorrhaging. About being told her #pregnancy was ectopic & potentially fatal. About sitting in a hospital room while medical professionals debated whether they could provide treatment because they feared the legal consequences.

She knew the #law. She’s a member of #Congress...

And yet there she was, reading the law herself to hospital staff while asking her husband to Google how long it takes to die from internal bleeding"
https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/congresswoman-kat-cammack-told-me

#Women #Politics #News #US

Andrew Cuomo's former Chief of Staff Melissa DeRosa went on Fox News last night and called Brad Lander, who is Jewish, a "Parasite with the goal of taking over the Democratic Party and killing it."

This is actual Nazi rhetoric and I've heard zero people condemn this for the barbaric antisemitism that it is. Apparently criticizing a lobbying org is antisemitic, but literally calling a Jewish elected official a "Parasite that will kill" is legitimate political discourse. Indefensible.

Loophole in Patent Law Brings ‘Miracle Drug’ to Patients Who Can’t Afford It
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/health/cystic-fibrosis-drug-triko-trikafta.html

There is so much promise in our new generation of Dem leaders.

Video: https://xcancel.com/teamossoff/status/2068793742656446889