Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

“‘Federal employees do not surrender their constitutional rights when they take public service jobs,’ said Abbe Lowell, a veteran Washington, D.C., attorney who launched his own firm last week to protect public officials from retaliation. Lowell is known for representing high-profile political figures including Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Hunter Biden.” - CBS News

https://apple.news/ArtcPxrpOQjubzGUztHGd3A

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor tells a group of trial attorneys: “Right now, we can’t lose the battles we are facing.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/justice-sotomayor-stands-in-solidarity-with-embattled-aba

We are going to need FEMA and the entire public health system to be on their best game very soon. I don't mean best past game, because our game has never even approaching good. I mean "best game theoretically possible"

We do not have the time to be screwing around cosplaying
We are going to need all the resources ready, everyone trained and equipped, and everyone focused on the fight to come, and we need this all very very soon

Again, we do not have time for appointees to be play-acting

Hear Rep. #RobMenendez’s MSNBC interview for yourself (I think I got most of the details correct)

If you didn’t think the #US had become an #authoritarian state under #Trump before, you will now.

#Trump #law #immigration #RasBaraka #GoodTrouble #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjfHM8l1QQ

Masked ICE agents arrest the Mayor of Newark New Jersey, while he was going to check out an ICE detention facility in his city.

The facility is suspected of operating illegally. He was accompanied by members of Congress. Seeing this shit reminds me of Nazi Gestapo in WWII. Instilling fear by use of force. What kind of monster does that for a job & enjoys it? I don’t care what Tom Homan says. “Just following orders” didn’t cut it as a defense during the Nuremberg trials.

#FascismInPlainSight

We sure needed some good news. Glad she's out!

‪Will Bunch:‬
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Rumeysa Ozturk is free! Video now on MSNBC

Man With Chronic Bowel Disease Sues Musk’s SpaceX for Allegedly Timing His Bathroom Breaks and Firing Him https://www.mediaite.com/news/man-with-chronic-bowel-disease-sues-musks-spacex-for-allegedly-timing-his-bathroom-breaks-and-firing-him/

" #Trump ordered federal agencies to abandon the use of a longstanding legal tool used to root out discrimination against minorities, a move that could defang the nation’s bedrock civil rights law

In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by determining whether policies disproportionately disadvantage certain groups." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Let’s be clear: the #Constitution’s #HabeasCorpus Suspension Clause [Article I, Section 9, Clause 2]:

1) Does NOT allow the President to UNILATERALLY suspend #habeas, especially when #Congress is in session;

2) The clause ONLY applies to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); &

3) Even then, it applies only "when the public safety may require it."

#Trump #StephenMiller #law #immigration #DueProcess #AmericanAutocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-2/suspension-clause-and-writ-of-habeas-corpus

4/ Via David Rothkopf:

So, the WH Deputy Chief of Staff says they're looking at suspending habeas and the mayor of a major city is arrested for seeking further information about possible ICE abuses in his city. In the past hour or two. We're already a police state but are teetering at the edge of something worse.

President Trump fires all three Democrats on the bipartisan, independent Consumer Product Safety Commission. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/09/trump-fires-three-democrats-cpsc/83537936007/

Another of the best people nominated https://www.byteseu.com/996748/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics

‘Let That Sink in’: Suspending Habeas Corpus Is on the Table Says Stephen Miller https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/05/let-that-sink-in-suspending-habeas-corpus-is-on-the-table-says-stephen-miller/ #Trump #Fascism

I don’t use the name on my birth certificate day to day and I bet that at least three quarters of the people in the world born “Michael” don’t either. I have walked this earth for fifty years and nobody ever mentions that to me, or any Bob, Rob, Pat, Dave, Sam, Jay, and Kat out there .

If you’re getting worked up about chosen names but not married names, honourifics or even nicknames, what you're really getting angry about is that people you hate are allowed to make choices for themselves.

People should be out on the streets in droves. Newark, get out there. And where's the governor? Has he addressed this yet?

Via Jose Pagliery:

This is a marked escalation.

It's not just that #Newark's mayor is being criminally charged by #Trump lawyer-turned-prosecutor Alina Habba.

Democratic members of Congress say they were roughed up by ICE agents too. #NewJersey

https://www.notus.org/immigration/ras-baraka-arrest-newark-congress-protest

Just so everyone can fucking hear it:

Stephen Miller, speaking on behalf of the president, called the rights guaranteed under the 5th amendment a “privilege”.

Y’all think your second amendment priviledge is safe?