Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Man shot by ICE in Austin held with a bullet still in his back, attorney says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/man-shot-by-ice-in-austin-held-with-a-bullet-still-in-his-back-attorney-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump’s White House media ban isn’t exactly turning out how he imagined. https://trib.al/QbFoZ3L

NEW MOVE: Trump looking to punish universities by vetoing billions of dollars’ worth of scientific grants from the NIH.

Rosie O'Donnell Reveals ABC Rejected Her Epstein Survivors Segment On 'Kimmel' #HuffingtonPost https://twp.ai/4huzMJ

All five networks in the White House pool, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CNN, have suspended pool coverage of Trump entirely. Fox's own DC bureau chief made the call, and there's no replacement pool. No TV crews travel with him to the UN General Assembly this week.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico also filed a joint lawsuit today. Vance's defense: it's not censorship, they're just being punished for "92% negative" coverage, as if that's not the free press doing its job.
#Trump #Democracy

The economist 
told me 
the coming months 
will just be worse.

The epidemiologist 
told me 
the coming months 
will just be worse.

The climatologist
told me
the coming months 
will just be worse.

The historian 
told me 
nothing at all 
she just sighed.

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'We hit the floor': Belleville...

Fire the mother fuckers in November

Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.

"How a single viral protein hijacks immune cells to supercharge COVID-19 infection"

Researchers found SARS-CoV-2 protein ORF8 can hijack immune cells, driving severe lung inflammation. Blocking ORF8 reduced inflammation and lung damage in infected mice, pointing to a potential target for new treatments.

Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-viral-protein-hijacks-immune-cells.html

Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee5421

It’s really that simple.

His ego and megalomania tie everything together—the war, the tariffs, the economy, affordability, the grift, the corruption, and his attempts to glorify himself with shiny objects large and small.

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent"
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax ...

Welker: "To be absolutely clear, there is no evidence for what you're saying."

Trump: "There's plenty of evidence. Tremendous evidence. There's nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. The same thing is happening in California. They're cheating."

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This year, Mr. #Carney delivered a speech in Davos, Switzerland, in which he called for a new world order, no longer led by America, prompting global political and corporate leaders in the audience to rise from their seats for a rare standing ovation.

“The middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” Mr. Carney said. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/politics/trump-canada-51st-state-eu.html