Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Adam and Eve were the first “Naked and Afraid” participants.

Just parked behind a car with multiple queer and trans bumper stickers, several medical bumper stickers and one that says “straight outta surgery” (like the “straight outta Compton” meme) and I’m delighted to read this as being a trans surgeon and someone happily celebrating their own gender affirming surgery.

#Politics is all about choices:

#RishiSunak & his wife #AkshataMurty have donated $3m to a Californian college, while schools in his own constituency would have welcomed a donation;

recall Murty avoided a significant tax bill by retaining her 'non-dom' status before the publicity 'encouraged' her to begin to pay domestic tax (what with being married to the PM).

Money she saved by not paying UK taxes has gone to a rich US College instead of UK school;

their choice(s)!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/out-touch-rishi-sunak-gives-30148374

Thoughts ...

Using the debt ceiling as a 'bargaining chip' is 'dangerous and irresponsible': ex-Treasury secretary https://www.alternet.org/dangerous-and-irresponsible-debt-limit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

That’s #MAGA for ya. Always “vague” about any actual policy, passed or stated. It’s just about hissy-fit raging fear, resentment, and anger laced with delusion, lies. and propaganda. Very dangerous. They hope to rule by fascist decree and vigilantism.

Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad, too vague

https://apnews.com/article/ff16eb4bdbd0d69863eef38bf93503cf

Tonight in 1969 — The last original episode of STAR TREK aired on NBC.

Kudos to the 1970s fans, who watched the reruns (and cartoon), bought the toys, read fanzines, went to cons, and kept the franchise alive for a decade until the movies.

#StarTrek #StarTrekTOS

Did you know: The annual cost of burglary, robbery, larceny, & auto theft COMBINED is $14B—but the annual cost of wage theft by employers exploiting workers is $50B?

Remember this when media or politicians cite crime but ignore the most costly crime of all—corporate wage theft.

An excellent way to find people to follow on Mastodon is to look at who else favorited and boosted the good shit that comes up on your feed.

THE WHITE HOUSE

JUNE 02, 2023
Remarks by President Biden on Averting Default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement
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BRIEFING ROOM
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7:01 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: My fellow Americans, when I ran for President, I was told the days of bipartisanship were over and that Democrats and Republicans could no longer work together. But I refused to believe that, because America can never give into that way of thinking.

Look, the only way American democracy can function is through compromise and consensus, and that’s what I worked to do as your President — you know, to forge a bipartisan agreement where it’s possible and where it’s needed.

I’ve signed more than 350 bipartisan laws thus far in almost two and a half years, including a historic law that — rebuilding America so that we can rank number one in the world in infrastructure instead of where we’re ranked now, number thirteen in the world.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/02/remarks-by-president-biden-on-averting-default-and-the-bipartisan-budget-agreement/?utm_source=link