Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

RFK Jr. denies past statements and claims it is a lie when his own statements are read back to him. Best interpretation is to simply assume anything you hear RFK Jr. say is a lie. You will rarely go wrong this way.

A border patrol official has conceded that a 8-year-old girl who died in U.S. custody would still be alive had officials reacted differently to her parent’s pleas for medical intervention. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/death-of-8-year-old-migrant-preventable-cbp-admits-report-1234792578/

Via Adam Frtischner:

#GOP just released doc they've claimed shows bribes were paid to #Biden. It has a few cryptic ref to payments by man who later definitively told Giuliani "no one from Burisma ever had any contacts w VP Biden" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-hard-drive-lev-parnas-432108
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- the $5 mil figure GOP called a bribe is a single offhand reference easily read as boast or even a joke
- forget proof, this is hearsay about hearsay
- guy who said it later said it wasn't true
- he is at present a fugitive from justice

This.

RFK Jr. defends himself at House hearing as Dems rebuke him for COVID, race comment - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-defends-house-hearing-dems-rebuke-covid/story?id=101517921 “defends himself “= that video was not what I wanted you to hear” Sick clown show indeed! #uspolitics

@AlliFlowers Easily described as anti-American, it’s hard for me to describe how disgusting this is, how easily it is for some citizens of the GOP persuasion to cheat the system, to stab Democracy in the back, for a personal advantage without using profanity.
To clarify, I didn’t approve when Democrats did it, but these days the GOP has cornered the gerrymandering market in their efforts to cling to power abusing the Rights of fellow citizens in the process. 🤬

I would pay good money for a video game where TX Gov Abbott tries to roll his wheelchair across the Rio Grande, runs into razor wire, and you get to decide whether to throw bricks, used tampons, snakes, or Skittles at him as he goes down.

A New Jersey con man who was pardoned two years ago by former President Trump has been arrested again and is accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-con-man-was-pardoned-trump-charged-fraud-rcna95172

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.

This one hits hard. #climatechange

I fibbed and told my fisherman friend that I thought his amateurish handmade trout fishing lures looked great. Flattered, he gave me one of the most beautiful I’d ever seen. It was...

...pretty fly for a white lie

Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT ends Legacy Admissions - good job Wesleyan (and Johns Hopkins, MIT, and any other school that has ended this practice)!

@AlliFlowers #America needs to get out of the execution game.