Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

After firings and DOGE staff accesses headquarters, US Institute of Peace board sues
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/after-firings-and-doge-staff-accesses-headquarters-us-institute-of-peace-board-sues?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Headlines @headlines-PBSNewsHour

A draft of the #ExecutiveOrder designating #fentanyl as #WMD was distributed likely sometime last week to US Departments of #Commerce, #Defense, #Justice & #State.

Those agencies met on Friday, per a read out of the meeting Kabas reviewed, to discuss concerns.

#law #geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #USpol #Trump #military #war #Mexico #Canada #USexpansionism #idiocracy #kakistocracy #insanity

Hail Satan?

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen: "Russia is preparing for future confrontations with European countries." She highlighted that Russia has significantly expanded its military-industrial production capacities.

“Believe me, Ukraine is on the menu, not at the negotiating table,” – military analyst Michael Clarke to Sky News.

“There’s an old saying in diplomatic circles: ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.’ And believe me, Ukraine is on the menu.”

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-putin-call-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-ceasefire-kursk-moscow-live-sky-news-latest-12541713?postid=9298649#liveblog-body

From bad to absolutely despicable. Trump ended a U.S.-funded initiative documenting Russia’s war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.

“Putin, do you want more so I can save face?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-crimes/

👀Trump just rescinded the rule designed to prevent bank collapses - and subsequent taxpayer bailouts of banks and their wealthy uninsured depositors.

The rule was put in place right after the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. https://www.levernews.com/bank-failures-for-all/

Rather than lower rates, Arkansas jail simply cancels all inmate phone calls
One angry sheriff takes on the FCC.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/rather-than-lower-rates-arkansas-jail-simply-cancels-all-inmate-phone-calls/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Trump got nothing. Putin tricked Trump into demanding that Ukraine can no longer bomb Russian oil refineries, while Putin can continue bombing civilians, and Ukraine can have 0 weapon deliveries for 30 days.

Trump truly possesses a lethal level of stupidity.

It is time the international community tells the wannabe dictator, that we do not deal with fools, and we will now help Ukraine send Putin's murderers back to Moscow.

Enough is enough.

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
~ Issac Asimov

Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’? https://www.theverge.com/news/631716/white-house-starlink-wi-fi-connectivity-musk

Ça y est ! La version finale de #GIMP 3.0 est enfin disponible !

#OpenSource #foss #linux

https://www.clubic.com/actualite-557511-ca-y-est-la-version-finale-de-gimp-3-0-est-enfin-disponible.html

The history of Kyiv, Ukraine's capitol, officially begins when it was founded in 482, but the city dates back more than 2,000 years. Archaeologists have dated the oldest known settlement in the area to 25,000 BC!

🇺🇦 Kyiv was a center of power and commerce, a state that flourished to grandeur unknown in the European world while Moscow remained an empty forest, where the darkness waited to rise.

💩moscow was founded in 1150, SIX-HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGTH YEARS after Kyiv 🇺🇦

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation became an independent country in 1991! KGB Putina does not know his pathetic history or is trying to hide it.

#Ukraine #EU #EUrope #Nato

Tim Walz on the offensive in Iowa!

If the rest of us do enough now to still have mid terms, efforts like this will be important. Plus, Walz and local Dems are right to stoke red district anger. Only way we can save democracy.

#resist #democrats #TimWalz #fascism

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHM_7sdup8i/

Trump is boosting Russia economically helping it when Russia was losing on the economy side and ultimately the war. We in Europe must not accept this. USA is letting Russia live and attack in the future.

A conservative friend of mine has changed their mind on trans issues based on having a trans grandchild. Why does it take knowing someone of a group to miraculously then understand them? You could just love and understand them without having to know them personally. It’s easy.

Some Hospitals Canceled Care for Trans Youth Despite Judge Blocking Trump Order

LGBTQ advocates accuse medical institutions of “obeying in advance” after Trump issued the anti-trans executive order.

https://prismreports.org/2025/03/18/trans-gender-affirming-care-surgeries/

The two NASA astronauts who were unexpectedly stranded on the space station for the last nine months have been picked up and are on the way back.

I'm imagining a conversation during the journey back:

Astronauts: So, what's been going on these last nine months?

Rescue Crew: [...]

Astronauts: TURN THIS THING AROUND RIGHT NOW.