Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Here is Trump's new EO on standards for scientific integrity.
The funny thing is these rules will prevent RFKJr from opening his mouth, since everything he says violates these principles and he'd be subject to explicit sanctions.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science

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"Harvard University is doing just the right thing. This is extortion. It's a vendetta using all powers of the government because of a political argument with Harvard. It is violating the First Amendment. It is also violating all the laws we have regarding administrative procedures..."
-L Summers
#Fascism #Trump #Extortion #Universities #Constitution #1A #USPol

WTAF

Via jamelle bouie:

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

‪Josh Block‬:
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En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

"You said there were no cuts to scientists & then the HHS spokesperson said, 'Actually, there were cuts to scientists & now we're trying to rehire them.' It gives the impression you're not sure about the personnel actions in own agency & that's an indication from your testimony today." -- Jon Ossoff just dismantled FDA Commissioner Makary

Trump and Noem’s latest authoritarian attack on higher education - revoking Harvard’s certification to host foreign students and visitors - is meant not only or even primarily to harm Harvard. It is meant to scare every U.S university and college into submitting to anything university administrators think Trump wants. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/16/DHS-Harvard/1571744857205/

"This administration is holding #Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, & coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," #KristiNoem said. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students & benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments."

[Gonna boost the NPR investigation that found NUMEROUS #antisemites serving in the #Trump admin.]

#law #immigration #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy

This is why so many have such mixed feelings about 2026 (and worse, 2028) talk.

Will elections even resemble normal, fair ones? Or will they be corrupted & even annulled, as we suspect? Election boards may not certify.. so many components. Scary stuff.

Marc Elias:

Some former DOJ attorneys are concerned Martin will use his new posts to spread disinformation, delegitimize future elections, and target leading Democrats and prosecutors who have pursued Trump. Indeed, it may already be happening

@AlliFlowers @samlitzinger That's true. Public education could use some good news.

@AlliFlowers Yup. Your "Ffs" is the only correct response to Rubio's bullshit.

Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the #Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination.

This can't happen without congressional approval, he ruled.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282419/gov.uscourts.mad.282419.45.0.pdf

Your reminder

Theee democrats recently died in office clutching power

The “big beautiful bill” passed by one vote. 215-214.

Even with a Republican voting present and another literally falling asleep (Garbarino)

Those three votes would’ve killed it.

Now, this bill:
Makes Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, for the wealthy.l
Adds $3.8 trillion to the national debt
Cuts $500 billion from Medicare
Eliminates green energy tax credits, hindering climate initiatives

Friendly reminder.

The old rules no longer apply. Don't waste time in that frame. The bad guys don’t, but they count on you to do so.

#politics