Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Stuff you should know about Patrick Healy. From presswatchers.org/2025/07/the-... He defends the indefensible: presswatchers.org/2020/10/how-... He did this: presswatchers.org/2019/12/the-... He was #2 opinion editor when the NYT ran the most idiotic editorial ever: presswatchers.org/2022/03/the-...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3mxwomprl7c2t

Katie Zacharia passed the bar exam like I pass trees and trash containers when I drive down the street or take Ollie for a walk.

(Disclaimer: While Ollie routinely pees on trees and trash containers, I am not implying anything about Katie's behavior regarding the bar exam. Although if she did sit for the exam and failed, she might have been pissed off. But that's just hearsay or whatever.)
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“Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, „Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate”, 1944

Re: Zacharia, I get why she didn’t pass the bar. But how did someone who struggles with reading aloud graduate law school? Seems like a highly textual profession drawing the hyperfluent, judging by my friends.

Ukrainian officers warn Starlink slowdown ‘comparable to a nuclear strike against us’
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-starlink-restrictions-disrupt-drone-strikes/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK

@ThomHartmann
#TraitorTrump has no clue what he's doing, so he relies on #Putin to tell him what to do & stay in power.

THAT is why he won't turn on Putin.

ICE in Yakima, Washington.

Where Al Maletta opened his shop 90 years ago. An Italian immigrant who imported accordions and guitars for generations.

Taylor Music is still open today.

Forgetting that immigration built legacies is the same mindset that forgets the whole damn economy was originally built on slavery.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: What was really strange, and what was not like between partners, they switched off Starlink. Absolutely crazy steps.

This is war for us, but for somebody, it’s business. It’s not fair.

‼️ Piers Morgan: Do you think Elon Musk has deliberately turned the speed down on Starlink to damage you?

🇺🇦 Zelensky: They knew what they did, absolutely.

The world saw a huge drop in right-wing engagement online after Ukraine starting striking data centers in Russia. Evidence points towards Russia being behind large bot operations to promote MAGA, the AfD, Reform, and other pro-Russian extreme parties in the West.

Russian Weakness EXPOSED After...

There is no evidence that Katie Zacharia was admitted to practice law in a single state or Washington, D.C. https://trib.al/TEbWJLC

I 💜 Joni.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/music-icon-joni-mitchell-82-becomes-us-citizen-after-slamming-trump?_gl=1*1s2ytd3*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjU5NDkxMTM3LjE3OTE5MzU0OTQ.*_ga_GSSSY8MJY1*czE3OTE5MzU0OTQkbzEkZzAkdDE3OTE5MzU0OTQkajYwJGwwJGgxOTU1ODM1NjM4JGRnVlllNGx2allfZ05OWm9KYW1PTjRlc2l0WEMxUFR3R2tn

#JoniMitchell
#USPol
#Canada

Given the competition, it’s pretty impressive that Trump has somehow managed to hire his worst ever press secretary.

Katie Zacharia is a fake lawyer, can barely read aloud, and has zero personality at the podium.

The bar is so low it’s in hell.

The incoming White House press secretary has made a name for herself as an on-air legal expert, claiming she’s an attorney. But is she?

Blistering language from a federal magistrate in his ruling that Elon Musk and Kristi Noem smeared the reputation of FEMA’s chief financial officer to justify the illegal firing of the career public servant. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28808299-comans101326/#document/p1

RT: @ddale8 Trump: “Remember…your gas prices are lower than when Biden was president.”

They were higher on just 76 of Biden’s 1,460 full days as president. In other words, they were lower during 95% of Biden’s term. And they’re up 39% since Trump’s inauguration: https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/13/politics/fact-check-trump-gas-prices-under-biden

Do ya need proof that anti drag laws and anti trans laws were never about protecting women? Here ya go. High School senior has lead role stripped because “a girl playing a boy role is drag”. As someone who went to all girl schools and university, I shudder to realize what lawbreaking rebels we were…no wonder I turned out Auntie Fa.

Here’s a link with more details: https://hesherman1.substack.com/p/little-shop-of-horrors-closed-for

https://dallasvoice.com/grand-prairie-isd-cancels-musical-over-female-student-in-male-lead-role/

Last week, after Trump referred to him on social media by his middle name, Mohamed, El-Sayed condemned it as a tactic meant to raise fears about his religion.

“They point to my name and they point to my faith, trying to distract us from the challenges that we have,” El-Sayed, who is Muslim, told supporters at an event Thursday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “My name did not raise your gas prices. My faith is not the reason you can’t afford gas prices. "

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/donald-trump-attacks-ilhan-omar-abdul-el-sayed-ohio-rally-youngstown-rcna603107

Shane Gillis was fired as an SNL cast member in 2019 before he even started because of resurfaced racist remarks. Since then, he's hosted the show three times — most recently last Saturday, where he opened the show with a misogynistic monologue about what women wear to the gym. @people reports on how actor/director Dan Levy responded. "Men need to be defending women more. This is not a women’s issue. This is an everybody issue. Because the more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men see them as objects and treat them as objects. They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, OK?”

https://flip.it/yCq-ta

#ShaneGillis #SNL #DanLevy