Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Speaker McCarthy has trapped himself on the debt ceiling. He can’t raise it cleanly without losing hardliners in the GOP, but he can’t put conditions on it, which is a non-starter for the White House. McCarthy’s latest math dilemma, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/math-is-hard-kevin?sd=pf

Trump’s Fake Georgia Electors Are Now Ratting on Each Other https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-fake-georgia-electors-are-now-ratting-on-each-other?via=ios

I have had 4 miscarriages between having three beautiful children. The "miscarriage of justice" in the US around the fact that if I'd not had d&c's (clinical abortions) to clean out my womb AND NOT KILL ME after the miscarriages is pure insanity.

I try steer clear of political discourse, but this is a fundamental human right.

Every woman has a story. Every woman has the right to primary medical care. Every woman has the right to choose.

12 year old girls that are raped are expected to have and raise a child? What moron decided that? Men who voted for this, you DO NOT have the right to decide.

Crenshaw suggests two armed guards at every school in America. That’s a school protective force larger than the entire United States Marine Corps.

Yeah, he’s totally thought this through.

It also means a quarter of a million more guns just idling (and being fiddled with) around your kids every day, all day. That means hundreds more gun accidents in schools every year.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dan-crenshaw-school-shootings-more-guns-1234707962/

Sums it up fairly well.

"Republicans in Congress are praising Joe Biden for helping bring about an end to U.S. government funding for the alleged torture of cats in Russian biomedical research facilities." Every word of that sentence is true. https://www.thebulwark.com/gop-lawmakers-biden-come-together-on-cats/

What the fuck is wrong with #Iowa?

2 teens accused of fatally beating their Spanish teacher over a bad grade plead guilty https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teens-accused-killing-teacher-bad-grade-plead-guilty-rcna80240

Tennessee House Speaker Faces Growing Calls to Resign | How it started, how’s it going: Cameron Sexton, who led the charge against the “Tennessee Three,” is suddenly in a spot of bother himself.

https://newrepublic.com/post/171980/cameron-sexton-growing-calls-resign

Trump can be sued for Jan. 6 riot harm, Justice Dept. says

https://apnews.com/article/trump-jan-6-capitol-police-congress-immunity-d18d0c6369837c725578cf6e13c18883

#trump

It’s time to get rid of tipping. In North America, service employers deliberately underpay servers and delivery people hoping we’ll make up the difference. But these employers often skim off these tips as well. Tips used to be about service, but now it’s just sanctioned wage theft. Employers should be forced to pay people what their labour is worth. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/uber-eats-door-dash-delivery-tips.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It is the guns.
It is the GUNS.
IT IS THE GUNS.
IT IS THE GODDAMN GUNS.

A 20-year old woman is dead because some nut shot at her car when she mistakenly drove up the wrong driveway. What the absolute fuck is wrong with people?

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/washington-county-20-year-old-killed-saturday-17901499.php

#NRAFreedomCelebration

"What’s so deeply sad is the contrast between Feinstein’s current fragility and the pioneering female senator who used to take newly elected women to lunch and advise them on how to run a Senate office." https://www.thebulwark.com/dianne-feinsteins-health-and-the-judicial-confirmation-crunch/

Baby in the bathtub!

Mum Murera & nannies Kiasa & Enkesha are on hand to make sure that Mwana enjoys her mud bath. All that appears to be missing is a rubber duck - there was an Egyptian Goose nearby!

If you missed the arrival of our miracle Mwana, visit: http://sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/murera-baby-mwana

#bathtime #baby #babyelephant #family #animals #animalrescue #wildlife #nature #conservation #sheldricktrust

A #fireball has been seen widely over Bretagne, Drenthe, England, Flevoland, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Hauts-de-France, Limburg, Noord-Brabant, Noord-Holland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Northern Ireland, Overijssel, Région Wallonne, Utrecht, Vlaams Gewest, Waals Gewest, Wallonia, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland on Monday, April 17th 2023 around 19:32 UTC: https://ams.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2023/2163 contains already 228 reports.