Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@1finekitty Fuck this supreme court. They have lost all credibility.

"It is not my fault...!"
"Don't blame me....!"

Via Acyn:

Noticed one repeated line in #McCarthy’s press conference

And via Victor Shi:

I mean, seriously? Kevin had the audacity to say that it’s Democrats who have become so extreme when he literally wants to slash benefits for veterans, students, and working families? Give me a break. This man is revolting on every level.

#DebtCeiling #politics

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1661408523476144128/pu/vid/640x360/PfdlU7y1w2Us5Evi.mp4?tag=12

Democrat Challenges Republicans to Put Their Thoughts and Prayers Into Action on Guns https://www.politicususa.com/2023/05/24/democrat-challenges-republicans-to-put-their-thoughts-and-prayers-into-action-on-guns.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

‘Man beats up 86-year-old woman with dementia because he thought she was transgender’
‘She now asks people if they're going to kill her since the man beat her & threw her in a garbage bin. She'll spend the rest of her life in a nursing home.’
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/man-beats-up-86-year-old-woman-with-dementia-because-he-thought-she-was-transgender/

What makes people hate? This is devastating for every LGBTQAI in the world. 😤😭

"As I argue in Preparing for War, You don’t have to be a Klansman to cultivate a White Christian nationalist culture. You can be a sitting president who used his executive power to put 'In God We Trust' on our currency, relegating those who are polytheists and non-theists to a marginalized position."

#ChristianNationalism #secularism #democracy #history

https://religiondispatches.org/a-christian-nationalist-by-any-other-name-is-still-a-christian-nationalist/

#MattGaetz shows why negotiating with terrorists can get you nowhere. #DebtCeiling https://www.commondreams.org/news/matt-gaetz-debt-ceiling-hostage

THE LATEST THING IS BAD AND MUST BE STOPPED

When authoritarian leaders lose office, they come back, like, 10 times worse — they never get less extreme, they always get more extreme,” Ben-Ghiat said. “January 6 was a profoundly radicalizing event for the base, for the GOP and for Trump himself, because even assaulting the Capitol you could get away with. His campaign events have to be seen as that of an extremist radicalizing people and emotionally reeducating people to hate people.” @ruthbenghiat https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/24/trump-language-policy-2024-race/

~“Loud cheers erupted in packed high school gym after Brandon School Division rejected call to remove books dealing with sexuality & gender identity from libraries.

Hundreds of people in Manitoba’s 2nd-largest city showed up for a marathon school division meeting, which ran into early morning.

Trustees voted 6-1 to reject proposal to create a committee of trustees & parents to review books...”

And PPC bigot Max Bernier showed up! Yikes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brandon-school-division-books-libraries-1.6852651

#LGBTQ #Education

If you say "but both sides," and one side is demonstrably worse, you have added underserved credibility to and taken the side that is worse.

The writer is new to me: Jim Avila, former CNBC reporter and, he says, a friend of Chris Licht's.

"Donald Trump has single-handedly destroyed the middle of the road in journalism.

"It is not there anymore.

"In today’s world, both sides journalism cannot exist because one side lies all the time. One side allows disinformation and libel to permeate its broadcasts. Fox did not pay Dominion hundreds of millions of dollars because it tells the truth."

https://barrettnewsmedia.com/2023/05/23/returning-cnn-to-its-no-nonsense-roots-is-mission-impossible/

#uspol #journalism

Like honest serious question. Clearly if you send your kids (it's boys always little boys...) anywhere near a catholic church they are going to be sexually abused. Why are you fucked up people still letting your kids anywhere near these people? This is a serious question and I promise I won't even say anything back.
This is just absolutely blowing my mind and I'm just grasping for answers. Why send your children to be molested at catholic churches when you know it's going to happen at this point?

Like what are we at now 30 straight years of wall to wall child molesters in catholic churches?
Just constant waves of hundreds upon hundreds of "priest" that should be jailed for life. People are STILL sending their kids there. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

The goal of banning abortion (control women, push them out of public life) is very blatant when all male SC GOP legislators voted to ban it; all women legislators voted against the ban. The 5 women wore buttons which said "Elect more women."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/male-republican-senators-ignore-women-vote-for-abortion-ban-in-south-carolina

Ukraine has now the minimum number of weapons required to launch a counteroffensive, said head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, in an interview with the Japanese news agency NHK.
"Many civilians are still under Russian occupation, and we have no more time to lose. We already have the minimum number of weapons and other equi https://www.uawire.org/ukrainian-intelligence-chief-kyiv-has-the-minimum-number-of-weapons-required-to-begin-counteroffensive source : #Ukraine