Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I don't see nearly enough people talking about the staggering cost to the US and allies as a result of The Former Guy's theft.

Politics is one thing, but in the Intelligence and Counterintelligence communities, there are protocols. And one protocol you can take to the bank: When a man who is known to have back channel connections to literally every one of our enemies steals a trove of classified documents, you treat every single one of them as if they are now owned by our enemies.

Let the gravity of that sink in. Every single agent mentioned is now compromised. Every agent alluded to is compromised. Every combat plan is now available for all our enemies to develop countermeasures for. Every secret plan to develop intelligence on our enemies is now a dead end.

There were nuclear secrets in there.

How do you begin to calculate the impact and cost of the enemy knowing our nuclear secrets, including potentially our plans if Putin were to launch a limited nuclear strike?

We will never know the cost of it, because it's all SUPPOSED TO BE SECRET TO PROTECT US FROM OUR ENEMIES. But however much you think it cost, it was probably more.

The Defense Department and Intelligence Community don't have the luxury of hoping he didn't make the sales we all know he made.

They have to assume he sold all of it. Whether it's ever proven or not.

This is one of the worst crimes ever committed by a US citizen against the US.

The anti-vaxxers, whose contempt for public health is on display every day, have given chicken pox a new lease on life in Montana. https://people.com/chicken-pox-cases-rise-montana-school-aged-children-7510388

Oh i get it, Black convicts can’t vote, white convicts can be president 👍

Doug Ford attacks & belittles teachers & education workers all the time.
He has little formal education himself & views education as an obstacle. He 'partnered' with the construction industry & changed the rules to encourage teens to leave school early & go to work. Ditto the reduced education requirements for #Ontario police officers.
His underfunding & constant chipping away at the value of public education lowers respect & fosters a dismissive attitude from students & parents. #Bill98

@ablackcatstail @DrOinFLA @therobburgessshow
Education stands against the Talibangelicals and fascism. Jefferson started the public schools because he believed that democracy required an educated populace to make it work. We began as a secular country, but white nationalist Xian schools are pumping out citizens with no knowledge of history, science, or civics and public schools are systematically underfunded. We need to get rid of private/religious K-12 schools completely.

Good morning, friends: There's no time better than now to call/email your representatives and ask them to codify #ICWA in your state. Protect Indigenous children and #NativeSovereignty.

Info upthread. ⬆️

Is this a COPIER in one of the rooms where Trump kept government documents at Mar-a-Lago?

“I think the chances of a guilty verdict are fairly high, and the chances of real jail time are pretty high.”

— Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, in a GB News interview.

#TrumpWillDieInPrison

@DemocracyMattersALot
In other news, #fascist #collaborators are trying to rehabilitate their reputations, and the media are helping them do it.

With all the factions heading to Miami to support TFG, what happens if the violent ones clash with the pacifist ones? You know, like the Proud Boys vs. the Evangelicals?

John Bolton Says Classified Documents Case Should End Trump’s Career https://newrepublic.com/post/173575/john-bolton-says-classified-documents-case-end-trumps-career

Compromise struck to preserve Obamacare’s preventive care mandate https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/12/compromise-struck-to-preserve-obamacares-preventive-care-mandate-00101595?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Former Watergate attorney John Dean told CNN that Trump body man Walt Nauta should cooperate with the government against the former president.

Said Dean: “I’d suggest a plea deal. He’s facing 20 years — it’s overwhelming evidence and looks like beyond a reasonable doubt almost off of the material that is raised in the indictment — and I don’t know how he can win this. So, he could strike a good deal and help put it away for the government. I don’t know why he got himself involved this way.”

Yes, he should. He should have to work at the board of elections and donate the "volunteer" money to the Capitol.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-called-trump-dad-tased-fanone-get-14-years-doj-says-rcna88853

✔️ Via Lawrence O'Donnell:

Imagine where this country would be today without the anti-democratic institution of the #ElectoralCollege which no democracy born after ours has copied.

#Trump never would’ve seen a classified document were it not for the Electoral College.
#TrumpIndictment

"I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence.."

Coretta Scott King

🤦‍♀️ Via Joe Perticone:

Chuck Grassley tells me he hasn’t read the #TrumpIndictment because he’s “not a legal analyst” (he previously chaired the judiciary committee)

Joni Ernst - concerned if allegations are true
Steve Daines - concerned about Biden
Deb Fischer - wouldn’t answer

All told me they haven’t read it. #GOPfail

Republicans have introduced more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023 alone, all over the country.

They're obsessed with controlling who Americans love, how they identify, and even where they can go to the bathroom. Here's why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgzyS8h3Iw

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO EXPLAIN VERY CLEARLY:

It's NOT that he *** HAD *** the documents ... like Pence and Biden and Hillary!

It's that he *** OBSTRUCTED *** their legal return!