Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

#Tuckems is using his huge platform to attack #HunterBiden today I see.

I'm glad that Matt Gertz of Media Matters reminded me that Tucker Carlson and his wife asked their friend Hunter Biden to write their son a recommendation for Georgetown University. When he agreed to do so, his wife emailed him, "Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”

👀 Via Adam Klasfeld

New—

The Manhattan DA's office issued a subpoena to #EJeanCarroll's law firm seeking #Trump's deposition, particularly his comments on the Access Hollywood tape.

The DA defends the subpoena against Trump's motion to quash here.

Some portions of Trump's deposition pertaining to the Access Hollywood tape are now public, but the DA seeks the "full transcript, full video recording, and all exhibits related to the videotaped deposition."
#legal

The right out-organized us by more than three decades. At the end of the 1980s they were holding trainings in church basements with the Christian Coalition, teaching people how to build what is the openly fascist Republican Party of 2023, using coded Christian language and appeals to white grievance to win seats on suburban school boards & town councils and from there, county level then state legislature seats, bypassing cities, then gerrymandering them to destroy their electoral power.

Electoral politics in the US right now is about choose your opponent, not choose your player. We lost our opportunity to play choose your player via poor ballot design in South Florida and a compromised SCOTUS.

Right now you have only ONE job in the voting booth: choosing the candidate with an actual chance of winning who isn’t going to worsen the climate catastrophe, destroy public education, abolish unions, destroy LGBTQ lives and arm every Nazi in the country.

It’s not a hard choice.

Via Andrew Weissman:

Important context for #HunterBiden deal: it was made by a #Trump appointee who has said he had 100% authority to decide what to do ultimately on the matter.

Katherine Faulders:

The Trump appointed US attorney David Weiss said in a June 7 letter to Chairman Jordan that AG Garland granted him “ultimate authority” over the investigation, “including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges.”
#legal 1/...

Noticing a lot of instance admins lately who are feeling pretty down.

Please remember that the vast majority of admins and moderators in this space do not do this work as a day job, nor as paid work. They have other projects and deadlines and bills and family and actual living plants. Please have the good grace to be patient with them 💜

*By which I mean do not abuse, harass, dox, threaten etc. Jeez.

I need people on the left, every flavor of the left, to understand this. Your passion right now cannot be for voting for whomever is making a stunt third party presidency bid because the passion on the right is to KILL us. Republicans are happily coalescing power with & through white supremacist terrorists who are murdering people regularly and terrorizing people daily, and they are creating policy to enable those killers and terrorists.

From: @wdlindsy
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110577447952690671

🎉 “From some point today every episode of Red Dwarf will drop on BBC IPlayer. This is the first time ever all the shows have been available to watch at the same time in the same place. Let the Dwarf binge begin.” - @DougRDNaylor

#RedDwarf #tv #bbc #scifi #comedy

"Kansas man charged with making threats against Nashville Pride Festival"

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/kansas-man-charged-with-making-threats-against-nashville-pride-festival/

Via Daniel Goldman:

From 2007 until 2021, #RogerStone failed to pay $2 million in taxes and used shell companies to hide the money from the IRS.

His case was resolved civilly without any criminal charges.

The unusual aspect of #HunterBiden’s case is that he was charged criminally at all.

"Vous me foutez dans la merde" : une employée licenciée après avoir révélé sa grossesse à son patron. #sexisme https://www.neonmag.fr/vous-me-foutez-dans-la-merde-une-employee-licenciee-apres-avoir-revele-sa-grossesse-a-son-patron-558661.html?utm_campaign=20220511&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl-neon-hebdo#nlref=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c&part%5Bname%5D=pm&part%5Btoken%5D=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c&srAuthUserId=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c&utm_campaign=20220511&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl-neon-hebdo&nlsha=293793475424db68e3e55bb328ae981fdb6ac3533b13b185c78fad3f9b89df65&srWebsiteId=66&srAuthUserId=019a6d38f2b5d805c0116b9aaad62e1c

*in Disney World commercial voice*

“Hey Donald, you were just found liable for sexual assault and defamation! Now, you’re being charged with stealing top secret national security documents! What are you gonna do now?!”

djt: I’m going fundraising!!!

Watch @iGenPolitics_ live in 10 minutes. With fired State Attorney @AndrewWarrenFL and this #JillsPin, a gift from an elected Democrat in FL. Click here now:
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This is your periodic reminder that ambulatory wheelchair users exist. Many folks think wheelchairs are only for those who can't walk at all, or folks who can only take a couple steps.

Wheelchairs and electric scooters are used due to pain, weakness, balance issues, orthostatic intolerance, etc.

#Disability #Wheelchairs #DynamicDisability #ChronicIllness #MEcfs

"Un héritage toxique" : en Ukraine, les ravages de la guerre sur la biodiversité. #biodiversité #Russie #Ukraine
https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/environnement/un-heritage-toxique-en-ukraine-les-ravages-de-la-guerre-sur-la-biodiversite_2178493.html?m_i=8UY_8uPC_GlyeWWpCIa5kYbe%2BMO2VU_8ocJD1mUoTpKv42I5gkXQEpgNH3FJ7x4wiAbla_Ey9jmnclif9CYXw%2BqggfpGgs&#xtor=EPR-5293-[NL_le_7]-20220826&utm_source=lexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5293-%5BNL_le_7%5D&utm_content=EPR&utm_term=_&m_i=04qszwrbaK2Xx%2BxEm0eEo0nY94tp0qu5BVLW2Zt9VVe_7gbC0ioyisg_P353DDaZ1DMli1m1eu4Rk16GMa8Q1AoU3vXO3E&M_BT=6973728751394

The tragic peril of the missing tourist Titanic divers is not diminished by the loss of 500 refugees in the Mediterranean.

BUT

The emphasis in the media on the white folk is shameful.

#BlackMastodon