Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

An enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, Haaland is the first Native person to serve in a presidential Cabinet, leading a department that oversees a fifth of U.S. land and was long charged with the systematic removal of Indigenous people from their tribal homelands. ($)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/07/17/deb-haaland-road-to-healing/

If Harlan Crow's yacht was a business, as he has claimed in his tax filings, then I don't see how Clarence Thomas's freebies on the high seas aren't payments, hence income, hence tax fraud by Thomas.

If Crow's yacht wasn't a business, that all might still be true--but Crow too, is a tax cheat.

Either way, the two of them have been stealing from the American taxpayer for decades.

https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht

This is such a disaster for Texas A&M. Also, who in their right mind would take the job as head of the journalism program?

Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director. Then Came the Complaints. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy.html?smid=tw-share

"Trump continues to confess to his crimes on national television. During a speech this week at a conservative gathering, the Turning Point Action conference, he acknowledged that he had the documents he’s accused of illegally retaining in his possession, saying there was nothing wrong with it. But that’s quite a concession."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #crime #criminal
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-e6e

Very high turnout so far in early voting around Columbus, Ohio.

Yet another data point for how salient abortion rights are for folks. Remember this is the referendum the GOP rushed for August to change the rules of an abortion November referendum. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/early-vote-counts-for-the-august-ohio-special-election-higher-than-expected-issue-1-franklin-county/70414392007/

Maybe they could have combined Barbie and Oppenheimer and made a blow-up doll.

LB: We told you. WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING. They will not stop until we are locked into the Handmaid's Tale. This fight is central to all the fights. It is a Civil Rights issue. It is a Black Issue. It is a labor issue. It is a LGBTQ+ issue. It most assuredly is a women's issue. The fight is the same, and this is one of the key battlefronts, which we are losing. #AbortionRights #Contraception #BansOffOurBodies

We’re looking to buy a place in Ireland (because renting here is nigh on impossible these days) and so I approached a mortgage broker and they just got back to me with this gem:

“Bank of Ireland will not consider your mortgage application because you run a not-for-profit.”

How bloody lovely.

Congratulations on creating a system that rewards the worst of the worst and fucks over those striving to work for the common good. I, for one, wont be shedding a tear should it burn to the ground.

Forcing people to use a bathroom that doesn’t match their identity is harmful in all sorts of ways. I’m really glad to see more and more of these anti-trans attacks being overturned.

It’s also never a bad time to remember that who gets to appoint judges matters. This one was appointed by Bill Clinton. If you want to get rid of the right wing agenda, make sure voting is on your own agenda.

Federal Judge Rules Wisconsin Trans Student Can Use Bathroom-
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-judge-rules-wisconsin-trans

DRUG BREAKTHROUGH!

Experts urge health regulators to approve ‘turning point’ dementia drugs

As results show 35% slowing in cognitive decline, health leaders say swift decisions crucial
#News #Breaking #BreakingNews #USA

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/17/experts-urge-health-regulators-approve-dementia-drugs-donanemab-lecanemab?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

HERE'S A TRICK to silence a Christian Trumpite.

"Everytime she meets a Trump supporter who claims to be Christian (she’s a devout Christian herself)

she asks them to name “One thing- not 2 or 3 or 4” but one thing Trump has done that Jesus would approve of.

“Nobody has ever named one thing” she told me
of the hundreds of Christians she’s asked."

Trump Plans to Expand Presidential Power Over Agencies in 2025 - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.html

This is chilling stuff. He's openly outlining plans for centralizing authority under the executive branch so he can continue to fire anyone who stands in his way, and staff agencies with his toadies.

Democratic Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon also signed bills protecting trans rights and reproductive rights and a ban on ghost guns this week.

Since people tell me repetition works- elections matter. And both parties are not the same.

Gov. Kotek signs Oregon rent increase limit into law-
https://www.kptv.com/2023/07/07/gov-kotek-signs-oregon-rent-increase-limit-into-law/

I want working mass transit.

Oklahoma: $39 Million in Federal Pandemic Funds Tilted Towards Private Schools, Not the Neediest - Is grifting a central GOP policy guideline? https://dianeravitch.net/2023/07/16/oklahoma-39-million-in-federal-pandemic-funds-tilted-towards-private-schools-not-the-neediest/ via @dianeravitch #fraud

#VoteBlueIfYouWantToRead #GOP #Fascism

GOP Advances Education Cuts That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers from Classrooms https://truthout.org/articles/gop-advances-education-cuts-that-could-remove-220000-teachers-from-classrooms/

One of the advantages to Trump of being indicted in so many states is he will have such a wide selection of locations to request being incarcerated in.