Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Via Adam Frtischner:

#GOP just released doc they've claimed shows bribes were paid to #Biden. It has a few cryptic ref to payments by man who later definitively told Giuliani "no one from Burisma ever had any contacts w VP Biden" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-hard-drive-lev-parnas-432108
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- the $5 mil figure GOP called a bribe is a single offhand reference easily read as boast or even a joke
- forget proof, this is hearsay about hearsay
- guy who said it later said it wasn't true
- he is at present a fugitive from justice

This.

RFK Jr. defends himself at House hearing as Dems rebuke him for COVID, race comment - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-defends-house-hearing-dems-rebuke-covid/story?id=101517921 “defends himself “= that video was not what I wanted you to hear” Sick clown show indeed! #uspolitics

@AlliFlowers Easily described as anti-American, it’s hard for me to describe how disgusting this is, how easily it is for some citizens of the GOP persuasion to cheat the system, to stab Democracy in the back, for a personal advantage without using profanity.
To clarify, I didn’t approve when Democrats did it, but these days the GOP has cornered the gerrymandering market in their efforts to cling to power abusing the Rights of fellow citizens in the process. 🤬

I would pay good money for a video game where TX Gov Abbott tries to roll his wheelchair across the Rio Grande, runs into razor wire, and you get to decide whether to throw bricks, used tampons, snakes, or Skittles at him as he goes down.

A New Jersey con man who was pardoned two years ago by former President Trump has been arrested again and is accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-con-man-was-pardoned-trump-charged-fraud-rcna95172

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made $1 billion from the company. Earlier this year he laid off more than 10,000 workers.

Hard to think of a better example of inequality in tech and the wider economy.

Do you know librarians who have created Mastodon instances?

A librarian at my institution is interested in advocating for creating one. It might be helpful to read about other librarians' experiences doing this or the existence of some other cases managed by libraries.

#fediverse

This one hits hard. #climatechange

I fibbed and told my fisherman friend that I thought his amateurish handmade trout fishing lures looked great. Flattered, he gave me one of the most beautiful I’d ever seen. It was...

...pretty fly for a white lie

Let’s be clear. If a Democrat shared the readily available nude pictures of Melania Trump on the House floor it would be unacceptable. The Republican Party has no standards.

MTG just committed a crime in congress by showing Hunter Biden nudes non-consensual nudes considered revenge porn in the congressional hearing.

The #Georgia shill, seeker of a pardon for crimes against America herself just violated FCC laws by broadcasting obscene & indecent content on a public broadcast & the poster she created is being shared. Posting porn, in any form, without consent from the person depicted, is a crime. Hunter Biden, a private citizen, should sue.

This may be a felony (with a 10-yr max sentence). The commission of a felony is not protected by Article I's speech or debate clause.

▪️She apparently emailed copies out to constituents in her newsletter, and in Hutchinson v. Proxmire, 443 U.S. 111 (1979), SCOTUS said the Speech and Debate Clause doesn’t extend to newsletters.

#law #crime #revenge #porn #republicans

Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT ends Legacy Admissions - good job Wesleyan (and Johns Hopkins, MIT, and any other school that has ended this practice)!

@AlliFlowers #America needs to get out of the execution game.

Yes, Israel Is an Apartheid State. That Means It’s A Racist One, Too.

In yet another reality-denying ritual of fealty to the pro-Israel lobby, members of Congress absurdly voted to say Israel was neither an apartheid state nor racist.

Only a few progressives, including members of the Squad, stood firm in opposing the measure.

Last night, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on an absurd resolution saying that is Israel not an apartheid state

#apartheid

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/israel-palestine-herzog-jayapal-apartheid-racism

@TruthSandwich
You know that dictators don't crack down on religion to further some Atheist agenda, right? They do it because they want the people to worship THEM and they don't like the competition.

The house just striped out everything benefiting LGBTQ from an appropriations bill. Bigoted, no? I'll bet that everyone that voted for this campaigned on their Christian faith.

White supremacisy has been baked into American Evangelicalism since the founding.
@dibi58 @tom4okstate

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin #quote

So why are you in jail? I’m a serial killer- I murdered 10 people over a ten-year period of time and they just caught me. What about you? Oh I’m a mom who helped her daughter get abortion pills online so she could abortion. Meta turned me in. (Damn)

TUBERVILLIAN: GOP senator caught breaking his promise to veterans https://washingtonpress.com/2023/07/19/tubervillian-gop-senator-caught-breaking-his-promise-to-veterans/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon