Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth​, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...

Requiem for the voice that car...

3️⃣ New Chicago prosecutor signals she'll be a lot more trusting of police than her predecessor, as she launches a new pilot program that lets police officers file more charges without a prosecutor having to review them. Program only applies in a predominantly Black area. https://boltsmag.org/cook-county-initiative-to-bypass-felony-review-chicago/

A kidney doctor who trained at Ohio State was deported despite a valid visa. - The Columbus Dispatch https://apple.news/Awa3aby8VS8eVTxbaPHtPrw

LOCK. TRUMP. UP.

Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af

#MassDeportation #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

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#volcano #translation #translate #GoogleTranslate #siren #mermaid #memes #meme #FunnyMemes #funny

U.S. District Judge James E. #Boasberg MUST TAKE SERIOUS ACTION or we are completely done with the rule of law. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/trump-admin-deportations/3868982/

Update: SWL'ers confirm the trio of Radio Marti shortwave frequencies now off air. VOA transmissions in Portuguese and French to Africa from the USAGM Greenville (NC) site also gone. Botswana relay in recent hours still on the air with outdated news and music fill.

#BeyondContempt https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio.

I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’.

https://bsky.app/profile/mehdirhasan.bsky.social/post/3lkixgbp2hc2h

Convicted felon Donald Trump’s deportation machine just exiled a Milwaukee mother of five to Laos, a country she’s never been to, doesn’t speak the language, and has no ties to. Stripped of insulin and ID, she’s trapped under military guard. Fuck this Nazi bullshit.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milwaukee-laos-ma-yang-deported-ice-b2715931.html

Education Department Staff Cuts Could Limit Options for Families of Children With Disabilities
https://time.com/7268749/education-department-staff-cuts-impact-families-children-with-disabilities/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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New Comic Strip Found: Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for Sun, 16 Mar 2025 https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16

#comicstrip #doonesbury

@AlliFlowers @ai6yr I believe brand new vehicles are not supposed to shed their body panels.

You can bet the farm some lower-level engineer brought this to his bosses and they shut him down hard so they could continue to sell Cybertrucks.

Reminds me of most Chinese crap you buy these days at Wally World. The garbage is only made well enough to get you to buy it and walk out the door. There is zero consideration to how long it might last.

It all comes back to #greed.

For the first time in 140 years, the press refused to toast convicted felon Donald Trump, raising their glasses to the First Amendment instead. Trump’s regime boycotted like the thin-skinned fascists they are.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/dc-press-elites-reportedly-go-after-trump-by-breaking-a-140-yearlong-tradition-at-private-white-tie-dinner/

If Congress doesn’t have the power of the purse and the courts don’t have the power of law, then our system of checks and balances crumbles and the US constitution is finished.

Either the administration faces immediate and overwhelming resistance to this, or democracy in the US is over.

#uspol

I get a kick outta telling morons their weather app’s info had to come from somewhere.

“If you’ve ever avoided a hurricane, ducked a tornado, evacuated ahead of a wildfire, or merely relied on a weather forecast to take an umbrella to work, you likely have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to thank.” - Jeffrey Kluger

https://apple.news/AwZpihehsRAWBm6PjgfwHKQ

Macron says Russia’s permission not needed to deploy troops in Ukraine - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/macron-says-russias-permission-not-needed-to-deploy-troops-in-ukraine "French president says France, UK and others could each deploy ‘a few thousand troops’ to key locations to show Ukraine ‘long-term support’" damn right