Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Maggie Bowman writes on the dangers of Christian Nationalism and how the 2026 midterm election could mitigate the rise of an authoritarian government.

https://buff.ly/zL9XdT2

Here's CIA Director John Ratcliffe initially saying he doesn't know if Jeffrey Goldberg was on the group chat and later defending himself by saying Goldberg was added inadvertently. He couldn't keep his story straight for five minutes of Sen. Ossoff's questioning.

upside: finally dealing with illegal immigration
downside: did you read oliver twist

The other thing Kristi Noem's State Secrets declaration APPEARS to try to do is claim that Trump and Marco Rubio's ratification of Nayib Bukele's identification of the three planes used to fly detainees to El Salvador was only "informal" confirmation. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/k...

Kristi Noem Invokes State Secr...

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a Black Sea ceasefire after separate talks with U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia. The White House says the U.S. will help restore Russia's access to the world market for certain products. Ukraine's MoD Umerov confirmed the news.

Professors Sue #Trump Admin Over Arrests of Campus Protesters

The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen #students & #faculty members deprives US citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.

#immigration #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #democracy #authoritarianism #dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/professors-sue-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=C3943887-A1F9-454A-B3EE-835680EF3F6D

Pierre Poilievre spent all his time as the Leader of the Official Opposition WITHOUT A SECURITY CLEARANCE.

Why? What was he afraid of? He had a proper security clearance when he served in Stephen Harper's cabinet for 10+ years.

I wonder what changed... or what he could be hiding. #cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45

All 11 officials on that Signal chat should be placed under military arrest and charged with felony Dissemination of War Plans under 18 U.S. Code § 798 and the Espionage Act.

This is an outrageous breach of our national (and international) security, and it MUST be punished severely.

Demonstrations begin in Gaza for the first time to end the war - and also to call on Hamas to end the fighting
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas

Masked man vandalizes London synagogue, kosher restaurant in suspected hate crime
Suspect, wearing hoodie and with his face covered, seen on CCTV tearing down and pocketing mezuzahs from a French-Mediterranean eatery, and nearby Chabad synagogue in north London

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hknx8ljpke

#DOGE brought armed guards and police officers for a hostile takeover of... the Institute of Peace.
Yes. The Institute of PEACE. Ironic. And wild that #Trump is trying to take down an institution Ronald Reagan founded. Once again overstepping what the president can do
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/showdown-institute-of-peace.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.lSSJ.8rBydopT7sxv&smid=url-share
#USPolitics

Rand Paul says Kentucky schools wouldn't even notice the loss of this financing.

"An analysis by the left-leaning Kentucky Center for Economic Policy found that federal grants provide more than $1 billion annually to Kentucky schools, funding programs for low-income students, special education, school meals, and teacher training."

https://www.wkyufm.org/news/2025-03-12/kentucky-group-that-defeated-school-vouchers-relaunches-to-save-u-s-department-of-education
#Schools #Education #dogurday

Switched to approval required sign-ups for now due to a nasty spam wave.
Working on a fix to prevent them signing up but we need to test that first. Sorry about the inconvenience.

#mastoadmin

"Your income, credit score, degrees, suburban neighborhood, Christian background, light skin tone, Republican voting record, and Rust Belt zip code won’t save you. Nobody is safe under fascism. Nobody is safe under Trump’s reign of terror."

#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #Venezuelans
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Me, wondering why we haven't seen more organizing in response to Trump's attack on Department of Education, googles how KY defeated vouchers. I found this: Kentucky group that defeated school vouchers relaunches to save U.S. Department of Education www.wkyufm.org/news/2025-03...

Kentucky group that defeated s...

Keep 'em coming! 👇🏼

Via Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: Judge #Boasberg rejects #Trump administration call to rescind his restraining order, saying the Venezuelans marked for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act are likely to win — because they are entitled to individual hearings/due process.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0766-53

I urge any of my friends on Mastodon.World (if there are any of you) to consider migrating. I'm about to block the domain. The spam is getting out of hand.

So long. Lemme know when you get shit sorted out.