Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

There'll be a plaintiffs' news conference tomorrow morning at the National Press Club in Washington regarding the lawsuit by VOA journalists, labor unions and others against the US Agency for Global Media, acting USAGM director Victor Morales and the agency's special adviser, Kari Lake.

“Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave” www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

Top Officials Placed on Leave ...

There's no reason to ever assume that Trump is joking.

Hell, there's no documented evidence that he has ever laughed unless it was laughing at someone. He does not joke. He's not capable of that type of normal human behavior.

There are no self-made billionaires. We gotta shut that myth down.

Vladimir Putin offers political asylum to Marine Le Pen https://www.byteseu.com/881113/ #France

Illinois returned nearly 1,500 acres of stolen land to the state’s first federally recognised tribe. Correcting a “historic injustice,” the land once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized and sold by the U.S. when the chief was visiting relatives.

Reminder: Trump was on the path to getting the due process Le Pen just did (which also took years, even w/o Presidential immunity) until John Roberts intervened. John Roberts was singularly responsible for delay, John Roberts was key vote that created 2 more years of delay.

At church potlucks I often have come to cheeses moments.

Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-election-law-legal-challenge-232c5d05db604aed31beb9e717f745f9?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress

Here's the companion piece to last night's segment on 60 Minutes about what has happened to VOA: https://youtu.be/6WD31GTUH8k?si=j4Aeh6L_uxG0hWt6

Why are dictators like #Trump & #Putin so interested in Rare Earth Minerals in Ukraine & Greenland?

Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of products like: communications equipment, precision-guided weapons, night-vision goggles & stealth technology, cellphones, flat-screen monitors, lasers & sonar systems.

Controlling these rare earth elements drives Wall Street markets 📈or📉

It’s vital to national security attained through diplomacy, not mobster rhetoric.

Negotiation not extortion!

This is a huge tax increase from Donald Trump. Period.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/sen-warner-tariffs-lead-depression?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100697

@BLTpizza @wesley83 Yeah, DOGE canceled the payments that had been guaranteed to the farmers by one of the bills that Biden signed, and *after* they had already spent the money.

Farmers have already been screwed.

@GottaLaff

Trump To The Hague!

Greenland's new Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen has said that the US will not get Greenland:

"President Trump says the US is 'getting Greenland'. Let me be clear: The US is not getting it. We do not belong to anyone else. We determine our own future.

We must not react with fear. We must react with calm, dignity and unity.

And it is through these values that we must clearly, distinctly and calmly show the US President that Greenland is ours."
#AureFreePress #News

#Missouri Officials Seize Control of #StLouis #Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms

The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control *urban* areas."

#law #WhiteSupremacy #racism #AbuseOfPower #Republicans #MikeKehoe
https://boltsmag.org/missouri-state-control-of-st-louis-police/

Republicans don't care about Americans having to pay higher prices because their constituents are only millionaires and billionaires who won't feel the pain from their horrible policies.

Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for public office for five years after being convicted of embezzling more than €4m from the EU parliament to finance her National Rally party. She will not be able to run in the 2027 presidential election unless she successfully appeals the verdict. Party leader Jordan Bardella posted on social media that French democracy had been “executed”.

…The decision shows that #Musk's Department of Government *Efficiency*, which is directing the cuts, is not making the government more effective, said Kathleen Clark, a professor of #ethics at WashU in St. Louis.

"It is becoming increasingly obvious that Musk’s & #DOGE’s mission has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, & instead is aimed at enabling Musk to use - & abuse - #power within the federal government," she said.

#USpol #law #corruption #kleptocracy #oligarchy #AbuseOfPower