Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

A win for repro rights: Alabama can’t charge activists helping patients get out-of-state abortions
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/alabama-cant-charge-abortion-groups-for-helping-patients-out-of-state-criminal-conspiracy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Mother Jones @mother-jones-MotherJones2021

Stacking up: One year of global plastic waste is taller than the Burj Khalifa

Source: Made Visual

https://www.voronoiapp.com/sustainability/One-year-of-global-plastic-waste-visualized-4407

@Nonilex So sports team logo clothes are now suspect? where are our uniforms? The cultural revolution in China had recommended attire. What is our proper attire for the Trump cultural revolution?

Can Democrats have Soros show up with giant checks on stage before the next election then? Republicans would be OK with this, yes?

I was taught that in America we’d rather see 100 guilty people go free than see 1 innocent person jailed. That’s the basis of our system of DUE PROCESS. Republicans don’t seem to share this belief as they continue to allow the Convicted-Felon-in-Chief operate outside of the law.
#USPolitics #FuckTrump #GOPFail https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/114263102041402163

Scientists have just pulled off what sounds like science fiction—a plastic that disappears in seawater within hours and actually enriches the soil instead of polluting it!
This revolutionary plastic is made from food-safe materials, meaning it's non-toxic, fully biodegradable, and safe for industries like food packaging, medical supplies, and even agriculture.
No microplastic pollution! This plastic dissolves into harmless organic compounds zero environmental footprint
https://www.ndtv.com/science/japanese-scientists-develop-new-plastic-that-dissolves-in-saltwater-8039154

Democrats should be taking turns doing this in perpetuity until republicons' heads explode. Thank you for your service, Cory. You're a profile in courage for standing up on the job, instead of running to a corrupt, corporatist media-infotainment complex, hell bent on helping christo-fascism succeed!

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/sen-cory-booker-slams-trump-actions

Employees of #HHS and its agencies who are being fired — RIF'd — started to receive termination notices today starting at 5 am. Big swaths of the #CDC appear to have been cut. Developing story.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-layoffs-start-under-rfk-jr-trump-administration/

The WSJ reported last week #RFKJr’s #HHS planned an immediate freeze of $27.5M in #FamilyPlanning grants for groups including #PlannedParenthood.

PPFA says >300 #health centers are in the #TitleX network & Title X-funded centers received >1.5M visits in 2023.

The loss of funding will mean that “cancers go undetected, access to #BirthControl is severely reduced, & the nation’s #STI crisis worsens,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA president.

#ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #law

#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood

The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/

Admitting (or claiming) they can’t bring him home proves just how much of a paper tiger these turds are.

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison #Politics https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html

#meme #memes #funny #politics #jesus #measles #transathletes

BREAKING: Judge Myron Thompson declares Alabama A.G. Steve Marshall's threatened abortion-fund prosecutions unconstitutional.

Yellowhammer Fund and healthcare providers sued; Thompson ruled that Marshall violated the right to travel and the First Amendment with his threats.

Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-yellowhammer-fund-final-judgment

Cory Booker is throwing down—filibustering & standing up to Trump’s authoritarian overreach.

This is what we need—Dems who disrupt, resist, and fight back. Booker’s stand is a rallying cry for all of us to demand better.

Watch here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE

#congress #senate #resist #usa

👉 SS payments ▶️ Musk go-between payment App$$$ ▶️ SS recipients

Chris Norlund:
"massive conflict of interest...

Musk just had his company XAI buy X...and... he wants to do a payments app over there… essentially like a banking thing, he also made a deal with Visa recently, and now... he's… getting his hands on data over social security payments.

... they also talk about privatizing everything... it's pretty obvious what's going on"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP4aNfLRjbA

#News #Democracy #Trump ElonMusk

I'm going to cradle your face gently in both my hands when I say this because I need you to hear me.

If only citizens have the right to due process, then nobody has the right to due process.

Because once you're in custody on some trumped up charges, all it takes is for them to say you're not a citizen. And then you don't have the right to due process to prove them wrong. So I'm going to say it again.

If ONLY citizens have due process, then NOBODY has due process.

#IMLS staff put on *administrative leave*

The Institute of #Museum & #Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.

The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to #museums & #libraries across the country.

#Trump #Musk #DOGE #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services

I have a (what I believe to be a pretty simple) project for a graphic artist / designer. I want to pay for it. It is a sign for a protest. Anyone know of someone with time this week?

Boosts greatly appreciated