Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Time to stop using Vance's nickname. But what name to use, because he's had several?
His actual name, at the moment, is James David Vance.
His other alias are James Donald Bowman and James David Hamel.
JD is his Appalachian nick name that makes him sound all folksy.
He's anything but a man of the people and everyone should stop treating him as such.

They want you to be scared.

They want you to be silent.

They want you to feel alone.

Refuse. Hope is an act of defiance.

Even as defamation lawsuits continue to find no evidence of a fraudulent election, President Donald Trump keeps insisting that the 2020 vote was “rigged.” He’s issuing orders targeting officials and lawyers whose work undercut his claims, and demanding states tighten voting rules to prevent alleged fraud. #trump #election #politics

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0423/trump-2020-fraud-defamation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor

I was back in the DC Jail yesterday, working with incarcerated students on their way to a high school degree.

Their songs and poetry are visceral and honest and beautiful, I wish everyone could hear them.

Don't believe the hype about the "hardened criminals" and "gang bangers" who deserve to suffer at the hands of the state. Whatever they may have done, these are human beings, and they deserve human rights and human dignity.

What will JD Vance be best remembered for?

@AlliFlowers
There may be appropriate legal penalties for the leakers, although "he used a Signal chat" does not appear to be legitimate classified information.

But as you say, he did it and has not actually denied it.

Gov't officials mustn't use Signal to evade public records rules. "If you decide to have your communications...in a way that is not trackable or retrievable in response to a FOIA request, what you are doing is circumventing the law," @evacide told @axios. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/signalgate-encryption-trump-administration-downloads

🚨"It should HORRIFY you that it took a major news story for #DHS⬇️to say publicly that it imprisoned someone in SLV 5 weeks ago.

The man never once got a trial. No judge ever found him to be a public safety threat or a member of a gang. No due process/nothing.

After secretly sending Mr Prada to be imprisoned in SLV w/o a trial, DHS now has the chutzpah to claim that nothing untowards happened.

Until today -didn't even acknowledge that this had even happened."
-A Reichlin-Melnick

#CECOT #USPol

“Rümeysa Öztürk is my constituent, an accomplished scholar, and a valued member of our Massachusetts community. Like Rümeysa, Mahmoud Kahlil has committed no crime and is being punished by Donald Trump simply for exercising his right to free speech,” Pressley said in a statement to CNN.

Congressional delegation visit...

The adulteration of milk with chalk and/or formaldehyde was one of the reasons the FDA was formed in the first place.

So what could possibly go wrong?

FDA suspends milk quality-control testing program after Trump layoffs

Effective Monday, the agency suspends its proficiency testing program for grade ‘A’ raw milk and finished products
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/fda-milk-quality-testing-suspended

So the Dow has recouped almost all it's losses from Monday on the strength of news that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a group of investors Tuesday that there "will be a de-escalation" in the trade war with China.

Somebody prove that this is not market manipulation, please.

Tom Cotton is a racist piece of shit.

'Reconsider': Tom Cotton begs Trump for disaster relief — after opposing it for Dem states
https://www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-disaster/

#TomCotton #Arkansas #GOPShitBag #USPol

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.

Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.

The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.

We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use.

It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.

Read our latest editorial in @PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism

#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143

These people are EVIL AF and this guy is a monster.

#Trump issued an order targeting former #officials from his first term who publicly rejected claims of voter #fraud.

#TRUMP HORROR SHOW

https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/boozed-up-antisemitic-goon-who-slashed-yonkers-barber-with-his-own-scissors-in-rage-over-gaza-war-cuts-plea-deal-da/

CW: gory hand injury pictured.

Jabali was having his beard trimmed at his Yonkers Avenue shop when he flew into a rage, telling the barber that “he has a right as a Muslim to punish Jews.” Jabali, a Muslim originally from Yemen, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.