Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online

Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-safe-house-b2738214.html

Basically USA Republicans Have decided to try to cut Medicaid, and then when people lose medical services and get sick or die, blame the states. They think their constituents are stupid enough to buy that. I can't argue, history has shown that sometimes when they make that bet they're absolutely correct. I only hope this is not one of those times.

https://www.politicususa.com/p/republicans-plan-to-gut-medicaid?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

"The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

Criminal! - HHS Cuts Funding for NIH-Based Women's Health Initiative Threatening Decades-Long Study

https://www.ajmc.com/view/hhs-cuts-funding-for-nih-based-women-s-health-initiative-threatening-decades-long-study

Tonight, as the sun sets, marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah
where we remember the six million—
not just how they were taken,
but how they held on.

Shabbat candles lit in cellars,
psalms mouthed in the smoke,
Torah smuggled in torn coats,
faith buried like seeds in the snow.

They fought—
with words, with hunger strikes,
with lullabies in the dark.

They were not just numbers.
They were our blood.
Our broken, burning heart.

And somehow, we’re still here.
Singing in strange lands,
lighting candles with their names in our mouths,
walking the long road they never finished.

Their memory is not just grief.
It is covenant.
It is uprising.
It is the flame we refuse to let die.

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAI...

Senator Durbin is Illinois's longest-serving US Senator.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/senator-dick-durbin-retiring?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=101584

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