Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Neil young!

https://www.rawstory.com/neil-young/

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained | The Guardian

｢ “They are doing things like checking if your medication matches your declared disability,” she said. “If it doesn’t, they can deny you entry ｣

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/14/australian-academics-refuse-to-attend-us-conferences-for-fear-of-being-detained

#uspol #australia #research #science #dei

"Such investigations should go on for months before an arrest occurs. That’s because before you go indicting judges on nothing more than vibes, you should establish your case with proof beyond a reasonable doubt and present that to the grand jury."

The politics of performative cruelty, spectacle and distraction, were front and center with the arrest of Hannah Dugan — not rule of law.

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #judges #HannahDugan
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Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money.

The winners get a private reception with Trump and a VIP tour of the White House.

So far, many of the leaders appear to be foreign nationals.
#Donald Trump

What was to stop a foreign government, eager to bribe the American president, from quietly dumping money into #Trump’s #crypto project, effectively making direct payments to the president w/o public disclosure? Nothing.

The day after being sworn into office, Trump continued to use his social media platform to promote his controversial #MemeCoin. In the weeks that followed, his efforts continued.

#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ForeignAsset #Compromised #NationalSecurity #impeachment

@Simplicator @nonehitwonder

no!

the dems represent the interests of whoever shows the fuck up

who shows the fuck up?

spineless centrists

so that's who they represent

who doesn't show up?

the left

so left interests aren't represented

*this is just as much the cause of our problems as MAGA*

you have cause and effect backwards

we need to vote, to show the fuck up in #Primaries2026, or we need to shut up as we drift even further right. because it's our fault for not voting!

In case anyone needs a refresher as to how we arrived at this point, the trouble began in earnest in January. With just 3 days remaining before his presidential inauguration, #Trump found time to launch one last post-election #grift: Without explanation or defense, the #Republican & his family started selling a #cryptocurrency token.

#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ForeignAsset #Compromised #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #bribery #grift #felon47 #impeachment

It still seems hard to believe, but in the last #Congress, the #House #Republican majority formally launched an #impeachment inquiry against Joe #Biden. The endeavor never made any sense, but the underlying allegation was that the Democratic president was somehow the beneficiary of a weird #bribery scheme.

#law #Constitution #EmolumentsClause #ForeignAsset #Compromised #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Trump #crypto #grift
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-controversial-meme-coin-contest-proves-predictably-profitable-p-rcna203293

It's an idea for the concept of a plan that everyone will know about in two weeks.

This is bad.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/

Posse Comitatus? Who's she?

So good. Rep. Jake Auchincloss just flipped the entire #Fox script on Will Cain in real time & stayed calm & collected the entire time.

This is how you go on Fox & deliver the facts and our message to them. A masterclass on #communication.

Sen Ossoff: Trump is "selling access for what are effectively pymts directly to him," -contest "an impeachable offense."

Profits by:

*Owns 800M tokens. So a $6⬆️is worth $4.8B on paper

*Collects fees on every trade. ($1.6M in the 24 hrs after -contest ann)

Many of the ldrs don't appear to be from the US.

The user currently in 2nd pl, "MeCo," purchased most of his Trump tokens thru a ver of the Binance exch unavail to US users.

#Trump #MemeCoin #Corruption #USPol

https://popular.info/p/an-unprecedented-scheme-to-profit

#Trump lied to Time that he was clearly speaking “in jest” when he said he’d end the war in #Ukraine on day one.

Here are *53* times he promised, in a serious context and tone, that he’d have the #war settled in 24 hours or even before he took office:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war/index.html

https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3lnumxu6n3s2g

Sure the chicken will kill you but at least you won’t have to read about Black airmen!

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker are holding a livestreamed sit-in protest and discussion on Sunday from the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

(Article has link to livestream)

#USPol #Protest #sitIn #Jeffries #Booker

https://abc7ny.com/post/us-politics-house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-ny-nj-sen-cory-booker-begin-livestreamed-sit-protest-capitol-steps/16260342/

For me, this is the best image symbolizing what Gen AI actually is. A black box, burning the planet, understood best, paradoxically, through technological means.

What you see here is a thermal image of xAI's Datacenter in Memphis, where 33 methane power generators are burning without permission.

Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis