Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"The Trump administration has ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought, and manage supply levels to ensure communities around the country don’t run out of water." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-administration-united-states-geological-service

Apparently #MeidasTouch is hitting too close to home ...

Excerpt:
"Fox News just launched another attack on MeidasTouch.
...
We focused on his erratic public behavior, his imaginary conversations, his publicly manifested delusions, and his inability to form basic sentences.
...
We know that Murdoch and Trump talk about going after us and independent media."

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/fox-news-wants-meidas-shut-down-for

#uspolitics

For dog lovers (& anti fascists) around the world.

#dogsofmastodon #putin #antifa

“It is not safe. 'It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public," a Newark air traffic controller told MSNBC Tom Costello. "Don't fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs."

With radio & radar failures, some controllers walked off the job!
https://www.rawstory.com/newark-airport/ #press

https://substack.com/@themouthyrenegadewriter/note/c-114079908

@Lorrrraaaaine I can't even process this. Will there be fines for wearing a seatbelt next?
How can anyone consider punishing someone for wanting to protect their health? It's like your bodies are not your own anymore.

@Lorrrraaaaine Yeah, time for every single Kennedy Center employee to show up in masks and get fired en masse. It's collaborate or resist time.

@GreenFire

i was lucky and mine got forgiven by Biden early on

i paid for over 20 years and by the time it was forgiven i owed more than i borrowed

and just a reminder, the covid loans were forgiven and mostly wealthy people benefited by the forgiveness

Bloomberg:

The US State Department approved F-16 fighter-jet training and services for #Ukraine worth up to $350 million, signaling that the White House will keep supporting Kyiv in the fight against #Russia despite Trump’s impatience to end the war.

Breaking: Trump says he is quite explicitly violating a federal law.

In total #disrespect of #Veterans, #Trump says he is renaming #VeteransDay as ‘Victory Day for World War I’

Trump said he would also label May 8, known as “V-E Day” for “Victory in Europe”, as “Victory Day for World War II,” to commemorate the end of #WWII, but, clearly unbeknownst to the #IdiotInChief, only the war in #Europe came to an end in May. The Americans—quite famously—continued to fight the Japanese until August 1945.

#idiocracy #USpol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/complete-moron-donald-trump-announced-wwii-victory-day-on-wrong-date/

…#Trump & #DOGE have aggressively flouted #Congress’s power with potentially [definitely] #illegal freezes on spending, & many of the moves have ended up in #court, where judges have at least temporarily reversed some actions.

Trump has frozen or canceled at least $430 billion in funds since taking office, according to an estimate compiled by the top #Democrats on the #House & #Senate #appropriations committees.

#law #Autocracy #Dictatorship #kleptocracy #USpol

Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump’s latest corruption? A $2 BILLION stablecoin deal with a foreign crypto company that will benefit the Trump family business. And it gets worse — the Senate is getting ready to bless this kind of grift. But it's not too late to make changes. Here's the latest:" — Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3lo5ffmwmjc2i

Caring about measles outbreaks and chronic diseases at the same time are not mutually exclusive. The issue is that measles has unnecessarily come back due to low vaccination rates because of the lies that have been spreading for far too long. Also, how are we to address chronic disease with all these cuts to research and environmental regulations?

"This is the best bad decision I’ve made all day!"

#Caturday