Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@maddad I decided just to make a larger version.

Vaccines fucking work.

Great results on RSV. Let’s hope the current bozos in charge of US health don’t back slide on this major development. https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/baby-hospitalizations-from-rsv-fell-up-to-71-with-new-vaccine-treatment/

The Trump administration is going through legal contortions to explain how a $400 million jet exclusively for Trump's use, even after he leaves office, isn't a bribe of a violation of the constitutional statute against receiving a gift from a foreign nation
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511
#USPolitics

We know what is happening, don't we?

“‘Federal employees do not surrender their constitutional rights when they take public service jobs,’ said Abbe Lowell, a veteran Washington, D.C., attorney who launched his own firm last week to protect public officials from retaliation. Lowell is known for representing high-profile political figures including Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Hunter Biden.” - CBS News

https://apple.news/ArtcPxrpOQjubzGUztHGd3A

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor tells a group of trial attorneys: “Right now, we can’t lose the battles we are facing.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/justice-sotomayor-stands-in-solidarity-with-embattled-aba

Hear Rep. #RobMenendez’s MSNBC interview for yourself (I think I got most of the details correct)

If you didn’t think the #US had become an #authoritarian state under #Trump before, you will now.

#Trump #law #immigration #RasBaraka #GoodTrouble #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjfHM8l1QQ

We sure needed some good news. Glad she's out!

‪Will Bunch:‬
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Rumeysa Ozturk is free! Video now on MSNBC

Man With Chronic Bowel Disease Sues Musk’s SpaceX for Allegedly Timing His Bathroom Breaks and Firing Him https://www.mediaite.com/news/man-with-chronic-bowel-disease-sues-musks-spacex-for-allegedly-timing-his-bathroom-breaks-and-firing-him/

" #Trump ordered federal agencies to abandon the use of a longstanding legal tool used to root out discrimination against minorities, a move that could defang the nation’s bedrock civil rights law

In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by determining whether policies disproportionately disadvantage certain groups." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Let’s be clear: the #Constitution’s #HabeasCorpus Suspension Clause [Article I, Section 9, Clause 2]:

1) Does NOT allow the President to UNILATERALLY suspend #habeas, especially when #Congress is in session;

2) The clause ONLY applies to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); &

3) Even then, it applies only "when the public safety may require it."

#Trump #StephenMiller #law #immigration #DueProcess #AmericanAutocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-2/suspension-clause-and-writ-of-habeas-corpus

4/ Via David Rothkopf:

So, the WH Deputy Chief of Staff says they're looking at suspending habeas and the mayor of a major city is arrested for seeking further information about possible ICE abuses in his city. In the past hour or two. We're already a police state but are teetering at the edge of something worse.

President Trump fires all three Democrats on the bipartisan, independent Consumer Product Safety Commission. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/05/09/trump-fires-three-democrats-cpsc/83537936007/

Another of the best people nominated https://www.byteseu.com/996748/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics

‘Let That Sink in’: Suspending Habeas Corpus Is on the Table Says Stephen Miller https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/05/let-that-sink-in-suspending-habeas-corpus-is-on-the-table-says-stephen-miller/ #Trump #Fascism