Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

A new study shows 60% of Americans don’t have basic necessities to live. My hot economic take is everyone making $100K or less should pay $0 federal income tax. They pay enough in state, county, city, property, sales, & toll tax.

That kept money will go into local economies, ignite small biz growth, & get people out of debt. Make up any gap from lost federal tax by taxing billionaires & billion dollar corps at 1940-1980 rates.

200M Americans win. 800 billionaires are still billionaires.

Do It

Trump-appointed judge blocks $11 billion in cuts to public health funding https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/051925_health_funding/trump-appointed-judge-blocks-11-billion-cuts-public-health-funding/
A coalition of 23 states including Arizona won a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from slashing more than $11 billion in public health funding approved by Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic.
#Tucson #Arizona

The amount of money that the World Health Organization is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, director-general Tedros says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly #WHA in Geneva.
#globalhealth

Phillip: But he #negotiated himself down off of a hill that he climbed on his own. I'm not sure how that's creating #leverage. #China didn’t give them anything. Backing down is not leverage

Attention, the United States!

Russian propagandist Solovyev threatens the US with Poseidon nuclear torpedoes, which will "raise radioactive tsunamis that will blow the entire continental United States of America to hell."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

The US hasn’t seen a human bird flu case in 3 months. Experts are wondering why.
https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-cdc-8857e56c7b91d82613042beaba169a31

Polish customs seized 5 metric tons of tires for civilian Boeing aircraft which were due to transit through Belarus and Russia in an attempt to circumvent EU sanctions.

Thank you, Poland, for your vigilance! I've written repeatedly that the issue of Russia looking for workarounds against sanctions is important. Sanctions won't work if Russia finds loopholes in them.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin

"And yet 'journalists' such as Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios focus on Biden’s cognitive state months after he left office, without a word about Trump’s erratic and unpredictable behavior as well as signs that he is mentally unstable. …

If the media wants to reclaim its role as a bulwark against tyranny, it must first acknowledge its complicity."

#Trump #Biden #dementia #CognitiveDecline #media #JakeTapper
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1. The "big beautiful bill" that Republicans advanced late last night is a massive transfer of wealth from the poorest Americans to the richest

The bottom 20% of earners will see their income DECLINE BY 10%

The top 0.1% will get a GIGANTIC WINDFALL

InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel
L: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020832
posted on 2025.05.18 at 08:22:39 (c=1, p=8)

#JDVance: Amateur #Pope Assassin
"#Vance was accused of 'basically giving #God the finger' after he posted images from inside the Sistine Chapel, since photography and electronic equipment is strictly prohibited in the chapel."
#PopeLeo
https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/jd-vance-pope-leo-meets-vatican-360339-20250519

*triple take*

via Rupar:

REPORTER: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit?

LEAVITT: This bill does not add to the deficit

A veteran who won the Republican primary election to be a Representative for Vermont in 2022 is a solar energy professional who owns a fledgling solar business.

He's now whining that his anti-science political party' "One Big Beautiful Bill" will bankrupt him.
https://www.energysage.com/blog/letter-to-us-representatives-solar-tax-credit/?utm_campaign=social-25&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=timely

Republicans handed #Trump a $4 trillion blank check—baked into the “Big Beautiful #Bill.”

Permanent #tax cuts for the rich. Deep cuts to #Medicaid and SNAP. And no debt ceiling to rein him in. They aren’t balancing the budget…they’re nuking the brakes.

#SaveOurMedicaid and kill the bill!

Meet champion Nicusor Dan, the new President of #Romania Genius IQ, twice winner of the math Olympiad, both times with perfect scores, PhD in Math at France's Sorbonne and all round a soft spoken, hard working, decent man!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2xxzxkzxo

#eu #europeanunion #europe #Uk #romanian

#Trump #GulfOfAmerica #GulfOfMexico

We have your back in this fight, President Biden.