Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Sen. Ron Wyden revealed in a new letter to Senate colleagues Wednesday that AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile failed to create systems for notifying senators about government surveillance on Senate-issued devices — despite a legal requirement to do so.

Turns out data had been turned over to the government without notification.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/21/congress/exclusive-phone-companies-failed-to-warn-senators-about-surveillance-wyden-says-00361400

"We're the only country on the continent where the colonizers came to stay & we have never driven them out of our country," #Ramaphosa pointed out, after #Trump repeated #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories about a "genocide" of whites in #SouthAfrica.

Both Trump & Secy of #State #MarcoRubio have accused the govt of doing "terrible things" & expropriating white-owned land w/o compensation—something that has NOT happened.

#Disinformation #FactCheck #TrumpLies #WhiteSupremacy #racism #geopolitics

Now that the US News Media has spent several days reminding us that Joe Biden is old, perhaps they'd like to address the deranged moron who thinks that "stage 9 cancer" is a thing and who isn't sure whether he's required to defend & uphold the Constitution.

#MediaBias #MainstreamMedia #Sanewashing

If you haven't had a Covid booster in six months, I think you're eligible to get another one.
You might consider this, before the Republicans take away public health vaccines, which they're already doing.

Bribe accepted.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qatar-jet-trump-boeing-pentagon/

#Trump ambushes #SouthAfrica's president in fractious White House meeting

After a cordial beginning, where #Ramaphosa took pains to stress his desire to improve relations w/the #US, things turned #hostile. Trump repeated his false claims of a 'white genocide' in South Africa & then ordered the lights dimmed to play videos he claimed supported his allegation.

#disinformation #propaganda #FactCheck #TrumpLies
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/21/nx-s1-5404667/south-africa-white-house-visit-ramaphosa-trump-tensions

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

#LEAVITT: “This bill does not add to the #deficit.”

Reality:

Independent estimates from the #Tax Foundation and CRFB say the “Big Beautiful Bill” could balloon the deficit by $3.3T–$5.3T over 10 years due to sweeping tax cuts.

The White House claims it saves $1.6T but the Council of Economic Advisers hasn’t backed that up with evidence.

Bottom line?

The math doesn’t lie. But apparently, the messaging does.

Trump admin lifts hold on offshore wind farm, doesn’t explain why
Reasons for the hold were never backed up, and nobody's explaining why it ended.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/trump-admin-lifts-hold-on-offshore-wind-farm-doesnt-explain-why/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/health/fda-covid-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250520/p74#a250520p74

You'd never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media

And that they are asserting that J6ers who Trump pardoned for attacking police were ALSO pardoned for prior drug and gun charges. This is not how you make police or the streets safer. It’s how you fire up a mob.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5304454/jan-6-pardons-drugs-firearms

Imagine Biden saying he doesn’t want to do anything that helps Tennessee

If you are a lawyer, a judge or just love a country based on equal protection under the law it’s time you’ve got to stand with LaMonica. A President who encourage his political supporters to attack the government is now using the government to attack his political opponents.

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/

Trump uses antisemitism the way he uses religion, patriotism, and the law:

To silence his critics and empower his base.

Nothing more.
https://www.theindex.media/trumps-selective-antisemitism/

That’s generous of you

Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”

Wut

Via Rupar:

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

"Hey @jaketapper, is there any timeline for reporting on Donald Trump's clear pattern of cognitive deterioration? I figured you'd be a great person to ask given that you've done so much research and reporting on this area of medicine."

~ Charlotte Clymer quoted by Jesus Mesa

#Biden #Trump #CognitiveDecline #dementia #JakeTapper #media
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https://www.newsweek.com/jake-tapper-draws-liberal-outrage-over-new-biden-book-2073352