Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

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“We've been playing as a #band for over 20 years and we can't get our heads around the fact that for the first time, we're not allowed to take the stage,” said Breslaw. “We are a #British band being cancelled in #Britain, a British band that happens to be prominently #Jewish, and our musical DNA is Jewish. It's shocking."

“Oi Va Voi has only ever sung about humanity and compassion, and has played across borders. The idea that that people can pass judgment on us, and can close us down and see that we can't take to the stage, even though our fans have bought tickets to see us, is not acceptable,” he added."

https://www.thejc.com/news/features/jewish-bands-uk-show-cancelled-by-pro-palestine-activists-xqts3uqf?utm_source=sharebutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=top

Here is Trump's new EO on standards for scientific integrity.
The funny thing is these rules will prevent RFKJr from opening his mouth, since everything he says violates these principles and he'd be subject to explicit sanctions.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science

🇺🇦Ours are at home! The best news today. 390 out of 1,000 returned from russian captivity today.❤️‍🩹 We expect the prisoner exchange to continue.
Welcome home, our heroes!💙💛🫂
Heroyam slava!

"Harvard University is doing just the right thing. This is extortion. It's a vendetta using all powers of the government because of a political argument with Harvard. It is violating the First Amendment. It is also violating all the laws we have regarding administrative procedures..."
-L Summers
#Fascism #Trump #Extortion #Universities #Constitution #1A #USPol

WTAF

Via jamelle bouie:

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

‪Josh Block‬:
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En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

"You said there were no cuts to scientists & then the HHS spokesperson said, 'Actually, there were cuts to scientists & now we're trying to rehire them.' It gives the impression you're not sure about the personnel actions in own agency & that's an indication from your testimony today." -- Jon Ossoff just dismantled FDA Commissioner Makary

Trump and Noem’s latest authoritarian attack on higher education - revoking Harvard’s certification to host foreign students and visitors - is meant not only or even primarily to harm Harvard. It is meant to scare every U.S university and college into submitting to anything university administrators think Trump wants. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/16/DHS-Harvard/1571744857205/

"This administration is holding #Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, & coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," #KristiNoem said. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students & benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments."

[Gonna boost the NPR investigation that found NUMEROUS #antisemites serving in the #Trump admin.]

#law #immigration #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy

This is why so many have such mixed feelings about 2026 (and worse, 2028) talk.

Will elections even resemble normal, fair ones? Or will they be corrupted & even annulled, as we suspect? Election boards may not certify.. so many components. Scary stuff.

Marc Elias:

Some former DOJ attorneys are concerned Martin will use his new posts to spread disinformation, delegitimize future elections, and target leading Democrats and prosecutors who have pursued Trump. Indeed, it may already be happening

@AlliFlowers @samlitzinger That's true. Public education could use some good news.

Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

“The Catholic Church in Oklahoma had wanted taxpayers to fund the online charter school “faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Opponents warned that allowing it would blur the separation between church and state, sap money from public schools and possibly upend the rules governing charter schools in almost every state.”

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-oklahoma-public-religious-charter-school-170e3701926e29ea5072eb50f0db97b6

@AlliFlowers Yup. Your "Ffs" is the only correct response to Rubio's bullshit.

Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the #Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination.

This can't happen without congressional approval, he ruled.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282419/gov.uscourts.mad.282419.45.0.pdf

Your reminder

Theee democrats recently died in office clutching power

The “big beautiful bill” passed by one vote. 215-214.

Even with a Republican voting present and another literally falling asleep (Garbarino)

Those three votes would’ve killed it.

Now, this bill:
Makes Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, for the wealthy.l
Adds $3.8 trillion to the national debt
Cuts $500 billion from Medicare
Eliminates green energy tax credits, hindering climate initiatives

Friendly reminder.

The old rules no longer apply. Don't waste time in that frame. The bad guys don’t, but they count on you to do so.

#politics

As the posts here on the fediverse begin to accumulate, making the case that political violence against Israelis (or at the very least Israeli diplomatic staff) is different than anti-Jewish violence and the reposting of the American Jewish Committee shooter's "manifesto" spreads...

I'm not interested in parsing the distinction at the moment.

What I am interested in is paying attention to whether this remains an isolated incident or sparks acts that are nothing but anti-Jewish violence.

It's that second potentiality that concerns me.

Is my visibly Jewish dress going to put my family and friends in some kind of danger?

Is my Rabbi going to ask me to CC at Shul again?

Should I be worried about taking my wife and kid to see Matisyahu this summer?

These moments in time are very odd.

And I don't think many in progressive US movements understand the history of what has the potential to inspire anti-Jewish violence.

Another Republican own goal:

Greenland has just signed a lucrative minerals deal with Europe.
https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-permit-extraction-2075673