Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

German Chancellor Merz sets the record straight after Trump tries to draw moral equivalence between Russia and Ukrainian actions: "Ukraine is only targeting military targets. Not civilians, not private [property], not energy infrastructure. This is the difference."

#PopeLeoXIV plans to canonize Peter To Rot, a village catechist from #PapuaNewGuinea who was murdered by the Japanese in 1945 for his faith. The Japanese were losing #WW2 and blamed the Catholics for holding worship services and praying. He was eventually imprisoned and then murdered when he refused to stop holding services or praying. His early canonizations show me that #PopeLeo is taking a stand against #Fascism in all its forms. https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=7611

“Having a senior official placed in any #InspectorGeneral’s office who reports to the agency head, in this case #DNI, would undermine the entire construct of #independence that is integral to the IG’s #oversight mission,” said Mark Greenblatt, a former #Trump-appointed Interior Department inspector general & former chairman of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency [#CIGIE].

#law #corruption #Project2025 #USpol

Keep 'em coming

Via Democracy Docket:

NEW: A coalition of immigrant rights groups sue the #Trump administration to block it from paying El Salvador to imprison hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who were removed from the U.S. without due process, claiming the agreement violates federal law.

#Gabbard placed top adviser inside the #ODNI’s watchdog office, officials say

Director of National Intelligence #TulsiGabbard installed one of her top advisors within the office of the #InspectorGeneral of the #intelligence community while it is investigating the March leak of a #Signal chat among top #Trump ofcls about the Houthi bombing campaign, compromising the #watchdog office’s integrity, officials & lawmakers say.

#law #corruption #Project2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/tulsi-gabbard-odni-watchdog-signalgate/

#TACOTrump

Trump Administration Bows to Judge and Brings Deportee Back to U.S.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-bows-to-judge-and-brings-deportee-back-to-us/

🍌 Rep Dean tries to get through to Lutnick #TrumpTradeWar

"Former #Florida Republican congressman and Trump critic David Jolly on Thursday officially launched his campaign for governor as a Democrat."
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5334167-david-jolly-launches-governor-campaign/

Disgusting to hear that the MPs - who did the Haka in the New Zealand parliament to protest against an attempt to reverse the treaty between the invaders and the Maori and grab Maori land - have been slapped with a long suspension from parliament. Apparently it was "intimidating" to protest a land grab

Playing all the xenophobic hits. Trump cited the Boulder attack as a reason for this new travel ban, but he was Egyptian, and Egypt is… not on the list. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

Brian Tyler Cohen
This!

WATCH: Terry Vo speaks out against the ICE raids terrorizing Nashville immigrants

A disabled woman named Alma Bowman spent 30 months, nearly three years, in ICE custody during the first Trump regime.

The daughter of an American veteran, they revoked her status because she wrote $1200 in bad cheques twenty years ago. Which she paid back.

When she finally got out of the camps, she worked with the US government as a whistleblower to prosecute detention centre employees who were sterilizing immigrants without consent.

Who were performing unnecessary hysterectomies and tubal ligations.

She used her real name. She stood up for injustice. She tried to protect others.

Now ICE has taken her again, and the media have been largely silent.

The MAGA crowds are cheering because they have no compassion.

No one should be treated this way.

I’m going to keep saying her name until she gets the attention she deserves. She needs to be released.

Justice for Alma.

https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/news/aaaja-almabowman

#ice #immigration #fascism #almabowman #uspol #authoritarianism #disability #ableism #eugenics

"You don’t need a crystal ball to predict that sometime this summer or fall, there will be a catastrophic #hurricane, or perhaps two back-to-back. There will be loss of life, and property damage into the billions. And the newly gutted #FEMA will not be equal to the challenge." https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=aac61539fd1fb209b44b9f9d0d8d28ac.3325&s=b20a76aaf2dc9c14d5a8f0355e1568d9

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/republicans-are-party-killing-us?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=103142

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%,
Putting Them at Risk of Closing

ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.

Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding

Byron Donalds' behavior is emblematic of Republicans' bow to the cult of Trump.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/gop-rep-claims-their-biden-witch-hunt?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=103032