Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

One of #MahmoudKhalil’s lawyers, Amy Greer, criticized the #Trump admin’s legal maneuvering as “cruel, transparent delay tactics” meant to keep her client away from his wife & newborn son ahead of their first Father’s Day as a family.

“Instead of celebrating together, he is languishing in #ICE #detention as punishment for his advocacy on behalf of his fellow #Palestinians,” she said in a stmnt. “It is unjust, it is shocking, & it is disgraceful.”

#law #immigration #Constitution #FreeSpeech

According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

"This is the fourth instance where Pam Bondi’s DOJ has charged a Democrat who did not meekly collude in DHS’ immigration gulag: Milwaukee Judge Hanna Dugan, Baraka, McIver, and David Huerta (they had to dismiss the charges against Baraka, and he is suing for malicious prosecution). A pattern is emerging:" Pam Bondi's Four Political Prosecutions - emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/12/pam-bondis-four-political-prosecutions/

While we're talking about Whiskey Pete Hegseth...He had three days of hearings this week, each day worse than the day before. The full HASC Republicans got bored, so it was almost as if Dems had the majority, bc they sure as FUCK weren't bored flogging Whiskey Pete. There were so many highlights--

#Macron: "Si #Israël devait être attaqué dans le cadre d'une représaille par l' #Iran la #France participerait aux opérations de protection et de #défense"

In the meantime : Where is #Trump?
Harassing and oppressing its own population..
That’s one way to lead the #USA

https://www.bfmtv.com/international/moyen-orient/iran/emmanuel-macron-si-israel-devait-etre-attaque-dans-le-cadre-d-une-represaille-par-l-iran-la-france-participerait-aux-operations-de-protection-et-de-defense_VN-202506130687.html

Judge denies to order the release of #MahmoudKhalil saying his preliminary injunction did not block the admin from detaining him on bases *other than* Secretary #MarcoRubio determination.

[under what other rationale is he being detained then???]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564334/gov.uscourts.njd.564334.306.0_1.pdf

#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #ViewpointDiscrimination #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary

In the US, a female economics student makes a minute traffic violation and is then shackled and transfered to a privately owned detention center… because she is an immigrant.

Do not visit the US under the Trump regime.

https://youtu.be/3af1nQD37bw?si=CEyCQhEc9hQrCsgn

In Maryland, "hundreds of Montgomery Blair High students walk out to protest classmate’s deportation, ICE actions.

‘We’re heartbroken, we’re angry and we’re not staying silent,’ organizers say."

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/06/12/montgomery-blair-high-students-walk-out-deportation/

Either way, #Netanyahu’s claim largely depends on #Israel’s formidable #intelligence community possessing a greater state of knowledge about Iran’s #nuclear program than either its #US counterparts or the #UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA).

As recently as 25 March, #TulsiGabbard, the US #DNI, told the #Senate intelligence cmte that the American intelligence community had assessed that #Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.

#geopolitics #MiddleEast

We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work.

what a fabulous paragraph

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qmz4x7himn4shw5b5fcw4xfx/post/3lrijowxijk2n

#US is helping #Israel intercept #Iran missiles

The US official did not say how the US provided assistance, however both US Air Force fighter aircraft & destroyer-based missile defenses have intercepted missiles in previous attacks.

The US has been moving assets nearer to Israel to assist in missile intercepts and to provide better protection of US bases in the region.

#Trump #geopolitics #MiddleEast #war
https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-attack#00000197-6ac9-d567-a7ff-ffd924550000

This is something I've *definitely* noticed that the right no longer understands.
#MemesFromOutside

#LA protester charged with assaulting officer says he was the one attacked: ‘I thought I was going to die’. | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/protester-charged-ice-los-angeles

Classic mistake: those around Trump and those who vote for him think they can do anything and face no accountability. His lawyers all get disbarred, and his voters who commit sexual assault go to prison like he doesn't.

He's the cult leader. He's the one who can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue. Nobody else. Even Elon can't replicate that with all his billions. Unlike Trump himself, when Trumpers crime they face consequences.

Kristi Noem will too. #ETTD

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-alex-padilla-resign-b2769489.html

Well that’s something anyway

#Senate #Republicans quietly stripped the provision from the #House #GOP's "big, beautiful bill" that would have allowed #Trump to circumvent the #courts & essentially serve as a #king.

#law #BigBeautifulBill #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #judiciary
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-contempt-courts-trump_n_684b9b3be4b0c4fd78ff7f2e

𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙮 𝙇𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙠𝙞 understood that physically attacking Sen. Padilla was outrageous and wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html