Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Without Congressional action, the man who imagines the world revolves around him has now brought the United States into war with Iran.

#Trump #Iran #war
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/he-did-it-the-us-is-at-war-with-iran

•US Intel confirmed Iran has no nukes
•Iran never attacked the USA
•Iran offered to revive nuclear deal
•Iran is a signature to the NPT
•Iran allows full IAEA inspections

And all that notwithstanding

•Trump had no approval from Congress

And Trump ignored all that and bombed a sovereign nation of 92 million people. If we had a Congress with a spine he would be impeached immediately for this atrocity.

I’m not saying we have the votes to impeach. I’m saying that you DO NOT do this without Congressional approval and if Johnson doesn’t grow a spine and learn to be a real boy tomorrow we have a BFing problem that puts our very Republic at risk.

it'd sure be neat if criminals dodging charges like Trump, Ken Paxton, Netanyahu were held to account rather than given powerful positions to abuse THAT WOULD BE SWELL MISTER

Isn't it funny how the conservatives who want us to overthrow the regime in #Iran -- which they accurately condem as a "theocratic dictatorship" -- would love to establish such a dictatorship in the USA?

What is sad, and crazy, is during the pandemic (COVID), many in law enforcement did not want to wear a mask.

Now, here we are in 2025, and suddenly mask are no longer a problem, because they seem eager to wear them, but for all the wrong reasons.

#Ice #Police #Cops

We are at war. Trump wants to end our freedoms. It's time for Democratic leaders to grasp that. They need to use every legal means available to vocally push back including creating a shadow cabinet like in the UK. My new article https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/elie-mystal-democrats-should-form

@SnowshadowII @SherBeareth @samiamsam They are absolutely trying to do that. Kristi Noem was in Detroit yesterday talking nonsense about the dangerous, crime-ridden northern border. Meanwhile the only border-related crimes I'm aware of are truck drivers trying to smuggle cocaine *into Canada.* It's us! The US! We're doing the crimes! But I wouldn't be surprised if fearmongering and bizarre paranoia about Canada becomes a standard MAGA talking point.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )

Just to make teachers' jobs especially impossible, they're expected to address inequalities from "generating a student’s final mark or declining their admission based on an AI-generated decision”. A *huge* issue - holds teachers responsible for addressing algorithmic accountability. It's ... a lot.

The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

Here are mine.

"Putin is afraid to admit how many [Russian] people have died.
Because if the moment comes when he needs to mobilize, his society will be afraid,"
Zelensky said.

Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers.

"Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports," Zelensky said.

He also cited the case of a deceased Israeli citizen fighting on Russia's side,
whom Moscow had passed off as a Ukrainian soldier.
https://kyivindependent.com/by-dumping-bodies-during-exchanges-russia-afraid-to-admit-scale-of-casualties-zelensky-says/

“I’ve said it before, Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours. There’s an old rule that wherever a Russian soldier sets foot, that’s ours,” Vladimir Putin said today. https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/20/wherever-a-russian-soldier-sets-foot-that-s-ours-vladimir-putin-declares

Funny how anti-regulation #MAGA types love the Bald Eagle.

It nearly went extinct—saved by banning DDT, the Endangered Species Act, and habitat protection. All government action.

By 1963, only 417 nesting pairs were left. By 2007, over 10,000. Nixon signed those protections. Even he cared more than today's GOP. So when a MAGA fan flaunts an eagle, remind them: “Woke” liberals and federal regs saved that bird. Not them.

LAT - A 37-year-old US citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot says he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-20/border-patrol-agents-brag-in-front-of-detaine

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

For a truce, #Russia demanded 4 Ukrainian regions, which would force Ukraine to give up territory, industry and abandon millions.

We collected stories from these areas that show what the true depth of this loss would be.