Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year. – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/abortion-ban-cost-report/

During the Covid outbreak, there was a strong case to charge Donald Trump with negligent homicide

Not this time.

This is murder.

Interviews w/ #FederalWorkers show that a wide spectrum of govt #spending has already been stalled. Major #scientific #research #grants have already been terminated without public notice in recent weeks. At one #FederalAgency, staff were told — via a directive that took effect on a Sunday — that almost all contracts over $250k no longer could be signed.

#law #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

Deadlines in the coming weeks will clarify how much the admin…[will break] the #law, enacted in 1974 after President Richard M. #Nixon’s #Watergate scandal. White House ofcls are planning to “defer” ~200 separate accounts across the #FederalGovernment, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the matter….These delays, which would affect billions of dollars at a wide range of US agencies,…would be illegal if they prevent the #funds from being spent before the fiscal year end on Sept 30, the people said.
#Trump

You know what would be funny? If a bunch of people dressed the way ICE agents do and rode up on Deerfield or Andover Academy and grabbed a bunch of rich white boys. Drive them 20 miles away and let them loose, then burn the vans and disappear. Let the rich know no one’s safe under these rules.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Over 160 injured and 11 killed so far in the Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk region, Zelensky says. The attack hit civilian infrastructure including homes, schools and a passenger train with over 500 on board. Five carriages were destroyed.

New Treatment May Cure Severe Type 1 Diabetes, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-treatment-may-cure-severe-type-1-diabetes-study-finds

#DozingDon #TrumpIsUnfit

Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting police officer who killed himself after Capitol riot
https://apnews.com/article/officer-jeffrey-smith-trump-capitol-riot-trial-8b9c2130923fbd17f0e3bc9c10b538f2?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Washington Post publishes an op-ed by Kristi Noem attacking Harvard. I wonder which of the two pillars--"personal liberties and free markets"--Jeff Bezos would say this supports.🤔 If you want independent pro-democracy news, information and analysis, sign…

FFS

The #US has been waiting to hear from #Trump about #Iran’s attack on the US base in #Qatar, but his first social media post since the strikes is a complaint about #media skepticism of his statement that Iran’s #nuclear sites were “totally obliterated.” Trump criticized CNN, ABC & NBC, calling them “sleazebags.”

Trump is human garbage

#Iran #Iraq #Israel #MiddleEast #war

During last night's attack on Kyiv, Putin's drones killed 9 more citizens in the capital.

How long will the world continue to accept, that one man keeps murdering people in frustration with his own failed war?

We should not wait for Washington to introduce the long awaited devastating sanctions on Russia. We should ourselves introduce such sanctions right now.

A valid point! They can’t claim there was no time to consult the Congressional Gang of Eight and share key intelligence with them, as required before committing the nation to war.

The #BigUglyBill is "an extinction-level event for higher #education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential." https://newrepublic.com/article/197017/budget-bill-kill-higher-education?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

#universities

Disbarment.... sweet disbarment.

"Finland is a vastly different country with a tiny, homogenous society. But its education success must surely offer some lessons … and its investment in teachers seems an obvious place to begin."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCe2m0kiSg

#education #teaching #Finland