Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

From the article:

"A relative shared a video from Venezuelan broadcaster teleSUR featuring his brother, Arturo Suárez, on the plane after it landed near Caracas. “We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez said. “We were kidnapped.” He went on to say: “We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”"

#ICE #fascism

#GiftArticle

#Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 #judges who ruled against him

A comprehensive analysis of hundreds of lawsuits against Trump policies shows dozens of examples of defiance, delay & dishonesty, which experts say pose an unprecedented threat to the #US #legal system.

#law #judiciary #Constitution #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower
https://wapo.st/4eVMYP0

Mother Jones: “We Were Kidnapped”

On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/we-were-kidnapped-prisoner-swap-venezuela-bukele-cecot-trump-ms13-deportation-el-salvador/

#ICE #Fascism

WATCH: “Denying it will not stop it.” Genocide scholar (and former IDF soldier) Omer Bartov on why he wrote his “Never Again” NYT piece

BLACK LIVES MATTER On this day in 1960, 4 Black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC. They sparked a national movement across our country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly & wait to be served. This is where our country is headed again.

#NATO has been warning us that Russia might call millions of men into arms as soon as 2026.

Putin is failing in Ukraine. His armies moved slower than a snail would have.

But he also knows the West isn’t ready to fight swarms of fiber-optic fpv drones on the battlefield, nor to defend their cities against 1000 Shahed drones attacking daily

#Putin is desperate. He sees this one chance before we’re ready!

He needs a win to justify taking total control over his population. Lithuania or Estonia..

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/trumps-epstein-distraction-playbook?publication_id=4163578&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=5mz9h

If you need further proof Russia has eyes on Europe; See announcement by Peskov already in April, that Russia is ready for ”Mass mobilisation like WW2 at any moment.”

https://kyivindependent.com/kremlin-says-russia-ready-for-full-scale-mobilization-like-in-wwii-at-any-moment/

Putin has changed legislation to close down bank accounts of people subject to draft and not reporting in.

Russia also will ban WhatsApp and possibly rest of Western internet very soon.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/18/there-s-a-99-percent-chance-it-will-happen

These are measures to contain and control the population in such mass mobilisation.

“But shortly before the new safety regulations were due to come into force early this year, Donald Trump’s new administration swiftly killed them off. A crackdown on gas leaks from pipelines was also pared back. This was followed by an exodus of senior officials from PHMSA, which oversees millions of miles of US pipelines.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/pipeline-safety-fears-trump-cuts
#TrumpKills

#tourism #ICE
Twenty-one employees of cruise ships have been detained — and some deported — while their ship was docked in Norfolk
https://www.pilotonline.com/2025/07/20/cruise-ship-workers-detained-deported/

“Jonathan Capehart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist, has taken a buyout at The Washington Post after 18 years with the paper, Axios' Sara Fischer has learned.”

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-d51f7833-bc42-4dd0-bce6-352302479043.html

@thetnholler.bsky.social Jake Tapper is CLEARLY in bed with Trump.

Ezra Klein gets it right. NYC values, not ethno-nationalism. #Gift https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/antisemitism-american-jews-israel-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.yUyZ.CUTVjFZ7TEE_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The largest percentage and largest number of people ICE arrested in June had no criminal history. New data was released this week by the Deportation Data Project.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-arrest-surge-in-may-and-june

TACO Trump will fold before it gets to trial. He does not do depositions

The Trump-Epstein Scandal Couldn't Get Worse, Right? Oh, Here's Another Thing

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/trump-epstein-scandal-couldnt-get-worse?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104854

First rule of good writing: Never use 18 words where one or two will do:

“Held hostage” and “sexually assaulted”
Would have made this piece much more succinct and clear.

“Mr. Trump took her into a bedroom and forcibly kissed and fondled her, and restrained her from leaving. She also said that a 22-year-old contestant told her that Mr. Trump later that night crawled into her bed uninvited."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.PPwD.t56VFl9gdEwj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Gabbard Promises More Political Prosecutions, Accuses Obama Of ‘Treasonous Conspiracy’ Against Trump

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/gabbard-promises-more-political?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104849

This meme is now circulating at warp speed across Canada after their newspapers warned Canadians they now have to pay $250.00 to visit our country. THIS IS SICKENING! That's $1500.00 for a family of six! How will our tourism survive, especially our border towns. Is this making us "better again"?