Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"#Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With #Trump."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/3/garber-500-million-trump/

"The University is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement…[Garber] said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials."

#Academia #DefendResearch #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Tariffs without Congressional approval are taxation without representation. Time to throw tea into the harbor.

Baker has him "never especially wedded to facts." No, he lies. His lies "increasingly remind scholars" authoritarian leaders seeking "to control information." No, he censors and propagandizes. This newspeak underscores the #BrokenTimes own fear of truth and direct language.

“World-renowned Israeli writer David Grossman said coming to the realization that Israel is committing genocide was extremely painful, but he now has a moral obligation to speak up.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Opinion | How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours
https://wapo.st/47bZIiI

This is why you don't know if the water is safe to drink or the food is safe to eat or the air is safe to breath. This is why the dam failed, the plane crashed, the bridge collapsed, the town flooded.

This is why you don't know when the storm is coming or where the hurricane is making landfall.

This is why, no matter how high the water rises, or how far the fire burns, how hard the earth shakes or how fast the twister moved, nobody's coming.

You're on your own so he could have this.

All across the country, we’re putting up billboards in GOP districts that call Republicans out for covering up the Epstein files. We want to do more of this, but the number of billboards and districts depends on the amount of money we raise. Pitch in if you can: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/epstein-billboards?refcode=mastodon20250802directpost&source=mastodon

They also house other well-known inmates, such as Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah. Some victims' families have expressed outrage over the transfer, calling it "preferential treatment" and a "cover-up."

Trump was impeached, twice.

Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

#Smithsonian #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump
https://www.courant.com/2025/08/01/media-public-broadcasting-trump/?share=uun5ud2mpctrdprwgu2h

If they ask you
if you are planning
on wearing your mask
forever,
tell them you know
that you will not last
forever,
but you’re willing
to do what you can
to take care of others
for as long
as you are still here.

*

The 281st week of plague poems…

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/plague-poems-the-two-hundred-and-eighty-first-week/

"In recent days, I’ve spoken with dozens of Gazans who are furious about what is unfolding around them. They are angry, one told me, at the “hordes of selfish people who are attacking aid convoys to steal and collect aid in a horrific manner without caring for Gazans who chose not to participate in these humiliating and demeaning displays of inhumanity, no matter the level of hunger.” But their anger is directed primarily at Hamas, which they hold responsible for putting the people of Gaza in this position, and for its continued refusal to end the war that it started. “Hitler fought in his bunker until he killed himself in World War II in the Battle of Berlin,” another person said, complaining that Hamas is hunkered down in its tunnels, willing to see Gaza destroyed to the very last child."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/hamas-wants-famine/683724/?gift=VJ2n9up78q38NTikVq8V9ZK7q-_yKZKuxeygSyoJTd0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Rosa Parks, Helen Keller statues set to be dedicated at #Alabama State Capitol in October https://alabamareflector.com/2025/07/31/rosa-parks-helen-keller-statues-set-to-be-dedicated-at-alabama-state-capitol-in-october/?emci=521fb322-7b6d-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=c90bfcf9-076e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=136240 #BlackHistory

President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the agency reported significant revisions to May and June jobs data.

As Trump signals he will fire or replace government officials who publish negative inflation or jobs numbers, it’s a good time to remember that the reason communism killed millions of people in China under Mao was government officials being pressured to lie about how much food they actually had.

A HER3-targeting antibody–drug conjugate for leptomeningeal metastasis
https://rdcu.be/eySK8

I wrote about ChatGPT’s new Agent, which was not worth the time investment in my experiments. It couldn’t even complete many of the tasks its own interface suggested I try, and was confused about the current date. https://www.fastcompany.com/91376887/openai-chatgpt-agent

RFK Jr. and his toadies want to move this country away from communities helping each other and toward a survival of the fittest battle royale. We do not need to follow them. We can dig in and look around for ways to help our local communities. Many of you already have been. I see you. Thanks.