Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

CNBC - President Trump is demanding Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s immediate resignation. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/trump-fed-cook-pulte-mortgage-bondi.html

@Bandersnatch @DemocracyMattersALot To make your voices heard - clearly - donate to individual campaigns. No more empowering the central committee.

ICYMI
The #PedoFuhrer has had enough with slavery?
How dare museums teach history?
Let’s just close the:
Museum of American
History
The US Holocaust Museum
The African-American Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
Now, do you believe me when I tell you he’s stark raving mad?
#DumpTrump

#Louisiana mobilized 135 personnel over the weekend & expect them to arrive in #Washington on Tuesday, said Lt. Col. Noel Collins, a spox for the Louisiana #NationalGuard.

Information about where the #troops would patrol & where they would be housed has been scant. A #Trump admin official said Monday that the Guard members “will protect federal assets, create a safe environment for #law enforcement officials to carry out their duties when required, & provide a visible presence to deter crime.”

"Today, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is flipping the script. He’s not walking into the White House as a lone supplicant like he did back in February, when Trump publicly humiliated him for not showing enough gratitude for American aid. This time, Zelenskyy is coming armed—with Macron, Starmer, Meloni, Merz, von der Leyen, Stubb, and Rutte. It’s not just Ukraine in that room. It’s Europe. All of Europe."

~ Michael Cohen

#Putin #Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine
/23

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-oval-office-showdown

@GottaLaff "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law". The third amendment to the USA constitution. But who knew it would be needed for the confederate army that is massing their forces in Washington D.C.

You may remember reading about the plastic surgeon, Dr. Elisabeth Potter, who was doing a breast reconstruction when she was called out of surgery by United Healthcare to explain why the patient needed an overnight hospital stay.

Well, Dr. Potter has a lot more to say about how the insurance side of medical care works, from a doctor’s perspective. And it’s horrible. For starters:

“It's things like getting a preauthorization for a surgery. I employ two people full-time just to get authorizations for me to do necessary medical procedures for women affected by breast cancer. … They tell me what type of implants I can place, and it varies from insurance to insurance.”

And wait until you read about the peer-to-peer calls, where the supposed peer has no relevant expertise:

I say, "Well, I'd like to talk to you about diep flap surgery." And I hear a pause, and then I say, "Do you know what a diep flap is?" And they say no.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/she-exposed-the-insurance-industrys-worst-behavior.-now-theyre-coming-after-her

h/t @rooneymcnibnug

#UnitedHealthcare #healthcare

If you voted Trump because you liked the pre-Covid economy, what you actually liked was President Obama’s economy. All Trump did was take credit for President Obama’s hard work. Typical.

If you had simply voted for Kamala Harris, you wouldn’t be paying high tariffs or watching job losses now.

Romeo, a five-year-old American citizen child, “was receiving ‘life-saving’ treatment at a New Orleans children’s hospital for his ‘rare and aggressive form’ of cancer” when he was illegally deported with his mom, a lawsuit says: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article311666872.html#storylink=cpy

@RealJournalism
Did I miss it? When was nobody Laura Loomer elected to do all Donald Trump's thinking for him? #LauraLoomer #loomer #trumpdecisionmaking

Trump’s first summit with Putin was a national embarrassment. His second was even worse.

With high stakes, the Republican didn’t just fail by objective metrics, he also failed by his own metrics. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-summit-putin-alaska-ukraine-russia-rcna225539

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-11/lausd-bass-pledge-back-to-school-protections-immigrant-families

Trump-Putin summit papers were left on a hotel printer. The EIGHT PAGES had US State Department markings and contained sensitive info detailing the event, including names and phone numbers of #US and #Russian #government employees. #Trump also planned to give #Putin a ceremonial gift.

This embarrassing cock-up is the latest, just after #ICE recently included a random person in an unencrypted group chat and the Yemen #signalgate incident in March.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

#uspol #news #npr #wtf