Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@gleick Senators Merkley and Klobuchar are doing just that right now, live on the Senate floor. It's good stuff ! Should be on (or repeated) all day on all "news" channels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt1XecYfI

"New images of the White House East Wing show a much larger demolition site. This is why the White House ordered employees not to share any new photographs or videos of the demolition process."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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Photo below from Parnas' article.

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-struggles-to-recruit-ice

"The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/demolishing-the-presidency

@AlliFlowers True, but he'dhave someone else do it. His tiny hands couldn't handle the knitting needles.

UPDATE: Trump’s nominee for special counsel Paul Ingrassia drops out

Trump Said to Demand Justice Department Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/21/trump-230-million-doj

What to know about the Amazon Web Services outage
"Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption because Amazon’s problem took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal."
https://apnews.com/article/what-to-know-about-the-amazon-web-services-outage-0000019a02c5dea7a7ba2fcda5bc0000

"A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pardoned-capitol-rioter-charged-threatening-hakeem-jeffries-nyc-trump/

It turns out that it costs less to extend the premium tax credits that keep ACA health insurance affordable than it did to pass the Big Ugly Bill that #Trump wanted so badly last summer. (Center on Budget & Policy Priorities)

BREAKING: A Ninth Circuit judge has sua sponte — on their own — already called for a vote on whether there should be an en banc rehearing (which means all active judges will vote on whether the matter should be reheard). Briefing is called for on that question, due by mid-week.

"Why should we wave the US flag during protests?
Because this flag is OUR flag.

This is NOT Trump’s flag.
This is NOT the MAGA flag.
This is NOT the flag of the GOP.
This is the flag of the USA.
It stands for all of us.
ALL of US!

And together we stand in protest against those who would destroy the USA by undermining the US Constitution and the government that it created: of the people, by the people, for the people."

#NoKings #US #America #USA #Memes

“We didn’t expect them to throw tear gas right outside of our school building.” https://theintercept.com/2025/10/19/chicago-schools-ice-national-guard-trump/

“Mike Johnson and all his fellow pro-Kings propagandists hoped for violence, extremism, and evidence of hate for America. But instead they saw peace, patriotism, and loyalty to America.” 🇺🇸 #NoKings https://www.thebulwark.com/p/long-live-no-kings-mass-protests-lewis-carroll-jabberwocky-frabjous-resistance?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The%2BBulwark&utm_campaign=publer

The FOTUS had no permission to use the song but shared the stupid AI pile of crap (no pun intended) anyway. Somehow, I’m not surprised.

“‘This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately,’ Loggins said in a statement shared with Variety on Monday.” - Variety
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/kenny-loggins-slams-donald-trump-danger-zone-ai-video-1236556964/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANjYAtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHstDkpMh6wp_puQhnVF64Yj4nB30Hzdni2ji_U_QjA0ABWMqwqK50emAWY-r_aem_6Evd57yZ_tw-iueA4IytFA

Podcast producers: put up a fucking website for your show, with episode listing.

When I want to recommend an episode to someone, what link do I give them? Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, …?

There should be one independent and canonical link to your work.

Have some self respect!

Every time Democrats help farmers, farmers punish them by voting Republican in the next elections.

Republicans know how to get votes from American farmers. All you have to do is constantly mistreat them, and you will have their undying loyalty.

https://newrepublic.com/post/201546/donald-trump-budget-gop-rep-rural-hospitals

Trump’s Secretary of Lying shared the “your mom” text exchange — where she wouldn’t answer who picked Hungary as the site of the Putin-Trump meeting @svdate.bsky.social tried to explain the significance, which is almost definitely lost on her (and Trump)