Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Remember the pilot who was lost behind enemy lines a week or so ago? Have they ever told us his name? Asking his mission is probably too much, but I'm beginning to doubt the whole story. #iraq

#Ukraine secures oil lifeline from Gulf states in exchange for military support

🖊️ Ben Makuch and Veronika Melkozerova

After reaching pacts with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, Zelenskyy said similar agreements were in the works with Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-secures-oil-lifeline-gulf-states-military-support

In continued proof that the recent DHS shakeup was nothing more than a public relations stunt, ICE detained Annie Ramos, a 22-year-old Dreamer spouse of a US military service member, for nearly a week: https://americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/stephen-millers-cruelty-rages-on

“Melania Trump should be investigated over her ties to Epstein. Here she is with Amanda Ungaro, who flew on the Lolita Express at just 16 years old.”

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/careful-me-b-melania-trump-receives-brutal-warning-amanda-ungarowho-she-1791169

#Melania #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #SexTrafficking

Dunning-Kruger effect.

When Hegseth removed Maj. Gen. William Green Jr. from his position as top Army chaplain last week, it escaped many folks' notice that Green is not just a Baptist, but a Black Baptist. As Adelle M. Banks notes, Rev. Boise Kimber, president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. responded to Green's firing by stating the following:

#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://wordandway.org/2026/04/10/hegseths-removal-of-top-army-chaplain-raises-troubling-questions-from-black-denomination/

With Trump I try to imagine the worse thing he could do, while understanding whatever I come up with is wildly optimistic.

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NHK: Water cooling suspended for nuclear fuel storage pool at Fukushima Daini plant

"...Tokyo Electric Power Company says an alarm went off at the Daini plant shortly before 3 p.m. on Sunday to warn about an abnormality with the pump that circulates cooling water for the storage pool at the No.1 reactor.

TEPCO says workers saw smoke rising from the pump and shut down the equipment shortly after 3 p.m., suspending the cooling function. It says a backup pump at the reactor is currently offline for inspection...."

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260406_03/

NYT reporting: Some active-duty Marines are already calling Mr. Hegseth’s agency the “Department of War Crimes” rather than the “Department of War,” the president’s name for the Defense Department, said Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat of Massachusetts, who served in Iraq as a Marine.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/politics/trump-iran-war-crimes-truth-social.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.hn2S.IhkhS2DtVo9z

#uspol #IranWar

35 days of Iran war could've funded Mamdani's proposed city-owned grocery stores for 800 years.

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

Don’t let this go by unnoticed

"We're going to bomb them back to the stone age -"

The president said.

"Where they belong."

And there was anger in his voice when he said this, it was not a joke, or hyperbole. Although, no one really believes he will do anything he says, I do think this is what he really *feels* and I don't get it.

Why? Why do the 93 million people who live in Iran 'belong' in the stone age? What did they do to the USA to deserve such contempt and violence?

The #Senate on Thursday sent a bipartisan funding deal to reopen #DHS back to the #House, which convened for a 2-minute session & took no action to pass it. The Senate’s bill to fund the agency is now formally back with the House, & the #shutdown will continue at least through Monday, when the chamber will hold its next session. The plan would have funded DHS through Sept 30 but omit money for #Trump’s #immigration crackdown.

#USpol #Republicans #dysfunction #Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/house-no-action-homeland-security-funding-shutdown.html?smid=url-share

French President Macron offers blunt advice publicly to US President Trump: “You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don't say the opposite every day of what you said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn't talk every day.” https://www.france24.com/en/macron-says-unrealistic-open-hormuz-strait-force-urges-trump-be-serious