Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@VisualStuart I hope he lingers for a long while, suffering the entire time while his family watches helplessly.
I hope his death is slow and painful with no medical resource.

And then he can burn in hell for eternity.

The Traitor Mitch McConnell deserves every second of it.

“If you want a new Volvo, congratulations! That's totally cool with the Trump administration. If you instead prefer Volvo's luxury brand, Polestar, the Trump administration says those are now banned from sale in the U.S. No one really understands why Republicans insist Volvos are fine but Polestars aren't, especially since both run on Android Automotive. If the software is national security threat, wouldn't that mean Google's a national security threat? Regardless, if you're willing to roll the dice on the whole ‘banned in the U.S.’ thing, anyone willing to buy a Polestar 4 by July 31 will get an incredible deal.”

https://www.jalopnik.com/2206843/new-polestar-4-25000-off-banned-u-s/

NEW: Charged in Anti-ICE Conspiracy, Two Minnesota Defendants Speak Out [Videos]

Activists say they’re being targeted for their political beliefs by a retaliatory government seeking to quash dissent.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/charged-in-anti-ice-conspiracy-two-minnesota-defendants-speak-out/

On January 6, 2026, Republican Austin Smith, a former Arizona lawmaker who questioned the 2020 election, admitted in a Maricopa County courtroom that he forged petition signatures, including a deceased woman’s, to secure a place on the ballot. https://theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/arizona-lawmaker-who-warned-of-election-0ec

"Just as the argument for MAGA Christianity collapses when one actually reads the words of Jesus, the belief in America's Christian origins evaporates under the most cursory reading of the Constitution...Redefining America as a Christian nation isn't just historical revisionism. It's a political strategy, with a white-supremacist bent. It reframes citizenship in religious terms, turning faith into a tool of the powerful rather than a responsibility to the less fortunate":
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/separation-of-church-and-state-religious-freedom/

Zoom call jokes aren't remotely funny.

🚨SCOOP: Republican Rep. Tom Kean repeatedly voted against legislation to give Americans paid family/medical leave, before Kean took 4 months of paid medical leave from Congress for depression - all while somehow finding the time to raise himself $160,000 worth of campaign cash.

https://bsky.app/profile/ghgoodridge.bsky.social/post/3mpjcna3k7k27

I would add that very often they are fixes to nonexistent problems.

A Tabloid Story Gives Talarico a New Opening to Test Attacks on Paxton
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/politics/paxton-talarico-corruption-affordability-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uFA.6eGM.W_c9-qly5Rj2&smid=url-share

Lincoln bacteria pool’s really coming together

Like Iran we should put T••••’s face on the Capitol rotunda floor and let people walk all over it

One exciting thing about Trump’s Great American State Fair: attendance is so pathetic we don’t have to worry about the Mall grass getting fucked up.

#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

The National Mall spans about 309 acres (13,460,000 square feet) of open space between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. I have seen t-ball games get more attendees than this.

The national mall currently. Is this more or less people than who attended Trump’s inauguration.

1) people who dispersed when ordered to disperse were still convicted of terrorism. Free speech and freedom of assembly be damned. If I'm reading this correctly they were charged with (but not convicted of) attempted murder.

2) a person who did not attend the protest was convicted for "corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents"

The documents in question were all entirely legal, as far as I can tell (again, free speech, freedom of the press be damned) and it does not appear that they were in any way considered evidence of a crime.

I can't find a reading of this that isn't "we'll come for your family too."

Texas, as far as I can tell, is fully and openly embracing fascism.