Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

GOP strategy:

1) Cut taxes for the rich & corporations, claiming they'll pay for themselves

2) Explode the deficit

3) Use the debt & deficit as an excuse to demand cuts to programs that millions rely on

4) Repeat

They're trying to get away with it again. We can't let them.

All, if you need proof that Feinstein's absence matters, look at today's vote.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3973488-senate-votes-to-overturn-biden-truck-pollution-limit/

The vote was 50-49, because:

1. Manchin voted with the GOP,
2. Feinstein is still out.

If Feinstein had been there, it would have been 50-50- and Harris as tie-breaker.

"I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. I am not going to be some servile puppy dog."
- Ted Cruz, 7-20-16

- Ted Servile Puppy Dog Cruz, reality

Ted Cruz didn't want the voters, the House or the Electoral College to decide.

Ted Cruz wanted a made-up "commission" to decide who the president would be.

That's how Vlad does it.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/recording-sheds-new-light-cruzs-efforts-overturn-2020-election-rcna81549

"Private messages sent by Mr. Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his prime-time show and anything disclosed in the lead-up to the trial."
https://nyti.ms/3oK7exa
#press #news #media

Montana transgender lawmaker barred by GOP from 2023 session https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-04-26/montana-transgender-lawmaker-barred-by-gop-from-2023-session

1/ In a deeply silly turn of events, MT Gov. Greg Gianforte issued an amendatory veto of the TikTok ban bill that passed last week.

And not in a good way.

Aside from missing the *entire* First Amendment point, his proposed changes seem to actually ban *all* social media from the state.

I explain: https://aricohn.substack.com/p/montana-governor-somehow-accidentally

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

'Donald Trump raped me': E. Jean Carroll testifies

https://www.usatoday.com/story/nletter/short-list/2023/04/26/airplane-rage-debt-limit-vote-e-jean-carroll-trump-wednesdays-news/11681846002/

Sen. Whitehouse says Lil kevin's budget cuts plan is DOA as it props up GOP Fossil fuel donors while cutting needed programs for "We the People." MAGA the anti-American cult! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdIA6Q6vzyA&t=18s

https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-county-ready-to-hire-elections-director-who-spread-false-claims-of-2020-election-rigging/

Wyden asks Texas billionaire for detailed accounting of gifts to Clarence Thomas - The Washington Post https://apple.news/ApBm2zCrQSVi-5pYQ9La4Bw

@SusanHR @Computeforloot @staidwinnow @msbellows @1finekitty
142,000,000 homes, 8,000 home invasions/year, 100 deaths during home invasions. if you own a gun to protect your family, your odds of needing a gun for this purpose (even though statistics show it is ineffective in these cases), your odds are .0000007 or 7 in 10,000,000.
The chances you or a loved one will die from suicide/accidental shooting/family dispute is 40,000 in 55,000,000 or 7 in 10,000.
The gun adds 1000 times the risk!

“The last hospital instructed Statton to wait in the parking lot for her condition to worsen before they could legally treat her, she claimed.” https://jezebel.com/woman-with-cancerous-pregnancy-was-told-to-wait-in-park-1850375358

I took a deep dive into files that ransomware hackers leaked from the Minneapolis School District. It's so much worse than just SSNs and home addresses. It's psych evals, writeups of physical and sexual abuse. Always with the child's name, testimony.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/students-psychological-reports-abuse-allegations-leaked-ransomware-hac-rcna79414

(Not OP, simply sharing)
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It is no longer safe for my children to visit Florida.

I don't know if they will ever again get to be in the same room as their Florida-based family members who can't travel.

Because SB 254 was certified by the FL Senate today, and it will be effective immediately on being signed into law.

This law not only prohibits transgender minors from receiving age-appropriate gender-affirming care, but it also gives the state of Florida to take "emergency custody" of ANY CHILD PRESENT IN THE STATE who they deem at risk of receiving gender-affirming care or of being in a home where someone else is.

Any child.

Not just a resident.

Any child physically present in the state can be legally kidnapped by the State of Florida to "protect" them from receiving life-saving gender-affirming medical services or from having a parent or sibling who receives such care.

For my family, we're the lucky ones.

1/?

Pope Francis will allow women to vote for the first time at a Vatican meeting of bishops, an important step toward giving them more say in church affairs

https://breaking.iavian.net/article/335229

@gwfoto @AlliFlowers
When the nomadic Hebrew goat herders ran into the Babylonian civilization, they plagiarized a Reader's Digest version of the Code of Hammurabi and called it the X Commandments,
six of which are unconstitutional:
Worship only Yahweh.
No work (or play for that matter) on the sabbath.
Honor your parents even if they belong in prison.
No graven images.
No using Yahweh's name in vain, goddamn it.
No coveting your neighbor's wife or stuff, the basis of capitalism itself.