Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

If you have a billion dollars, covering a $6,000-a-month tuition is the same relative cost as someone with $60,000 being asked to pay 36 cents.

If you could earn the close friendship of a Supreme Justice for 36 cents a month, wouldn't you?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/04/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-harlan-crow/

Whooey!! When @SenRonJohnson decides to lie about something, he doesn't hold back.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/johnson-gop-has-never-voted-raise-debt?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=74160

NEW: Trump released a video making it appear as though he received a warm greeting in Scotland with bagpipers welcoming him on the tarmac. Scotland officials had no idea where they came from.

Twitter sleuths discovered Trump rented the bagpipers himself. https://youtu.be/mWZm7fUbR3M

I am utterly horrified that the @ap headline still says a "chokehold" killed a "restrained" man. A white man choked a Black man to death while NYC subway riders watched and helped. https://apnews.com/article/nyc-subway-death-headlock-c1b1383b3163f3f5d2c22a267bc52f41

By inviting him onto their “town hall” stage on May 10, CNN is treating Trump like an ordinary presidential candidate rather than like an insurrectionist and serial law-breaker.

They'd better ask him some damn tough questions and follow ups. https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/

This is not how it's supposed to work. But it's exactly how it works. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/02/2024-election-debates-republicans/

The World Wide Web, what we have come to know as the Internet, is now 30 years old. Happy Birthday. The congratulations are due to Tim Berners-Lee. It's his selfless generosity that should be applauded. His GIFT to the World is likely unprecedented.

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/2023-04-30/30-years-ago-one-decision-altered-the-course-of-our-connected-world

I just learned there is a type of #bird in #Japan called Shima Enaga and it is so goddamn #cute I'm pissed that I'm just now learning about it. Look at it. LOOK AT IT! IT'S MADE OF SUNLIGHT AND SASS!

🇨🇦🇺🇦Canada donates equipment for landmine removal to Ukraine worth $16 million (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3704352-canada-donates-demining-equipment-to-ukraine-worth-16-million.html #Ukraine #Canada #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Popping a Blood Vessel Over Mike Pence’s Jan. 6 Grand Jury Testimony https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/donald-trump-mike-pence-grand-jury-jack-smith?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=vanity-fair&utm_social-type=earned #Politics

Former F.B.I. Agent Charged in Jan. 6 Riot - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/politics/jan-6-former-fbi-agent.html
The former agent, Jared L. Wise, was arrested on Monday and faces four misdemeanor counts, including disrupting the orderly conduct of government and trespassing, after agents received a tip in January last year that he had been inside the Capitol, according to a criminal complaint. #Jan6 #FBI

New Alzheimer’s drug slows cognitive decline by 35%, trial results show https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/03/new-alzheimers-drug-slows-cognitive-decline-by-35-trial-results-show?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@drahardja Let's ban carrying backpacks into hospitals as well as schools. We'll do anything* to protect our citizens.

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*anything and everything, except reducing access to guns

Q. There’s a considerable amount of evidence that you raped E. Jean Carroll. Do you still maintain that you did not? Why wouldn’t you tell that to the jury? https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653864562574217221