Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The West Wing is the same genre of competency porn as Star Trek, but with fewer transporter accidents

One of the greatest lies people propagate is that all opinions are valid: that every position is somehow equally worthy of merit and deserving of consideration.

No, All Opinions are Not Equally Valid https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/03/18/no-all-opinions-are-not-equally-valid/

13/ ✔️Via Jamison Foser:

CLARENCE THOMAS: These free luxury vacations are totally ethical because the GOP donor who takes me on them is a dear friend! It’s just what friends do!

SAM ALITO: This free luxury vacation is totally ethical because I barely know the GOP donor who took me on it!

Uh oh this is gonna break someones narrative: World's First #Trans Male Boxer Wins Third fight Over Cis Man - express Magazine

https://gayexpress.co.nz/2023/06/worlds-first-trans-male-boxer-wins-third-fight-over-cis-man/

7/ Lordy there are tapes:

Hanson, cont'd:

Eastman disputes the framing of his telling legislators to either call a special election, or adopt a slate of their own electors.

Carling plays the Dec. 3 video of Eastman telling the Georgia Assembly subcommittee to “protect the integrity of the election here in Georgia.”

#NewYork Passes Bill to Shield #Abortion Providers Sending Pills Into States With Bans

The measure is one of several recently enacted by states aiming to expand access to medication abortion for patients who live where it is outlawed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/health/abortion-shield-law-new-york.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@stargazersmith @mcnees
My guess would be the guy who installed solar panels on the White House instead of the one who took them down.

To the GOP MAGAts coming down on Hunter Biden’s plea deal…

Sometimes when you admit to fucking up and take a plea, it works out better than denying everything and attacking everyone who tries to enforce the law.

@jik @AlliFlowers @amaditalks No, the takeaway, "Nothing will ever change, you must choose between two right wing, pro-war, pro-fossil fuel, pro-big business parties, and if you don't choose the slightly less awful one, then you are a bad person," is so demoralizing that people simply want to change the subject, and talk about small areas where some progress might be possible.

Judge slaps down MAGA lawyer John Eastman's attempt to call 'expert' witness at disbarment hearing - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism

https://www.rawstory.com/john-eastman-disbarment-hearing/

📌 Via Politico's Erica Orden:

The names of the suretors of George #Santos's bond will be unsealed on Thursday, June 22, according to a judge's order. #legal

#Tuckems is using his huge platform to attack #HunterBiden today I see.

I'm glad that Matt Gertz of Media Matters reminded me that Tucker Carlson and his wife asked their friend Hunter Biden to write their son a recommendation for Georgetown University. When he agreed to do so, his wife emailed him, "Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”

👀 Via Adam Klasfeld

New—

The Manhattan DA's office issued a subpoena to #EJeanCarroll's law firm seeking #Trump's deposition, particularly his comments on the Access Hollywood tape.

The DA defends the subpoena against Trump's motion to quash here.

Some portions of Trump's deposition pertaining to the Access Hollywood tape are now public, but the DA seeks the "full transcript, full video recording, and all exhibits related to the videotaped deposition."
#legal

The right out-organized us by more than three decades. At the end of the 1980s they were holding trainings in church basements with the Christian Coalition, teaching people how to build what is the openly fascist Republican Party of 2023, using coded Christian language and appeals to white grievance to win seats on suburban school boards & town councils and from there, county level then state legislature seats, bypassing cities, then gerrymandering them to destroy their electoral power.

Electoral politics in the US right now is about choose your opponent, not choose your player. We lost our opportunity to play choose your player via poor ballot design in South Florida and a compromised SCOTUS.

Right now you have only ONE job in the voting booth: choosing the candidate with an actual chance of winning who isn’t going to worsen the climate catastrophe, destroy public education, abolish unions, destroy LGBTQ lives and arm every Nazi in the country.

It’s not a hard choice.