Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

The legend lives on from the billionaires on down
Of the big ship they called the #Titanic
You can visit, it's said
If you've got lots of bread
And your need to show off's a bit manic.

#OceanGate's rated floor?
Fifteen-hundred metres or more.
But that sub-maker was a bit squirrelly.
The depths they went to?
Thousands deeper, it's true!
So they all met their endings early.

Zelenskyy: The world saw that Russia's masters do not control anything | Ukrainska Pravda https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/24/7408399/

Georgia teacher fired for reading children’s book about acceptance in class - first known public school teacher to be fired under Georgia’s trio of censorship laws passed in 2022. https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/06/22/georgia-teacher-fired-reading-childrens-book-about-acceptance-class #Censorship

Arizona Gov. Hobbs has signed an executive order that effectively bars county prosecutors in the state from prosecuting abortion cases. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hobbs-strips-county-prosecutors-authority-pursue-abortion-cases-rcna90908

The criminal case against Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin for "inciting an armed uprising" will be dropped and he will "leave for Belarus," says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

While the mercenary army, the Wagner Group, marches on Moscow, let's take a moment to contemplate Academi, the private US military "contractor" (mercenary group), formerly known as Blackwater.
It operates out of the US and is owned by private investors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ashley Brokop
#MercenaryArmy #Blackwater #Academi #TheWagnerGroup

Happy Caturday

still relevant

@tultican The GOP is off the rails thinking that if they go for broke, let it all hang out, let their true disgusting views be known, they will become unstoppable, where in reality, more and more citizens are feeling queezy. A strange parallel with the Emperor Donny playbook. 🤔

So disappointing:

I was so hoping for a Russian implosion

It seemed completely inevitable as Prigozhin backing down is suicide and the military hasn't enough to stop him.

It still seems that way, yet he backed down?

Is he dumb? Does he know something we don't?

Thank you to the 81M voters who elected Joe Biden president in 2020. It’s hard to overstate how much more precarious this moment would be if Trump was still in office, kowtowing to Putin and condemning Ukraine and Zelensky.

I think Musk and Zuckerfuck are ham-handedly trying to invoke tribal team loyalty. What they don't realize is that most of us are on team #MutualKill. I feel exactly the same about the Putin and Prigozhin slapfight.

@skykiss

#Yes, this is exactly the most appropriate way to think about #Russia. The #Wagner #Coup doesn’t make sense until you shift your interpretive lens to see the whole situation as a #mafia showdown.

2/ ▪️Prigozhin is wanted by the FBI here in the states for helping trump get elected in 2016. Mueller indicted him. The republicans wish you didn’t know that. They want you to believe Russian conspiracy to install their shill is a hoax. Russia installed Trump with the help of stupid, hateful Americans.

▪️Just a reminder re. Prigozhin and the Internet Research Agency troll farms:

▪️“I was never just a financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I ran it for a long time.”

▪️According to the FBI, the Internet Research Agency undertook a massive disinformation campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”

▪️“In February 2021, the FBI announced it was seeking to arrest Prigozhin on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud the US, for INTERFERING in U.S. domestic politics & attempting to influence a presidential election, offering a CASH REWARD of up to $250,000 for info that could lead to his arrest.

BOUNTY HUNTERS GET PRIGOZHIN NOW!

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/14/wagner-founder-prigozhin-admits-he-was-behind-russias-infamous-troll-farms-a80228

Maricopa County official files defamation lawsuit against Kari Lake

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/defamation-lawsuit-filed-against-kari-lake-over-election-lies-and-misinformation-184297029617

#MSNBC #MaricopaCounty #defamationlawsuit #KariLake #electionlies #misinformation #Politics #News

If the Russian coup fails they can always claim they were just on a tour of the Kremlin

#RussiaInvadingItself
Reports that Prigozhin agreed to turn Wagner column around before breaching Moscow / Oka.

Putin wasn't able to pull enough loyalty together to get Prigozhin killed, arrested, stopped. Nor enough loyalty to be able to reliably defend Moscow.

With Prigozhin on edge of Moscow, Putin caved to Prigozhin's original demands, massive change at MoD, #Shoigu (Defense Minister) & #Gerasimov's (Chief of General Staff) power broken.

Prigozhin likely wasn't able to reliably protect Wagner families from FSB (raids).

Putin profoundly weakened, Wagner + allies expecting reprisals, no matter what safety guarantees have been agreed.
#Russia #Coup #Wagner #Putin #Prigozhin #Moscow #Ukraine