Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Justice in Russia:

Demonstrating by holding a blank piece of paper:

Jail time.

Threatening to kill the Minister of Defence and overthrow the government:

No biggie — have a trip to Belarus.

#Prighozhin

Russia is going to need a new president soon, and there is a guy in the US who has former experience as a president, wants to be a president again, and is already on the Russian payroll so minimal HR paperwork.
#Russia

The Republican controlled legislature makes its latest move to take power out of the hands of Texas city governments.
This is just a prelude to controlling exactly how elections are held.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/greg-abbott-texas-governor-bill-water-breaks-heatwave
#Texas #CentralizedGovernment
#Totalitarianism #VotingRights

I don’t know if #God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t. - Jules Renard

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 2707

The House Ethics Committee issued a remarkable update on its investigation into Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), announcing more than 30 subpoenas. https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/06-22-2023/santos-ethics-investigation/

Viola White also refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery in 1944. After she decided to press charges against the bus company for her mistreatment, the police retaliated by committing a horrifying act of violence. They raped Viola’s daughter as a means of intimidation and to discourage further resistance. To further compound the injustice, the state intentionally delayed and obstructed her appeal, preventing the case from reaching the courts.

10/15

#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #History

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.