Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries have released a statement after Donald Trump was indicted in connection to his efforts to overturn #Election2020.

🗯️TRAITOR TRUMP🗯️

CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

He Can RUN, But He Can't Hide!

JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED
#Trump #MAGA #news

Life with a kitten...
#CatsOfMastodon

*Gasp* Witness a rare hoard of mammoth rogue zucchinis emerging from their hatching patch in search of their Mediterranean homelands so far, far away.

Go valiantly on your mission you noble beasts! Fear not the ratatouille, Nor the roasting pan, for you are destined for greatness!

(After a day of doing admin stuff, I thought I'd do a bit of gardening... creative gardening... )

#gardening #cooking #vegetables #googlyeyes

OK, so the police made a mistake and did a license plate lookup using "AZ" (Arizona) rather than "AR" (Arkansas). That is understandable.

But why the guns and handcuffs? Can the officers articulate concrete reasons for this? (I seriously doubt that they can.)

Our police forces and officers are operating under the belief that that the officers are allowed to commit the most egregious abuses - including killing - if they have the most insubstantial grounds to believe they should be fearful.

That is wrong.

'Blatantly homophobic': Kansas Catholic school accused of expelling A-student to punish mom https://www.rawstory.com/catholic-school-punishes-mom/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Charlotte, NC-area residents who got concealed-carry permits were no less likely to be victims of violent crime, but they were more likely to be victims of property crime — namely, people stealing their guns. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/opinion/fear-crime-rates.html

Spot on. Via @emptywheel

In advance of potential indictment, consider likelihood that it will substantiate that #Trump, at the very least, sicced a mob he knew to be armed on his own VP, VP's spouse, and daughter. An indictment may make even stronger allegations.

And the MAGAt base won't care.

As soon as tomorrow, the GOP primary could be shaded by a criminal allegation that one of the contestants almost got another one killed to stay in office.

The MAGAt base won't care. #TrumpIndictment

For those who have been laboring to understand what #woke means, it's simply a slang word for "enlightened", "civil", or "well-educated", personality flaws that no #Republican wants to be associated with.

@persagen Commandmrnt 9 - thou shalt not bear false witness. Janet Porter and every Republican do nothing but contravention this commandment. There doesn't seem to be an exception for doing it for Jesus so it isn't ok. Evangelicals have opened the gates of Hell and they're running in!

Closing libraries is how you burn books without lighting a match.

@QasimRashid

“Stop inter generational wage theft. Pay Workers. Tax Billionaires!”
Ironically, that’s exactly what made America great in the past — and it could Make America Great Again!

#RaiseTheWage #taxtherich

@Probertd8 You mean the Joe Biden who's presiding under a much improved, very good economy, has kicked ass in a few other ways, and despite some obvious drawbacks, won easily last time? Yes.

Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25.

This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage

In the news: the family of Henrietta Lacks have been compensated, more than 70 years after cells from her cancer, taken without her consent became an industry worth billions. https://apnews.com/article/henrietta-lacks-hela-cells-thermo-fisher-scientific-bfba4a6c10396efa34c9b79a544f0729

Jul 31: Brain fog and other long COVID symptoms affect millions. New treatment studies bring hope https://apnews.com/article/long-covid-brain-fog-virus-treatments-d5ac01c9f4209691ddcd7a1b5c78353e “'This is a year or two late and smaller in scope than one would hope but nevertheless it’s a step in the right direction,' said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly of Washington University in St. Louis, who isn’t involved with NIH’s project but whose own research highlighted long COVID’s toll." #PublicHealth #Healthcare #COVID #COVID19 #longCOVID