Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Me: 'Mazel tov!'

Her: 'Is that one of your funny Norwegian words?'

#RonDeSantis promises to become the mass death president. #antivaxxers https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/22/2194672/-DeSantis-vows-to-end-federal-funding-of-COVID-19-vaccines

Mike Lindell loses appeal against FBI's seizure of his cellphone in a Hardee's parking lot - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-loses-appeal/

At $167,000, the assessed value of Jimmy Carter's home is less than the value of the Secret Service vehicles that guard it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

It really has reached the point where it feels like he's saying, "No, I'm not corrupt. When you decide a case in their favor because they paid you, that's corrupt. But here, they paid me because I decided a case in their favor. It's as big a difference as the chicken and the egg."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/clarence-thomas-newest-ethics-mess-shreds-allies-defenses-rcna116853

I'm getting multiple reports that the Russian commander of the Black Sea Fleet is one of the people missing after the Ukrainian strike on the Russian HQ.. Fingers crossed.

I'll update you when possible.

I mean, you do you, but I'd rather have the minor inconvenience of breathing through a mask and save myself an illness than take a 1 in 4 chance of having impaired lung function a year later.

“At 1 year of follow-up, 25% of the 349 participants had impaired lung function, including 11%, 22%, and 48% of those with mild, moderate, or severe/critical COVID-19, respectively.”

If you've heard #COVID19 is just like the flu, you were misinformed. Be a bit safer, please.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/1-4-covid-survivors-had-impaired-lung-function-1-year-study-shows

Clarence Thomas resigns. Menendez resigns. One standard. Corruption is corruption.

“K-911. What’s your emergency?”
“THERE’S A SQUIRREL!”
“Please calm down, sir. Where is it?”
“IN THE TREE ACROSS THE STREET!”
“Have you tried barking at it?”
“YES! DUH!! I’M NOT AN IDIOT!!!”
“Okay, put down the phone and try again now, I’ll stay on the line.”

MAGA IS TO BLAME FOR
A SHUTDOWN.
PERIOD.

New legal analysis: Jack Smith invoked the threat of political violence in asking a judge to gag Trump from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors, prosecutors & the judge herself in the J6 case. That raises a First Amendment problem with little precedent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/politics/trump-gag-order-free-speech.html

Heja Sverige! 🇺🇦♥️🇸🇪

The first 10 Swedish Leopard 2 tanks have arrived in Ukraine!

Imagine being a Russian tank driver in a shaking, old T-72 knowing that these modern tanks are coming to hunt you down — not a good feeling.

Source (in Swedish):
https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2023/09/stridsvagn-122-pa-plats-i-ukraina/

@charlotteclymer
This seems like a good opportunity to post this...☠️ "Taliban USA"
https://youtu.be/kG-GbgKA19I?si=Gt2QEo3ViGQQoLAS

Will Republicans Abandon This Medical Triumph? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/opinion/republicans-pepfar-aids.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

PEPFAR has saved 25M lives and prevented countless children from becoming orphans. It does not fund abortions. Conservative organizations are attempting to link it to abortions & "lifestyle" choices. Not prolife. Refund PEPFAR.

He skated on the first set of charges on basically a technicality.

Resign.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-menendez-indicted_n_650d98c2e4b04db03fdc1805

Via Kyle Griffin:

NBC News confirms: #UAW President Shawn Fain has filed a complaint against Republican #TimScott with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that Scott violated the rights of his campaign staff by threatening their federally-protected right to #strike.

Florida's voucher program - Of the roughly 2,300 private schools accepting vouchers in Florida, 69 percent are unaccredited. https://reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/floridas-voucher-program/ #privatization