Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

With #Congress Pliant, an Emboldened #Trump Pushes His Business Interests

Norms recognized for decades in DC by both parties no longer appear to apply to Trump, fmr prosecutors & #ethics lawyers say.

The Oval Office meeting convened by Trump brought together the most important leaders in the world of pro #golf: Jay Monahan, the top exec at the #PGA Tour, &, via telephone, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of the #SaudiArabia-backed league known as #LIVGolf.

#law #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/trump-ethics-conflicts-business-adams.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@GottaLaff

OFFS indeed. They should just ship all the tests to anyone who requests them up to ten per family🤢 . Or, if they don't want to do the right thing, they could sell them for $1.00 each. USPS could deliver them for free and that would raise $160 million which could be used to pay down the debt, bolster social security, rehire some air traffic controllers, or a million other worthwhile uses.

But they'll just trash them because when it comes to stupid, wasteful, and evil, this administration is #1 by far. 🤢

BUSTED: Hegseth Audit Shows He Owed $33,000 in Taxes, Plays Victim https://politizoom.com/busted-hegseth-audit-shows-he-owed-33000-in-taxes-plays-victim/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I'm watching Canadian officials hold a presser on the Toronto plane crash and remarkably they're not blaming DEI or recklessly speculating about causes. They could never cut it down here in Trumplandia.

FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology: The office has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/fda-layoffs-center-for-devices-radiological-health-cdrh-artificial-intelligence-doge/ via @statnews.com

That's insane. That's 15,000 Americans without jobs and countless Americans who won't get their tax refunds in a timely manner from understaffing.

A lot of people rely on their tax return money coming.

Again, we know this stuff. But it’s up to us to make sure Trump voters and non-voters do.

Democrats weren’t doing this stuff. And the money taken from these salaries is going to Musk and Trump, not us.

IRS to lay off thousands of probationary workers amid tax season |
https://apnews.com/article/irs-treasury-layoffs-doge-tax-season-2be8db11fdd510b7ce6ac0db56f9a503

These fuckers.

“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.” - Washington Post
https://apple.news/AoTpQCKVbQquVcFhxn7TB2w

Kathy Hochul comes through to protect abortion providers, using New York's shield law

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ny-gov-hochul-rejects-louisiana-extradition-doctor-abortion-pill-case-rcna192156

If you are a foreign dignitary visiting Germany and you shun the chancellor in favour of the leader of the Nazi party, then you are a Nazi.
Your boss going in on a property deal with Israel over stolen land doesn't change that fact.

@Heimdall

Me, on a bench waiting for “Free Palestine” to show up and protest at:

Republicans’ events.
White churches.
Republicans’ funerals.
Speaker Johnson.
John Thune.
Trump.

In former ages, Trumpsky would be flogged, crucified, cut up into a thousand pieces, and fed to rabid maggots, and the people would feel they were serving God, and would sing, and dance in the streets. My friends, a Russian traitor cannot be the president of America, it's a biblical calamity.

Don't worry, our new Secretary of Wellness Again will conjure an organic gluten free detox of rotting whale heads, sheep dewormer, magic crystals, and Elon Musk's ball sweat that will have this disease licked in no time.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@sars_cov.2_covid_19/post/DGDsoTdzJn_

Oh geez

"The DOGE website is wide open and vulnerable to hackers, according to reporting from 404 Media. Two coders had already infiltrated the site and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another." https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doge-website-super-140132005.html?guccounter=1

@QasimRashid

Tellingly, McConnell only voted against Trump's picks when he knew it wouldn't make a difference. That's not bravery, responsibility, or anything of the sort. That's the kind of mealy-mouthed 'morality' which the GOP pass around whenever they want to go, oh, what's the phrase? 'Virtue signalling.'

Yertle's gonna have to do a lot more than just a dead vote if he expects us to accept, in any way, the whitewashing of his entire career.

"Unprecedented dev. in US: #immigration policy: Trump admin is deporting migrants from Asian countries like AF, CN & IR to PA which has also agreed to take in African deportees.

On Wed, an US MIL flight deported Asian migrants who were in US IMG custody to Panama, the 1st known deportation of its kind under the Trump admin -incl. adults, families with🚨children from AF, CN, IN, IR & UZ. One flight landed yesterday. Another expected today."

#Deportations #Cruelty #USPol https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-deportations-panama-african-asian-migrants/

'Chaos': Department Of Veterans Affairs Dismisses 1,000 Workers

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/chaos-department-veterans-affairs?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=99056

NEW 💩: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112

The Trump administration has disrupted the U.S. response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens,
leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts,
11 sources told Reuters.

Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on January 20,
two federal agencies responsible for monitoring and responding to the epidemic have withheld bird flu reports
and canceled congressional briefings and meetings with state health officials, the sources said.

US detects more cases of bird flu in people and livestock

CDC withheld bird flu reports, and canceled meetings

Trump's WHO withdrawal hampers information sharing, director says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-bird-flu-response-disrupted-early-weeks-trump-administration-sources-say-2025-02-14/

U.S. lawmakers in Munich reportedly handed Volodymyr Zelensky a "piece of paper" today that would have granted Americans the mining rights to half of Ukraine's "future mineral reserves." Zelensky refused to sign. https://buff.ly/4k1NNrG