Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@AlliFlowers That's just the spending #muskrat couldn't hide. Who knows how much more is hidden as chainsaw oil or some other such nonsense.

#Trump deported 37,660 people during his first month in office, previously unpublished US DHS data show, far less than the monthly average of 57,000 removals & returns in the last full year of Joe #Biden's administration.

#immigration #law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-set-broaden-arrests-deportation-routes-expand-immigration-crackdown-2025-02-21/

Judge in #EricAdams Case Appoints Lawyer to Argue Against Dropping of Charges

Judge Dale E. Ho said that with #NYC’s mayor & federal prosecutors agreeing to end the case, he needed to hear #independent arguments.

#law #DOJ #criminal #corruption #QuidProQuo #Trump #EmilBove
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/nyregion/adams-corruption-judge-independent-lawyer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Hero: Chris Kluwe. Read the story. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/02/19/chris-kluwe-arrest-maga-protest/79240528007/
And, he declined to comment for the NYT, telling them he’d only talk to Jamelle Bouie. 1/2

Israelis gathered along the highway in the country’s south to watch the coffins travel by convoy to Tel Aviv for forensic examination. #Israel’s govt has not confirmed the deaths of Shiri, Ariel & Kfir, saying it will verify the identities of the deceased only after the examination.

…It is unclear how Shiri #Bibas & her sons were killed. #Hamas alleges that they were killed by an Israeli airstrike but has not provided any evidence.

#Gaza #war #geopolitics

Keep ‘em coming

Lawyers for CBS say they plan to demand that #Trump, who is allegedly letting DOGE [sic] pillage U.S. treasury data, according to multiple lawsuits, fork over his own personal finance information to the network.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/discovery-will-be-needed-trump-must-fork-over-his-personal-financials-if-he-follows-through-with-kamala-harris-60-minutes-lawsuit-cbs-says/

The new administration has vowed to reduce wasteful government spending, so I made this guide to help people understand how that works.

#Hamas released the bodies of 4 hostages Thurs, including…the remains of a mother & her 2 young children, members of the #Bibas family, whose story came to symbolize the brutality of the #Oct7, 2023 attacks.

…The deaths of Shiri Bibas & her sons—Ariel, who was 4yrs old, & Kfir, who was 8½ months old at the time of the abduction—were suspected for months, but only confirmed when Hamas announced their bodies would be among those released.

#Israel #Gaza #war #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/20/hostages-hamas-gaza-israel-bibas-family/

DOGE= Delusional Oligarchs Gutting Everything
Without 1 vote this unelected MAGA MORON along with his dog PINO, fellow unelected morons & complicit #GOPCowards throw monkey wrenches into the Federal Government
They have not save US ONE penny
All they have done is cause misery & chaos
#Resistance

Governor Pritzker gave quite the State of the State address yesterday. He compares how under his tenure Illinois is growing stronger economically and in protecting civil rights, while Trump is making the nation weaker. If I didn't already live here, after hearing this speech I'd move to Illinois. #Illinois #Chicago #Pritzker

https://www.kwqc.com/2025/02/19/read-pritzkers-state-state/

Free speech is dying.

A Mississippi judge just trampled the First Amendment, ordering a newspaper to delete an editorial exposing government secrecy. This blatant censorship is unconstitutional, and legal experts are torching the decision. The city got caught hiding public business, then tried to silence critics. Now, they’ve only confirmed the corruption they wanted buried.
https://www.rawstory.com/clarksdale-mississippi/

RFK Jr.'s flunky tried to hijack a CNN interview, whining about measles coverage while dodging the reality of his boss’s anti-vax lunacy. Pamela Brown wasn’t having it, shutting down his pathetic attempt to reframe the conversation. He got exposed as a former pharma lobbyist pretending to be a “health advocate.” Just another grifter spinning lies.
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-cnn-measles/

Convicted felon Donald Trump and his billionaire bootlicker Elon Musk are outright lying to attack Social Security, spewing nonsense about millions of dead people collecting benefits. The reality? A minuscule error rate, mostly overpayments to living recipients. This isn’t about fraud—it’s about dismantling Social Security and screwing over working Americans.
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased-false-claims-doge-ed2885f5769f368853ac3615b4852cf7

“The people have spoken …and now the people must be punished.” — Ed Koch, Mayor of New York

Beyond the reality of the above for Trump voters, the fact Musk is firing people “for cause” — purposefully lying about their performance — not only harms people like those recovering from Helene in NC, it damages the careers of those people working to help them.

He’s slandering them. And he knows the courts will shrug. This is intentional, generational damage to millions.

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2025/02/18/us-forest-service-staff-were-working-on-helene-recovery-before-firings/78638333007/

He’ll just keep crapping on everything good.

Fact: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went TO US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use.

Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

As CSIS has reported before, “aid to Ukraine” is a misnomer because 90 % of military aid IS SPENT IN THE United States.

Remember, much of which the US would have paid to dispose of as equipment lifespan expired, having nothing to do with Ukraine.

Aid to Ukraine by the numbers:

#Ukraine #eu #europe #nato #UK #Baltics

#ukraine