Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Whether it’s to Guantanamo or El Salvador, #republicans sure do love to ship off people who haven’t faced due process in order to determine their legal statuses.

In violation of these politicians’ oaths to uphold and defend the Constitution, of course.

In maybe the Most Canadian story ever, two political parties (the NDP and Bloc Québécois) are asking that tomorrow's French language election debate be postponed because it conflicts with a Montreal Canadiens game.

So, Nayib Bukele is an ancestral Palestinain refugee who is now a Christian Zionist who sides with Israel and is willing to murder Palestianian activists in his private concentration camp?

This timeline is WEIRD. Someone's fucking with quantum mechanics, aren't they. Optimizing for themselves and forcing the rest of us to live in Bizzaro-world.

https://nacla.org/christian-zionism-bukeles-el-salvador

Interpreting the term “facilitate” in that manner, #KilmarAbregoGarcia's attorneys argued, would render "null" #SCOTUS’ order that the government facilitate his release.

“To give any meaning to the Supreme Court’s order, the Government should at least be required to request the release of Abrego Garcia. To date, the Government has not done so.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.75.0.pdf

#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers

Harvard's lawyers wrote a letter to the Trump gang that ends like this:

It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvard’s efforts and instead presents demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle.

Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.

https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf

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MAGA as pro-#dementia: "Gone are ~$10 million in remaining money for a project that inc. 28 clinical & research sites across the country & 1700 participants w/mild cognitive impairments. 'We don’t have the ability to predict who’s going to get worse b/c we won’t be able to see them,' said DeCarli, who’s also co-director of the #Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at #UCDavis. His project also had the goal of placing these participants in treatment & prevention trials.

https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/04/health-research/

Meanwhile fed govt is ignoring actual anti-Semitism like the firebombing of Josh Shapiro’s house on Passover.

So now Trump says, publicly in front of God and everybody, that US citizens will be arrested and deported to remote prisons.

First they came for the immigrants...
...and I was mad as hell.

Because I read the damn poem!
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/14/home-growns-are-next/

@Strandjunker And since we're at it - the reason the nazis were so efficient at eradicating the Dutch Jewish community during the occupation of 40-45, is because The Netherlands had an incredibly efficient and detailed population register. The nazis immediately sought access to these registers after the invasion, and they received little to no pushback from Dutch officials.

...just in case someone reading this is not worried about Musk accessing demographic records.

In case you missed it

https://bsky.app/profile/silverforgedfox.bsky.social/post/3lmqnfg4qsk27

"A bald eagle in a dumpster screaming to the heavens is probably the most fitting image for Americans in 2025."

#politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis #oligarchy #kleptocracy #EatTheRich

#Ukraine is ready to purchase 10 Patriot air defense systems from the United States using its own funds to protect major cities from russian missile strikes, President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-ready-to-buy-10-patriot-air-defense-batteries-zelenskyi/

@BrianJopek
Thanks for sharing! I was going to post something like, “Look how brave she is crawling out beyond the parapet of a tall building, or flying into combat armed with nothing but a camera,” but instead, I’ll just say, “Look how brave she is being a confident, capable woman at a time when women were systematically devalued.” #KickingAss #TakingNames

Can’t fully capture the cognitive dissonance I feel seeing Molly Jong-Fast quoting Monty Python to describe a pointless but disastrous trade war started by President Donald Trump against our 3rd-largest trading partner, China.

A decade ago almost none of that would have been believable

@georgetakei Silence is because: the arsonist wasn't brown and Shapiro is a democrat.

This is the type of violence they condone and celebrate: white men committing atrocities against the perceived enemies of MAGA.