Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

When I was a kid I used to #pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the #Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
—Emo Philips

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#atheism #faith #god

This is the first step in erasing people for real. Memory-holing humans in a technical age is the step that precedes eliminating them for real. This should terrify everyone, not just Black and brown people.

https://jonathandryan.substack.com/p/youre-alive-they-say-youre-dead-what

#SocialSecurity #immigrants #USpol #fascism #DOGE #Trump

#politics #resist #resistance #mit #education #freespeech #alt

Dictator Donald’s goons picked a legal fight they’re too cowardly to finish. As courts shred their fascist fantasies, they deflect with emoji-laced theater and dictator fanboy cosplay. Torre’s right; this isn’t strategy—it’s fear wrapped in bravado, the stench of impotence masquerading as strength.
https://www.rawstory.com/msnbc-2671800147/

These “What is a woman?” Questioning trans women’s identity types should be very careful. Breast implants are not biological. Butt lifts, face lifts, and hair dyes are not ‘biological’. So, if she wants to condemn women that aren’t ‘100%’ to a narrow standard, she will open the gates of hell for herself and 90% of the women in this country. Maybe she would be better off minding her own panties and not so much snooping in anyone else’s.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/545193/What-is-a-woman-MLA

Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?

The most common question I am asked here in Malay Borneo, when people find out I am from NZ, is how life is in New Zealand since losing the world’s greatest leader, Jacinda Ardern ?

My answer is simple. NZ has gone from the best leader of my lifetime to the worst. #Adern #Luxon #NZPol

Commercial fishing is the most destructive activity we undertake in the ocean. Trump just issued an executive order opening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. 🤬

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/climate/trump-fishing-marine-protected-zone.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.yNm1.v_hhT8kU0hkt&smid=url-share

At least we know Abrego Garcia is alive. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/chris-van-hollen-meets-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-rcna201830 Unfortunately, Bukele is using the moment to trumpet his intention to keep him in prison.

Senator Chris Van Hollen is a hero.

How is it that Trump is able to pay El Salvadore to house US prisoners?
Aren't the purse strings supposed to be controlled by Congress?

Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041725_hobbs_vetoes/hobbs-vows-veto-all-bills-until-disability-funding-crisis-resolved/
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.
#Tucson #Arizona

Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-removes-afghan-taliban-list-banned-terrorist-groups-2025-04-17/

#Ukraine #Russia #Taliban #Afghanistan

"Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’"

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Truly disgusting that Trump who orchestrated a violent insurrection at the Capital on January 6 and pardoned the violent rioters has the temerity to call an innocent man "violent."

As an atheist I sometimes wish there was a god who would deliver justice to evil men like Trump.

How is this not human trafficking?

“In exchange for holding deported immigrants, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has said he is being paid $6 million by the U.S. government.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/17/us/trump-news-updates?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Officials held a news conference following the #SchoolShooting at #FloridaStateUniversity.

6 injured

2 dead

1 injured suspect

There is no reason to believe ghe suspect did not act alone which is why officials have said the threat was “neutralized.”

The police identified the gunman as a 20-year-old man & the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy.

#FSU #law #MassShooting #GunControl #EnoughIsEnough #AmericanEpidemic