Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

So the Dow has recouped almost all it's losses from Monday on the strength of news that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a group of investors Tuesday that there "will be a de-escalation" in the trade war with China.

Somebody prove that this is not market manipulation, please.

Tom Cotton is a racist piece of shit.

'Reconsider': Tom Cotton begs Trump for disaster relief — after opposing it for Dem states
https://www.rawstory.com/tom-cotton-disaster/

#TomCotton #Arkansas #GOPShitBag #USPol

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.

Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.

The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.

We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use.

It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.

Read our latest editorial in @PLOSBiology: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism

#vaccines #vaccination #immunization #WorldImmunizationWeek #measles #outbreak #vaccinehesitancy

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143

These people are EVIL AF and this guy is a monster.

#Trump issued an order targeting former #officials from his first term who publicly rejected claims of voter #fraud.

#TRUMP HORROR SHOW

https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/boozed-up-antisemitic-goon-who-slashed-yonkers-barber-with-his-own-scissors-in-rage-over-gaza-war-cuts-plea-deal-da/

CW: gory hand injury pictured.

Jabali was having his beard trimmed at his Yonkers Avenue shop when he flew into a rage, telling the barber that “he has a right as a Muslim to punish Jews.” Jabali, a Muslim originally from Yemen, was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌳
Be conscientious about recycling.

#EarthDay #Recycling #DonaldTrump
#USPolitics

@gleick The Beaverton nailed it a few days ago:

#CanPoli #USPoli #Humour

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/us-campaign-entices-canada-tourists-come-visit-america-and-also-maybe-el-salvador/

#Ukraine is between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, it is trying to defend itself from Russia’s army, which includes about 14,000 North Korean soldiers that the Kim Jong-un government has sent since 2024.

Southeast Asians are being detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-22/southeast-asians-los-angeles-region-detained-deported-routine-ice-check-ins

NEW: The govt claims that after the Fourth Circuit's powerful order in the Abrego Garcia case—which the govt describes as a "clarification"—the State Department "has engaged in appropriate diplomatic discussions with El Salvador regarding Abrego Garcia." But it refuses to say any more.

Don’t confuse “a situation that worked for me/ us” with “this is something *everyone* *must* do.”

To celebrate Earth Day 2025, the Trump regime has decided to kill more species...
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In what could be one of the most significant actions the Trump administration has taken on the environment, officials have proposed redefining what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act, excluding habitat destruction from activities deemed a threat to protected species.

Officials said the move would reduce an unnecessary regulatory burden. Conservationists warn it would open the door to more logging, mining, home construction and other ecologically damaging ventures in places where endangered creatures live.
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FULL STORY -- https://archive.ph/0ihcu
DIRECT LINK [paywall] -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/16/endangered-species-harm-habitat/

#USA #Politics #Science #Environment #Climate

Well thanks to #Trump #China has given #Brazil all of its Soybean trade and this will cost #American Farmers dearly!

CNBC: The #Dow is down 1,270 points right now. We're at session lows. If we close here it will be the 11th 1,000-point #drop in the Dow's history... and it's the fourth this month

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If RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya proceed with their plans to use *genomic data* from Native Americans without their consent, as the article below states, it is as unethical as anything I’ve ever seen. In my experience, genetic data collection from Tribes is a no-go zone. Period. It’s simply not done.

This is the President of the United States saying in a social media post that not everyone should be given a trial.

That is a violation of the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

It couldn’t be any more straightforward.