Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Why ICE grabs people off the streets:

If an officer knocks on your door:
Do not open the door.

ICE “warrants” are not signed by judges;
they are ICE forms signed by ICE officers
and they do not grant authority to enter a home without consent of the occupant(s).

https://immigrantjustice.org/know-your-rights/ice-encounter

https://bsky.app/profile/worcestermainfo.bsky.social/post/3lot5cakdnk2h

“We can do this the easy way (cutting Medicaid benefits) or the hard way (RFK Jr. actively trying to kill you).”

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One of the weirdest digital things about moving to a new country has been all the App Store region locked apps that are totally essential for basic utilities, shopping, and digital ID. If you have any Apple Care plans, you cannot switch region -until they expire-. So the only thing I have figured is making a second icloud in Australia and scheduling hours (because of the timer) to deregister and reregister my phone, install the apps in bulk, then switch back.

@maddad I decided just to make a larger version.

Vaccines fucking work.

Great results on RSV. Let’s hope the current bozos in charge of US health don’t back slide on this major development. https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/baby-hospitalizations-from-rsv-fell-up-to-71-with-new-vaccine-treatment/

The Trump administration is going through legal contortions to explain how a $400 million jet exclusively for Trump's use, even after he leaves office, isn't a bribe of a violation of the constitutional statute against receiving a gift from a foreign nation
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511
#USPolitics

We know what is happening, don't we?

“‘Federal employees do not surrender their constitutional rights when they take public service jobs,’ said Abbe Lowell, a veteran Washington, D.C., attorney who launched his own firm last week to protect public officials from retaliation. Lowell is known for representing high-profile political figures including Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Hunter Biden.” - CBS News

https://apple.news/ArtcPxrpOQjubzGUztHGd3A

It’s important to pay attention to the fact that there are simultaneous efforts to criminalize mask-wearing by citizens and to standardize the wearing of face-obscuring gaiters by people purporting to be law enforcement.

SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor tells a group of trial attorneys: “Right now, we can’t lose the battles we are facing.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/justice-sotomayor-stands-in-solidarity-with-embattled-aba

Hear Rep. #RobMenendez’s MSNBC interview for yourself (I think I got most of the details correct)

If you didn’t think the #US had become an #authoritarian state under #Trump before, you will now.

#Trump #law #immigration #RasBaraka #GoodTrouble #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjfHM8l1QQ

We sure needed some good news. Glad she's out!

‪Will Bunch:‬
‪
Rumeysa Ozturk is free! Video now on MSNBC

Man With Chronic Bowel Disease Sues Musk’s SpaceX for Allegedly Timing His Bathroom Breaks and Firing Him https://www.mediaite.com/news/man-with-chronic-bowel-disease-sues-musks-spacex-for-allegedly-timing-his-bathroom-breaks-and-firing-him/

" #Trump ordered federal agencies to abandon the use of a longstanding legal tool used to root out discrimination against minorities, a move that could defang the nation’s bedrock civil rights law

In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by determining whether policies disproportionately disadvantage certain groups." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/trump-civil-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Let’s be clear: the #Constitution’s #HabeasCorpus Suspension Clause [Article I, Section 9, Clause 2]:

1) Does NOT allow the President to UNILATERALLY suspend #habeas, especially when #Congress is in session;

2) The clause ONLY applies to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); &

3) Even then, it applies only "when the public safety may require it."

#Trump #StephenMiller #law #immigration #DueProcess #AmericanAutocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-9/clause-2/suspension-clause-and-writ-of-habeas-corpus

4/ Via David Rothkopf:

So, the WH Deputy Chief of Staff says they're looking at suspending habeas and the mayor of a major city is arrested for seeking further information about possible ICE abuses in his city. In the past hour or two. We're already a police state but are teetering at the edge of something worse.