Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

🚨"Update: DOGE removes 31 more incorrect claims -- and $122M in savings -- from its "Wall of Receipts" after we identified they were wrong.

The listings were wrong b/c the contracts DOGE claimed credit for killing were not dead anymore: agencies had revived them."
-D Fahrenthold

#DOGE #Fraud #Fraudsters #Firings #Corruption #Trump #Musk #Austerity #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/doge-musk-contracts-trump.html

“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”

https://trib.al/3iWbgP9

“By hanging a halt in this critical funding over states like a sword of Damocles, defendants impose immense harm on states, forcing them to choose between readiness for #disasters & #emergencies, on one hand, & exercising their judgment about how to best use scarce resources to investigate & prosecute crimes on the other,” the states claim in a draft of one of the complaints, reviewed Tuesday by Courthouse News.

#law #Trump #immigration #extortion #MafiaState

"Despite whatever is rattling around [Stephen] Miller's febrile cabeza, habeas corpus is not a revocable privilege. It is a right guaranteed to everyone incarcerated. In calling it a 'privilege' that 'could be suspended' to suit the whims of his boss, Miller proves himself to be a traitor not only to the American idea, but also to the freaking Magna Carta (!),"

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64745130/stephen-miller-trump-habeas-corpus/

“More and more Republicans are showing up to my town halls. This isn’t red team versus blue team. It’s freedom versus fascism”

https://bsky.app/profile/ericswalwell.bsky.social/post/3lovmbihsdc24

#Extortion

States say the #Trump Admin is holding #emergency relief & transit funds "hostage" in retaliation for not complying with #immigration directives.

"More cars, planes, & trains will crash, & more people will die as a result."

#law #MafiaState
https://www.courthousenews.com/states-accuse-trump-administration-of-holding-emergency-relief-hostage-over-immigration-policy/

No questions here regarding this.

“U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:

‘No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.’

Any questions?” - Bruce Lindner

#Trump says #US will end all #sanctions on #Syria 1 day before meeting with their leader ‘to give them a chance at greatness’

#transactional #QuidProQuo
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/13/us/trump-news-saudi-arabia?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1810533F-0985-49F9-AF16-552FC0858230

'Hell no!' Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' plunged into chaos as House GOP fights - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/hell-no-trump-s-big-beautiful-bill-still-in-chaos-as-house-gop-squabbles/

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa wants a #Trump Tower in Damascus. Iran calls it 'total surrender'

The Syrian leader,🚨who's still a DESIGNATED TERRORIST, believes this could help soften the US's sanctions. Bass too, hopes Trump's history of breaking longstanding US foreign policy taboos -meeting with North Korean ldr Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone b/w NK & SK in 2019 -could work in Sharaa's favor...
#Syria #Terrorists #TrumpRegime #Emoluments #Kleptocracy #USPol
https://www.theweek.in/news/middle-east/2025/05/13/syria-s-new-leader-ahmed-al-sharaa-wants-a-trump-tower-in-damascus-iran-calls-it-total-surrender.html

Amid upcoming peace talks, Ukrainian intelligence officials told the Financial Times that Russia seems to be preparing for a larger offensive, relocating forces to key hotspots on the battlefield, rather than signaling any readiness for peace negotiations.

https://www.ft.com/content/a43c7876-7d7b-4d1c-96fd-98b60a1c6223

Notice how trump's first official international trip as president is to countries directly involved in business with his family.

MAGA attacks church over Donald Trump rebuke: 'Funds must be pulled' The announcement comes just days after 49 South Africans arrived in the United States for resettlement under a fast-tracked refugee program launched by President Donald Trump, www.newsweek.com/episcopal-ch...

MAGA attacks church over Donal...

A reminder to all who demand capital punishment or even "merely" prison to be a grim oubliette with no possibility of parole never mind rehabilitation and care for those incarcerated or those released from imprisonment. And a reminder to those who denigrate legal professionals who "defend the obviously guilty" and demand that some are pre-judged without proper trial:

You, personally, are merely one false accusation away from suffering any of those fates.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce809e3gd1xo

Sean Rowe:

"Just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.

In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step."

#Trump #refugees #SouthAfrica #Episcopalian
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