Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

REPORTER: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit?

#LEAVITT: “This bill does not add to the #deficit.”

Reality:

Independent estimates from the #Tax Foundation and CRFB say the “Big Beautiful Bill” could balloon the deficit by $3.3T–$5.3T over 10 years due to sweeping tax cuts.

The White House claims it saves $1.6T but the Council of Economic Advisers hasn’t backed that up with evidence.

Bottom line?

The math doesn’t lie. But apparently, the messaging does.

Trump admin lifts hold on offshore wind farm, doesn’t explain why
Reasons for the hold were never backed up, and nobody's explaining why it ended.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/trump-admin-lifts-hold-on-offshore-wind-farm-doesnt-explain-why/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/health/fda-covid-vaccines.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250520/p74#a250520p74

You'd never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack. https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media

And that they are asserting that J6ers who Trump pardoned for attacking police were ALSO pardoned for prior drug and gun charges. This is not how you make police or the streets safer. It’s how you fire up a mob.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5304454/jan-6-pardons-drugs-firearms

Imagine Biden saying he doesn’t want to do anything that helps Tennessee

If you are a lawyer, a judge or just love a country based on equal protection under the law it’s time you’ve got to stand with LaMonica. A President who encourage his political supporters to attack the government is now using the government to attack his political opponents.

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist

https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/

Trump uses antisemitism the way he uses religion, patriotism, and the law:

To silence his critics and empower his base.

Nothing more.
https://www.theindex.media/trumps-selective-antisemitism/

That’s generous of you

Brilliant idea! Next they’ll invent seatbelts and call them “freedom straps.”

Wut

Via Rupar:

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

"Hey @jaketapper, is there any timeline for reporting on Donald Trump's clear pattern of cognitive deterioration? I figured you'd be a great person to ask given that you've done so much research and reporting on this area of medicine."

~ Charlotte Clymer quoted by Jesus Mesa

#Biden #Trump #CognitiveDecline #dementia #JakeTapper #media
/11

https://www.newsweek.com/jake-tapper-draws-liberal-outrage-over-new-biden-book-2073352

Trump: "We had a big trip to the Middle East. We took in $5.1 trillion."

The entire GDP of the US is under $30 trillion, so this is a whopper, as we detailed today in Public Notice: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fake-numbers-middle-east-business-deals

"Let us be plain. What we are being asked to learn about former president Joe Biden’s last months in office is gossip. It is not political news. Unless you are made of feathers, the 'issue' of the former president’s last months in office does not affect your life, or the life of the country, at all."

~ Charles Pierce

#Biden #Trump #CognitiveDecline #dementia #JakeTapper #media
/5

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64817037/biden-cancer-diagnosis-jake-tapper-alex-thompson/

After decades of civil rights, a new US administration came in and just declared that it's racist and illegal to be anti-racist, and the whole federal government and most corporations just said okay then and flipped over.

@AlliFlowers I am constantly drawn to the issue when I see postings by Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe who has so perfectly taught Constitutional Law to so many of our leaders. It's too bad that Harvard didn't have an equally talented Professor teaching ethics!

This whole thing is ridiculous. #DOJ is saying that after the congresswoman assaulted #ICE agents they then gave them a tour?

And why did it take 10 days for them to decide that Rep #LaMonicaMcIver had assaulted federal agents?

Oh right, because #KristiNoem started lying about it on TV. Got it.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #immigration #Trump #RevengePolitics #racism #sexism