Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Unfollow @jaketapper.bsky.social

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"The #WashingtonPost sparked a flurry of anger online Friday with a post on X that raised eyebrows by raising an offensive question in the wake of the murders of two #Israeli #embassy staffers, saying the grisly act of terror has amplified “confusion” about “where #Jews belong.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/wtf-is-this-wapo-shredded-for-questioning-where-jews-belong-after-embassy-murders/

The drawing is incorrect because the ICE goon is wearing a uniform and showing his face.

There's a Black Lives Matter petition, asking that the bogus assault charges against Congresswoman LaMonica McIver (the NJ Congresswoman arrested at the ICE detention center). I encourage you to sign at
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/drop-charges-against-congresswoman/

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“We've been playing as a #band for over 20 years and we can't get our heads around the fact that for the first time, we're not allowed to take the stage,” said Breslaw. “We are a #British band being cancelled in #Britain, a British band that happens to be prominently #Jewish, and our musical DNA is Jewish. It's shocking."

“Oi Va Voi has only ever sung about humanity and compassion, and has played across borders. The idea that that people can pass judgment on us, and can close us down and see that we can't take to the stage, even though our fans have bought tickets to see us, is not acceptable,” he added."

https://www.thejc.com/news/features/jewish-bands-uk-show-cancelled-by-pro-palestine-activists-xqts3uqf?utm_source=sharebutton&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=top

Here is Trump's new EO on standards for scientific integrity.
The funny thing is these rules will prevent RFKJr from opening his mouth, since everything he says violates these principles and he'd be subject to explicit sanctions.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science

🇺🇦Ours are at home! The best news today. 390 out of 1,000 returned from russian captivity today.❤️‍🩹 We expect the prisoner exchange to continue.
Welcome home, our heroes!💙💛🫂
Heroyam slava!

"Harvard University is doing just the right thing. This is extortion. It's a vendetta using all powers of the government because of a political argument with Harvard. It is violating the First Amendment. It is also violating all the laws we have regarding administrative procedures..."
-L Summers
#Fascism #Trump #Extortion #Universities #Constitution #1A #USPol

WTAF

Via jamelle bouie:

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

‪Josh Block‬:
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En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

"You said there were no cuts to scientists & then the HHS spokesperson said, 'Actually, there were cuts to scientists & now we're trying to rehire them.' It gives the impression you're not sure about the personnel actions in own agency & that's an indication from your testimony today." -- Jon Ossoff just dismantled FDA Commissioner Makary

Trump and Noem’s latest authoritarian attack on higher education - revoking Harvard’s certification to host foreign students and visitors - is meant not only or even primarily to harm Harvard. It is meant to scare every U.S university and college into submitting to anything university administrators think Trump wants. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/16/DHS-Harvard/1571744857205/

"This administration is holding #Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, & coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," #KristiNoem said. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students & benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments."

[Gonna boost the NPR investigation that found NUMEROUS #antisemites serving in the #Trump admin.]

#law #immigration #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy

This is why so many have such mixed feelings about 2026 (and worse, 2028) talk.

Will elections even resemble normal, fair ones? Or will they be corrupted & even annulled, as we suspect? Election boards may not certify.. so many components. Scary stuff.

Marc Elias:

Some former DOJ attorneys are concerned Martin will use his new posts to spread disinformation, delegitimize future elections, and target leading Democrats and prosecutors who have pursued Trump. Indeed, it may already be happening

@AlliFlowers @samlitzinger That's true. Public education could use some good news.

Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma

“The Catholic Church in Oklahoma had wanted taxpayers to fund the online charter school “faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Opponents warned that allowing it would blur the separation between church and state, sap money from public schools and possibly upend the rules governing charter schools in almost every state.”

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-oklahoma-public-religious-charter-school-170e3701926e29ea5072eb50f0db97b6