Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Steve Schmidt:
Handcuffing A U.S. Senator Undermines Our Entire Democracy

“We live in a magical country under assault from a purile leadership, fascists who have revealed themselves and bared their teeth, and we must say no more.

There are no kings in America, so... march with your chins up and your hearts clear, certain in the knowledge that you stand on the right side of history, against something terrible, in defense of something noble”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41qhkhFeIOo

#News #Democracy #Trump

I watched a segment on #CNN with Victor Blackwell who had a USMC veteran, a JAG officer, who said “Marines aren’t trained to know the difference between lawful & unlawful orders.”

I call bullshit, Sir!

Military Training on illegal orders happens in👇🏼
1. Boot camp training
2. Ongoing training
3. Reality-based training
4. Case Studies “My Lai Massacre”

I also received Law Of Armed Conflict training annually.

DO NOT FOLLOW UNLAWFUL ORDERS!

#TrumpAuthoritarian
#DictatorTrump
#NoKings

"It’s over, Donald.

You failed.

Today was going to be your big moment.

Your dictator parade.

You thought all opposition would be destroyed.

You were wrong.

The awful weather in D.C. The war engulfing the Middle East because of your weakness. The millions of Americans protesting you at the No Kings Protests across the country."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #parade #NoKings
/12

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-tried-to-destroy-meidas-karma

CNN - Several dozen sidelined Voice of America staffers have suddenly been called back to work as the Israel-Iran conflict escalates. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/media/voice-of-america-iran-israel-trump

ICE agents ram and tear gas a car with a baby inside.

#Republicans are going to get rock hard erections when they hear about this.

11½-minute video
https://youtu.be/0tNXPzQc-wc

One of #MahmoudKhalil’s lawyers, Amy Greer, criticized the #Trump admin’s legal maneuvering as “cruel, transparent delay tactics” meant to keep her client away from his wife & newborn son ahead of their first Father’s Day as a family.

“Instead of celebrating together, he is languishing in #ICE #detention as punishment for his advocacy on behalf of his fellow #Palestinians,” she said in a stmnt. “It is unjust, it is shocking, & it is disgraceful.”

#law #immigration #Constitution #FreeSpeech

According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

"This is the fourth instance where Pam Bondi’s DOJ has charged a Democrat who did not meekly collude in DHS’ immigration gulag: Milwaukee Judge Hanna Dugan, Baraka, McIver, and David Huerta (they had to dismiss the charges against Baraka, and he is suing for malicious prosecution). A pattern is emerging:" Pam Bondi's Four Political Prosecutions - emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/12/pam-bondis-four-political-prosecutions/

While we're talking about Whiskey Pete Hegseth...He had three days of hearings this week, each day worse than the day before. The full HASC Republicans got bored, so it was almost as if Dems had the majority, bc they sure as FUCK weren't bored flogging Whiskey Pete. There were so many highlights--

#Macron: "Si #Israël devait être attaqué dans le cadre d'une représaille par l' #Iran la #France participerait aux opérations de protection et de #défense"

In the meantime : Where is #Trump?
Harassing and oppressing its own population..
That’s one way to lead the #USA

https://www.bfmtv.com/international/moyen-orient/iran/emmanuel-macron-si-israel-devait-etre-attaque-dans-le-cadre-d-une-represaille-par-l-iran-la-france-participerait-aux-operations-de-protection-et-de-defense_VN-202506130687.html

Judge denies to order the release of #MahmoudKhalil saying his preliminary injunction did not block the admin from detaining him on bases *other than* Secretary #MarcoRubio determination.

[under what other rationale is he being detained then???]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.564334/gov.uscourts.njd.564334.306.0_1.pdf

#Trump #law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #ViewpointDiscrimination #SeparationOfPowers #judiciary

In the US, a female economics student makes a minute traffic violation and is then shackled and transfered to a privately owned detention center… because she is an immigrant.

Do not visit the US under the Trump regime.

https://youtu.be/3af1nQD37bw?si=CEyCQhEc9hQrCsgn

In Maryland, "hundreds of Montgomery Blair High students walk out to protest classmate’s deportation, ICE actions.

‘We’re heartbroken, we’re angry and we’re not staying silent,’ organizers say."

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/06/12/montgomery-blair-high-students-walk-out-deportation/

Either way, #Netanyahu’s claim largely depends on #Israel’s formidable #intelligence community possessing a greater state of knowledge about Iran’s #nuclear program than either its #US counterparts or the #UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA).

As recently as 25 March, #TulsiGabbard, the US #DNI, told the #Senate intelligence cmte that the American intelligence community had assessed that #Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.

#geopolitics #MiddleEast

We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work.