Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Ezra Klein gets it right. NYC values, not ethno-nationalism. #Gift https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/antisemitism-american-jews-israel-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.yUyZ.CUTVjFZ7TEE_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The largest percentage and largest number of people ICE arrested in June had no criminal history. New data was released this week by the Deportation Data Project.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-arrest-surge-in-may-and-june

TACO Trump will fold before it gets to trial. He does not do depositions

The Trump-Epstein Scandal Couldn't Get Worse, Right? Oh, Here's Another Thing

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/trump-epstein-scandal-couldnt-get-worse?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104854

First rule of good writing: Never use 18 words where one or two will do:

“Held hostage” and “sexually assaulted”
Would have made this piece much more succinct and clear.

“Mr. Trump took her into a bedroom and forcibly kissed and fondled her, and restrained her from leaving. She also said that a 22-year-old contestant told her that Mr. Trump later that night crawled into her bed uninvited."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.PPwD.t56VFl9gdEwj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Gabbard Promises More Political Prosecutions, Accuses Obama Of ‘Treasonous Conspiracy’ Against Trump

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/gabbard-promises-more-political?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104849

This meme is now circulating at warp speed across Canada after their newspapers warned Canadians they now have to pay $250.00 to visit our country. THIS IS SICKENING! That's $1500.00 for a family of six! How will our tourism survive, especially our border towns. Is this making us "better again"?

@QasimRashid Some of us should get hired into those positions and then release the prisoners. I’m serious.

Lisa Murkowski (R, invertebrate) feels “cheated” by Trump after he overturned, with the stroke of a pen, the concessions she thought she had secured for Alaska in the big ugly bill. She betrayed every single American with her vote to pass the bill, yet now she’s the victim. Of course.

Sen. Murkowski, feeling ‘cheat...

“Researchers …tried to calculate how many more people would die as a result of [Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill]…they came to 42,500 annually by 2034…And still, for all those that die, a much larger number will be sicker and live worse lives.”

by @TheEconomist

https://economist.com/united-states/2025/07/17/quantifying-trumpcare

1. Erdogan, Turkey's autocrat, politicizes the central bank, replaces its director, and demands lower interest rates. (He's more successful than Trump has been so far because Turkey is farther along the road to autocracy.)
2. Inflation soars to 85%.
3. Voters are enraged. A pro-democracy opposition candidate, Istanbul's mayor, gains support.
4. Erdogan has the mayor arrested for "corruption and terrorism."

The prisoner swap for 252 Venezuelan men sent to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp has been in the works since at least April. Was that always the plan? Is that why Emil Bove said the planes had to take off, "no matter what"? www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/19/w...

Was Bartering Venezuelans Alwa...

Andre Hernandez-Romero is the gay make up artist who was kidnapped and disappeared into the supermax El Salvador prison CECOT.

Why was he sent there? Because of his tattoos.

He came to the US legally in 2024. He sought and was granted asylum because he was trying to escape anti-LGBTQ+ violence and political persecution in Venezuela

He should have been starting a new life in the US. Enjoying the “freedom” to be who he is and love who he wants.

Instead he’s been locked in a prison in a foreign country because of an ICE mistake.

It’s the definition of cruel and unusual punishment

Today The Hill announced a prisoner exchange. The US has secured the release of 10 US citizens held in Venezuela in exchange for returning more than 250 Venezuelan men being held in the El Salvador prison

Hernandez Romero is one of them.

This young man who fled Venezuela because it wasn’t safe for him, has now spent months trying to survive a foreign supermax prison only to be swapped like a chess piece and sent back to the country he fled in the first place.

Keep saying his name. Speak out. He needs and deserves protection.

Abolish ICE.

https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-hernandez-romero-released-venezuela

#abolishice #ice #immigration #fascism #lgbtq #uspol

Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii called the Senate Judiciary Committee a “kangaroo court” as she walked out.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/week-bipartisanship-us-senate-died?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104822

Funny how “trimming the fat” means axing PBS, not the subsidy that helps billionaires write off their private jets.

As Trump DNI Tulsi Gabbard tries to distract from his Epstein cover-up by accusing Obama of “treason” over Russiagate (which was never a hoax), maybe some outlets could mention her disturbing ties to Russia, who called her “our girlfriend” on state TV? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. An American man who moved his family to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” for his kids is being sent to fight on Russia's front lines. His wife says he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder.

The incredible hate and stupidity of some people is hard to imagine.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texan-moved-fam-to-russia-to-flee-wokenow-hes-headed-to-ukraine-front-line/