Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

If you need further proof Russia has eyes on Europe; See announcement by Peskov already in April, that Russia is ready for ”Mass mobilisation like WW2 at any moment.”

https://kyivindependent.com/kremlin-says-russia-ready-for-full-scale-mobilization-like-in-wwii-at-any-moment/

Putin has changed legislation to close down bank accounts of people subject to draft and not reporting in.

Russia also will ban WhatsApp and possibly rest of Western internet very soon.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/18/there-s-a-99-percent-chance-it-will-happen

These are measures to contain and control the population in such mass mobilisation.

“But shortly before the new safety regulations were due to come into force early this year, Donald Trump’s new administration swiftly killed them off. A crackdown on gas leaks from pipelines was also pared back. This was followed by an exodus of senior officials from PHMSA, which oversees millions of miles of US pipelines.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/pipeline-safety-fears-trump-cuts
#TrumpKills

#tourism #ICE
Twenty-one employees of cruise ships have been detained — and some deported — while their ship was docked in Norfolk
https://www.pilotonline.com/2025/07/20/cruise-ship-workers-detained-deported/

@thetnholler.bsky.social Jake Tapper is CLEARLY in bed with Trump.

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...