Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

#QuoteOfTheDay

It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.

- Ming-Dao Deng

Some powerful writing by Tom Junod about the Falling Man and 9/11:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/

#911anniversary #fallingman

California Propositions 3 & 40 - Rich people need to pay taxes; nobody becomes wealthy in a bubble. @dougporter506 https://dougporter.substack.com/p/california-propositions-3-and-40?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #Politics

Forbes gets the headline right. 🏆

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

For some reason the weasels at Google have yet to change the name of New Mexico to New America.
#TrumpAndEpstein #NewMexico

But I said I’d give you $5,000 if Republicans win…😬🤪😳😜

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Trump’s attacks on Canada: “He’s isolating America. He’s making us less safe, and he’s making things more costly.”

Trump's “FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations based on... guest bookings it would seem they don’t like”...

“My interview tomorrow with James Talarico will not air on tv... you will have to go to the Jimmy Kimmel Live #YouTube channel, where you will see it in its entirety...

because in the #America we live in right now, that is the best that we can do until November.”
https://meidasnews.com/news/kimmel-says-trump-fcc-threats-forced-talarico-interview-off-tv

#Trump #Censorship #Politics #News #US

Trump says gas is $1.99 in 3 States.

Those States are:

The state of DELUSION;

The state of DENIAL;

The state of STUPIDITY!

#Trump #TrumpsWar #Gas

A reminder that the problem isn't hijab, nor is the problem women, the problem are people who think it's their place to force their views on women.

Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming

How Melting Sea Ice Is Starving Whales

Gray whales are mostly bottom-feeders, scooping up mouthfuls of sediment and invertebrates as they swim along the seafloor. They trap shrimplike amphipods and filter out the muck through baleen plates attached to their upper jaws⁠, leaving wallows and billows of mud—a nutrient feast for other organisms—in their wake. This buffet is intricately linked to the Arctic sea ice and the algae that grows beneath it.

When the algae die, they fall through the water column to the seafloor, where they feed the crustaceans that gray whales eat. But with Arctic temperatures skyrocketing, the sea ice is melting earlier and faster, disrupting the food web the whales rely on.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray-whales-are-washing-up-dead-on-the-west-coast-the-reason-is-alarming/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

@ProPublica

An ectopic pregnancy is not viable and we should stop pretending it is. Abortions save women’s lives, denying them creates situations where women die.

@h4890 @kibcol1049 lol. So, the UK Navy would, somehow, get a mandate to execute people assumed to be illegally trying to enter the UK. Effectively transforming immigration into a capital crime. No trial required. No burden of proof. And does that mean that the death penalty has been reinstated in the UK?

“Bear in mind that this crisis is entirely gratuitous. Canada has done nothing wrong. Even if one buys into Trumpian nonsense about how every nation that sells us more than it buys is ripping us off, Canada isn’t a villain. Last year Canada did run a modest trade surplus with the United States in goods, but more than half of this imbalance was offset by a U.S. surplus in services. Overall trade between our nations was almost balanced.

So what is this about? Clearly, we’re looking at a symptom of deranged Trump syndrome. As Trump’s failures, from soaring fuel prices to plunging approval, multiply, he is doubling down on his disrespect for and attempted bullying of our northern neighbor and former ally. That is, you should think of this conflict not as something reflecting U.S. national interests, but as a form of self-medication from a sundowning president.“

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/adding-injury-to-insult-canada-edition?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email