Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Among the #ExecutiveOrders #Trump signed today was an order restoring the federal #DeathPenalty — although President #Biden commuted the death sentences of all but three of the prisoners who were on the federal death row. Trump’s order also #mandates the use of the death penalty in any case where someone is convicted of murdering a law enforcement officer [unless it’s Brian Sicknick apparently] or if an #undocumented migrant is convicted of a crime that is eligible for the death penalty.

#law

What the fuck is going on in #Australia right now?

A preschool was firebombed with the message "Fuck the Jews" spray-painted on a wall nearby

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-21/maroubra-anti-semitic-graffiti-fire-childcare-centre-nsw-police/104840416

#Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder short-circuiting the #security clearance vetting process for his White House staffers. Anyone on a list submitted by his White House counsel is to “immediately” be granted a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information-level clearance good for 6 months.

#NationalSecurity

NBC News
Nancy Pelosi calls Trump's Jan. 6 pardons 'an outrageous insult to our justice system'

...she called his actions "an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol..."

"It is shameful that the President has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who put their lives on the line..."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-inauguration-2025-live-updates-rcna184510/rcrd69908?canonicalCard=true

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump

@AlliFlowers
I thank the universe I don't have to go anywhere till Saturday because while I'm fine because I learned to drive in Massachusetts the people around here lose it when it rains, they're going to go apeshit.
Plus, rear wheel drive truck, no thanks.

@AlliFlowers
Yup, their freaking out in Pensacola.
My dad even called from NC to see if I'll be OK.
It's not gonna do much and it won't stay around long.

Good boy had the plan all worked out, and then the cat ruined everything.

@AlliFlowers Ah, that's a shame. Would be lovely to have bats nesting nearby.

@AlliFlowers Not much chance of our cats catching a lizard in Glasgow. Apparently there are Common Lizards in Scotland, but I've never seen one.

We have rats in the park across the road, but fortunately none of those have yet been caught.

My mum got some rescue cats that had been stray for a while. For years they kept bringing in worms - clearly what they were living on before they were taken in.

America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned #Cigarettes - The Atlantic

«…regulators at the #FDA announced that they are pushing forward with a rule that would dramatically limit how much #nicotine can go in a cigarette.

The average cigarette nowadays is estimated to have roughly 17 milligrams of the drug.

Under the new regulation, that would fall to less than one milligram…. »

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cigarettes-fda-rule-smoking/681334/

"In 2022, the most recent year for which information is available, California paid $83 billion more to the federal government than it got back. Washington state also subsidized the rest of the country, as did most of the Northeast. That money flowed to Republican-dominated states, which contributed far less to the federal government than they received in return.
California...definitely has earned the right to receive help during a crisis."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-13-2025?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Trump #MAGA #EconomicHostage

Charlie Kirk's desperate attempt to defend Trump’s TikTok reversal has backfired spectacularly. MAGA loyalists, once blindly devoted, are now openly questioning Trump’s motives, calling the move a betrayal. The outrage highlights the growing cracks in Trump’s grip on his base, as even his die-hard supporters struggle to justify his incoherent, self-serving decisions.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-charlie-kirk-tiktok-pushback/

I mean, if you insist on having your inauguration in the dead of winter, and you always make it an outdoor event, are you really surprised when the world laughs at you for making a big stink about the weather?

Fascists are like glass covered butter.