Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

"True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it." - Karl Popper

Breaking: In a newly-filed case involving the DoD rendering immigrants to El Salvador in order to circumvent another court’s order, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth accidentally filed a letter containing Houthi attack plans.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:t4x2ruk2qmob2b2cx55h4v7r/post/3lnjm3wtst22w

Yes polls on President Trump’s immigration policy are now net unfavorable, but they are at best incomplete since how do we know how people who have been disappeared would have responded?

Tarpits are a new kind of poison pill for AI scrapers that trap the scrapers in an endless network of links pointing back at nonsense. There are some lovely quotes from this:

"I don't want to move fast and break things when what is broken is the social contact."

"Become indigestible. Grow spikes."

12-minute video
https://youtu.be/vC2mlCtuJiU

#AI secretly helped write #Californiabar #exam, sparking uproar. #contractor used AI to create 23 out of 171 scored multiple-choice questions. The admission comes after weeks of complaints about technical problems, irregularities during exam administration. State Bar disclosed that its #psychometrician, ACS Ventures, created 23 of 171 scored multiple-choice questions w AI assistance. Another 48 questions came from 1st yr law student exam, Kaplan Exam Services developed remaining 100 questions.

New in PN: Laws are for the little people

"Wealth has always been a shield against consequences. But never at this scale." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-weaponized-government

@AlliFlowers
He is claiming they leaked classified information, but in reality, they leaked that HE was leaking classified information.

If you want to classify #autism as a disease, then let's also fucking classify a lack of #empathy as a disease. Because that's the thing that's sure as shit killing society at the moment.

This is just outrageous [NYTimes-Gifted]: An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’. The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts. By Miriam Jordan

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE8.5ORy.QF9AakqiwjpN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online

Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-safe-house-b2738214.html

Basically USA Republicans Have decided to try to cut Medicaid, and then when people lose medical services and get sick or die, blame the states. They think their constituents are stupid enough to buy that. I can't argue, history has shown that sometimes when they make that bet they're absolutely correct. I only hope this is not one of those times.

https://www.politicususa.com/p/republicans-plan-to-gut-medicaid?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

"The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

Criminal! - HHS Cuts Funding for NIH-Based Women's Health Initiative Threatening Decades-Long Study

https://www.ajmc.com/view/hhs-cuts-funding-for-nih-based-women-s-health-initiative-threatening-decades-long-study

@The_Icarian @huntingdon in some cases, ICE has aressted the people who came to represent or translate for people before an immigration court. IIRC

Tonight, as the sun sets, marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah
where we remember the six million—
not just how they were taken,
but how they held on.

Shabbat candles lit in cellars,
psalms mouthed in the smoke,
Torah smuggled in torn coats,
faith buried like seeds in the snow.

They fought—
with words, with hunger strikes,
with lullabies in the dark.

They were not just numbers.
They were our blood.
Our broken, burning heart.

And somehow, we’re still here.
Singing in strange lands,
lighting candles with their names in our mouths,
walking the long road they never finished.

Their memory is not just grief.
It is covenant.
It is uprising.
It is the flame we refuse to let die.

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAI...

Senator Durbin is Illinois's longest-serving US Senator.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/senator-dick-durbin-retiring?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=101584