David Shelton

The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 21

ICYMI: Watch @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @rparloff.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, Loren Voss, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discussed updates in the prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey, a hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s civil case, and more. youtube.com/live/3wt5k3G...

So we know that Trump intervened to make Ghislaine Maxwell's life easier.

And that he intervened to make Andrew Tate's life easier.

I wonder how many sex traffickers Donald has gone out of his way to help that we don't know about.

ANOTHER Republican state senator in Indiana says he's been swatted... as state legislators resist calls to redistrict to create more favorable GOP districts

A photo of the Supreme Court of Virginia sign.

Virginia Supreme Court Declines Review in Board Picks Case https://bit.ly/4rcwA2A

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.

Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.

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Authoritarianism arrives with emails like this. The masked brute squad may or may not accost you later, be sure to carry your papers.

Because nothing celebrates the birth of Jesus or reflects the true meaning of Christmas like masked storm troopers dragging people out of the pews and into unmarked vehicles to be disappeared.

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows”

Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

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The relentlessly opportunistic Marjorie Taylor Greene hasn't had a change of heart, much less politics. She is just literate enough to read the writing on the wall. She knows that Trump is damaged goods now. So she may have taken to singing like a bird, but she's really just a canary in a coal mine.

Funny, how MAGA is *outraged* over someone who is simply a Muslim in the New York City mayor's mansion, but has no comment about a Muslim who is an actual murderer in the White House.

Opinion | As Trump and MBS meet, a longtime partnership faces new realities Mideast and global energy issues are steadier when Washington and Riyadh act in concert.

That WaPo would publish a piece about MBS without mentioning that he was responsible for murdering one of the paper’s contributors and having his corpse dismembered with a bone saw speaks volumes.

Democracy doesn’t need darkness to perish if its institutions willingly wear blinders.

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID “We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande,...

Hundreds of thousands of deaths have already occurred as a result of the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID.

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

Five Questions With Miles Taylor The Chief of Staff at DHS during the 1st Trump administration, author of the anonymous NYT op-ed that informed us about resistance to Trump on the inside

How to defy Trump. My interview with @milestaylor.bsky.social

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In 2019, after Epstein was arrested, Trump told reporters he was “not a fan of his, that I can tell you.” Trump also said he hadn’t spoken to Epstein in 15 years, which would have been 2004.

But the just released emails prove they spent Thanksgiving together just TWO YEARS earlier. Donald's a liar.

This chilling character reference by Jeffrey Epstein on his "best friend" Donald Trump was written the same year they spent Thanksgiving together:

Link to BBC interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXzJ...

Oh hey — you know that big Chicago raid where Stephen Miller said the building was “FILLED” with gang members?

@propublica found 0 evidence of Tren De Aragua, the men weren’t charged with any crimes. 🤔 (sound familiar Tennessee?)

All for show. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

After Ghislaine Maxwell lied to Todd Blanche, someone waived her sex offender status and moved her to Club Fed with "OUT" custody - allowing her to work outside the prison walls. 3 months ago, I got her Bureau of Prisons points screen as proof. We still don't know who approved all this.

Nov. 10, 1898: Wilmington Massacre The elected and interracial Reconstruction era local government was deposed in a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina.

#tdih 1898 in Wilmington, NC:

-- massacre of African Americans by white supremacists
-- Black press & businesses burned
-- coup d’etat of elected, interracial Reconstruction era government #terrorism
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🧵including Reconstruction lessons & @pbs.org doc ⬇️
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Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory.

More ⤵️
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#Wayback1T @itspetergabriel.bsky.social

They're laughing in your face as they steal your money and make you suffer

Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday

Hey racists - is Zohran a liberal or a jihadist? He can't be both. Get back to me when you learn what words mean.

The softest Nazis you ever did see They're tough guys in the streets and delicate little babies in court.

"They want everyone to know these thugs they’ve deployed to terrorize cities are battle-hardened and impervious to pain. But in court, they're such delicate flowers that if they are, say, lightly grazed by a sandwich, they are entitled to justice because of the horrific assault they have suffered."

This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

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Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.