Luis Parada

International arbitration attorney; former ES Army officer. USMA, West Point, BS 1984; Georgetown University, MA 1994; Georgetown University Law, JD 2001

[Luis Parada @LAParadaF]

El Salvador no tendrá Presidente a partir del 1 de junio de 2024.

[Luis Parada @LAParadaF]

@Glenn_Diesen No. Every sentence that starts with “everyone knows” is—at least—suspect.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

DEAN: You're under oath. When will you comply with the law and release all the Epstein files?

BLANCHE: We have complied with the law

DEAN: There are 3 million more documents. And you know what you said to me? 'They include another guy named Epstein.' Nobody is buying it

*the time of the gentlelady has expired*

DEAN: I beg your pardon? How do I get cut off 2 minutes into this? What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what the insurrectionist Donald Trump did on January 6.

Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power.

THIS is what an insurrection looks like.

Never forget.
👇👇👇

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: There is no world in which Todd Blanche could earn my vote. As far as I'm concerned, he should resign. Todd Blanche is a crony. Todd Blanche is a loyalist. He has no business as the nation's top law enforcement official.

If we want to stop these spectacularly incompetent nominees from getting confirmed, we're going to have to stop relying on a few Republican senators to suddenly discover their courage and integrity. We're going to have to win the majority in the senate.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[David Frum @davidfrum]

This is just crime

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[Loida M. Avelar @Avelar2112]

Una embarazada pasó hambre seis meses para llevar un paquete a su esposo a la cárcel, sin saber que el Estado lo había enterrado en una fosa común. 💔

Este también es el régimen de excepción. ⬇️
https://t.co/KH42YPgTEh

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "Now on Iran. Trump administration issued general license to Russia, providing billions in oil profits every month — several billion every month — fueling Putin's war machine.

You didn't mention that in your opening remarks. Russia is waging war of aggression against Ukraine, and we gave them our license agreement.

And we do this to Ukraine, a country that's assisting us in Iran, while we are helping Russia fund its war machine — a country that is aiding Iran against us and putting our service members in jeopardy."

[Luis Parada @LAParadaF]

@hrw_espanol @easegura Ante una detención injusta, lo correcto es exigir su libertad inmediata.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized".

That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Over the weekend the former head of Trump's Border Patrol attended a summit with fascists from around the world who are calling for "Weimar solutions" and it for some reason has received almost no press coverage.
https://t.co/nI5SyCBuS2

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Judge Cannon has been sitting on the Jack Smith report for over a year. But the 11th Circuit looks like it's running out of patience. Here's what's happening and why it matters. https://t.co/k9eDX8Lg76

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Stephen Miller will go on Fox News and say: "They elected us to do this." But that does not matter under our Constitution. Elections do not change laws. They do not change the Constitution. If you want to take habeas corpus out of the Constitution, amend it.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Most people completely underestimate the insane, inhumane scale of the war in Ukraine.

According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the siege of Mariupol alone saw between 27,000 and 88,000 deaths in only three (3!) months.

Read that again and let it sink in

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.

[Luis Parada @LAParadaF]

The indecency of silence: the unlawful persecution and imprisonment of Ruth López in El Salvador @Ruth_Lopez1977.
https://t.co/ll6gPjrRXQ

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

REP. JIM HIMES: Lavrov's threats against diplomats in Kyiv are three things. Number one, it's a sign of utter desperation. Russians are losing ground on a net basis in Ukraine.

And the price they are paying is staggering. Russian people need to look at what they are being asked to provide in the form of their own blood, their own sons, for this mad dictator, to lose ground in Ukraine.

I think in the next couple of months, you will see Ukrainian military continue to recapture territory at great expense to Russia. So, it's a sign of desperation.

Number two, it's an admission of the mindset of a person who is very comfortable committing war crimes. Threatening civilian population and diplomats in that civilian population is perfectly indicative of the comfort that Russians have with committing war crimes: targeting hospitals, targeting maternity hospitals, targeting NGOs who are trying to deliver aid into communities along the front lines.

And third, I'm going to go back to Washington with Senator Blumenthal to make sure that Lavrov's threats result in additional resources coming to the people of Ukraine, because all that Lavrov represents is everything that free people need to be fighting against.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Trump administration has deported 21,000 immigrants to places that the US State Department calls too dangerous for Americans to visit. The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children. https://t.co/VLmLiJQT8G