Mark Shively 🏷

Writer // Philosophy Lecturer // Love of Wisdom // Love of Science// Love of Learning

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

FEC is without a quorum to act.
EAC is without a quorum to act.
DOJ is under Trump's direct control.

This is a very dangerous time for elections. My advice and request is to sign-up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. https://t.co/99sX9k2DLV

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇭🇺 PM Magyar: Let me make it very clear concerning the war in Ukraine, on behalf of Hungarian government, that Ukraine is the victim, Russia is the brutal aggressor and Ukraine has the right to defend its territorial integrity. We maintain our humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

1,200+ former Justice Department employees just spoke out against Todd Blanche.

These are career civil servants who have actually defended our nation in court under both Democratic and Republican Administrations.

Todd Blanche only defends Donald Trump.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Sen. DURBIN: Next time we meet, we’ll consider Todd Blanche to be Attorney General. He’s Trump’s former personal lawyer and still plays that role. He has used DOJ to protect the President. He led the coverup of the Epstein files and established the slush fund for cop beaters.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

ONLY three months. That's how long Anna St. John has been a judge on the Louisiana Eastern District Court, and Trump just tapped her for a lifetime seat on the 5th Circuit.

She dodged saying who won the 2020 election with "Joe Biden was certified." She wouldn't say January 6th was an attack on the Capitol either, and cited the wrong ethics canons trying to squirm out of it.

This is exactly the kind of crony judge Trump wants on the bench for life. @SenBlumenthal called it: she's reciting talking points, not the truth.

Will any other Senator block her nomination later this month? We must demand: #NoCronyJudges

[Rep. James Walkinshaw @Rep_Walkinshaw]

The DOJ is still withholding Epstein files despite a judge demanding answers. Why?

Todd Blanche’s upcoming testimony should be under oath and on camera. If there’s nothing to hide, there should be nothing to fear from full transparency.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Intelligence once again indicates that the Russians are preparing a new massive strike. This is typical of Putin: right after America’s Independence Day and before the NATO Summit in Ankara. Russia wants to bring more evil and kill people. Please stay safe and heed any air raid alerts.

Separately, to partners: any delay with missiles for our air defense – missiles for Patriots – means the loss of lives, and it encourages Russia to continue the war. The world has the necessary quantity and quality of air defense. What is needed are your decisions to ensure real protection of lives in Ukraine.

Above all, these are, of course, decisions by the United States, decisions by the strong countries in Europe and around the world. Please be active in your decisions and protect lives. Missiles for Patriots are needed not in warehouses right now, but in Patriot units in Ukraine. I thank everyone who is providing real help.

[Jamie Raskin @jamie_raskin]

To celebrate our 250th, read the Declaration of Independence everybody. No Kings since 1776! Happy Fourth from sea to shining sea.

[Alexander Klein @kleinalexanderm]

What behaviors or anatomical structures tell us that a creature or system is conscious? My (hot) take: Hallmarks of Consciousness https://t.co/2eP1gqd4bZ

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

When I was Ethics Czar, we decided Obama wouldn't even refinance his house to save a few hundred dollars -- & lobbyists couldn't gift us a PENCIL!

Trump is monetizing the presidency for BILLIONS

The American people won't stand for it

I discussed with @andersoncooper

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

BIG NEWS: I just signed and filed a discharge petition to force a floor vote on my legislation to permanently block Trump’s $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund for his January 6 private militia and family-sized Super Pardon.

I'm calling on all members of Congress to sign on. We can stop this self-dealing scheme and stand up for the taxpayers.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Vulcan Elements, a company tied to Donald Trump Jr., received a $620 million loan from the Department of Defense. White House and DOD officials may have exerted preferential treatment when awarding this loan.

That’s why we filed a complaint.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Here, we have a president who, by his own account, personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene in an ongoing election — and the story has barely registered. https://t.co/6zrUxYKSK3

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

President Trump wasted your tax dollars on a poor paint job for the Reflecting Pool, pouring millions down the drain.

Now he’s wasting more money detaining tourists who take a close look at the botched repairs.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Remember: Trump is taking a wrecking ball to everything that matters to all of us: our immigrant communities, our economy, our standing in the world, and the Constitution itself.

We have a fascist in the White House and Democrats need to put their best players on the court.

I beat Trump once before when I served as lead counsel in his first impeachment, and after three years in Congress, I have the skills and expertise to take back our country.

NY-10: Make your plan to vote tomorrow at https://t.co/79O5sfRlWU

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump has called Marc Elias all kinds of names. He issued a presidential memorandum criticizing Marc. He has labeled Marc the "best election-stealing lawyer."

“But I’m not going to back down," Marc says. "I’m not going to back down in court, and I’m not going to back down in keeping you informed.”

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[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t.

Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. RT if you're with me.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Me:
One cannot charitably credit them with trying to restore academic freedom in universities. The extreme assault by the Trump administration on parts of Harvard had nothing to do with the suppression of speech, such as in the science and engineering departments. The agenda is really to cripple civil society organizations that might be centers of opposition, in the same way they had gone after the media, after law firms, and after other branches of government.

Kmele Foster (@kmele) of @wethefifth:
If I was going to try to sort of steelman the position of people on the right, they would say: you already lost a lot of those institutions in the sciences proper. You mentioned Nature earlier and the fact that they weren’t unwilling to publish certain things that were inconvenient to them with respect to their political convictions. Does that not justify the Trump administration kind of taking a much harder line?

Me:
Well, no. Among the legitimate functions of government stipulated in the Constitution, policing scientific journals is not one of them. But in any case, it wasn’t as if they singled out research projects at Harvard that flouted standards of scientific excellence by prioritizing political correctness over truth. It was an across-the-board zeroing of funding.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

We are suing to prevent Donald Trump from controlling mail-in voting by dictating to the Postal Service of whose ballot they will and won't deliver. All of this is laddering up to Trump trying to dictate who gets to vote and who doesn't.