Shallum Atkinson

Somewhere b/w Policy and Law | Opinions are my own or whatever | Go Dawgs 🐶

[Shallum Atkinson @shallumatkinson]

The USMNT still has a chance if Mike Pence has the courage…

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

The fact that more people are being priced out of affording a home and that it's getting harder for families to buy their first home is "unimportant" to the president.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Totally normal

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: CNN just aired a devastating montage of all the times that Donald Trump accused others of using their public office to make money. Donald Trump's net worth has almost tripled since he took office. Everything he accuses others of is an open admission.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The Republican affordability plan:

[Shallum Atkinson @shallumatkinson]

When elections don’t go your way, you hope at a minimum they at least do right by the people they represent.

Now imagine voting for Trump and instead of all he promised, he’s building monuments for himself, flying on foreign jets, and decorating the White House like a hoarder.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law does not require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, holding that states may count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward if state law allows it.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie:

“I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Shallum Atkinson @shallumatkinson]

We have to stop pretending that one size fits all in politics.

Just like Trump’s reelection after an absolute disaster of a first term, when the electorate speaks, we should pay attention.

That doesn’t mean we must agree on policy, but there are lessons to be learned from NY.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Yes, JD. The Epstein cover up you have led from the Situation Room is worse.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

[Shallum Atkinson @shallumatkinson]

Because he and his boss lowered the bar so far into the gutter with no remorse, and folks elected them anyway.

Democracy doesn’t disappear over night. It’s the slow erosion of accountability and integrity.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

[Shallum Atkinson @shallumatkinson]

So if understand correctly, Trump pays $15 million dollar to not even do the essential repairs on the reflecting pond but instead paint it blue, botches it, then arrests people for touching it, then says they’re the reason it’s messed up, and of course Obama.

Ok.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Over the past 19 years, I've watched @MichelleObama, who never sought a career in the public eye, become a master orator. Her speech yesterday at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center may have been her very best. Moving, direct and powerful.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

📸 Great photo of @JoeBiden and @DrBiden with the Obamas, Bushes, and Clintons in Chicago today.

This is America. Not what is currently in the White House.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican legislative leaders reject governor's call for 2028 redistricting in special session.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Nothing says I feel your pain like a taxpayer funded ballroom.

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Sen. Jon @Ossoff is out with a new video setting the stage for his showdown with Rep. Mike Collins, the newly minted GOP nominee. It doesn’t hold back, depicting Collins as a scandal-plagued Trump loyalist who “who rode his daddy’s name from business to Congress.” #gapol

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Mike Collins, who's known for his hateful social media posts, just won the GOP nomination in Georgia to run against Sen. Jon Ossoff.

This is how he built his career: blowing up ballot boxes.

Collins has deleted THIS tweet, but the internet is forever.