Shawn Davidson

30+ years in EMS, paramedic, vaccine advocate, theater lover & performer, teacher, parent, husband, son, brother, uncle,#GayPride🌈, LGBTQ+, Black Lives Matter.

[MEOW Cartoon | No justice no peace @MEOWnewsroom]

@Acyn #ETTD

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

For unaccompanied children who enter the U.S. alone, the two main ways to avoid deportation have been to apply for asylum or special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Over most of the past 20 years, immigration judges tended to offer minors a reprieve from deportation until their SIJ and asylum applications had run their course. They also gave them plenty of time to find a lawyer. This is no longer the case.

Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, all kinds of changes have roiled the immigration courts. Now the Administration is fast-tracking the cases of young people, issuing the deportations of dozens of teen-agers in mere hours, or holding preliminary hearings for a hundred people at the same time. “It seems to me that the Administration has people at the top who go to roundtable meetings and say, brainstorming, ‘How can we get more people removed? Anybody got any ideas this week? Yeah, great, let’s do that,’ ” Nina Fróes, an immigration judge who was fired in April, said.  E. Tammy Kim investigates Trump’s effort to remove more children and teens from the U.S.: https://t.co/Rakp01np6k

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Not only are you not alone if you believe things don't have to be this way. In fact you are part of a powerful American majority, one with the power to decide our future.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s crusade to purge women and people of color from our Armed Forces has never been subtle.

But today, a New York Times exposé revealed exactly how far he’s gone to dismantle the careers and achievements of our finest servicemen and women.

More than a dozen military insiders — both active duty and those already purged — spoke to the Times anonymously to unmask a horrific ongoing attack.

They detailed a process used by Hegseth and his team to halt senior officer advancements for reasons completely unrelated to merit, job performance, or fighting wars.

Hegseth’s efforts are part of a quest to advance his white-and-male centered worldview, facts, history, and actual service be damned.

In the absence of any such evidence, insiders confirmed that he has used his position to withhold promotions from qualified, decorated veterans. The Times cited several enraging examples:

• Last fall, Hegseth ordered Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll to remove two Black and two female officers from a 29-person promotion list. Driscoll repeatedly refused, citing their decades of exemplary service. In March, Hegseth bypassed him, removed their names, and sent the modified list to the White House.

• In total, Hegseth has removed 32 officers from Air Force and Navy one- and two-star promotion lists. He also pulled the only Black officer and the only female officer from a Marine Corps list, leaving their promotions in limbo.

• Vice Adm. Sara Joyner, a highly decorated three-star fighter pilot, saw her advancement stalled over a 2021 Navy recruiting ad where she said, "I’m not just a girl with a dream. I’m a sailor with one." Hegseth deemed the line a "big problem." Joyner has since retired.

• Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was recommended for a promotion after successfully managing the aftermath of a massive Navy fuel spill in Hawaii. Hegseth blocked his advancement after Barnett participated in a Navy-sponsored Pride event back in 2018.

It is an outrage to watch a media personality whose greatest battles have been with hangovers intentionally harm the careers of people who risked everything to keep America safe. Hegseth’s actions are insult to all who have served and a risk to national security.

[Image: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov]

[Shawn Davidson @ShawnDEMT]

@Murph0matic @smalls2672 To be fair 'actor' is a strong word here 😂

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

America is back fighting a war we already won because Iran shot down an Apache helicopter with a military we already destroyed, and it's all over nukes they never had and a strait that was wide open.

Is that about right?

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: 35 Former federal judges file motion in Florida asking court to *re-open* Trump's $10 billion lawsuit vs. his I.R.S.

Filing: "This court was deceived"

"The 'settlement' commandeers the contrived sum of $1.776 billion from the U.S. Treasury"

https://t.co/7qY5gCTtYU

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Shawn Davidson @ShawnDEMT]

@mickeybrucetoo @Angry_Staffer There's a valid argument that he does that every time he opens his mouth ...

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with James Talarico against Republican Ken Paxton!

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Elon Musk has taught me that with effort, a strong entreprenueurial spirit, an emerald mine, a lot of exploitation, self-dealing, white privilege, a bad hair transplant, supplemental testosterone, an expired student visa, a charity that gives money to itself, ecstasy, ketamine, weed, cocaine, Ozempic, people loathing you so much they pay you to go away and most of all a sh*tload of government subsidies, you can accomplish whatever you want in America.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I haven't seen anyone tracking all of the alleged (or open) Trump corruption, self-dealing, and quid pro quos in one place. For the last 15 months, I've been tracking every single tip+story I can find and organizing it. Today, I published a 6,000 word piece with every example.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

👀

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Took a video of this cool shell formation on my beach walk.

If all of you repost it as many times as you can maybe some journalists will see it and do something about it

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TWEEPS: Florida voters are being cut out completely as DeSantis pushes new maps designed to lock in power without a public vote. CA and VA trusted their voters. Florida won’t.

I need 1,000 fast RTs and replies using #StopIllegalFloridaMaps

Please and thank you! 🙏💪

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

trump sees "falling" as SO embarrassing, he's LYING on 60 Minutes about what we all saw last night: His ass fell like a sack of rotten potatoes.

60 Minutes didn't even show the clip.
But I have 2 different angles.

Be a shame if everyone RTed and #TrumpFell went VIRAL.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Yea we joke about the double standard in the media, but this is legitimately insane.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Trump was 43 when his wife testified under oath that he ripped hair from her scalp and sexually assaulted her in 1989. She also described a marriage marked by physical abuse.

Trump was 46 when Jill Harth accused him of sexual assault at Mar-a-Lago in 1992.

Trump was 51 when he boasted, on the Howard Stern show, about watching Miss Teen USA contestants change their clothes.

Trump was 57 when he decided NOT to file a police report after being informed that Jeffrey Epstein had attempted to solicit sexual services from a spa employee in 2003.

Trump was 59 when he was recorded making statements in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women.

At some point, you have to be honest with yourself.

There is a pattern of behavior.