Shawn Esplin

Person.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

Happy #Globalswitchday - see you on the other side.

I will probably come back to promote the work of people I like, but that’s about it.

Also, X is a letter. @elonmusk you do not own it because someone let you register the domain name.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just let stand a bankruptcy tactic known as the “Texas two-step” — a corporate escape hatch for companies facing massive lawsuits.

Instead of facing victims in court, companies can move those claims into a separate shell company, send it into bankruptcy, and leave victims fighting for years while the real money stays protected.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@EnriqueTaylorr @krystalball I have never shown my ID at a restaurant. Equating eating and drinking alcohol is weird…it’s like trump thinking you have to show your ID when you go to a grocery store (again only for alcohol, tobacco or questionable payments).

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@dnutbutter @NYCNightwatch @ryangrim @neeratanden About half of oil and gas leases in the US are not even being used.

There is no good reason for drilling in the arctic, the gulf, etc. when we have much safer options (remember Deepwater Horizon?)

The keystone pipeline was being built to *export* oil from Canada through the US.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@BookerGWash Dude, if obama had pushed hard enough to get the Supreme Court nominee he was supposed to appoint (and it should have been someone better than merick garland), there wouldn’t be a right wing majority on the court.

0% chance a republican would’ve let their term run out that way.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@LauraLoomer @ACampaNajjar @RepSaraJacobs So what exactly should we ban *your* grandchildren from doing a half century in the future?

Anything to do with politics or education maybe? 🤔

Seriously though, I hope your grandchildren reject most of what you say and become decent people. 😪

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@GaryGol88424403 @LauraLoomer @ACampaNajjar @RepSaraJacobs Or maybe he could be a better person than your biases tell you and she did “do better” than you think? 🤔

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@LisaCameBack @burdentruth The frauds are the 90% of dem politicians you seem to support.

Those people selling us out for several decades is what gave us dubya, trump and the insane christo-fascists we have running things right now.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@Wilson__Valdez Centrist == Sucker

There are bridges to build with voters, but believing “centrist” politicians and the left agree on 90% of things shows you either don’t get what the left wants, or you believe the corporate owned liars who pretend to be progressive and sell us out over & over.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@trouble_man90 No, those people are as bad as schumer, biden, machin, sinema and all of the white dems we hate at least as much.

Mainstream dems use race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. as both shield and sword against legitimate attacks on the characters and voting records of these frauds.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@trouble_man90 Right wing fascists engineered this.

At worst left wing people chose not to vote for the lesser evil who would still have funded genocide.

It’s the last 30+ years of the do-nothing “centrist” dem party that led to both the rise in fascism and the withholding of leftist supports

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@JonSutz @ryangrim Your first paragraph, applied to Palestinians and other neighbors who israeli leaders have called “the people of amlek” as a religious call for genicide against them, would justify hamas’s attacks on israel.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨NEWS: Months after Maine voters overwhelmingly approved an anti-corruption/anti-Citizens United ballot measure limiting super PACs, Maine Sen. Susan Collins helped a lawyer fighting in court to kill the law score a judgeship on the federal court deciding the law's fate.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@SenSchumer @RepJeffries @DNC Are you cowards all just going to watch trump escalate his war crimes, murder or immiserate countless people and maybe kick off WWIII?

This blood is on your hands too.

Exercise your power or give it up to people who will.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@mattyglesias Why did they delay a War Powers vote before the war started?

Why did schumer only agree to let it move forward when it was too late?

schumer finally claimed to support the bill on Feb 26th, trump attacked the 28th before congress could act to stop this war.

No coincidence IMO.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

the idea that billionaires are offended a public servant won’t personally meet with them says everything you need to know about the default system as well as Zohran for refusing them.

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@MattDavis19xx @GoodPoliticGuy It they weren’t robbing the majority, they wouldn’t BE billionaires, and we 100% do not need them to be.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: THE FDA HAS BEEN CAPTURED.

Two years of reporting. Three investigations. One captured regulator.

73 % of new drugs were approved without proof they work.

Big Pharma now funds two-thirds of the FDA’s budget — and calls the shots.

The result: bad drugs, blind patients, billions in profits.

The agency meant to protect the public now protects its paymasters. This is how it happened. 👇

🎥 Watch Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee on our two-year investigation.

#ScienceForSale #BigPharma #FDA #InvestigativeJournalism #TheLever

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@robsurf556 @EYakoby Probably because he didn’t actually do anything they could prosecute him for?

There’s no shortage of politicians and prosecutors who desperately want to take him down, but they haven’t.

That probably means the stories you read were full of lies. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@mns @briebriejoy You don’t like hearing the truth so I’m an idiot?

[Shawn Esplin @ShawnEsplin]

@mns @briebriejoy It’s roots are in judaism, and israeli zionists are literally using their religion’s calls for genocide to justify committing genocide today.

That garbage is in the christian bible too.