Shannon McMullan
@shannonmc21.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
“Indeed, Patrick believed he was acting in the direction of the president at the time, seeing it as his duty to stop the invasion because that’s what he believed the president was telling him.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/21/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/04/21/t...
Prosecutor cites anti-immigrant rhetoric as El Paso shooter is sentenced to 23 life terms
”This community will always remember those whose lives you stole … Their light will never fade,” the judge told the shackled shooter. “While you, your name and your hate, will be forgotten.”
www.texastribune.org
April 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just a reminder that the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory that's being pushed by Trump, Musk and their toadies has been responsible for multiple mass shootings in the last decade.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
This is the threat to Americans' safety, not innocent immigrants who've committed no crimes here.
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This is a huge settlement. But it was huge injustice. Also, I highly recommend the podcast "The Trials of Frank Carson." It's one of the most infuriating cases I've ever seen.
www.westsideconnect.com/news/crime-r...
www.westsideconnect.com/news/crime-r...
County to pay $22.5M in malicious prosecution lawsuit in Frank Carson case
Stanislaus County has settled a lengthy lawsuit over the arrest and prosecution of a prominent defense attorney and seven other people in the 2012 death of a Turlock man.
www.westsideconnect.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is a huge settlement. But it was huge injustice. Also, I highly recommend the podcast "The Trials of Frank Carson." It's one of the most infuriating cases I've ever seen.
www.westsideconnect.com/news/crime-r...
www.westsideconnect.com/news/crime-r...
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New at The Watch:
A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
radleybalko.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New at The Watch:
A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
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I (& others) would be grateful for expert advice on:
1. Best way to respond/intercede when people claiming to be LEOs refuse to identify themselves or produce warrants
2. How to proactively ensure that encounters are documented, given the (apparent) attacks on security systems described here.
1. Best way to respond/intercede when people claiming to be LEOs refuse to identify themselves or produce warrants
2. How to proactively ensure that encounters are documented, given the (apparent) attacks on security systems described here.
New at The Watch:
A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
radleybalko.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I (& others) would be grateful for expert advice on:
1. Best way to respond/intercede when people claiming to be LEOs refuse to identify themselves or produce warrants
2. How to proactively ensure that encounters are documented, given the (apparent) attacks on security systems described here.
1. Best way to respond/intercede when people claiming to be LEOs refuse to identify themselves or produce warrants
2. How to proactively ensure that encounters are documented, given the (apparent) attacks on security systems described here.
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one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
April 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...
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This is unbelievable. DOD is engaged in illegal removals to evade judicial orders. We are reaching new lows every day
BREAKING: DOJ claims that the Trump administration did not violate a court order barring it from third-country removals without providing process when three people were sent to El Salvador b/c the Defense Department sent them to El Salvador on March 31, not DHS, and DOD isn't a defendant.
April 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is unbelievable. DOD is engaged in illegal removals to evade judicial orders. We are reaching new lows every day
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And as we learned the hard and painful way (over the course of many years) which behaviors made us targets, we became "experts" at masking our differences to fit in JUST enough to no longer be targeted. (But many of us were still seen as "different" and "weird.") \5
January 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
And as we learned the hard and painful way (over the course of many years) which behaviors made us targets, we became "experts" at masking our differences to fit in JUST enough to no longer be targeted. (But many of us were still seen as "different" and "weird.") \5
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Why are there so many undiagnosed adults who are only now discovering that they're either autistic, adhd, or neurodivergent in some way?
I can explain... \1
I can explain... \1
January 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Why are there so many undiagnosed adults who are only now discovering that they're either autistic, adhd, or neurodivergent in some way?
I can explain... \1
I can explain... \1
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So far in his second term, Trump has freed terrorists and a drug trafficker, helped other terrorists, and undermined cybersecurity.
It has been three days.
It has been three days.
NEW: The Trump admin has fired members of the Cyber Safety Review Board, a committee that was lauded for its investigation into Microsoft hacks of 2023, and was working on the recent Salt Typhoon telco hacks.
One source called it a “horribly shortsighted” decision.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/t...
One source called it a “horribly shortsighted” decision.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/t...
Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision | TechCrunch
The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.
techcrunch.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
So far in his second term, Trump has freed terrorists and a drug trafficker, helped other terrorists, and undermined cybersecurity.
It has been three days.
It has been three days.
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Chris Murphy: "Here's the message. If you beat a police officer in this country, you're going to jail for a long time, with one exception. You don't go to jail if you beat the hell out of a police officer in service of Donald Trump ... it put Democrats' lives in jeopardy in particular."
January 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Chris Murphy: "Here's the message. If you beat a police officer in this country, you're going to jail for a long time, with one exception. You don't go to jail if you beat the hell out of a police officer in service of Donald Trump ... it put Democrats' lives in jeopardy in particular."
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Trump's anti-DEI push isn't about "DEI". It's about backstopping a sense among White Republicans that they are disadvantaged — and about entrenching the advantages they already have.
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Opinion | Trump’s DEI push doesn’t level the playing field. It digs trenches.
The new president has quickly rolled back decades of efforts to combat systemic discrimination.
wapo.st
January 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump's anti-DEI push isn't about "DEI". It's about backstopping a sense among White Republicans that they are disadvantaged — and about entrenching the advantages they already have.
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