Sean Sullivan

There is a principle upheld by every liberal democracy known as the presumption of innocence. The Trump DOJ doesn’t believe in it, routinely violates it, and poisons the jury pool to mask a lack of evidence. This happens so routinely now that few people remark upon it.

@lrozen @Delavegalaw Just to be clear, Phelan is not a military officer. He is/was a civilian - and was unqualified to be secretary anyway. Hegseth’s motives are no doubt corrupt but this is not a loss.

Beyond the allegations of what this woman was doing, which in & of itself is a major counterintelligence risk, we need to start asking hard questions about the lack of qualifications for people who are occupying top postings in our nation's counterterrorism apparatus.

NEW and BREAKING: The FBI began investigating New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson earlier this year after she published a story about how Kash Patel was using FBI personnel to provide his girlfriend with govt security and transportation. FBI agents interviewed Patel's girlfriend about Williamson, queried databases for info on the reporter and recommended moving forward to determine whether the reporter broke federal stalking laws. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…

"At his confirmation hearing, Roberts famously promised, 'to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat." The memos show something different: a justice with a rooting interest, and a strike zone that shifts depending on who's up." bit.ly/4vQWP0W

@atrupar C’mon.

NEWSMAX: If this goes on for weeks, the US military is probably going to have to go into Iran and finish the job. Am I reading that right? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: Yeah, I think that's right. And previous presidents have had the same issues. Think about President Truman's decision on dropping the bomb and D-Day for President Eisenhower

Use our database to explore the financial disclosures of President Donald Trump and more than 1,600 of his appointees. projects.propublica.org/trump-team-fin…

The flu shot was invented in the early 1940s by Thomas Francis & Jonas Salk at Univ of Michigan w/ the support of the U.S. Army, in response to the number of U.S. service members who died during WWI from influenza. It was approved for military use in ‘45 and civilian use in ‘46.

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

Ideally, in college you would learn why this does not make sense as a statistical analysis.

Very different than what the DoJ is claiming in their bs headlines. SPLC paid informants to help infiltrate extremists groups and learn about their operations. Not only is that why some of their programs were so effective, but the DoJ knows fine well, most of that information was shared with law enforcement as well. This is entirely a political prosecution.

@JoyceWhiteVance Sandwich thrower acquitted, but the point remains.

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— have about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey, the charges against the members of Congress who never got indicted for telling service members they shouldn’t follow illegal orders, & the sandwich thrower a DC grand jury declined to indict.

@TheJusticeDept So we can agree that white supremacist groups are a thing?

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

In 1777 George Washington himself mandated smallpox inoculation for his troops

@HQNewsNow $45

Trump's White House Faith Office advisor Paula White: Trump has been raised up by God because God says that he raises up people and places them in positions of authority. It is God that raises up a king. When you fight against the plan of God you're fighting against the hand of God

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

🚨 This is INSANE: An Institution has opened a $75,000,000 Oil short ahead of Trump's speech. Trump speaks in 20 minutes.

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. propublica.org/article/videos…

.@billscher: “A fundraising event to support “programs to educate the public and the value of the First Amendment and a free press” should not have a featured speaker who is the biggest peacetime threat to the First Amendment and a free press in American history.” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/21/can…

@Kasparov63 It’s not just that they have an obvious point it’s that, like everything else, the US side likely never saw it coming.

You hate to say it, but Iran has a point… What are US guarantees worth after they betrayed Ukraine?