Mark Follman
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MJ national affairs editor, author, dad. My book TRIGGER POINTS is the story of expert teams who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI ⤵️
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Joined June 2009
BOOK NEWS: My debut, TRIGGER POINTS, is out today. It’s the first ever to go inside specialized teams of experts who are preventing mass shootings, from K-12 schools to the FBI. Here’s a 🧵 about what you’ll find in the book https://t.co/qFAHrpUID7 1/x
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Trump's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. @aishvaryakavi
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Workers installed the president’s name on the Washington institute, thrusting it back into the spotlight as it is set to host the signing of a peace deal between Rwanda and Congo.
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RFK Jr. wants you to believe it’s the pills, not the guns. He's now promising "massive" new studies. But no, psychiatric drugs do not cause mass shootings.
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There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
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No, psychiatric drugs do not cause mass shootings. My new reporting here includes running through RFK Jr.’s speech peddling that claim at a TPUSA event—I take apart his litany of false statements about guns, mass shootings, and antidepressants https://t.co/zeRXRLEj6A 2x
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There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
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RFK Jr. is at it again: Now he blames pills—not guns—for school shootings. He's pushing a disproven theory and promising “massive” new research. Weirdly enough, the agency he runs refused to give me any details at all when I asked. My latest @MotherJones reporting, link in thread
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Sabrina Carpenter to Trump White House on cruel ICE video: "this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."
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Trump unleashes xenophobic tirade against Somalis, branding them "garbage" in an outburst that was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry even for a president known for his history of insulting Black people, write @KannoYoungs and @ShawnMcCreesh
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President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.
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Kennedy is now using his post as the highest-ranking US health official to spread the claim that psychiatric drugs are a key cause of mass shootings at the nation’s schools and beyond. There is no scientific evidence to support that theory—and extensive research indicates it is
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There is no credible evidence that antidepressants cause violence, but the health secretary now vows a “massive” effort to prove the failed theory.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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Indiana Senate Republican Mike Bohacek, who has a daughter with Down syndrome, says he’s a no on mid-cycle redistricting because Trump used the word "retarded" to describe Tim Walz.
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2/ “Remarkably, the Trump White House appeared to believe they could achieve stability by handing most of the power over to the Taliban… ‘And wasn’t going to be a 50-50 split between the Afghan government and Taliban. We knew that. It was going to be 75-25 [majority Taliban]”
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She seems to have forgotten the part about how Trump let the Taliban take over
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Warning signs came long ago—and top Trump officials knew.
A grim reminder that four years later Americans are still paying a terrible price for Biden’s catastrophic surrender of Afghanistan.
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Trump’s treasury secretary has a solution for the majority of Americans who are suffering from Trump’s bad economy: “You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state.” 🤡
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has offered a variety of creative justifications for President Trump’s import duties.
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What exactly ARE the ‘Epstein files’? Way more than you may realize. Really helpful thread from @jkbjournalist 👉🏻
There is a lot of confusion on what constitutes "the Epstein files." So let me explain. (Thread). First, there are the DOJ/FBI federal criminal case files. This is what Congress voted to release this past week. 1.
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Could be a very big deal… “Vindman said releasing the transcript would expose what he views as years of conflicts of interest and corruption in Trump’s dealings with Saudis” Trump and Prince Had ‘Disturbing’ Call After Khashoggi’s Murder, Lawmaker Says
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Representative Eugene Vindman of Virginia said he reviewed a classified transcript of the 2019 conversation that would “shock” Americans.
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“A New Jersey fraudster who was pardoned by President Trump in 2021 was sentenced to 37 years in prison this month for running a $44 million Ponzi scheme, one of a growing number of people granted clemency by Mr. Trump only to be charged with new crimes.”
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A New Jersey man convicted of defrauding investors of roughly a quarter-billion dollars is among a growing number of people granted clemency only to to be charged with new crimes.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.
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I’ve been saying this for years, in my reporting, in my book… and as Jessica Dimmock now tells @JulianneMcShane about her new documentary, Thoughts and Prayers, America pours billions into reacting to mass shootings—but not preventing them. https://t.co/lnhfA8nDLZ
@MotherJones
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Filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine a troubling new market.
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Trump’s latest attempt to enshrine his Big Lie about his 2020 election defeat: issuing what are essentially fake pardons for actually fake electors @dfriedman33 has the details @MotherJones 👉🏻
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The president can't pardon cronies facing state charges. He's trying anyway.
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President Donald Trump seemed to struggle to keep his eyes open during a roughly 20-minute stretch at an Oval Office event on drug-price cuts. Sitting behind the Resolute Desk, Trump’s eyes repeatedly closed while his deputies took turns giving remarks. https://t.co/bBrgTWcULi
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