Elijah P. Lovejoy 🇺🇲⚖

Friends, find me on the platform where skies are blue - under the same name. Fuck oligarchs, esp the owner of this place. Ukrainians are still fighting. Navalny resisted to the end. We can't rationalize giving up. How many defenders of democracy fought & died before us? ✊🏼🇺🇸✊🏼

@JSmith95974 @ElieNYC Do you have a specific complaint about them?

@InvWesBurns @ElieNYC Right, because the last four years have been so great.

People should get what they voted for. It’s called democracy.

@davidaxelrod Commentators like you, Ax, are facilitating that by allowing for no nuance. I'm disappointed.

Predictably, Trump's supporters are using Biden's dubious pardon decision to excuse Trump's serial lies and acts of nepotism and self-dealing. It was a gift to the once and future president & his apologists. "You see, nothing's on the legit. We all swim in the same dirty pool."

@RadioFreeTom Tom, that needn't be so if right-thinking commentators wd push back: To prosecute a violations of that subsection of the statute absent an aggravating factor (straw purchase, gang affiliation, etc.) is unheard of. A former US Atty, Weiss knew this. It was overreach. Punitive.

Patel, and Trump, love the confrontation; but they don't begin to understand the consequence for our safety and security -- yours and mine -- of dropping a bomb on FBI headquarters. Their agenda couldn't be more destructive if the blueprint was devised in the Kremlin.

@SarahLongwell25 Sarah, I value your work. You're wrong about this, tho. In 30 yrs in an FPD office, I saw 1000s of fed gun cases; worked on 100s. NONE charged this statutory violation absent aggravating factors (e.g., gang, straw purchase, use of the weapon in another crime). It was overreach.

“Trump is worse” is never a good argument to justify bad behavior. Yes, Trump’s horrible, that’s why we oppose him. In fact, the worse Trump is, the more important it is to #resist doing anything that resembles Trump’s conduct. Biden knows it’s wrong. That’s why he committed over and over to not doing it. It doesn’t make him the same as Trump. It doesn’t erase how singularly corrupt Trump’s current appointments are. It’s simply wrong and we should say so, lest we forget that right and wrong still exist and awareness of it matters in our President.

@SykesCharlie Charlie, I'm an admirer of yours. May I offer some perspective (not the std whatabouttism)? I worked many 100s of fed gun cases over 30 yrs in a fed public defender office. NONE were for this infraction. It doesn't get charged absent aggravating factors, e.g., straw purchase.

I’m afraid I have to agree on this one.

@SykesCharlie Hold on a damn minute. Was this used to justify the pardons of Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, Rod Blagojevich, Dinesh D'Souza, Michael Flynn, Edward Gallagher, Charles Kushner, Clint Lorance, Paul Manafort, George Papadopolous, Albert Pirro, or Roger Stone?

Unfortunately true.

@ProfMJCleveland @FXRegan @BarbMcQuade Nope.

@FXRegan @BarbMcQuade Yup!

Pardon of Hunter Biden is in the best interests of justice. Based on the facts, most federal prosecutors would have declined to charge him. The botched misdemeanor guilty plea and sentence of diversion were a tell that the special counsel had the same assessment. t.co/QpqBpZL38F

@FXRegan @ProfMJCleveland @BarbMcQuade ...subsection absent other aggravating factors -- gang membership, straw purchase, use of said gun in another crime, etc. END

@FXRegan @ProfMJCleveland @BarbMcQuade B.S. Even if (if) you were an FBI S/A, you didn't make charging decisions. I spent 30 yrs in an FPD office. Cases involving 10x that amount of delinquent taxes are routinely handled as civil matters. And, in 100s & 100s of fed gun cases, I never saw one charged under that...

@charlescwcooke @BarbMcQuade Hilarious is you weighing in on this.

@BarbMcQuade You just wrote a book on misinformation, which is hilarious.

@BarbMcQuade Can confirm.

@harrylitman Harry, come over to B*l*u*e*s*k*y. Come on.

Patel nomination is an affront to professionals at the FBI, who won’t forget it even if Patel goes down. It’s also a challenge to the Senate to see if it will just roll over. A total a-hole move by Trump.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

@dawson19791 @anneapplebaum @noUpside In case you haven't checked it lately, it's really picked up.

@InvWesBurns @anneapplebaum @noUpside yes, but nobody is using it- we need to get influencers and reporters over there and spread the word

If you are on X, you should read this, by @noUpside: this site is now dedicated to creating an alternate, far-right reality theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Booked on Air France back to Paris.

For years, people talked about fixing America’s roads and bridges. President Biden and I are getting it done with our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Pro tip: If the people who make their money by preying on the working class are happy, then you should be worried.

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

The Democratic Party *must* be the GetBigMoneyOutOfPolitics Party.