If you love beer and have logged at least 500 hours on Call of Duty, stay by your phone. You could be the next nominee for Secretary of Defense.

I am not going to stop calling for an FBI background check of Tulsi Gabbard and neither should you.

"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:

The news media is so broken.

As I report, Kash Patel's hit list includes prominent Republicans and shows his take on a so-called Deep State doesn't make sense. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think President Biden should pardon a shit ton more people -- a bunch of marijuana convictions, but mostly preemptive pardons to take trump's retribution targets off the backs of his press and political "enemies list." No fucks left, Joe. Just do it.

Be aware 💙 resisters: The list of people Kash Patel included in his book “Government Gangsters” as Deep State officials who need to be targeted. This is one of many. Credit to Tim Miller of The Bulwark Podcast. Local militias may put you on a list. I know they are making lists where I live.

Thank you Bluesky for letting us do breaking news again 🥺

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

John Dean says Biden should pardon literally everyone Trump vowed to target when he returns to the White House. This includes those who investigated Trump—including Robert Mueller, Jack Smith and their teams—as well as “all on Trump’s enemies list.” However, I don’t agree Biden should pardon Trump.

Rep. Dan Goldman: "I find it pretty ironic and hypocritical that so many Republicans have seemed to find the rule of law when it comes to Joe Biden's pardoning of Hunter, and are happily ignorant of the rule of law when it comes to Donald Trump and everything he has done."

I genuinely don't think I can handle the next four years of New York Times headlines. Kill me now.

Thou shalt not accuse others of being criminals when you just made a criminal the commander in chief. Thou shalt stop being a gigantic hypocrite every second of thy life.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman: "But in fact, President Biden’s pardon was justified and falls within the heartland of executive clemency cases. A clear-eyed analysis of the facts, the law, and, crucially, DOJ standard practice in Hunter Biden’s case establishes this."

This is correct

Mega congrats to @aoc.bsky.social, who just hit ONE MILLION followers on Bluesky! 👏👏🦋

The day America decided to ignore Jared Kushner's $2 billion from the Saudis, and put an insurrection-inciting convicted felon back in the White House, is the day I stopped giving a shit about any "moral high ground." I hope President Biden takes his "presidential immunity" out for a fucking spin.

Current vibes. You too?

I've often pondered the fact that when I became a US Attorney, I had to stop selling the occasional skein of hand-dyed yarn on Etsy (I'm a knitter for those of you who don't know me) to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. That seems quaint & laughable now.

I hope December means more gloves off moves for Democrats. We took a month off and now it’s time to punch back. Move out and draw fire!

Joe Biden being criticized for pardoning his son Hunter by the guy who just appointed a criminal family member he pardoned to be the US ambassador to France is the chef's kiss of irony.

Resharing this piece from my newsletter Civil Discourse earlier this week in case you missed it while you were stuffing your turkey (or whatever). I get the burnout, the anger, the disgust with everything Trump. But we cannot afford to look away right now. joycevance.substack.com/p/not-broken

This is dumb. Did Trump's pardon of Charles Kushner include anyone else? Did his pardons of Roger Stone & Paul Manafort apply to his former lawyer Michael Cohen? Pardons apply only to the individual they are meant for &, in a properly functioning system, each is considered on its merits.

Insane article. The vast majority of this increase is because we were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s our generation’s agent orange. As a burn pit veteran myself, the economist is absolutely wrong here. My guess is there were no burn pit vets on the board that wrote this

Abolishing the Department of Education has to be one of the dumbest ideas of my lifetime.

The irony is that Donald Trump pardoned Fox News' Judge Jeanine's husband. Clown. Show.

At least Joe didn’t charge Hunter. Jeanine Winebox: “Why did I have to pay Trump to pardon my ex-husband then?”

Let's see here... www.justice.gov/pardon/pardo...

🔥Senator Tim Kaine 🎤 DROP to the fELON!👏👏

Hunter Here’s the reality. No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been - fundamentally and more fairly - a declination Pardon warranted

A comment posted to Reddit:

Voters: We don’t care about convictions. We don’t care about civil liability determinations. We don’t care about past abuses of power. We don’t care about J6. Biden: Fine, I will pardon my son. Pundits: OMG, how dare he!

New Rule: You shall not complain about Hunter Biden's pardon on my feed unless you also admit the Supreme Court pardoned Trump for a coup.

Okay. I’m really interested to see who in the Senate will “grow a pair” and nullify these people when their faults are front and center. Will they be too afraid of the crazy MAGA Republicans and the spectre of a loss to do what is right? I fear so.

watching this yacht rock documentary on hbo max and i didn’t expect michael mcdonald to be such a chill dude!

It’s December 1st and we should all pay homage to Rosa Parks today. On this day in 1955 she decided not to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama, and well the rest is history. We are all going to need to channel our Rosa Park’s for the next four years! Thank you Rosa for showing us how to #Resist

I don't think we need to have any more discussions about "norms" and "precedent." What we need to do is prepare to sue the shit out of this administration in a zillion places in an attempt to sabotage it until we can flip Congress in 2026.

Trump’s appointing family now. What happened, did he run out of rapists?

I served as a US ambassador and know hundreds of others Never met one before who hired a prostitute to seduce their brother-in-law or sent a videotape of the encounter to their sister Or who committed 18 felonies & was pardoned by another in-law I guess the job qualifications are changing…

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

I remember. Appoint someone blatantly political, and the system will push back. But this time, it will be a race to see if the long claw of fascist autocracy can grab hold and inflict great damage before the system can self correct.

Joe Biden couldn’t prevent the car crash that killed his wife and daughter and he couldn’t save Beau from cancer, but he had the power to save Hunter from his conviction and he took it. You can disagree with the decision, but if you love your family, you understand it.

Crockett: For anyone who wants to clutch their pearls because he was going to pardon his son, I would say take a look in the mirror because we also know that when it comes to this cabinet, this cabinet has more people accused of sexual assault than any incoming cabinet

Trump has now appointed the fathers-in-law of both of his daughters to hugely influential government jobs they aren’t qualified for, but something something “Hunter Biden.”

Weird, huh?

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With Jack Smith Dismissing Trump's Federal Criminal Cases, What of the American Mantra, "No One Is Above The Law"? youtu.be/FMr1rV4-BPw?...