Here’s @MichaelAvenatti, through his counsel, begging like a dog for a mere 6-month prison sentence (plus 12 months of home confinement) after a federal jury in New York found him guilty of attempting to extort $20 million from @Nike.
On Sunday, @nytimes published @powellnyt’s important piece on the transformation of the @ACLU from a respected, intellectually honest organization of liberal free-speech champions to a Trump-deranged, unprincipled, partisan, woke brigade: nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/…
But isn't @nytimes the pot calling the kettle black here?
-Forced out opinion editor @JBennet for publishing an opinion piece by @SenTomCotton
They should look in mirror, like they're looking at the @ACLU.
Yet @nytimes gets back on its “free-speech” high horse and attacks everyday Americans who expressed concern when one of its (woke leftist) editorial board members (@MaraGay) proclaimed that she was “really disturbed” by “American flags” that she (somehow) finds racist.
*Felony convictions, with up to 20-years imprisonment* for non-violent 1/6 trespassers who disrupted proceedings?
But no charges for any of the (paid) protesters who disrupted the Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings? justice.gov/opa/pr/man-ple…
“According to court documents, Paul Hodgkins, 38, of Tampa, Florida, entered the U.S. Capitol building at approximately 2:50 p.m. on Jan. 6. Around 3 p.m., Hodgkins entered the Senate chamber, walked among the desks, and then removed eye goggles.”
“He took a ‘selfie-style’ photograph with his cell phone and walked down the Senate well where, a few feet away, several individuals were shouting, praying and cheering using a bullhorn.”
"The political left is much more interested in black suffering than in black accomplishment, but black history is about more than victimization at the hands of whites. It’s also about what blacks have achieved notwithstanding that victimization.”
“And in the first half of the 20th century, long before an expanded welfare state supposedly came to the rescue, blacks accomplished quite a lot. Incomes rose, poverty fell dramatically, and education gaps narrowed.”