Elliot 🇺🇸✡️

Retired lawyer. Married 45+ years. Dog dad. American, Jew, Democrat (and democrat). Eclectic taste in music (Coltrane, Dylan, Bessie Smith, Grateful Dead...).

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

"In the worst of times music is a promise that times are meant to be better. Ultimately, its most important political purpose is to keep us human under fire."
--Robert Christgau

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

@anneinparadise2 @Milajoy Not a federal election.

[Lex Steppling @LexStepp]

L.A county homicides in 1992: 2,589

L.A county homicides in 2025: 230

Too many hysterical weenies online talking about Los Angeles who base their nostalgia on minute long videos or literal fiction.

LA crime has been dropping ever since the community responded in the 90’s.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Huge amount of mail ballots returned on Election Day.

Millions.

Election workers can't tabulate those immediately.

They must first scan the ballot envelope to make sure the voter hasn't already voter in person.

Then they have to assess the signature on the ballot envelope to make sure consistent with the voter's past signatures (to confirm identity).

Then they have to remove ballot from envelope, make sure it's not torn or otherwise damaged, and then flatten it.

Then they can tabulate it.

Then they have to adjudicate any stray pen marks, overvotes, or write-ins.

They they can report results.

And they have to document all of this.

Hope this helps!

Thx!

S

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

@anneinparadise2 @Milajoy The SAVE Act would only apply to federal elections.

[Previn Witana @lordpet8]

@Milajoy girl you gotta refresh more often Pratt's overall vote total have now nearly doubled....

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

1/2
I'm sick of hearing Trump supporters say something along the lines of, "How you all feel about Donald Trump is how we felt about Obama!"

That's bullsh*t.

Most of them hated Obama for two main reasons.

1. He's a Democrat

2. Because he's half Black

When Obama was in office, Republicans went after him for the dumbest crap I've ever seen. I saw segments mocking him shopping for Christmas gifts for his daughter. There was one where they belittled him for wearing a helmet while riding a bike. They pushed conspiracies about whether or not he was an American that were completely unfounded. They called him a Muslim, even though he had a well-documented history of Christian church attendance — unlike Trump. Many still believe Michelle Obama is actually a man and called her a communist for trying to encourage Americans to work out more and eat healthier. You know, what Trump supporters today call "MAHA," proving, once again, that they don't really have any real values other than opposing whatever Democrats support.

Then we can't forget the unforgivable — tan suit. No president will ever do something as scandalous as wearing a tan suit.

Yes, it's normal for Republicans to oppose a Democrat. But don't even try to compare why we all oppose Trump to how Republicans were against Obama.

Obama never publicly and personally attacked judges when they ruled against him.

Obama didn't sue his own IRS, of which he is the executive, for $10 billion, only to have his Department of Justice "settle" the lawsuit for $1.8 billion in a slush fund he planned to personally control.

Obama didn't name his personal attorney the acting attorney general.

Obama didn't defend the killing of unarmed American citizens by federal agents, labeling those unarmed Americans as "domestic terrorists."

Obama didn't sue universities that taught material that he disagreed with.

Obama didn't sue media outlets for reporting stories about him he didn't like.

Obama didn't gut funding for medical research.

Obama didn't appoint his top political donor, and the richest man in the world, to a very powerful position within our government.

Obama never tried to put his name on U.S. currency, get a new piece of currency produced depicting his face, put his face on passports, put banners of himself on government buildings, or push for the construction of ballrooms or arches he wants named after himself.

Obama didn't even come up with "Obamacare," that was Republicans trying to slander the former president. The bill's actually the Affordable Care Act. So, even his signature piece of legislation, he didn't name after himself. But Trump did name his online prescription site and child savings accounts after himself.

Obama didn't constantly call for media personalities to be fired for criticizing him.

Obama didn't have his FCC go after networks for not firing those individuals.

Obama didn't order the Department of Justice to go after his enemies.

Obama didn't fire attorneys general for not bowing down and doing everything he told them. He damn sure didn't call files related to child predators a "total hoax," as Trump's called the Epstein files.

Obama wasn't out blatantly manipulating the markets and engaging in insider trading.

Obama didn't accept a $400 million plane from Qatar he then used hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to fix up, which he plans to take with him when he leaves office.

Obama didn't call elections that didn't go his party's way "rigged."

Obama didn't order "blue states" to unethically redraw congressional maps, trying to give Democrats an advantage in midterm elections.

Obama didn't constantly attack our allies while kissing the ass of dictators like Vladimir Putin.

Obama didn't start a war with Iran he promised he wouldn't start.

Obama didn't run up record deficits, he actually reduced them.

Obama didn't try to take over the Kennedy Center and put his name on it.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A strong contender for the most beautiful jazz tune ever recorded.

[Ben Finlay @BenFinl97046623]

"On the basis of that one record, I had created my own sound. It only worked for me. If other people used it, guys would say, “You sound just like Oliver Nelson!"
Remembering the great saxophonist, arranger & composer Oliver Nelson, born OTD 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri.

[💜Music is Love💜 @Hoainguyen888]

"California Dreamin'" is the definitive anthem of 1960s folk-rock, released by The Mamas & the Papas in 1965. Written by John and Michelle Phillips during a chilly New York City winter, the song captures a profound sense of displacement and a longing for the warmth of the West Coast. Its haunting atmosphere is built on complex four-part harmonies—a signature of the band—and a distinctive alto flute solo performed by Bud Shank. While it began as a slow burn on the charts, it eventually became an icon of the counterculture movement and remains one of the most recognizable songs in American music history.

[Ben Finlay @BenFinl97046623]

"...angel headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty & tatters & hollow-eyed & high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz"

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

@MOEatMiles @libsoftiktok If your California ballot is postmarked a day late, it isn’t counted either.

[Yoshi Stan @YoshiStansan]

@annvandersteel Hilton didn’t win you dumbasses. Hahahaha it’s just the primary. Republicans got 39% of the total votes. Dems got nearly 60% of the total vote. Hilton won’t be the governor 😂😂

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

@DogDougDog Hi, Doug!

[AndreWGMI @AndreWGMI]

@JayinKyiv Ukraine hitting an oil terminal in St. Petersburg on the exact morning Russia branded the city "Capital of Drone Technologies" is the kind of timing you genuinely cannot script. Ukraine keeps delivering.

[oleg ignashkin @ignashkinjazz]

Sonny Rollins in Munich (1992).

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

This was the soundtrack to my morning walks in NYC.

Every time I hear it, I’m transported right back. God, I miss that place.

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Michael Brecker with his badass Tales from the Hudson band, playing his “Slings and Arrows” (1997). Everyone is playing at such a mindblowing level—Brecker, Pat Metheny, Joey Calderozzo, and of course, the unbeatable combination of Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Brecker takes a second solo at the end, which is more like a duet with DeJohnette. The whole thing is killing.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

It's difficult to think this was 52 yrs ago, James was only 22, yet he wrote such a mature song. Truly an old soul in a young man's body.

James Taylor - Fire And Rain

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

@BibChr @JVMonte2 Do a search— it’s astonishing how many bands recorded it back in the 60s. Fortunately, not many lately.

[Elliot 🇺🇸✡️ @ESilverman80]

@PolkaDotB04 @MattWalshBlog How are you going to install a new government without boots on the ground?