Matthew Penn

Former history graduate student, full-time rogue scholar.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jake Lang, who beat Capitol police officers with a baseball bat on January 6, spent four years in federal prison on an 11-count indictment, got pardoned by Trump on day one, and was recently running for U.S. Senate in Florida, was arrested Tuesday night in Frisco, Texas on a criminal trespass warrant.
He hopped a fence into a high school stadium to film what he claimed was dried blood from a stabbing, then posted it online for clout.
Since his pardon he has also been charged with felony property damage in Minnesota for destroying an ice sculpture, charged with threatening a Capitol police officer, showed up outside a mosque in Plano holding a severed pig’s head, threw chocolate coins outside AIPAC while doing a Nazi salute, and dragged a goat on a leash to a protest against a Muslim mayoral candidate. For real though!
Trump pardoned this bastard. He is currently in the Collin County jail complaining about his mattress.
The pardon was 136 days ago. VIA~~Eric Blackerby

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Pardoned Jan. 6er Emily Hernandez drove the wrong way on the road, killing one person and injuring another.

She has been returned to prison with a 10-year sentence.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

Did the New York Times Just Run an Anti-Platner Hit Job?

"The 'paper of record' centered its big scoop, on the leftist Senate candidate's 'unsettling' behavior with former girlfriends, on the uncorroborated accusations of a pro-Israel Republican activist."

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Israel isn’t a country that just happens to have an army, it’s a full-blown perverted army that decided to cosplay as a country.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Staggering levels of corruption.

They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families.

And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

I’m with @clairecmc

I’m not gonna be lectured by Republicans about morality.

Or Nazis

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

I want to live in a real democracy with an informed and engaged public.

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[FactPost @factpostnews]

House Republicans have passed a bill slashing 75% of fruit and vegetable benefits for pregnant and breastfeeding moms.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Matthew Penn @MatthewPenn5]

MAGAs aren't human. They're subhuman vermin lacking the capacity for any rational thought. They're more like zombies. Armies of souless, mindless creatures consuming and destroying everything in their path.

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Oh my God ...

They don't think conservatives are human. That's truly the only explanation for this utterly repulsive behavior from the NYT journalists.

[Matthew Penn @MatthewPenn5]

@bungarsargon MAGAs aren't human. They're subhuman vermin lacking the capacity for any rational thought. They're more like zombies. Armies of souless, mindless creatures consuming and destroying everything in their path.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Adriana Camberos stole 10s of millions from American consumers.

Trump granted her a full pardon, allowing her to keep $48.8 million in stolen funds.

[Matthew Penn @MatthewPenn5]

I thought that you MAGA vermin were for "states' rights?"

[Congressman Randy Fine @RepFine]

California can run their state however they want — even if it turns into a banana republic.

But it becomes my problem when they send people to Congress who may not have been legitimately elected.

What happens in California affects Florida because I have to serve with them.

That’s a violation of my constituents’ rights.

[Matthew Penn @MatthewPenn5]

@RepFine I thought that you MAGA vermin were for "states' rights?"

[Matthew Penn @MatthewPenn5]

Trump threw 70,000 people into overcrowded, unhygienic concentration camps. That was also a choice. A horrible choice!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Say what you want about Trump...

But you have to admit that one of the most eye-opening parts of his adminstration is the DECLINE IS A CHOICE.

You can just shut the border.
You can just clean anything, anywhere.
You can just remove the homeless.
You can just stop the fentanyl boats.

We chose to live in filth and crime and Trump just decided we shouldn't anymore.

Pretty awesome.

[Matthew Penn @MatthewPenn5]

@mattvanswol @Rightanglenews Trump threw 70,000 people into overcrowded, unhygienic concentration camps. That was also a choice. A horrible choice!

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jason Galanis stole $60 million from Indigenous tribes, among other crimes.

Trump commuted his sentence allowing him to keep $80 million of stolen funds.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Marian Morgan stole millions by defrauding clients through a complex Ponzi scheme.

Trump gave her a commutation, allowing her to keep $17.5 million dollars she stole from consumers.