Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January 7, a strain of online panic has painted the city as functioning a lot like The Purge, the horror movie about a 24-hour period where all crime is legal.
Take a purported conversation that former Tinder executive Brian Norgard relayed in a Twitter/X post that’s been seen over 2.5 million times.
President Joe Biden is running out of time, and so are federal prisoners awaiting clemency for marijuana-related criminal charges stemming from a tough-on-crime approach he helped promote.
That fact is on display, literally, on a website launched by the Last Prisoner Project, one of several advocacy groups that have called on the president to make use of his clemency powers before Donald Trump takes office on January 20.
In December, the president commuted the sentences for 37 inmates facing the federal death penalty to life in prison.