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GMU Schar School Non-Degree Graduate Student (Senior Waiver, Auditing) | Unpaid Democratic Operative | Fairfax County | Virginia

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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vote, Baby, Vote!
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sen. Warner's opponent says trump has a "realpolitik"; that trump "focus[es] on a fair, positive return for U.S. citizens...[with a] coherent overall policy approach." trump's Iran fiasco apparent on 02.28.2026. @markwarner.bsky.social @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Trump's clear-eyed approach to foreign policy: Column
His doctrine favors smart money over stupid money, whether it's spent inside or outside the USA.
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, dies age 92 share.google/Tz8iMOMoBFJI...
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Gloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, dies
A pioneering activist and journalist, Steinem was one of the women’s liberation movement’s most outspoken advocates.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Be a part of the fight against illegal USPS rules on mailed ballots by supporting voting rights organizations, and other groups mentioned in this article. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social @vademocrats.bsky.social www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Voting Rights Groups Move to Block Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule  | American Civil Liberties Union
Plaintiffs in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump Supplement Original Complaint and Seek Emergency Court Order to Block USPS From...
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For perspective, this puts some qualified voters' mailed ballots in the same category as ammunition & explosives that are not permitted to be mailed through USPS. Even rifles & shotguns may be mailed through USPS. Is sword now mightier than pen? Not if a new round of appeals are successful.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Scroll to the bottom to read the actual 24.0 Ballot Mail for Federal Elections USPS rule. Nothing in the rule suggests actual voters will know they are Not on the USPS approved lists to receive mailed ballots therefore they have No way to appeal the USPS decision or decide to vote by other means.
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The lower federal courts are what stands between the American people and a corrupted federal government whose primary job is to protect trump. www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-irs/
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'Untenable': DOJ chastised by federal judge frustrated by stonewalling in Trump IRS case
A federal judge accused the Justice Department of "untenable" stonewalling over how it ended President Donald Trump's IRS suit.According to a Friday article by Bloomberg, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Da...
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The fact that the navy is broke – or at least out of money for now – may be something of a slap in the face for Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal
Exclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challenge
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Last para. that talks about the Dunning-Kruger effect as "practiced" by hedgseth. There is also a small group dynamics at play within the Pentagon's sanctum idiotae. (Or is it "idiotarum"?) @brynntannehill.bsky.social @newrepublic.com @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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Pete Hegseth Is Too Egotistical to Know How Incompetent He Is
Brutal news accounts this week provide more proof of what we already knew: The chaos he’s creating is making the country weaker, not stronger.
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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New: Talwani says the government did violate her injunction by issuing a final rule for USPS/mail-in ballots. But, she says, having the final rule will now let the voting groups submit an amended complaint (which circumvents SCOTUS' complaints that the old suit in a related case was filed too early)
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Proof of delusion: a. Iran has borders with countries where smuggling is a specialty. b. "postal delivery crackdown" is meritless. Even robert's SCOTUS will come to a majority ruling protecting states' constitutional role in election administration. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The administration's draconian reversal of TPS for Haitians and others are having real consequences on the millions of people their lives touched. So we are uprooting the lives of hard working immigrants for what purpose? What does this accomplish? Miller's wet dream. richmond.com/news/nation-...
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US families, healthcare providers under strain after Trump crackdown on Haitian immigrants
About 21,000 Haitian TPS holders worked in the U.S. as caregivers, serving roughly 77,000 patients.
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Gary Indiana is still without power - 12 days now. Trump doesn't care. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDCF6b1v/
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TikTok video by Aaron Parnas
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@postopinions.bsky.social fails to highlight Bush II and Trump I and Trump II massive tax cuts for the rich. I trust @pkrugman.bsky.social when he states much of current Federal debt directly caused by Republican tax breaks for the rich. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Even Nero didn't enable Rome's enemies. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump orders military to ‘substantially reduce’ joint exercises with South Korea
The president cited the U.S. ally’s refusal to join the war in Iran and his “very good” relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as reasons for curtailing the annual drills.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
trump is America's Nero. Manchester's biography of Gen. MacArthur was titled American Caesar, published 14 years after his death in 1964. It will take 3 or 4 years for someone to write American Nero. @pkrugman.bsky.social @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-misery...
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The Misery Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Why Trump is eviscerating the military
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"herbert hoover" trump is ruining the U.S. economy: US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war, unemployment dips to 4.1%. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social @apnews.com apnews.com/article/econ...
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US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs amid strain from the Iran war, unemployment dips to 4.1%
U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last month, and Labor Department revisions shaved 103,000 jobs off payrolls in May and June.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So, no one remembers this scary novel coronavirus graph from 2020? Each bump represents a novel variant to a novel virus; the biggest during the winter holidays just before the vaccine rolled out. Is it any wonder why public health professionals were cautious? @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Looks like Cornyn and Tillis are about to pull a Collins. GOP holdouts say they will back Blanche's attorney general nomination after striking deal over fund @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social apnews.com/article/sena...
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GOP holdouts say they will back Blanche's attorney general nomination after striking deal over fund
Two Republican senators who threatened to block acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s bid to lead the Justice Department say they will vote to advance his nomination.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I must see The Odyssey today; last night I had a dream that I was the Trojan Horse and Matt Damon was inside my stomach. Hmmm, it may have been a nightmare.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
From @newyorker.com:
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This regime will sacrifice the health of our planet and every living thing that inhabits it for money in his pocket and to enrich those who benefit him.
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Andy Kim is everywhere talking about what ICE is doing at Delaney Hall. He's coming to Fairfax. You don't want to miss this.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...
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BREAKING: I’m Suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to stop the $1.8B Slush Fund
In establishing the “anti-weaponization” fund, the government failed to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), so I'm suing to set the fund aside.
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Fairfax County celebrates Juneteenth! Join us! Go to www.fairfaxdemocrats.org for more information
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
[US District Judge Kathleen Williams] pointedly observed that since the [trump DoJ] filing did not include a formal settlement agreement, there was no settlement of record. file this under collusion, self-dealing. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social @juristnews.bsky.social www.jurist.org/news/2026/05...
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US dispatch: federal judge dismisses President Trump’s tax lawsuit amid constitutional scrutiny
On May 18, President Donald Trump moved to voluntarily dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), just two days before US District Judge Kathleen Williams imposed a Ma...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
What's wrong with this photo?
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The inimitable @pkrugman.bsky.social: "After all, one important contributor to the quality of life is not being dead." Refutes @wsj.com assertion the EU is in decline. GDP is misleading a misleading measure. Mortality. Morbidity. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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What Happens When Americans Realize How Miserable We Are?
Life is about more than GDP
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It's our message and we have to send it with a blue tsunami! newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Fiasco for Trump as Urgent GOP Memo Warns of Epic Midterm Bloodbath
As a new Republican memo issues a harsh warning about the elections, a writer who covers the Trump economy explains how the economic distress of ordinary people could prove decisive this fall.
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This report doesn't mean that we don't have to work our butts off to register voters and encourage everyone to vote. In light of Callais, we have to vote in historic numbers. We need to send a powerful message to Republicans that we won't let them win by cheating. newrepublic.com/post/209930/...
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White House Lawyers Secretly Prep Trump Team for Brutal Midterms
Donald Trump’s inner circle expects Democrats to sweep the elections in November.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Are you attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GTLO Weekend of Action Launch Call: TEACH! REACH! PREACH!”? @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social @fairfaxcitydem.bsky.social @vayd.bsky.social @vademocrats.bsky.social @arlingtondems.bsky.social @loudoundemocrats.org www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
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GTLO Weekend of Action Launch Call: TEACH! REACH! PREACH! · John Lewis Actions
In this recent ruling, SCOTUS essentially authorized partisan gerrymandering to override Black voters' right to meaningful representation, erasing decades of progress in a single ruling. People fought...
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804ThePeople @804thepeople.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
See what happens when you elect #Democrats? virginiamercury.com/2026/05/04/t...
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Thousands of Virginians will regain the right to vote next month • Virginia Mercury
A federal court ruled earlier this year that Virginia’s current disenfranchisement of anyone with felony convictions violates laws that required former Confederate states to guarantee voting rights fo...
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
trump proves there is white house discord in Iran negotiation by undercutting witkoff: "I wouldn’t have approved that." @newrepublic.com @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Damning Iran Admission as GOP Panic Grows
As the president reveals too much about his handling of Iran, a writer tracking Trump’s bungling explains how his megalomania won’t allow for any good way out of this fiasco.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Pretty cool: These are a few of the @georgemasonu.bsky.social international sashes for graduating students. They also offer sashes for Veterans, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My mock "leave behind" for @scharschool.bsky.social GOVT510 class arguing for expanding #SCOTUS to 14 members divided into 2 panels, 18 year term limits, creating "emeritus" and "panelist" categories, limited plenary sessions, & no retirement age. @brennancenter.org @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Oops. Maybe @economist.com should reevaluate the congressional maps given recent SCOTUS revisionist decision gutting VRA? @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Supreme Court Curbs Protections for Minority Voters in Election Maps
The 6-3 decision, involving two majority-Black districts in Louisiana, further weakens the landmark Voting Rights Act.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
And I thought SCOTUS was the last refuge for minority rights. Instead, Roberts, Alito, et al, declared racial discrimination solved, protections obsolete & white people now the victims requiring protection. This is high-level through the looking glass crap. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where America’s legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
hedgseth's claims that ceasefire pauses War Powers 60 day congressional authorization window is obviously BS for an additional reason: US Navy's Hormuz blockade is, by definition, an act of war. @msnowreports.bsky.social @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social youtu.be/ZRSlk1FhoNk?...
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Hegseth's War Powers Act loophole
YouTube video by MS NOW
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/04/2026
The seeming incongruity of President Trump's expected attendance at an event that honors the press has brought renewed scrutiny to the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. to.pbs.org/3QrzSRG
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WATCH LIVE: Trump attends White House Correspondents' Dinner for 1st time as president
The seeming incongruity of President Donald Trump's expected attendance at an event that honors the press has brought renewed scrutiny to the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a f...
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
@jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social, @beyer.house.gov, @bobbyscott.house.gov, @jennmcclellanva.bsky.social, @repsuhas.bsky.social have greater than 99% chance of winning. @economist.com model predicts Dems could gain 33 seat margin. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social www.economist.com/interactive/...
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US House of Representatives 2026 forecast
Democrats are heavy favourites to flip the House
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Because we all know that private equity firms have the best interests of patients at heart, right? virginiamercury.com/2026/04/17/v...
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Valley Health changes staffing contracts, trims service citing ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ • Virginia Mercury
Mark Nantz, president and CEO of Valley Health, attributed the changes as a response to how health care is evolving nationally. A rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services late last yea...
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Trump is in this position because he's impulsive and thinks he knows everything, when in reality he knows very little and he's a crappy negotiator, plus we're suffering from his dementia
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Key reading, which reveals that as SCOTUS rushed to block the Clean Power Plan, “not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@snopes.com: "Don't fall for claim Pope Leo XIV threatened to excommunicate Vance from Catholic Church" Ok, it was satire. I get it. But still... could some Catholics start a petition to get the ball rolling? Is there a form for excommunicating someone? www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...
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Don't fall for claim Pope Leo XIV threatened to excommunicate Vance from Catholic Church
The alleged threat attributed to the pope spread amid increasing tensions between the United States and the Vatican.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
SCOTUS Shadow Docket: "A cryptic, one paragraph ruling that sent both climate policy and the court itself spinning in new direction." Roberts acted like a bulldozer against climate crisis during 2016 holiday break. @nytimes.com @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What can't we have someone like Prime Minister Mark Carney? www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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How Canada’s Carney Used His Political Savvy to Win a Majority
In six months, the prime minister orchestrated the defection of five lawmakers to his side and won a special election.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
What can't we have someone like Prime Minister Mark Carney? www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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How Canada’s Carney Used His Political Savvy to Win a Majority
In six months, the prime minister orchestrated the defection of five lawmakers to his side and won a special election.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
1 day of negotiations with Iran were doomed from the get-go. vance should have stayed in Islamabad until reaching an agreement with Iran to continue talks at the staff level. Serious talk, fewer s-m posts. @glennkessler.bsky.social @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...
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Diplomacy Takes Years. Not a Weekend.
Why the Vance mission was doomed from the start.
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GBrandonFFX @gbrandonffx.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Look closely & you can see the face of God scowling in those foreboding clouds. Not presuming to imagine what they (God's preferred pronoun???) are thinking, but it may be related to that angel being held hostage by the antichrist's flying monkeys. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social
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