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Christie Brophy
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Air Force Space Veteran | On a mission to build tools to strengthen democracy | Founder, Whosmyrep.org
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California's lawyer explains why any criminal referrals for Posse Comitatus Act violations would be an unworkable remedy — they woudl go to the same Justice Department defending those actions.

"We['d be] asking the federal government to police themselves, and that raises federalism problems."
August 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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California's Deputy Attorney General Meghan Strong says the government's arguments that there's no civil remedy for Posse Comitatus Act violations "defies basic principles of federalism."
August 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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California Deputy AG:

"What James Madison would have done and what he did was he drafted a Constitution that would not allow the President to deploy standing armies... as a king had" before the Constitution's ratification in 1788.
August 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Here is the takeaway: the party in power used decontextualized emails and made-up theories to dismantle state capacity to track foreign interference. It now wants to shut down First Amendment protected research that threatens its power in any way.

That is the censorship.
February 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
And even worse, it used the preliminary legal injunction of Murthy vs Missouri to support its argument, but ignored the actual outcome, which contradicted it; ie, the Supreme Court ruling, and Justice Barrett’s actual argument supporting that ruling.
March 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Those are the most viral tweets of all German election candidates in February. More here: open.substack.com/pub/disinfos...
Which German election candidate is outperforming on X?
Alice Weidel and the AfD
open.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Some data points from Twitter to support this.
A post from Weidel (AfD) mentioning J.D. Vance’s speech about the removal of the German political firewall to allow AfD in power racked up 19M views on Musk’s X. Coincidence?
February 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
He also retweeted this garbage today.
February 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
He also retweeted this today 😔
February 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM