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Brandi Buchman

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Legal/Justice Reporter, HuffPost. Writer covering Jan. 6; Proud Boys trial for emptywheel; Oath Keepers trial and Jan. 6 reporting at Daily Kos; former WH, Congressional Correspondent Courthouse News; Reporter at The Southampton Press/27east.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · Nov 22

Look, Ma. I'm still a citation.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1h

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Obama Warns GOP Wants To 'Steal' 2026 Election In Ad For California Redistricting

The former president accused Republicans of trying to "steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election" by gerrymandering Democrats out of power.

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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 2h

The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow over whether or not to totally gut the Voting Rights Act. If it does so it would decimate political power for racial minorities, particularly Black people, and help Donald Trump lock in one-party rule www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The Supreme Court Could Grant Trump His Dream Of One-Party Rule

If the court’s conservative supermajority guts the Voting Rights Act, they will crush minority political power.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 2h

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Hegseth Takes Victory Lap After Crackdown On ‘Fat Troops'

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 2h

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House Speaker Mike Johnson Has An Ominous Prediction About The Government Shutdown

The longest U.S. government shutdown lasted for 35 days under Trump from December 2018 to January 2019.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 2h

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Trump Ally Javier Milei To Visit The White House On Tuesday

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Kevin Robillard @robillard.bsky.social · 3h

Why are Senate Democrats recruiting 77-year-old Janet Mills? Because they're focused proven vote-winners: Everyone likes that they recruited Cooper + Brown.

But the same philosophy is leading them to back Mills, Stevens and Turek, which is causing grumbling.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 4h

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An Isolated Boarding School Promised To Help Troubled Girls. Former Students Say They Were Abused.

One former student called the school’s founder, Jeannie Courtney, “the all-powerful cult leader — God.”

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 4h

He deserves a prize for whining

TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 4h

10/14/25 - Time Magazine posted a not so flattering photo of DJT and he isn’t happy about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/trumptweets/comments/1o6c1a7/101425_time_magazine_posted_a_not_so_flattering/
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screenshot of trump post 10/14/25 - Time Magazine posted a not so flattering photo of DJT and he isn’t happy about it.

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Taiyler S. Mitchell @taiylersimone.bsky.social · 19h

Check out my latest with @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social for @huffpost.com: Spring Ridge Academy, an isolated all-girls boarding school in Arizona, promised to help "troubled teens," but former students said the facility abused them and left them traumatized instead.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1d

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1d

Got my 10 miles in before the sun came up, inhaled a roasted veggie and cream cheese bagel, rode a bike, watched a twilight zone, passed out, drank coffee and its only 3pm. If I could do this every day I would.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about this was so great! She is!

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Twilight Zone - He's Alive - The Death of Peter Vollmer

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 2d

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Experienced Lawyers - SNL

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3d

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3d

Hes what? 4'11? 75lbs?

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3d

I am absolutely already strong enough to deadlift him

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3d

I wanna be able to rip a confederate flag in half first try

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3d

I gotta say, Im getting strong enough to lift a nazi! A small one but still!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

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This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Do you think Corey Lewandowski, Kristi Noem, or Stephen Miller himself thought it'd be cute to falsely claim FPS asked for a Guard invasion of the courthouse?