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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[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...

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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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...

It's our message and we have to send it with a blue tsunami! newrepublic.com/article/2098...

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/...

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...

See what happens when you elect #Democrats? virginiamercury.com/2026/05/04/t...

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...

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.

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

Oops. Maybe @economist.com should reevaluate the congressional maps given recent SCOTUS revisionist decision gutting VRA? @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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/...

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?...

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. https://to.pbs.org/3QrzSRG

@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/...

Because we all know that private equity firms have the best interests of patients at heart, right? virginiamercury.com/2026/04/17/v...

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

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...

@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...

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...

What can't we have someone like Prime Minister Mark Carney? www.wsj.com/world/americ...

What can't we have someone like Prime Minister Mark Carney? www.wsj.com/world/americ...

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...

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

@pkrugman.bsky.social takes "an optimism break & talk about why batteries may save the world." More broadly, "the whole renewable energy complex is experiencing a virtuous circle: ever-growing use leads to falling costs & falling costs lead to ever-growing use." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Conversion therapy is harmful. Virginia took action in 2020 to protect minors. A 2025 settlement and today’s Supreme Court ruling in Chiles v. Salazar restrict enforcement of protections. Survivors have legal options. We must continue fighting to protect young people. @equalityva.bsky.social

From our new senior fellow John Sipher ⬇️ www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-d...

My favorite photo from today's #NOKINGS rally in McLean, Virginia. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social @indivisible.org

I recently asked Claude this question: "Is there a game theory that explains the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact." Note: "The prisoner's dilemma lurk[s] underneath." Here is the result: claude.ai/share/bad9af...

hegseth won't last long now: trump distances himself from Iran decision. "Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up and you said let’s do it..." youtu.be/xKHMRLVz6cY?...

Trump’s information about the war is coming from two-minute Hegseth sizzle reels, not actual intelligence briefings. What could go wrong? www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

A straight up lie. Obama’s JCPOA halted Iran's nuclear weapons program, making America and the world safer. We argued then, correctly, that the likeliest alternative to the deal was war.

This is no surprise. Trump won't stop until he installs his approved government that allow him to control all the oil. Trump doesn't care about the lives of US soldiers or those of the Iranian people. He doesn't care what Iranian leaders do to their people.

This is the person who claims to be our president. Have any Republicans condemned this comment? Yet, had any Democratic leader said the same about Charlie Kirk, Republicans would be calling for their head.

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

@pkrugman.bsky.social on farmers, Qatar fertilizer, & force majeure. With Hormuz bottled, a by-product of natural gas, urea-based fertilizer, won't be shipped to North American farmers in the midst of the spring planting season. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social substack.com/@paulkrugman...

Authoritarians always require both of these things to be true: That The Enemy is weak and easily crushed by the might of The Leader. AND That The Enemy is strong, at or already inside the gates, and that you must sacrifice your freedom to The Leader to increase His might to stop them.

How do these people say these obvious lies with a straight face? Have they been implanted with some kind of device that inflicts pain unless they lie? Are we living in an Avengers movie where the bad guys get to do a lot more damage and we really don't know when the good guys are going to show up?

This is what we can look forward to if legislation like the SAVE Act or SAVE America Act passes. Because that act will result in reshaping our voting systems in such a way that many of us will lose our right and votes won't matter because republicans will have unchecked power.

Will the federal courts ever label trump's DoJ a source of nuisance lawsuits? Will they ever enforce Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 11 against trump's DoJ? (www.bloomberglaw.com/external/doc...) @politico.com @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

He's talking about using nuclear weapons in Iran. I always figured his fear of nukes would keep him in check, but he's so disinhibited that it seems like anything is now possible. Removing him before he has a chance to order a nuclear release would be a good idea, but it's not going to happen.

"... if you want to understand Operation Epic FUBAR, don’t forget to follow the oil money." @pkrugman.bsky.social @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Exactly: "We basically have a Stalin-like court around Trump and we see the decisions that such a court makes." And who will play Khrushchev after trump is gone? @pkrugman.bsky.social @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Kahn wasn’t just Epstein’s accountant.  For more than a decade, he managed Epstein’s finances, moved money, oversaw work on Epstein’s properties, and handled payments to survivors.  That goes far beyond what any normal accountant does.

"After Nero’s death his successors decided to erase all traces of the emperor & his palace." After trump leaves the White House on 1/20/2029, his Democratic successor should implode the POS ballroom & rebuild with donor $$$. @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social colosseo.it/en/area/the-...

Why in fu©k do markets believe anything "pump&dump" trump says⁉️ if you're going to hang on his every word, try selling after he says something good & buying after he says something bad. as you should know, if he's talking, he's lying, so it's all bad. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Spring break at @georgemasonu.bsky.social @scharschool.bsky.social. I could be skydiving in Ashburn but I'm stuck in McLean. www.iflyworld.com/loudoun