
Brandon Loran Maxwell
@BrandonLMaxwell
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Opinion Writer, Producer, Film Director. Featured @AppleTV @TheHill @Salon @NPR @WritersDigest @DCExaminer @FEEonline @LATimes
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Joined August 2015
New ad that I directed for Tribal Streetwear, a global pioneer in streetwear for 35 years. 👊🏽
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Update: VETOED. Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 771, a bill that would have had a profound chilling effect over online expression. We are grateful that the governor chose to protect free speech instead of setting California on the path to a losing battle against the First
SB 771 would make it too risky for platforms to host controversial & offensive speech. That's not a side effect—it's the bill's purpose. The First Amendment doesn't allow government silence speech it can't ban by imposing expansive liability. Gov. Newsom must veto. Link ⤵️
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For anyone still confused, here’s a simple chart showing why I don’t subscribe to MAGA, Inc. Me: Limited government Economic freedom Individual liberty MAGA, Inc.: Unlimited government Economic cronyism Up in everyone’s business
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Breaking: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader MarĂa Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship https://t.co/KmAbhS3zAb
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Who you spend time with can 100% ruin your potential.
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Overly privileged, trust fund, gentrifiers with a savior complex, trying to virtue signal with dumpster fires.
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🚨NEW REPORT: Parole is one of the most powerful release mechanisms that could significantly reduce the number of people behind bars. But across the U.S., parole systems are dysfunctional, to say the least. We examine how parole boards work, and how parole decisions are made 🧵
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The New York Times and the Washington Post still have not done a single story on NSPM-7
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In case there was any ambiguity about which enemies Trump is intent on targeting, a national security directive published last week spelled it out: Anyone who is not with him will be considered against him — and against the United States. Story: https://t.co/PzaTp0usg3
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We documented ~50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. https://t.co/PpVBCMOFal
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a...
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I don't know how any Democrat politician looks at Portland over the past 48 hours and concludes the city is fine.
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To think all Weiss did was create a news platform that allows different points of view and perspectives. A revolutionary idea in today's media landscape.
Breaking News: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and appointing Bari Weiss, the news site's co-founder, as the editor in chief of CBS News. https://t.co/8hvx1Vn8wJ
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A California bill on the governor’s desk would punish social media platforms with broad liability for showing or recommending user-created content that the state says contributes to a civil rights violation. SB 771 threatens online free expression and Gov. Newsom should veto it.
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Is it too much to ask for a mainstream political party who can admit men can't become women and soldiers shouldn't be deployed to U.S. cities? Both were relatively sane positions a decade ago.
Trump approval slipping among Latinos, but Democrats haven't made major gains https://t.co/lTBfYl1JJD via @CBSPolitics
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"Similarly, Francisco Franco’s Spain relied on military force to maintain control, using troops to crush opposition and enforce a rigid, authoritarian rule. In both cases, the use of military power to enforce domestic laws was framed as a necessity for national stability, but
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"Benito Mussolini’s Italy, for example, used paramilitary forces like the Blackshirts to enforce state laws and suppress dissent. What began as a tool to 'restore order' quickly became a mechanism for silencing political opponents, censoring the press, and dismantling
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"While Orwell’s dystopia was fictional, it was deeply informed by the real-world rise of fascist regimes in the 20th century, regimes that used military force not to protect citizens, but to subjugate them. Ultimately, he rightfully concluded the deployment of troops for
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Orwell painted a grim picture of what happens when the machinery of the state becomes too powerful, too invasive, and too willing to use force against its own people. So what are we to make of soldiers being deployed to U.S. cities today? My column... https://t.co/alWeqUoOdP
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