@dburghart

Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.

 Seattle, WA
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Joined October 2008
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It was not a Million MAGA on the streets of DC today, but it would be catastrophic to not take what happened today seriously. This is a beginning, not the end. We're witnessing the initial coalescing of a wide range of far-right forces into mass opposition.
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Extreme Michigan@ExtremeMichigan5h
Meet neo-Nazi @MikeRogersForMI supporter, Ethan Kut.
BronzedbyBetsy (PARODY)@BronzedByBetsy5h
This "voter" is Marysville City Council candidate Ethan Kut, he recently locked his substack acct. Before going private, his follow list included Antelope Press,"Hitler Loved Christ," Jacky Eubanks, and Ty Bommarito, alongside multiple likes on pro-fascist content.@ChadLivengood
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James Tate
@JamesTate121Oct 23
ICE just locked up the man who feeds 8,000 Bronx neighbors a month, at his own immigration hearing. Now his food pantry is shut.🤬 Aleksander Nilaj, an Albanian immigrant who founded the Open Hand food pantry in the Bronx in 2012, showed up for his immigration hearing at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. ICE agents detained him instead. He is now held at Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey. bit.ly/4i8Uqse
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal
@RepJayapalOct 23
Once again, ICE is lying, instead of holding officers accountable for violent incidents. This video from @David_J_Bier shows ICE agents dragging this man down, nearly ripping his shirt off and grabbing the back of his neck. There is no place in our society for ICE’s cruelty.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
@ICEgovOct 22
Radical sanctuary city politicians have spent days screaming obscenities at ICE officers for their arrest of this individual shown CLEARLY tackling a law enforcement officer to the ground. There is no place in our society for attacks on law enforcement.
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Meta's "accidental" suspension of the No Kings Instagram account — at a time when the org was posting updates from ongoing marches — was not an anomaly. I found dozens of similar instances of Meta "mistakenly" targeting left-leaning activist accounts, often during crucial election windows. My latest.
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Sarah Despres@sarahdespresOct 23
More measles. The lack of leadership from the USG to address this serious problem will be @SecKennedy legacy. cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-me…

US measles cases hit 4,588, more than twice last year’s total

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ICE agents tackle and injure U.S. citizen student with disabilities, local officials say latimes.com/politics/story/2…

ICE agents tackle and injure U.S. citizen student with disabilities, local officials say

The student was walking to school when he was stopped by ICE agents, who badly injured him, school officials said.

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🧵“Likely.” “Confirmed.” “Suspected.” “Verified.” In just over a week, Trump’s administration has kept changing how it describes the 20,000+ Californians whose ballots it wants set aside. Here's every time the DOJ has flip-flopped on describing these voters👇
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Right Wing Watch
@RightWingWatchOct 23
As Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander explained in 2022: "Any election I don't like is stolen. ... If I don't like it, it's stolen. If I like it, it's not stolen. If you win, it's stolen."
Headquarters
@HQNewsNowOct 23
The Trump administration has already moved to block the results of the Alaska Senate race if Republican Dan Sullivan loses.
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Is he gonna “walk away” from this, too.
Sam Stein
@samsteinOct 23
NEW: Scott Presler allowed multiple out of state GOP operatives to use his home in Pennsylvania to vote in the '24 election. Those operatives then left the state. Election lawyers say this could be in violation of PA voting laws. via @BrendanHartnett thebulwark.com/p/gop-operati…

Top GOP Operative Let Out-of-State Voters Vote From His PA Home

Legal experts say Scott Presler’s houseguests could run afoul of election law.

thebulwark.com
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Replying to @samstein
Todd Blanche knew DOJ had already written its briefs to stop Alaska’s certification when he said this.
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 22
🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...
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Sam Stein
@samsteinOct 23
And the efforts by Trump to stop certification of election results they don't like has begun. DOJ now seeking to block Alaska Senate results if Peltola wins and the other Dan Sullivan gets votes courthousenews.com/wp-conten…
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NEW: Trump’s DOJ asked a federal judge to immediately block California from counting ballots from 20,000 alleged noncitizens after it took the unusual step of appealing its lawsuit before the lower court had a chance to rule. The request is the DOJ’s latest escalation in its ongoing battle with California election officials. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

DOJ again demands immediate block on California counting ballots from alleged noncitizens

The demand comes after DOJ took the unusual step of fiing an apppeal before the district court judge had a chance to rule.

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He needs to get on to the next grift.
Liz Essley Whyte
@l_e_whyteOct 22
EXCLUSIVE - Top RFK Jr. ally and adviser Calley Means has quit the Trump administration. Means was frustrated by White House delays of some of Kennedy’s popular food policies and blamed others in the administration for allowing food companies and special interests to have too much sway, people familiar with the matter said. One of them described him as “disillusioned.” wsj.com/politics/policy/call…

Exclusive | Calley Means, a Top RFK Jr. Adviser, Quits Trump Administration

Means was frustrated by a White House slowdown in policymaking to encourage healthy eating.

wsj.com
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Kansas City forum warns of growing threats to democracy from white nationalists kansascity.com/news/local/ar…

Kansas City forum warns of growing threats to democracy from white nationalists

More than 150 people attended the forum at the Kansas City Public Library’s Plaza Branch.

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Stephen Miller is one of the most unpopular people in the country, so I'm not sure if training "10,000 Stephen Millers" is a good idea for anyone looking for long-term political success. But hey, what do I know, I'm not a political consultant.
Ben Smith
@semaforbenOct 21
I wrote about the new generation in Washington, DC semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
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Hey St. Louis! Come on out tonight to Left Bank Books to celebrate the paperback release of Leonard Zeskind’s Blood & Politics. Despite this annoying cold, the conversations in Chicago, KC, and Columbia have been amazing. Looking forward to more tonight and tomorrow in Lawrence
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POLITICO
@politicoOct 20
Exclusive: FEMA chief tells states to prepare to handle disasters on their own politi.co/4yBLbqS

FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own

politico.com
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David Phinney
@davidphinneyOct 19
While Trump has repeatedly warned that America’s elections are vulnerable to hacking, in some cases repeating disproven claims, experts said his administration is undermining the federal government’s role in helping secure them. propublica.org/article/cisa-…

Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine — and...

Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for its own ends while draining it of resources to help its...

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Yesterday, the New York Times took a ghoulish front page Venezuela pro-Death Squad stance.
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Jgmac1106
@jgmac1106Oct 18
The Speaker of the House, third in line to the President of the United States of America, spreading Qanon level lies about Deep State stolen elections
X Global
@X_Global_tvOct 17
🚨 BREAKING: Raju: "What evidence proves California's elections are rigged?" Mike Johnson: "Some efforts are so diabolical and deeply embedded that they're impossible to prove. But everyone instinctively knows something is wrong."
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