Devin Burghart
@dburghart.bsky.social
Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 3 KWCH: 1 month after KS AG Kris Kobach demanded that Wichita Public Schools -- the state’s largest district--eliminate policies that allow affirming trans students or lose all its state funding, the deadline has come and gone with no action by either party.
Kansas AG warns Wichita school district against LGBTQ policies
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a letter to Wichita Public Schools urging it to tighten policies that affirm students who identify as transgender, saying the district could be at risk to lose...
www.kwch.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 3 KWCH: 1 month after KS AG Kris Kobach demanded that Wichita Public Schools -- the state’s largest district--eliminate policies that allow affirming trans students or lose all its state funding, the deadline has come and gone with no action by either party.
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A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.
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For @liberalcurrents.com fellow @vassar.bsky.social alum @jpygold.bsky.social and I wrote about the Trump administration's gutting of disparate impact liability as another advance in their segregationist agenda.
Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:23 PM
For @liberalcurrents.com fellow @vassar.bsky.social alum @jpygold.bsky.social and I wrote about the Trump administration's gutting of disparate impact liability as another advance in their segregationist agenda.
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The Constitution gives states the power to determine the time, place and manner of elections. Only Congress can change the rules for federal elections. The White House has no role to play in any of this.
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a new front in its ongoing campaign for voter data held by states Friday, demanding Minnesota turn over records related to same-day registrations. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Demands Minnesota Voting Records in New Attack on Same-Day Registration
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The Constitution gives states the power to determine the time, place and manner of elections. Only Congress can change the rules for federal elections. The White House has no role to play in any of this.
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They gentrified the tinfoil hat
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
They gentrified the tinfoil hat
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Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
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Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
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NEW from @azrww.bsky.social: We wondered what Turning Point would look like after Charlie Kirk's murder. At this year's AmericaFest, his friends, colleagues & wife are making hay on his grave while bickering over which racists are too racist for polite company in front of neo-Nazi attendees.
“Why Do You Idolize a Man Who Was Racist?” Dispatch From AmericaFest 2025
| Left Coast Right Watch
With Charlie Kirk dead, this year’s AmericaFest quickly devolved into conservative in-fighting about whether it’s fine to hang out with open neo-Nazis.
leftcoastrightwatch.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
NEW from @azrww.bsky.social: We wondered what Turning Point would look like after Charlie Kirk's murder. At this year's AmericaFest, his friends, colleagues & wife are making hay on his grave while bickering over which racists are too racist for polite company in front of neo-Nazi attendees.
Musk "saluting" again...
Elon Musk Criticizes Immigration Policies, Alleges Threat To Democracy, Says, 'If This Is Not Reversed, Your Vote Will Mean Nothing' www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Elon Musk Criticizes Immigration Policies, Alleges Threat To Democracy, Says, 'If This Is Not Reversed, Your Vote Will Mean Nothing' www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Elon Musk Criticizes Immigration Policies, Alleges Threat To Democracy, Says, 'If This Is Not Reversed, Your Vote Will Mean Nothing'
Elon Musk has voiced strong criticism of immigration policies, alleging they are being manipulated to undermine democracy. In a post on X on Saturday, Musk claimed that “fraudulent government programs...
www.yahoo.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Musk "saluting" again...
Elon Musk Criticizes Immigration Policies, Alleges Threat To Democracy, Says, 'If This Is Not Reversed, Your Vote Will Mean Nothing' www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Elon Musk Criticizes Immigration Policies, Alleges Threat To Democracy, Says, 'If This Is Not Reversed, Your Vote Will Mean Nothing' www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation.
Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.
www.propublica.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.
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Absolutely wild watching every American media org incl progressive ones like NYMag remember Bardot as an animal rights defender and not mention her vicious racism
Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died
It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans
Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died
It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans
“In the 1990s, after withdrawing from film sets, the star adopted those views and married Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right Front National (FN), the precursor to today’s Rassemblement National.”
Brigitte Bardot's 30 years of sympathy for the far right
Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.
www.lemonde.fr
December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Absolutely wild watching every American media org incl progressive ones like NYMag remember Bardot as an animal rights defender and not mention her vicious racism
Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died
It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans
Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died
It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans
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Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’ | Dan Kaufman
As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us of its unrelenting violence toward Jews.
www.nybooks.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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In December 1941, a Detroit Black woman named Sylvia Tucker voluntarily made an appointment (below)with the Red Cross. She was turned away from donating blood because “orders from the National Offices barred Negro blood donors”. The ban leaked to the press, sparking public (cont)
December 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In December 1941, a Detroit Black woman named Sylvia Tucker voluntarily made an appointment (below)with the Red Cross. She was turned away from donating blood because “orders from the National Offices barred Negro blood donors”. The ban leaked to the press, sparking public (cont)
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In 1941, as the U.S. prepared for WWII, the American Red Cross launched a national blood program for the military. What most people don’t know: the program initially banned Black Americans from donating at all. This was Jim Crow in a lab coat. (cont)
race.undark.org/articles/goo...
race.undark.org/articles/goo...
Good Blood, Bad Policy: The Red Cross and Jim Crow
A 1940s Red Cross rule, which racially segregated blood, propped up notions of racial difference and Black inferiority.
race.undark.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In 1941, as the U.S. prepared for WWII, the American Red Cross launched a national blood program for the military. What most people don’t know: the program initially banned Black Americans from donating at all. This was Jim Crow in a lab coat. (cont)
race.undark.org/articles/goo...
race.undark.org/articles/goo...
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 Who would have thought that the American Red Cross bought into scientific racism? During WWII, they refused blood from Black donors.
Pull up a seat, my friends.🪑 (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
qz.com/344343/durin...
🧵 Who would have thought that the American Red Cross bought into scientific racism? During WWII, they refused blood from Black donors.
Pull up a seat, my friends.🪑 (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
qz.com/344343/durin...
During World War II, the Red Cross refused to accept blood from black donors
In December 1941, a few days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into World War II, a Detroit mother named Sylvia Tucker visited her local Red Cross donor center to give blood.
qz.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 Who would have thought that the American Red Cross bought into scientific racism? During WWII, they refused blood from Black donors.
Pull up a seat, my friends.🪑 (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
qz.com/344343/durin...
🧵 Who would have thought that the American Red Cross bought into scientific racism? During WWII, they refused blood from Black donors.
Pull up a seat, my friends.🪑 (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
qz.com/344343/durin...
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Over the last 11 months, however, one crisis has been ongoing. I have repeatedly warned that the Republican voter suppression and election-subversion machine continues to grind on. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Over the last 11 months, however, one crisis has been ongoing. I have repeatedly warned that the Republican voter suppression and election-subversion machine continues to grind on. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.
Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs
Businesses in vulnerable sectors found themselves caught between rising tariffs and beleaguered consumers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.
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The House I Live In is a 10-minute short film written by Albert Maltz, produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy
Starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe Award in 1946
youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...
Starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe Award in 1946
youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...
The House I Live In
YouTube video by Library of Congress
youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The House I Live In is a 10-minute short film written by Albert Maltz, produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy
Starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe Award in 1946
youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...
Starring Frank Sinatra. Made to oppose anti-Semitism at the end of World War II, it received an Honorary Academy Award and a special Golden Globe Award in 1946
youtube.com/watch?v=ovwH...
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tHiS iS nOt ChRiStIaN nAtIoNaLiSm.
December 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
tHiS iS nOt ChRiStIaN nAtIoNaLiSm.
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They called 911 for help.
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.
Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
They called 911 for help.
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)
Police and prosecutors used the junk science of "911 Call Analysis" to decide they were liars.
(Published 2022)