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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦
@jeffburtka.bsky.social
Writing. Running. Outdoors.
Anishinaabe & Wyandot Land (Metro Detroit)
Writer. Lawyer.
Used to blog about the State of Michigan (Lifelong Michigander blog).
I blame it on my elegance.
#detroit #michigan
https://jburtka.journoportfolio.com
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Introduction: Writer/editor/lawyer in metro Detroit working in legal publishing. I’ve written freelance articles on sports, outdoors, environment, and more for various publications, including The Guardian and Outside. Runner and sometimes coach. Pro-democracy. Roots against nazis in movies and life.
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Donald Trump is showing off photos of people who allegedly committed crimes that justify the occupation of all of Minneapolis.

Look at this guy who was charged with sex assault and obstructing justice.

Boy, imagine letting someone like that walk around free.
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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BREAKING

A federal judge STRIKES the words "United States Attorney" from Lindsey Halligan's signature and warns that he will refer her to disciplinary proceedings if she persists in calling herself one.

Doc buff.ly/JvTKLlD

Background buff.ly/Ay2iB6u
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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I guess they thought they were special since the Cuban-American community largely supports Trump.
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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25th amendment now
January 20, 2026 at 1:38 PM
"Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity."

-MLK, Letter From a Birmingham Jail #MLKDAY
January 19, 2026 at 10:18 PM
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Simply put: I am in control of the world's largest and most powerful military. And because I didn't get a prize for making peace, I feel entitled to consider going to war with a longtime ally.

This man is mentally ill. That is not hyperbole. He's sick. He must be removed from power immediately.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has confirmed he received a message from Donald Trump at the weekend saying he was no longer interested “purely” in peace due to not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Norway’s PM says Trump sent letter tying Nobel prize snub to Greenland ambitions
American president says his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize has shifted his focus, as he ramps up bid to take over huge Arctic island.
www.politico.eu
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
MLK could have written this today.
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Here we are in the U.S. in 2026.
January 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦
Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Dr. King
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
April 16, 1963
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLK #MLKDay
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposting this thread to honor a man who this nation dishonors.
Here are several of my favorite passages from Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. In my opinion, it should be required reading for all Americans, especially those who shallowly quote his "I Have a Dream" speech. The letter is available here: www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
#MLKDay
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.”
January 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM