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.
We're less than two weeks out from IREHR's Time to Mobilize Conference in Kansas City. The event is filling up fast, but we've got a few spaces still available. Register today!
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October 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
We're less than two weeks out from IREHR's Time to Mobilize Conference in Kansas City. The event is filling up fast, but we've got a few spaces still available. Register today!
Can't make it? RT to help spread the word. Thanks!
actionnetwork.org/events/time-...
Can't make it? RT to help spread the word. Thanks!
actionnetwork.org/events/time-...
A better comparison would be the 9/12/2009 Tea Party Taxpayer March on Washington. As many as a couple hundred thousand assembled in DC, and out of it those nascent protests became a movement.
It did get a photo on the NYT frontpage the next day.
It did get a photo on the NYT frontpage the next day.
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A better comparison would be the 9/12/2009 Tea Party Taxpayer March on Washington. As many as a couple hundred thousand assembled in DC, and out of it those nascent protests became a movement.
It did get a photo on the NYT frontpage the next day.
It did get a photo on the NYT frontpage the next day.
No Kings Protest- Lake Forest Park, WA - 10/18/2025
Already bigger than last one, still growing. Rain doesn’t deter PNW Antifa.
Already bigger than last one, still growing. Rain doesn’t deter PNW Antifa.
October 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
No Kings Protest- Lake Forest Park, WA - 10/18/2025
Already bigger than last one, still growing. Rain doesn’t deter PNW Antifa.
Already bigger than last one, still growing. Rain doesn’t deter PNW Antifa.
For nearly half a century, Leonard Zeskind risked life and limb to expose the danger of white nationalism and stem the far-right’s march from the margins to the mainstream.
Join us on Nov. 9 to share your memories and celebrate his life.
Register today.
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Join us on Nov. 9 to share your memories and celebrate his life.
Register today.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For nearly half a century, Leonard Zeskind risked life and limb to expose the danger of white nationalism and stem the far-right’s march from the margins to the mainstream.
Join us on Nov. 9 to share your memories and celebrate his life.
Register today.
actionnetwork.org/events/leona...
Join us on Nov. 9 to share your memories and celebrate his life.
Register today.
actionnetwork.org/events/leona...
Join us in KC on Nov. 8.
Time to Mobilize: Fight White Nationalism and Defend Democracy Conference
National experts and movement veterans will engage attendees with lessons from the past and promising new strategies to protect democracy and defeat bigotry.
actionnetwork.org/events/time-...
Time to Mobilize: Fight White Nationalism and Defend Democracy Conference
National experts and movement veterans will engage attendees with lessons from the past and promising new strategies to protect democracy and defeat bigotry.
actionnetwork.org/events/time-...
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Join us in KC on Nov. 8.
Time to Mobilize: Fight White Nationalism and Defend Democracy Conference
National experts and movement veterans will engage attendees with lessons from the past and promising new strategies to protect democracy and defeat bigotry.
actionnetwork.org/events/time-...
Time to Mobilize: Fight White Nationalism and Defend Democracy Conference
National experts and movement veterans will engage attendees with lessons from the past and promising new strategies to protect democracy and defeat bigotry.
actionnetwork.org/events/time-...
Russ Vought with the Project2025 Trifecta: using racism to cut funds for public transit to blue city.
October 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Russ Vought with the Project2025 Trifecta: using racism to cut funds for public transit to blue city.
This is how MAHA leader and advisor to RFK Jr’s HHS wants to solve the healthcare crisis, “More Prayer. Less drugs.”
Get ready to pray the polio away.
Get ready to pray the polio away.
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is how MAHA leader and advisor to RFK Jr’s HHS wants to solve the healthcare crisis, “More Prayer. Less drugs.”
Get ready to pray the polio away.
Get ready to pray the polio away.
Racist livestreamer and Jan. 6th insurrectionist, Anthime Gionet "Baked Alaska" is trying to get the FBI to arrest "antifa."
September 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Racist livestreamer and Jan. 6th insurrectionist, Anthime Gionet "Baked Alaska" is trying to get the FBI to arrest "antifa."
"Three down arrows" is being widely interpreted as an antifa logo. But the full description of the inscription is "up right down down down," and the other inscription, "Hey fascist, catch!" both come from the game Helldivers 2.
Online culture is such a morass of symbols/meanings. Watch your step.
Online culture is such a morass of symbols/meanings. Watch your step.
September 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"Three down arrows" is being widely interpreted as an antifa logo. But the full description of the inscription is "up right down down down," and the other inscription, "Hey fascist, catch!" both come from the game Helldivers 2.
Online culture is such a morass of symbols/meanings. Watch your step.
Online culture is such a morass of symbols/meanings. Watch your step.
Proud Boys calling for "1776" and "massive, top-down, state violence" and Stewart Rhodes restarting the Oath Keepers.
Groups that led one of the most significant acts of political violence in American history, returning to a violence-embracing pre-Jan 6th posture, should give us all pause.
Groups that led one of the most significant acts of political violence in American history, returning to a violence-embracing pre-Jan 6th posture, should give us all pause.
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Proud Boys calling for "1776" and "massive, top-down, state violence" and Stewart Rhodes restarting the Oath Keepers.
Groups that led one of the most significant acts of political violence in American history, returning to a violence-embracing pre-Jan 6th posture, should give us all pause.
Groups that led one of the most significant acts of political violence in American history, returning to a violence-embracing pre-Jan 6th posture, should give us all pause.
To promote Trump Media's new partnership with Crypto.com, CEO Devin Nunes recently went on the popular QAnon podcast, the X22 Report.
Nunes discussed “the prospects for accountability for perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax, and other issues.”
Nunes discussed “the prospects for accountability for perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax, and other issues.”
September 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
To promote Trump Media's new partnership with Crypto.com, CEO Devin Nunes recently went on the popular QAnon podcast, the X22 Report.
Nunes discussed “the prospects for accountability for perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax, and other issues.”
Nunes discussed “the prospects for accountability for perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax, and other issues.”
Leland Lehrman, the executive director of the MAHA Institute and a promoter of hardcore antisemitic conspiracies, took time this morning to tweet advice to British racist leader Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon).
August 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Leland Lehrman, the executive director of the MAHA Institute and a promoter of hardcore antisemitic conspiracies, took time this morning to tweet advice to British racist leader Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon).
The symbol showing up in multiple places is the same used by Robert Crimo, the 2022 Highland Park, IL parade shooter.
Some have suggested Crimo may have borrowed it from the far-right Finnish political association, Suomen Sisu.
Some have suggested Crimo may have borrowed it from the far-right Finnish political association, Suomen Sisu.
August 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The symbol showing up in multiple places is the same used by Robert Crimo, the 2022 Highland Park, IL parade shooter.
Some have suggested Crimo may have borrowed it from the far-right Finnish political association, Suomen Sisu.
Some have suggested Crimo may have borrowed it from the far-right Finnish political association, Suomen Sisu.
Additional signs of antisemitism. Smoke bomb emblazoned with "Jew Gas." Shotgun says "Israel must fall."
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Additional signs of antisemitism. Smoke bomb emblazoned with "Jew Gas." Shotgun says "Israel must fall."
Additional far-right references: Minnesota School Shooter's pistol inscribed with "Vicki Weaver" -- wife of white supremacist Randy Weaver killed in a confrontation with the FBI at Ruby Ridge. Also had "Waco" written on rifle, likely a reference to the standoff with the Branch Davidians in 1993.
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Additional far-right references: Minnesota School Shooter's pistol inscribed with "Vicki Weaver" -- wife of white supremacist Randy Weaver killed in a confrontation with the FBI at Ruby Ridge. Also had "Waco" written on rifle, likely a reference to the standoff with the Branch Davidians in 1993.
Ammo clips also contained additional callout of Breivik and "-51" (also on rifle)--reference to the 51 people murdered by Brenton Tarrant in his 2019 killing spree at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
August 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ammo clips also contained additional callout of Breivik and "-51" (also on rifle)--reference to the 51 people murdered by Brenton Tarrant in his 2019 killing spree at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Other school shooters were written on his ammo clips, continued...
* Adam Lanza, 2012 Sandy Hook school murderer.
* James Holmes, 2012 Aurora Theater shooter.
* Vladislav Roslyakov, 2018 Crimean school shooter.
* Adam Lanza, 2012 Sandy Hook school murderer.
* James Holmes, 2012 Aurora Theater shooter.
* Vladislav Roslyakov, 2018 Crimean school shooter.
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Other school shooters were written on his ammo clips, continued...
* Adam Lanza, 2012 Sandy Hook school murderer.
* James Holmes, 2012 Aurora Theater shooter.
* Vladislav Roslyakov, 2018 Crimean school shooter.
* Adam Lanza, 2012 Sandy Hook school murderer.
* James Holmes, 2012 Aurora Theater shooter.
* Vladislav Roslyakov, 2018 Crimean school shooter.
Other school shooters were written on his ammo clips
* Charles Whitman, 1966 Texas Tower sniper.
* Marc Lépine, 1989 Montreal École Polytechnique killer.
* Pekka-Eric Auvinen. 2007 Finnish school shooter.
more...
* Charles Whitman, 1966 Texas Tower sniper.
* Marc Lépine, 1989 Montreal École Polytechnique killer.
* Pekka-Eric Auvinen. 2007 Finnish school shooter.
more...
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Other school shooters were written on his ammo clips
* Charles Whitman, 1966 Texas Tower sniper.
* Marc Lépine, 1989 Montreal École Polytechnique killer.
* Pekka-Eric Auvinen. 2007 Finnish school shooter.
more...
* Charles Whitman, 1966 Texas Tower sniper.
* Marc Lépine, 1989 Montreal École Polytechnique killer.
* Pekka-Eric Auvinen. 2007 Finnish school shooter.
more...
He also had this with the slogan "6 million was not enough." A reference to the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust.
August 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
He also had this with the slogan "6 million was not enough." A reference to the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust.
His rifle had "Thank God for Breivik" and "Brenton 4ever" carved into it, along with the name of Pittsburgh Synagogue Murderer Robert Bowers, and OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh.
August 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
His rifle had "Thank God for Breivik" and "Brenton 4ever" carved into it, along with the name of Pittsburgh Synagogue Murderer Robert Bowers, and OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh.
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton."
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
August 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
After showing his guns emblazoned with racial slurs, far-right slogans, Minneapolis shooting suspect displayed a message "Hail Breivik. Hail Brenton."
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 in Norway in 2011. Brenton Tarrant killed 51 in shootings at 2 mosques in New Zealand in 2019.
Curious that Trump is destabilizing the Fed at exactly the same time his company is entering a strategic partnership with crypto.
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Curious that Trump is destabilizing the Fed at exactly the same time his company is entering a strategic partnership with crypto.
This is the garbage coming from MAHA leader and special government employee at HHS, Calley Means. The MAHA message: if you get sick, it’s your fault.
It’s using the right-wing personal responsibility frame to excoriate public health programs.
It’s using the right-wing personal responsibility frame to excoriate public health programs.
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is the garbage coming from MAHA leader and special government employee at HHS, Calley Means. The MAHA message: if you get sick, it’s your fault.
It’s using the right-wing personal responsibility frame to excoriate public health programs.
It’s using the right-wing personal responsibility frame to excoriate public health programs.