Judith Burdan
@jburdan.bsky.social
Semi-retired English and Women’s Studies professor. A blue dot in a red state.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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This is Adelita Grijalva.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is Adelita Grijalva.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.
She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
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The best explanation of Trump's consolidation of economic and state power to destroy free thought and civil society that I've seen yet. From the always brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The best explanation of Trump's consolidation of economic and state power to destroy free thought and civil society that I've seen yet. From the always brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.
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Reminder:
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
April 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Reminder:
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
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Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
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Extremist violence is *absolutely* one-sided. @mattyglesias.bsky.social is recklessly wrong to "both-sides" this issue.
Excellent analysis by @pbump.com from a couple years ago, based on ADL data.
From 2018 through 2022 right-wing extremists killed 176 people. Left-wing? 3.
Excellent analysis by @pbump.com from a couple years ago, based on ADL data.
From 2018 through 2022 right-wing extremists killed 176 people. Left-wing? 3.
September 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Extremist violence is *absolutely* one-sided. @mattyglesias.bsky.social is recklessly wrong to "both-sides" this issue.
Excellent analysis by @pbump.com from a couple years ago, based on ADL data.
From 2018 through 2022 right-wing extremists killed 176 people. Left-wing? 3.
Excellent analysis by @pbump.com from a couple years ago, based on ADL data.
From 2018 through 2022 right-wing extremists killed 176 people. Left-wing? 3.
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Anyway, seems like the white community should really do something about all this white-on-white crime.
a man stands in front of a wall that says nba finals on it
Alt: A black man walks away
media.tenor.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Anyway, seems like the white community should really do something about all this white-on-white crime.
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Big sigh. Watch this.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Big sigh. Watch this.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?
No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
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They want us to believe that Trump has bruises on BOTH HANDS from handshaking with his right hand, but his ear healed so perfectly after being shot that there was NO SIGN of it within weeks. Got it.
August 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
They want us to believe that Trump has bruises on BOTH HANDS from handshaking with his right hand, but his ear healed so perfectly after being shot that there was NO SIGN of it within weeks. Got it.
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Keep in mind that if the most powerful leaders and members of the press will coverup the rape of children, they will lie to us about anything and everything. Sorry for the direct and depressing commentary, but that's where I am at the moment, and it's not a good place
August 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Keep in mind that if the most powerful leaders and members of the press will coverup the rape of children, they will lie to us about anything and everything. Sorry for the direct and depressing commentary, but that's where I am at the moment, and it's not a good place
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Riley Gaines will always be a 5th place swimmer.
July 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Riley Gaines will always be a 5th place swimmer.
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I know there’s serious news, but this? Too good not to share.
Gavin Newsom’s office just posted a clip of EMPEROR PALPATINE reading Trump’s unhinged Truth Social rant about the L.A. protests.
It’s trolling at its finest.
The Force is strong with this one. 💀👑
#NoKings
#FreedomToDissent
Gavin Newsom’s office just posted a clip of EMPEROR PALPATINE reading Trump’s unhinged Truth Social rant about the L.A. protests.
It’s trolling at its finest.
The Force is strong with this one. 💀👑
#NoKings
#FreedomToDissent
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I know there’s serious news, but this? Too good not to share.
Gavin Newsom’s office just posted a clip of EMPEROR PALPATINE reading Trump’s unhinged Truth Social rant about the L.A. protests.
It’s trolling at its finest.
The Force is strong with this one. 💀👑
#NoKings
#FreedomToDissent
Gavin Newsom’s office just posted a clip of EMPEROR PALPATINE reading Trump’s unhinged Truth Social rant about the L.A. protests.
It’s trolling at its finest.
The Force is strong with this one. 💀👑
#NoKings
#FreedomToDissent
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So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
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According to GOP:
Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage!
Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon!
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage!
Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon!
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Trump commutes sentence of Miami healthcare exec convicted of Medicare fraud
He and his girlfriend pocketed more than $87 million in the scheme.
www.miamiherald.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
According to GOP:
Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage!
Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon!
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage!
Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon!
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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All facts!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
May 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
All facts!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
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It's said that the indigenous peoples of the arctic have between 30 and 300 words for snow and ice. That's only natural. There's a lot of frozen water up there. So, it stands to reason that in the age of Trump we now need a lot ways to describe shit. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-we-e...
What Do We Even Call Our Current Trump Catastrophe?
Talk to a psychiatrist about our leader—and we should all be talking to a psychiatrist in this moment—and the term they use is almost certainly going to be batsh-t.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It's said that the indigenous peoples of the arctic have between 30 and 300 words for snow and ice. That's only natural. There's a lot of frozen water up there. So, it stands to reason that in the age of Trump we now need a lot ways to describe shit. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-we-e...
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The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.
May 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.
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"There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." - Lady Catherine de Bourgh
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." - Lady Catherine de Bourgh
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Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.
March 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.