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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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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

07.10.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1015    πŸ” 643    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 209
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Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

Laid-off civil rights workers warn of potential for ICE detention violations

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/g...

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After Reconstruction, the media refused to believe that white supremacists were massacring entire towns of Black people attempting to claim local sovereignty over their own lives. It is not true that violence, even when it's "plain as day," necessarily moves public opinion.

07.10.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
www.404media.co/police-said-...

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β€œ.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Trump’s Own Tweet on Portland Backfires as Judge Deals Him Harsh Loss As a judge’s blunt ruling blocks Trump from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon’s Attorney General tells us in an interview that Trump’s lawless threats are working against himβ€”and discusses what com...

Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts."

On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names. When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data β€” a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated β€” the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

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America needs to talk about how Trump’s deportation plan is really dictatorship | Will Bunch Team Trump isn't kidding about deporting millions if the ex-POTUS returns in 2025. It would destroy America, morally and economically.

Source (gift link) share.inquirer.com/465cfR

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She’s still out here ✌️

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Like everything else with this administration, Trump’s decision to extend a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina involves corruption. trib.al/6vFFFOX

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This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

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Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3 Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activistβ€”Harmeet Dhillonβ€”currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

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Portland ICE Grants Access to Alt-Right Journalist to Film Attacks on Protesters from Their Roof

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The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

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A dispatch from war ravaged and communist controlled Oregon where Salem’s largest Christian Nationalist church has organized a praise event in honor of Charlie Kirk using the state Capitol building as a backdrop. There are probably 100 people here.

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Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpointβ€”smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

β€œI covered my baby with my bodyβ€”I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

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In addition to gassing people on public streets today, ICE handcuffed and detained Ald. Jesse Fuentes (26th ward) today at an ER.

As we’ve seen repeatedly, ICE agents exhibit little self-discipline or understanding of the law.

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What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.

Shameless!

03.10.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1919    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 29
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New study finds that overly agreeable & validating AI chatbots make people more extreme in their beliefs. They essentially function as your own personalized echo chamber.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

02.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Good intel on ICE’s new plan to reportedly pressure migrant teenagers into accepting deportation!

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The Illinois State Police report up to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

If he doesn't want to assist ICE in their wantonly illegal acts, he should order them to stand down.

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This was taken two nights ago outside Portland’s ICE facility. According to the Trump administration a guy in a chicken suit counts as a reign of terror.

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β€œHe takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize peopleβ€”then he calls himself a Christian,” (Russell Vought's) neighbor said. "Pretty despicable."

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DOJ Demands Removal Of ICEBlock App; Why Are The β€˜Free Speech Warriors’ Suddenly So Quiet? For years now, the MAGA crowd has been absolutely convinced that the Biden administration engaged in the most egregious censorship campaign in American history. They’ve waved around the Murth…

This is classic authoritarian behavior: using official power to cut off information access. Doing so thru the Apple App Store is simply a modern day avenue; of course DOJ won’t stop here. Likely gearing up to cut off messenger apps too. Thnx @mmasnick.bsky.social: www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/d...

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Welcome to The Hague, Mr. Hegseth…

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Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Federal Agents Again Attack Protesters Outside Broadview ICE Facility Protesters have gathered outside the facility for weeks with the goal of shutting it down, while Broadview officials have demanded ICE stop the "unprovoked" attacks.

Federal Agents Again Attack Protesters Outside Broadview ICE Facility blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

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