Jeff Burkhart

It's hard to get more than 3/4th of Americans to agree on anything! This is what we're fighting for.

CNN's Van Jones reveals what Charlie Kirk messaged him one day before his assassination. https://cnn.it/4ndwHsl

Who is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador? Illegal deportation of Maryland man has become a flashpoint as Trump tests limits of his executive power

Authoritarian tactics thrive when we normalize them.

Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a Maryland resident mistakenly deported without charges. A Salvadoran official denied Van Hollen while admitting El Salvador is being paid to hold Garcia.

U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’ (Gift Article) Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filin...

Legal immigrants are being indiscriminately swept up and sent to places the government has no control over. And they clearly don’t care about the impact it has on people and their families.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Opinion | Musk Is Not Stopping at DOGE (Gift Article) Elon Musk isn’t stopping at DOGE.

The April 1 election is huge for the future of Wisconsin: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

“The cure for despair is not hope. It’s discovering what we want to do about something we care about.”

– Margaret J. Wheatley, Turning to One Another

Here's an opportunity to get involved in the April 1 election. It's our ONLY election this year, and its a big one:

natmadison.org/calendar/

21 DOGE civil servants resign instead of using "skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

www.wethebuilders.org/posts/we-res...

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Justice Department fires 20 immigration judges from backlogged courts amid major government cuts A union official says the Trump administration has fired 20 immigration judges without explanation amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government.

Immigration courts were already backlogged with more than 3 million cases. Trump fired 20 judges and it's unclear if they will be replaced. How does this help him meet his goals?

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump just pulled back a plan to regulate toxic, cancer-causing PFAS. It’s in hundreds of water systems in North Carolina. PFAS, or “forever chemicals," are linked to cancer, birth abnormalities, and other health ailments. But Trump is pushing back a long-awaited plan to set federal limits on them.

Wherever you live in North Carolina, Trump’s action matters. Hundreds of water systems in the state were found to have elevated levels of PFAS in 2024. It’s estimated that nearly half of the nation’s tap water has PFAS in it.

cardinalpine.com/2025/01/28/t...

Elon Musk gets more than $20 billion in contracts from the US government and bought his way into a new role in the government where he can direct even more money to himself. Enough!

My new bill, the ELON MUSK Act, will end this grift!

Stop Elon’s grift!

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power."

FDR 1938

I have one word in response to this shift to "merit-based" employment: Hegeseth?!?

The AMA recognized that gender identity is nonbinary. The Federal government should also recognize this reality: policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder...

DEI is still vital. At the end of 2021, the top 1% of households in the United States held 30.9% of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50% held 2.6%. The distribution of wealth skews to those advantaged by racially discriminatory policies and practices, not because poor people are lazy.

give to support families impacted by yesterday's school shooting:
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How to Help Children Cope with a Gun Violence Tragedy - bit.ly/3PkhG8R

For Teens: Coping After Mass Violence - bit.ly/3OWOTqH

Let's work with our legislators to prevent future tragedies.

If heartaches were commercials, we'd all be on TV.

New band alert! Bruised Orange will be playing the songs of John Prine at the North Street Cabaret in Madison on January 3. The band features Liz Stattelman-Scanlan, Tina Thompson, Colin Bazsali and Jeff Burkhart, 4 long time friends who will perform together publicly for the first time!