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Judith Burdan

@jburdan.bsky.social

Semi-retired English and Women’s Studies professor. A blue dot in a red state.

119 Followers  |  570 Following  |  35 Posts  |  Joined: 11.11.2024  |  1.8264

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A billionaire telling you your kids don’t need more toys or school supplies is wild. Ppl who hoard abundance love telling working families we don’t deserve basics. It’s the upside-down logic that should infuriate anyone paying for groceries, rent, school supplies with real money. #Pinks #Momsky

11.12.2025 16:42 — 👍 159    🔁 93    💬 13    📌 4
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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.

16.11.2025 23:43 — 👍 59316    🔁 36351    💬 1300    📌 2869
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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…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

08.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 3976    🔁 1202    💬 76    📌 188

I mean, the average Fox viewer doesn’t, so maybe he’s counting on that.

15.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does he not know what anthropomorphic means?

15.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I know. And Biden got a lot done with infrastructure and clean energy. And voters didn’t return them to Washington with power. My question is about what we should be expecting beyond the gimmes.

08.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or maybe it does in that it points out why the Democrats fight for what they do and not other issues.

08.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right, which doesn’t address the question of what else they should be fighting for.

08.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What makes it an easy pull for them? What other issues? What are some other easy pull issues? Or non-easy pull ones? Not disagreeing with you so much as asking for specifics.

08.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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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.

07.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 21863    🔁 8291    💬 1099    📌 535
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Opinion | Mourn, or Else

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...

01.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.

30.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 5178    🔁 3136    💬 159    📌 389

Reminder:

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07.04.2025 02:34 — 👍 26512    🔁 4124    💬 420    📌 202

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.

25.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 4093    🔁 1371    💬 224    📌 72

Why do racists always get their “lingo” from old popular culture? All of them are like somebody’s racist grandfather trying to sound cool. It’s a heady brew of evil cringiness.

23.09.2025 21:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask him how he knows he’s a man. The source of that knowledge is the same for someone who knows they are a woman.

16.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry about that.

13.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We already have Riley Gaines for that.

13.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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.

11.09.2025 14:22 — 👍 60    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 15
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a man stands in front of a wall that says nba finals on it Alt: A black man walks away

Anyway, seems like the white community should really do something about all this white-on-white crime.

12.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 4803    🔁 776    💬 92    📌 42
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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.

12.09.2025 01:49 — 👍 22449    🔁 7385    💬 2263    📌 1051

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.

10.09.2025 23:41 — 👍 49972    🔁 12566    💬 1267    📌 538

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.

11.09.2025 11:35 — 👍 7615    🔁 1668    💬 73    📌 82

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.

25.08.2025 18:11 — 👍 648    🔁 115    💬 43    📌 2
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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

02.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 705    🔁 219    💬 41    📌 10

Who are the 70%, given that universities have numerous ways to enable various categories of people to attend? White men? His own father is someone who may have benefited from the GI Bill, a massive post-WWII DEI effort.

12.07.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Riley Gaines will always be a 5th place swimmer.

01.07.2025 23:56 — 👍 1313    🔁 97    💬 48    📌 9
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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

10.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 961    🔁 462    💬 56    📌 54

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.

06.06.2025 03:33 — 👍 10684    🔁 3277    💬 241    📌 204

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