Devin Burghart
@dburghart
Executive Director, Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights. Co-author, Breaching the Mainstream. Old school anti-fascist. Hockey fan. he/him.
It was not a Million MAGA on the streets of DC today, but it would be catastrophic to not take what happened today seriously. This is a beginning, not the end. We're witnessing the initial coalescing of a wide range of far-right forces into mass opposition.
The Irony of surviving Pinochet, who notoriously dissapeared people, living a whole lifetime here, retiring, getting to 82, and then being dissapeared, is beyond Kafka. His crime: tryign to replace his lost green card, like he's supposed to.
Allentown grandpa who was granted asylum in 1987 after surviving torture at the hands of Chilean dictator Pinochet was disappeared by ICE. The family was then told he died. Now they learned that he's alive, was deported, and is in a hospital in Guatemala. mcall.com/2025/07/18/lui…
ICYMI: Border Czar threatens Seattle visit in recent interview. theburnerseattle.com/post/trump-s-b…
SCOOP Mentions of "false flag conspiracies" have exploded on X in the last few months according to data from @ISDglobal shared exclusively with WIRED wired.com/story/false-fl…
Conspiracy theories about so-called false flag attacks have been around for decades. But as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake. wired.com/story/false-fl…
NEW: Last week, DOJ redacted names of two Trump memecoin partners from a complaint that revealed they fell for a $250,000 Nigerian fake inaugural committee scam—today, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro had a federal judge seal the whole case. Original complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Some politicians and pundits are pushing the idea that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes. Not only is that claim false, the opposite is true. bit.ly/4dTGTlv
An astonishing example of the deliberate harm inflicted by Trump’s ICE on Latino families — regardless of immigration status. The point is cruelty. 🔗 yahoo.com/news/ice-secre…
While the sentence is far from just for the police murder of Breonna Taylor, at least the judge did not give into Trump’s DOJ racist recommendation of a 1-day sentence.
Former Kentucky officer Brett Hankison was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for his involvement in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. A federal judge declined a recommendation by Trump's DOJ to give Hankison no prison time. Read more ➡️ thegrio.com/2025/07/21/off…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Statement from me and my brother, Martin Luther King IlI, on the Release of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Files “We recognize that the release of documents concerning the assassination of our father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has long been a subject of interest,…
Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship, and why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn. My interview with @jonfortt (my fellow @DePauwU '98 grad) about the dangerous coalition between the far right and the tech right via @DecoderPod theverge.com/decoder-podcas…
Remember all those HHS funding cuts and lay offs into mRNA research because RFK Jr. and his cronies are suspicious of vaccine technology, which fights cancer. ow.ly/FGW250WsLbX #immunizations #vaccine #publichealth #cancer #cancervaccine Donate ow.ly/bY5x50WsLbU
Josh Divine also previously made outlandish statements rife with anti-abortion misinformation, including his false claim that the abortion pill "starves the baby to death in the womb." huffpost.com/entry/trump-co…
The Senate is on track to tonight confirm Josh Divine to a lifetime seat on a Missouri federal court. He's 35 + was Sen. Josh Hawley's counsel. In 2010, he argued for bringing back literacy tests, which were banned in the 1960s for being racist. huffpost.com/entry/trump-co…
The U.S. government has added the DNA of about 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean that police will treat them like suspects "indefinitely." wired.com/story/dhs-and-…
#OnThisDay in 1963, when a National Guardsman poked his bayonet at Gloria Richardson in Cambridge, Maryland, she pushed it away, refusing to back down during protests against racism and inequality. The image of Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee,…
Remember when we found out these three were getting paid millions by Russia—and then they faced no professional ramifications whatsoever?
According to a federal indictment, Nashville-based content creation company Tenet Media is at the center of a covert Russian propaganda effort. nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthe…
At the end of June, Trump scrapped the Farmworker Protection Rule, meaning that growers can now bar community groups or unions from labor camps. thenation.com/article/societ…
This A1 story on Meta’s data centers, and others, use of water in an age of AI is incredible. /1