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George P Burdell

@georgepburdell.bsky.social
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DM = block. Lifelong Democrat living in deep blue Dekalb County. Georgia native. Wife, mother, aunt to many niblings. Quilter and embroiderer. Lawyer and CPA. Can drive a stick shift (even 3 on a tree - see picture). Recovering Southern Baptist.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...
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America Chose the Monster
We all make mistakes.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The. More. You. Know. 💫
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The president who’s taking bribes wants you to know that the people noticing his crime are the “crooked” ones
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025
Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus that can, in rare cases, cause severe illness. Here’s what to know.
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What to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Historian here OMG this is why the Trump regime insists we are in a “post constitutional order” it’s laying the ground for not upholding it! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says, ‘I don’t know,’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution
The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump promised to "Make America Affordable Again." 100 days in, how's his progress on his economic policy promises? -End inflation? ❌ -Cheaper groceries? ❌ -10% interest rate cap on credit cards? ❌ -Baby bonuses? ❌ -Free IVF? ❌ -No tax on social security & overtime? ❌
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Let’s hope Noem’s purse did not contain her cell phone with any active Signal chats www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Bag, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen
The homeland security secretary was dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🤦🏻‍♀️
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Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
DOJ is tarnishing the crown jewel of the Department, the Civil Rights Division. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...
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‘Complete bloodbath’: DOJ official on Trump admin’s changes to Civil Rights Division
The Trump administration is making quiet changes at the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. NBC News’ Ken Dilanian reports more. Former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade joins José Díaz-Balart…
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Some Secretary of Defense. Arrogance + Ignorance = Danger. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
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Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities
The phone number used in the Signal chat could also be found in a variety of places, including on social media and a fantasy sports site.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Meals on Wheels is one of the best things HHS funds. Cutting funding is just cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
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Trump Cuts Threaten Agency Running Meals on Wheels
A tiny division responsible for overseeing services for people with disabilities and older Americans is being dismantled as part of an overhaul by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.
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John Hudson @johnphudson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
NEW: The National Intelligence Council determined in a secret assessment early this month that Venezuela is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts Trump’s public statements www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. intelligence contradicts Trump’s justification for mass deportations
The determination is the most comprehensive assessment to date undercutting the president’s rationale for deporting suspected Tren de Aragua members without due process.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/04/2025
Hungary has just passed a constitutional amendment banning all public gatherings of LGBTQ people. This is a carbon copy of Russia's criminalization of LGBTQ people. apnews.com/article/hung...
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Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events, seen as a major blow to rights
Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.
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Tracyhotd @tracyhotd.us · 14/04/2025
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NATO leaders jointly affirm ‘Ukraine’s future is in NATO’ and its path is ‘irreversible’ | CNN Politics
NATO leaders jointly affirmed Wednesday that “Ukraine’s future is in NATO” and its path is “irreversible,” as they pledged long-term support for Kyiv.
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Gordon Forbes🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🦞 @gordong.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Yup. And John Roberts has enabled this every step of the way. History will not be kind.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Presidents Trump of the U.S. and Bukele of El Salvador said Monday they had “no basis” to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. No basis? Trump is treating federal law and federal court orders as mere trash. apnews.com/live/donald-...
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Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release wrongly deported man back to US
President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: Famed Economist Paul Krugman just told Ari Melber: "This Tariff pause is [still] a tariff rate that is higher overall than Smooth-Hawley. This is a bigger shock to the economy than any trade policy in any country’s history."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it “unwarranted.”
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FEMA will stop 100% cost-share in Helene recovery • NC Newsline
"I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider FEMA’s bad decision, even for 90 days," Gov. Josh Stein said.
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George P Burdell @georgepburdell.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This only partially complies with the Judge's order. It doesn't detail the administration's progress in getting Mr. Abrego Garcia out of El Salvador.
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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So shocked
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️ @wsj.com
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 02/04/2025
In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military — the highest levels of the armed forces. Only 10 women have held the highest rank in their military branches in history. Now, there are none. Of the four women, two of them retired and two were ousted. bit.ly/4i1EWUO
Text reads: In 2024, four women held four-star ranks in the military.   Now, there are zero.
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Meidas Romi @meidasromi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Only Ruzzia did not tariffs!!!!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
While the US is experiencing massive nationwide weather catastrophes, Donald Trump is out golfing to a whopping tune of tens of millions of tax payer dollars. The US dies, Trump golfs. #3E #EndAutogenocide
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted… And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. George Orwell, 1984
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025
"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Grandma Mendiola @grandmamendiola.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I can and I'm a senior American citizen!
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Bridie Macdonald @bridiemacdonald.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Not surprising at all. In my career most meetings back in the day I was the only woman at the table (web design / marketing strategy). #project2025 & this #MAGA 💩 show clearly wants to go back to those very bad old days where the only leadership, senior roles are filled by men.
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polillitam G.M. 💙🦋🦋🦋 @polillitam.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
👇👇👇
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.
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TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 27/02/2025
Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest ‘should scare every American’, experts say #Trump
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Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest ‘should scare every American’, experts say
Doge’s work allows Musk to keep control of companies with billions in federal contracts as he guts government agencies
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Rep. Johnny Olszewski @repjohnnyo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
5️⃣4️⃣ days. Not a single vote to lower costs. House GOP leadership is playing politics with people’s lives. It’s time to listen to the American people and vote on legislation that makes life more affordable.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
More:
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State Department to cut almost 10,000 foreign aid awards
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🌮 Queen Mia 👑 (she/her) @miasqueendom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Yay!!!!! HBCU funding is restored!!! A win for HBCUs and education everywhere!
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Ron @caribbeanbasin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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George P Burdell @georgepburdell.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Selling the country to the highest bidder.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
“Your voice is meaningless right now. ... I can talk over all of you” said the emcee at the GOP event as the woman objecting to Medicaid cuts was dragged out.
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Chaos erupts at Idaho legislative town hall, woman pulled from seat and dragged out
The woman refused to leave the meeting after speaking out against the possible repeal of Medicaid expansion and other bills working their way through the Idaho Legislature.
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Rinkytone @rinkytone.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Our new Joint Chief of Staff: “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” But what really seemed to seal the deal for Trump was that Caine then put on a MAGA hat, despite military protocol prohibiting active-duty troops from donning any clothing with a political message.
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