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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦

@jeffburtka.bsky.social
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Writing. Running. Outdoors. Anishinaabe & Wyandot Land (Metro Detroit) Writer. Lawyer. Used to blog about the State of Michigan (Lifelong Michigander blog). I blame it on my elegance. #detroit #michigan jburtka.journoportfolio.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
First thing I thought of
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A Boston public school teacher is paying a higher tax rate than Jeff Bezos is today. That's flat-out wrong. My Wealth Tax for ultra-millionaires and billionaires will finally right the wrongs of our tax code so that the rich pay their fair share.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We all did. Go Blue!
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Beautiful writing.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Go Blue! Worth every penny. It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine. Dusty May says pressure is a privilege. This game definitely was a privilege. #GoBlue
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Seth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I THOUGHT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD mgoblog.com/content/hist...
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Blues Brothers 2026 youtu.be/ls6JaXFnk6E?...
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Michigan Marching Band: 1987 - 'Blues Brothers'
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Plus the non-apology to Staley
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Geno needs every dig he gets. Low class BS last night.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Sign his whole family to lifetime contracts
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Bring the Chainsmokers Monday night. They're good luck. Go Blue!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
the most vile pieces of shit
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Alejandro Zúñiga @byazuniga.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
at the end of the day, Michigan's roster is full of mercenaries and Tennessee is just a bunch of volunteers
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 25/03/2026
There was never a mask. I don't understand people pretending that a single lie was told about what these racists wanted to do.
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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue This isn’t a video game! This isn’t a game of Risk! You’re not on a headset playing with your buds! Real people are dying, every day, for apparently nothing more than your amusement. FUCK ALL OF YOU!
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Robert Hayden One of my favorite poems
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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The best summing up of Trump i've ever seen.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Absolute--blood-curdling--truth.
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Bryan Mac @bryanmac.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
That hush that falls over the crowd when the ball is in the air? That’s the purest distillation of Sports.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Clutch Yaxel. Go Blue!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
From CEOs to government, we're at the mercy of a bunch of sociopaths.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I wrote something years ago. At the time it was an angry answer to the Second Gulf War. But it still applies to American misrule. Slim Charles > The entire Trump administration.
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We fight on that lie
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
And so the American experiment with democracy is transformed from Lincoln's "the last best hope of earth...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless..." ...becomes "We are really good at killing people." Tech brain.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
A white Christian Nationalist clutching his pearls about sharia law while he and his party impose their version of Christianity on everyone is real rich.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“There’s a lot of energy in the country, and a lot of popular sentiment that the demand to impose sharia law in America is a serious problem. That’s what animates this,” the speaker continued. What a racist and xenophobic piece of shit. The GOP is trash.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
They'll come at you with some "statistic" like "abortion kills millions of babies." They might admit that what happened to those children in Iran is tragic. But I think they see death from poor health/maternal care, wars, poverty, and guns as colletaral damage in the war to save millions of babies.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Murphy: “I think it’s likely the U.S. carried out this attack on this school — I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact that this was one of our 1st targeting decisions, that this mistake was made on the 1st day of war — I think speaks to the incompetence of our leadership”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stops to talk with reporters in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This experiment of putting the worst people in charge of government should be over.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
GHOUL
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/03/2026
While Americans spent the weekend watching gas prices rise because of his illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump spent the weekend golfing. America’s sons and daughters are being put in harms way because of his rogue and reckless actions, and this is how he is spending his time.
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AngryHoss @angryhoss.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Lawless people enforcing the law.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Garcia displays an image of Renee Good's blood-stained car seat
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Abolish ICE" is, very literally, the moderate position
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Seriously. It's appalling that so many people support this.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
When a Cobra Kai becomes Secretary of Defense. Surprised he didn't have a hype man behind him chortling and yelling "Get him a body bag!"
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So we're killing countless people and sacrificing our own military members to save one convicted felon pedophile whose health is failing anyway? I prefer Saving Private Ryan to Saving Cadet Bonespurs.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
They had a concept of a plan. It just didn't include airspace closures.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Who could have predicted airspace closures? He's not a fortune teller!
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
God.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We should wrap the caskets in his golden drapes instead of American flags to remind everyone who's responsible for their deaths. What an awful excuse for a human being.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
It's only an act of war if it comes from Japan. If it's from the U.S., it's just a sparkling strategic strike.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
To reconsider a fundamental of American history, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not an act of war, but merely a strategic strike. It needs to no longer live in infamy, perhaps.
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Not exactly" is not a no.
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