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Tracy Hahn-Burkett

@thahnburkett.bsky.social
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Writer and public policy advocate. Let’s keep democracy and get rid of gun violence, not the other way around. TracyHahnBurkett.com

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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 7m
Reading this, I felt like I was reading something about an apocalyptic post-America. But it’s actually what’s happening now in an America that refuses to curb gun violence.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 37m
Are they renaming the department again? The Crusaders, maybe? 😳
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 40m
I continue to be impressed!
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1h
“We are afraid on a daily basis,” says a resident of Frederick County whose stepfather was deported last fall. “We like to go hiking a lot. And there is always this thought in the back of our minds, like, what if ICE is there, in the forest?”
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 “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 17h
Does the Constitution mean something anymore or not?
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 23h
When you don’t understand basic and essential stories about humanity
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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whoa!
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Shameful. Look at what “the land of the free” has become. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely | Tutu Alicante and Uzra Zeya
Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news. This was always a bad idea.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No legit reason for this
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This does not make things better
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was told we won?
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Omg, just turn off the country at this point
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Constitution? Who cares? Is this clear enough for everyone?
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Rep. Mike Thompson @mikethompson.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Nine years ago, 60 people were senselessly murdered and nearly 500 more were wounded at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. Today, we join friends and family in honoring the lives lost and recommitting ourselves to action to ensure that our communities are safe from gun violence.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Making diseases great again www.espn.com/college-foot...
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San Diego State football team dealing with mumps outbreak
San Diego State's football team is dealing with a mumps outbreak as it prepares for Saturday's Pac-12 opener against Texas State.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stop trying to make dystopian sci-fi movies real FFS
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we all suspected. The Federal Reserve’s independent watchdog found no reasonable grounds to believe its multibillion-dollar renovation broke federal law. Trump made it a target, federal prosecutors briefly scrutinized it, and the watchdog found no basis for the accusations.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They’re so focused on getting fewer people to vote
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine if a woman did this.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Look at this magnificent bird
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What could go wrong?
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I missed this earlier. Abhorrent move by SCOTUS.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NO
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is correct and what does that tell you? Campaign finance reform (or money in elections, for an easier-to-understand phrase) is a very large part of the problem. Nothing will be fixed in any significant way without reforming this.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 29/09/2026
This stopped me cold. POWERFUL. #SheShed 🎥 IG: imitationbyjerell
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how a society loses its soul
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NO 😡
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Listening to one non-American try to explain the significance of the midterms to another non-American, and I’m in pain, folks.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🧵
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We barely discuss Venezuela
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ETTD
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish my grandma was still around to give me some of her tried-and-true Depression-era recipes…
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And we wonder why this all keeps going
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Tracy Hahn-Burkett @thahnburkett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
!!
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump threw a fancy State Dinner for the leader of the country that’s helping Iran target U.S. Troops and stealing top secret U.S. F-35 stealth fighter parts.
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