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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 https://jburtka.journoportfolio.com

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · Nov 14

Introduction: Writer/editor/lawyer in metro Detroit working in legal publishing. I’ve written freelance articles on sports, outdoors, environment, and more for various publications, including The Guardian and Outside. Runner and sometimes coach. Pro-democracy. Roots against nazis in movies and life.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

She probably should have impressed this upon Kavanaugh before he issued an opinion endorsing what are now known as “Kavanaugh stops.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12h

We sure went from “wow this machine can organize my schedule” to “please do all my thinking for me” in a hurry

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 18h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 12h

Sarah's Chat GPT told her to play hard to get.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

Idaho?

More like Trump da ho

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d

Lol majority Whip Republican Tom Emmer said people going to the No Kings Marches are terrorists and hate America... what a delusional asshole

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.

www.yahoo.com

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

I wish there was a mute button that only muted the USC band after every damn play.

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Eveto Ronaldo @evetoronaldo.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. Could you even imagine?

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP doesn't think these kids are worth a damn.

Trump and his Republican lackeys keep getting richer while gleefully harming every American they can.

Disgusting.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

11 October 1933 | A Polish Jewish girl, Berthe Zlotnik, was born in Będzin. She emigrated to France.

In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy with her mother Sarah, her sisters Jeanine & Yvette and her brother Jacques. All were murdered in a gas chamber.

Vintage black and white photo of a family of five members, standing in a line, looking at the camera.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Al Blackwell @cabndfw.bsky.social · 1d

The Dog Murderer speaks using your tax dollars.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

What a disgraceful country we live in.

Thanks, GOP, for dishonoring our name.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

He probably took a couple Tylenol after because the big needle gave his arm an ouchy.

Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 1d

Vats of vaccines

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Kirti Patel, MD @kirti.bsky.social · 1d

How many of these men are doing the craziest shit imaginable now because they are in the Epstein files and just so scared and just taking us all down with them?

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 2d

Tarik Skubal is the first pitcher in postseason history with multiple 13+ strikeout games in a single postseason

Only others with two in a postseason career:

Bob Gibson
Gerrit Cole

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder where ICE got their tactics from.

(Text is from MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail to southern clergy in 1963.)

(Image is by photographer Bill Hudson taken in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.)

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impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly. You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence." I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham police department.

Black and white photo of two police dogs attacking a Black teen as a cop holds the teens upper shirt and sweater. One dog lunges and bites at the teen's abdomen.

Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2d

Noice

Dave Hogg @davehogg.bsky.social · 2d

Kerry Carpenter. Rinse. Repeat.

Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2d

Just a typical minor inconvenience of a Kavanaugh stop. SCOTUS has abandoned the Bill of Rights.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"Turn around or you're going to get the dog."

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Grab the popcorn.

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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome. So they pinned her to the ground for taking video?

Hired (with our taxpayer $) Goons

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 2d

American Information of course