Kate Burak
@kburak.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher at Boston University.
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🚨BREAKING: On the 5th anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Trump White House launched a new website that rewrites the events of that day—portraying the violent effort to overturn the 2020 election as a miscarriage of justice and casting those who stormed the Capitol as victims.
Trump White House's Jan. 6 Website Rewrites History to Celebrate Failed Coup
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
🚨BREAKING: On the 5th anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Trump White House launched a new website that rewrites the events of that day—portraying the violent effort to overturn the 2020 election as a miscarriage of justice and casting those who stormed the Capitol as victims.
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Ukrainian traditions on Christmas Eve.
Many have faded over time,
but some are slowly returning, like the Didukh (I even bought one instead of a Christmas tree this year).
Sunday Letter (please like or share, posts with links reach fewer people): www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
Many have faded over time,
but some are slowly returning, like the Didukh (I even bought one instead of a Christmas tree this year).
Sunday Letter (please like or share, posts with links reach fewer people): www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
December 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ukrainian traditions on Christmas Eve.
Many have faded over time,
but some are slowly returning, like the Didukh (I even bought one instead of a Christmas tree this year).
Sunday Letter (please like or share, posts with links reach fewer people): www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
Many have faded over time,
but some are slowly returning, like the Didukh (I even bought one instead of a Christmas tree this year).
Sunday Letter (please like or share, posts with links reach fewer people): www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
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Right now, 2:22am in Kyiv, Yaroslava just posted this. Please keep her and all people in Kyiv in your thoughts and hearts. These terrorists must be stopped. Call your Senators and Reps and demand that the US fully support Ukraine. We must!!
Kyiv is under missile attack.
It’s loud.
Friday night in Ukraine.
It’s loud.
Friday night in Ukraine.
December 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Right now, 2:22am in Kyiv, Yaroslava just posted this. Please keep her and all people in Kyiv in your thoughts and hearts. These terrorists must be stopped. Call your Senators and Reps and demand that the US fully support Ukraine. We must!!
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I want to look away for so many reasons. Instead, I've taken screenshots of every suspicious thing I've seen in the files since they were released. Would I rather be doing anything else on Christmas Eve rather than posting about Prince Andrew? Of course. But I worry that the documents may be gone. 👻
OMG. One million more documents? They announce this on Christmas Eve, thinking we will miss it? Not a chance!
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
A Million More Epstein Documents Have Been Found, Justice Dept. Says
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I want to look away for so many reasons. Instead, I've taken screenshots of every suspicious thing I've seen in the files since they were released. Would I rather be doing anything else on Christmas Eve rather than posting about Prince Andrew? Of course. But I worry that the documents may be gone. 👻
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if someone is bigoted and you dont oppose it you picked a side (theirs)
the most notable thing JD Vance has done in the last five years is tell vicious racist lies about immigrants. If you think he hasn't taken a side on bigotry, you are an idiot. He's for it. He's very strongly for it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
if someone is bigoted and you dont oppose it you picked a side (theirs)
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"America invented solar energy. It's today's most scalable energy source. We need to manufacture it here" CEO Dan Barcelo via @axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"America invented solar energy. It's today's most scalable energy source. We need to manufacture it here" CEO Dan Barcelo via @axios.com
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🚨NO national coverage🚨
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨NO national coverage🚨
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨
We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.
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Rob Reiner’s voice was progressive, but most of all human. What a terrible tragedy. What a terrible loss.
December 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Rob Reiner’s voice was progressive, but most of all human. What a terrible tragedy. What a terrible loss.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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It’s way past time for every WH reporter to speak out to Trump’s face when he’s insulting female reporters. Is your access so critical that you’ll allow your colleagues to be abused?
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s way past time for every WH reporter to speak out to Trump’s face when he’s insulting female reporters. Is your access so critical that you’ll allow your colleagues to be abused?
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Nicole Wallace breaks down every insult and abusive remark Trump has made to female journalists in the last few weeks.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nicole Wallace breaks down every insult and abusive remark Trump has made to female journalists in the last few weeks.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
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Pete Hegseth sure is proud of committing murder.
This is what the so-called "Secretary of War" is tweeting amid reports that his department ordered a second strike to make sure they killed survivors of a boat they attacked that they allege with no proof carries drugs (which doesn't justify bombing them even it were true)
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Pete Hegseth sure is proud of committing murder.
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Good morning and happy December 1st, Jaye! 🌞💙
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Good morning and happy December 1st, Jaye! 🌞💙
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Two brothers from Khmelnytskyi — Vasyl and Valentyn Basok — were killed in the war 💔.
They served together from the start of russia’s invasion, survived captivity, and returned to the front.
On 23 November 2025, both died during a combat mission.
Honor to the warriors and eternal memory 🇺🇦
They served together from the start of russia’s invasion, survived captivity, and returned to the front.
On 23 November 2025, both died during a combat mission.
Honor to the warriors and eternal memory 🇺🇦
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Two brothers from Khmelnytskyi — Vasyl and Valentyn Basok — were killed in the war 💔.
They served together from the start of russia’s invasion, survived captivity, and returned to the front.
On 23 November 2025, both died during a combat mission.
Honor to the warriors and eternal memory 🇺🇦
They served together from the start of russia’s invasion, survived captivity, and returned to the front.
On 23 November 2025, both died during a combat mission.
Honor to the warriors and eternal memory 🇺🇦
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We’re going to have to get used to this. 2026 and 2028 are likely to look very similar.
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, attempts to prevent US citizens from voting should be a red line for you.
We can’t allow terroristic threats to keep us from the polls.
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, attempts to prevent US citizens from voting should be a red line for you.
We can’t allow terroristic threats to keep us from the polls.
Breaking from NJ AG Platkin:
"Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."
"Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We’re going to have to get used to this. 2026 and 2028 are likely to look very similar.
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, attempts to prevent US citizens from voting should be a red line for you.
We can’t allow terroristic threats to keep us from the polls.
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, attempts to prevent US citizens from voting should be a red line for you.
We can’t allow terroristic threats to keep us from the polls.
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"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"[Not using the funding already allocated to keep SNAP going] is a decision the president is making--on his own--to allow people to go hungry."
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While the Trump administration gives $40 billion to bail out Argentina, they are unlawfully suspending SNAP benefits for millions of hungry families and kids across America.
It is shameful.
It is shameful.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
While the Trump administration gives $40 billion to bail out Argentina, they are unlawfully suspending SNAP benefits for millions of hungry families and kids across America.
It is shameful.
It is shameful.
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Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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Banana republic shit.
Breaking news: The DOJ placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they filed a document in court that referred to the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” two people familiar with the matter said.
Two U.S. prosecutors suspended after describing Jan. 6 attack as ‘mob’
The suspensions come in the case of a 2021 Capitol rioter who faces sentencing for unrelated weapons charges.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Banana republic shit.
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My 3 year old is on a Sesame Street kick, and we've uncovered a treasure trove of Start To Read books done in the 80s and 90s with a wealth of stuff I want my kid to know about being a human in this world. I've found them for fairly cheap on used book sites.
Sesame Street Start-to-Read Books
See also Sesame Street Start-to-Read Video
muppet.fandom.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My 3 year old is on a Sesame Street kick, and we've uncovered a treasure trove of Start To Read books done in the 80s and 90s with a wealth of stuff I want my kid to know about being a human in this world. I've found them for fairly cheap on used book sites.
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Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment
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When a government withholds food to force obedience, democracy is already on life support. This urgent commentary exposes how hunger has become a political weapon in America, turning SNAP from a safety net into a tool of control. The question remains: What are we doing here, folks?
October 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
When a government withholds food to force obedience, democracy is already on life support. This urgent commentary exposes how hunger has become a political weapon in America, turning SNAP from a safety net into a tool of control. The question remains: What are we doing here, folks?