Natascha Dea Burdeinei (she/her)
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Writer, Historian, Political Scientist, Producer. "Conversations To Have With Your Loved Ones" in bkstores. US Military brat. 🇺🇦 Fmr NPO. Mbr AHA & APSA.
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Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
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Damage?
You mean, complete nuclear annihilation.
These establishment Dems are on the side of tyranny & autocracy.
They’ve got theirs, and they’re unwilling to fight for our small share.
They should be publicly shamed & destroyed.
You mean, complete nuclear annihilation.
These establishment Dems are on the side of tyranny & autocracy.
They’ve got theirs, and they’re unwilling to fight for our small share.
They should be publicly shamed & destroyed.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Damage?
You mean, complete nuclear annihilation.
These establishment Dems are on the side of tyranny & autocracy.
They’ve got theirs, and they’re unwilling to fight for our small share.
They should be publicly shamed & destroyed.
You mean, complete nuclear annihilation.
These establishment Dems are on the side of tyranny & autocracy.
They’ve got theirs, and they’re unwilling to fight for our small share.
They should be publicly shamed & destroyed.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We have them here, too, folks. History has shown that sometimes Russian agents carry American citizenship.
Russian activist held in Poland admits he worked as FSB agent, court papers say
Russian activist held in Poland admits he worked as FSB agent, court papers say
Igor Rogov, who left Russia in 2021, due to go on trial accused of informing on other Russian opposition activists
A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia’s FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim.
Igor Rogov, 30, has been associated with various opposition movements in the Russian city of Saransk, including Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and Open Russia, linked to the exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We have them here, too, folks. History has shown that sometimes Russian agents carry American citizenship.
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Ukrainian partisans sabotaged a railway near Simferopol, halting Russian ammunition and fuel deliveries to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts
ATESH struck deep in Crimea - territory Russia has controlled since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/09/p...
ATESH struck deep in Crimea - territory Russia has controlled since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/09/p...
Deep in occupied Crimea, partisans cut railway feeding Russia’s Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts
ATESH operation disrupts ammunition and fuel deliveries to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as partisan movement targets Russian logistics in occupied Crimea.
euromaidanpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ukrainian partisans sabotaged a railway near Simferopol, halting Russian ammunition and fuel deliveries to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts
ATESH struck deep in Crimea - territory Russia has controlled since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/09/p...
ATESH struck deep in Crimea - territory Russia has controlled since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/09/p...
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.
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NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
I'm suing DC Metro Police for body cam footage of US Institute of Peace raid
The Handbasket is represented pro bono by lawyers from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March.
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org.
Details:
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NEW: You've probably heard about the shadow docket. It's where the Supreme Court makes snap decisions as cases are ongoing in the lower courts. The Court has ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the Trump administration, often w/ little explanation at all. 1/ www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Supreme Court Shadow Docket Tracker — Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
The Court is ruling on challenges to government actions on its emergency docket, often without explaining its decisions or providing guidance to lower courts.
www.brennancenter.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW: You've probably heard about the shadow docket. It's where the Supreme Court makes snap decisions as cases are ongoing in the lower courts. The Court has ruled overwhelmingly in favor of the Trump administration, often w/ little explanation at all. 1/ www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Putin must be delighted www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
U.S. falls out of top 10 on list of the world’s most powerful passports
The U.S. is now in the 12th spot — it was first a decade ago. The index ranks how many destinations a passport holder can visit without needing a visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Putin must be delighted www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...
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I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.
Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."
October 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.
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As UVA should, if it signs and cedes the University over to “federal political control.”
Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
October 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
As UVA should, if it signs and cedes the University over to “federal political control.”
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Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."
October 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."
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What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.
Shameless!
Shameless!
BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A326
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY
[October 3, 2025]
In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705.
In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself.
See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.)
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifwdli7xxfny6ivyfuusq7lptvsyntu7ypokqdyrgpoxlyw4dmokq@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.
Shameless!
Shameless!
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NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.
KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.
KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Wow.
Also, do we know if Trump still has the personal Chinese bank accounts he had during his first term?
Also, do we know if Trump still has the personal Chinese bank accounts he had during his first term?
In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors. Musk's failure to report contacts was systematic.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies
The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...
www.propublica.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Wow.
Also, do we know if Trump still has the personal Chinese bank accounts he had during his first term?
Also, do we know if Trump still has the personal Chinese bank accounts he had during his first term?
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My travels through Chicago: tear gas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown
My travels through Chicago: tear gas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown
Donald Trump recently launched ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ in the city and threatened to send in the National Guard. The mood is febrile, with fears things could get worse
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My travels through Chicago: tear gas, resistance and Trump’s big immigration crackdown
President Javier Milei is an economist who ran Argentina's economy into the ground. Running an economy into the ground—sound like another president we know? Trump never does anything without personal reward. So what did Milei promise to give Trump in order to bail himself out with U.S. tariff money?
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
October 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
President Javier Milei is an economist who ran Argentina's economy into the ground. Running an economy into the ground—sound like another president we know? Trump never does anything without personal reward. So what did Milei promise to give Trump in order to bail himself out with U.S. tariff money?
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🛢 Historically unprecedented: 38% of Russia's refinery capacity was shut down after Ukrainian drone attacks, — RBC
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🛢 Historically unprecedented: 38% of Russia's refinery capacity was shut down after Ukrainian drone attacks, — RBC
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.
Accurate on all counts.
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Accurate on all counts.
What my nation says does not align with what DHS has done to South Korean employees legally present in the U.S. setting up South Korean investments.
US says it encourages South Korean investment at meeting on worker visas reut.rs/3ILYfG9
US says it encourages South Korean investment at meeting on worker visas
The U.S. and South Korea are working closely to advance their trade and investment partnership including by processing appropriate visas for qualified South Korean workers, the U.S. State Department said.
reut.rs
September 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
What my nation says does not align with what DHS has done to South Korean employees legally present in the U.S. setting up South Korean investments.
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They’re not even good at lying! So the FBI…. What…. Helped Donald Trumps coup??
September 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
They’re not even good at lying! So the FBI…. What…. Helped Donald Trumps coup??
I want to reiterate the national security risks spawned by tomorrow's gathering of military leaders who are NEVER all in the same place BECAUSE of the broad national security risks. And what did SecDef Pete Hegseth do? He declared where & when they would all be together to international press.
September 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I want to reiterate the national security risks spawned by tomorrow's gathering of military leaders who are NEVER all in the same place BECAUSE of the broad national security risks. And what did SecDef Pete Hegseth do? He declared where & when they would all be together to international press.