Kate Burns

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Breast Cancer community organizer and survivor. Christofascism and Extremism researcher
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Oh look it's the global far right power grab and their disinformation narratives

Exclusive: A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post.

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats showwww.washingtonpost.com A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on New York Mayor Eric Adams and their work with Israeli officials to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza...

“Investigative journalist Kate Burns, right, is shown working at a protest in Los Angeles on June 23, 2024. Burns was threatened and assaulted, and had her phone stolen and camera damaged during clashes between protesters and counterprotesters.” pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

Journalist assaulted by LA protesters, has camera damaged and iPhone stolenpressfreedomtracker.us Investigative journalist Kate Burns was beaten and had gear damaged and stolen while documenting clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters …

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OPINION from LCRW: Violent bigots attacked our reporters @katerqburns.bsky.social, Sean Beckner-Carmitchel & colleagues on Sunday in Pico-Robertson. On Monday, U.S. leaders from Biden on down to the Mayor of L.A. lied and gave the attackers cover. So what now? leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/opi...

OPINION: THE PRESIDENT’S LIES ABOUT A PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATION THREW OUR... | Left Coast Right Watchleftcoastrightwatch.org Opinion piece addressing attacks on our reporters.

NEW from LCRW: @MayorOfLA said attacks at UCLA's anti-genocide encampment "came out of nowhere." @ACatWithNews & @katerqburns.bsky.social break down the week of escalation and violence that proves her wrong and how police let violent fascists attack students. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/pre...

PREDICTABLE VIOLENCE: A TIMELINE OF INCIDENTS AT THE UCLA PRO-PALESTINE... | Left Coast Right Watchleftcoastrightwatch.org A timeline of the protests and escalations that led to violence against UCLA’s Gaza solidarty encampment at the end of last month.

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lol this is wiiiiild. Simply having groups such as Nexus (a group of very establishment folks, including a former head of the Conference of Jewish Org Presidents) which don't think all criticism of Israel is antisemitic led to other groups to just... leave a meeting. forward.com/news/609490/...

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New from me and @lcrw.bsky.social - GEN Z FOR STRAIGHT JESUS: THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST RECRUITERS OF "CA WILL BE SAVED" A Gen-Z branded organization trying to make young people not gay or trans anymore through Jesus with ties to NAR. Feucht. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/gen...

GEN Z FOR STRAIGHT JESUS: THE CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST RECRUITERS OF “CA WILL BE... | Left Coast Right Watchleftcoastrightwatch.org “California Will Be Saved” is a Gen-Z branded organization trying to make young people not gay or trans anymore through Jesus. They have ties to Christian nationalists.

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It should be repeated again and again that people who endorse Great Replacement share the same ideology as mass shooters and neo-Nazis. There literally isn’t any difference in their ideology and the only reason people don’t say this is because of how normalized it’s become.

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She nailed the interview and even the far-right is having trouble defending Chaya after this one. She comes across as not just cruel but vapid even to some of her own followers. It's a service to reveal this to those on the fence about taking her seriously. Please don't throw me into a volcano.

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No, the "venue for the interview" is The Washington Post. Our story, which outlines the harms Chaya has done in Oklahoma and reports on what it's like for LGBTQ people in the state, is not "making content for Chaya" or "promoting" Chaya. It's called journalism www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Bonus tip: if the venue for the interview is literally their YouTube channel you are actively making content for them and promoting them. Stop kidding yourself.

How ‘Libs of TikTok’ became a powerful presence in Oklahoma schoolswww.washingtonpost.com Far right activist Chaya Raichik splits her time between California and Florida. But its Oklahoma where she’s arguably had the biggest impact.

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NEW from LCRW: As Sean Feucht tours the country, @katerqburns.bsky.social gives us a massive, in-depth look at the singing hate preacher and his efforts to edge the U.S. towards Christian fascism through prayer and acoustic guitars leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/feu...

FEUCHT’S KINGDOM: HOW A SINGING HATE-PREACHER WANTS TO PUSH CHRISTIAN... | Left Coast Right Watc...leftcoastrightwatch.org “Superspreader” Sean Feucht is taking an overtly Christian

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New from me and @LCRWnews Feucht's Kingdom- How a singing hate-preacher wants to push Christian Nationalism on America. Huge thank you to @TaylorMatthewD for speaking at length with me. Thanks to @madprofes for background chats. leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/feu...

FEUCHT’S KINGDOM: HOW A SINGING HATE-PREACHER WANTS TO PUSH CHRISTIAN... | Left Coast Right Watc...leftcoastrightwatch.org “Superspreader” Sean Feucht is taking an overtly Christian

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My latest piece: About how the Chabad tunnels story that at first seemed bizarre and humorous, quickly evolved into a Pizzagate-style far right conspiracy theory. And how, due to Musk’s new Twitter polices, it spread like wildfire.

How Twitter activists turned a viral story about Orthodox Jews into a modern blood libelforward.com White supremacists on Twitter have rebranded as "pro-Palestinian" activists in order to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews.

Shout out to the Awaken Church San Diego pastors on their 3 year anniversary. Sam Deuth, Sterling Pile and David Chiddick all were in DC on J6, praise be.

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Imagine writing this lower third and not thinking twice about what you’re normalizing.

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Maine state official who removed Trump from ballot was targeted in swatting call at her home

Maine state official who removed Trump from ballot was targeted in swatting call at her homeapnews.com A fake swatting call was made to the Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' home. A man called emergency services saying he broke into a house, which turned out to be Bellows' home.

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And not a peep from the media outlets who spent more than a week focusing on colleges and uncritically promoting Stefanik as an objective critic. The complicity in validating right wing antisemitism is shocking but not at all surprising.

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at this point Elon is even losing some of his biggest fanboys lol

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The way Andrew Tate has only risen in prominence since being investigated and jailed for rape/human trafficking — in conversation with a presidential candidate and tech billionaire today — just goes to show how easy it is for alleged traffickers to achieve status and power in full public view

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Alex Jones just openly said in a Twitter space that he was reinstated on Twitter after white nationalist/nazi Jack posobiec called musk to tell him to reinstate him. Proving musk is in direct contact with some of the most dangerous white supremacists in this country and taking direction from them..

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Another State Department official told HuffPost: “This is a pivotal moment in history, and we should feel angry about how Netanyahu has literally put our reputation on fire to advance his personal political agenda. The collateral effects to American security are extremely consequential.” Yep!

U.S. officials surprised/dismayed to find that backing Netanyahu to the hilt isn't gaining them much influence over the conduct of the war - reporting from @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

U.S. Officials Privately Raise Fears Of Israel-Gaza Conflict Sparking A Broader Warwww.huffpost.com Officials are worried Israel is seeking U.S. weapons for a war in Lebanon, and analysts say an uptick in attacks tied to Iran risks ensnaring the U.S. in a major conflict.

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Probably worth remembering the republicans are already doing the 2024 coup as we speak and if you’re speaking about politics right now you’re making a mistake to not be framing it that way. We are in the middle of a process that ends in the overthrow of democracy. It’s not a far off hypothetical.

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As I’ve said before, Biden’s backing of a deeply far right, fascist ethno state in the way that he has with Netanyahu has set up a feedback where we will have to give up more more and more of our humanity and democracy in order to further support and back the Netanyahu regime in Israel.

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We finally have an answer

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This is the first solid ratio I've ever seen on here

What's causing the gap between voters' perceptions of how the economy is doing and reality? It might be the content they're consuming online.

It’s the Social Media, Stupidprospect.org Today on TAP: Americans’ economic views are at odds with Americans’ economic behavior. So, whence those views?

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An Israeli airstrike killed 19 Palestinians from the same family who were in a refugee camp in Gaza apnews.com/article/isra...

An Israeli airstrike kills 19 members of the same family in a southern Gaza refugee campapnews.com Nasser Abu Quta lost 19 members of his family in an instant when an Israeli airstrike blew up his home in a crowded refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.

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This is an important thread to read and really absorb why Christian evangelical (and right wing) support for Israel is deeply, deeply fucked up and every time you see them doing it you have to remember this is at the core of their belief system.

If you have not actually studied dispensational premillennialist theology, the critical part to know is that even though Israel must exist for the "end times" checklist to begin, later steps of the checklist explicitly involve all Jewish people forcibly converted to Christianity or dead.