Mena Burke
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Soccer/football; history; sanity; beagles; too much coffee; percussion; reading (not the fc); women’s sports. Crystal Palace FC. Washington Spirit. Also - FC Wimbledon fan by marriage
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FEMA workers reinstated after suspension and investigation over letter criticizing Trump’s overhaul of agency | CNN Politics
A group of FEMA workers has been reinstated after three months of forced leave and an investigation into alleged misconduct for signing an open letter to Congress that criticized the Trump administrat...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Hegseth is a murderer who is now trying to destroy a children’s book character.
Hegseth is a murderer who is now trying to destroy a children’s book character.
Hegseth posts about fighting narcoterrorists using the 'Franklin' children's book
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted about fighting narcoterrorists using the classic Franklin children’s books.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Hegseth is a murderer who is now trying to destroy a children’s book character.
Hegseth is a murderer who is now trying to destroy a children’s book character.
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Kansas tried this first. Massive tax cuts. Education gutted. Highways defunded. Credit rating slashed. Job growth tanked. Schools went to 4-day weeks. Brownback called it bold. Voters called it a disaster. It took years and bipartisan revolt just to stop the bleeding.
Kansas tried this first. Massive tax cuts. Education gutted. Highways defunded. Credit rating slashed. Job growth tanked. Schools went to 4-day weeks. Brownback called it bold. Voters called it a disaster. It took years and bipartisan revolt just to stop the bleeding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Kansas tried this first. Massive tax cuts. Education gutted. Highways defunded. Credit rating slashed. Job growth tanked. Schools went to 4-day weeks. Brownback called it bold. Voters called it a disaster. It took years and bipartisan revolt just to stop the bleeding.
Kansas tried this first. Massive tax cuts. Education gutted. Highways defunded. Credit rating slashed. Job growth tanked. Schools went to 4-day weeks. Brownback called it bold. Voters called it a disaster. It took years and bipartisan revolt just to stop the bleeding.
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When the GOP get unchecked power, they don’t govern, they run experiments. Kansas was a warning. Texas is next. In Nov 2025, 17 GOP amendments rewired the Constitution to lock in giveaways, hollow out public goods, & explode deficits. We already know how this ends.
#Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue
When the GOP get unchecked power, they don’t govern, they run experiments. Kansas was a warning. Texas is next. In Nov 2025, 17 GOP amendments rewired the Constitution to lock in giveaways, hollow out public goods, & explode deficits. We already know how this ends.
#Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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When the GOP get unchecked power, they don’t govern, they run experiments. Kansas was a warning. Texas is next. In Nov 2025, 17 GOP amendments rewired the Constitution to lock in giveaways, hollow out public goods, & explode deficits. We already know how this ends.
#Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue
When the GOP get unchecked power, they don’t govern, they run experiments. Kansas was a warning. Texas is next. In Nov 2025, 17 GOP amendments rewired the Constitution to lock in giveaways, hollow out public goods, & explode deficits. We already know how this ends.
#Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue
Did he have to be sedated for his MRI? If so, did Vance assume power for period of sedation? If he wasn’t sedated, how the hell did he not know what part of his body they were looking at? Was it w/or w/out contrast? Does he just follow orders now on everything? Who is giving him orders as Prez?
TRUMP: If they want to release my MRI it's ok w/me. It's perfect like my phone call where I got impeached
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Did he have to be sedated for his MRI? If so, did Vance assume power for period of sedation? If he wasn’t sedated, how the hell did he not know what part of his body they were looking at? Was it w/or w/out contrast? Does he just follow orders now on everything? Who is giving him orders as Prez?
I missed this last week. JFC. His tether to reality is slipping more and more. Does he really think Biden was in office in 1922-1923 when the reflecting pool was added? Does he think the current construction to make more exhibit space and more visitor friendly upgrades is evil because it likely will
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I missed this last week. JFC. His tether to reality is slipping more and more. Does he really think Biden was in office in 1922-1923 when the reflecting pool was added? Does he think the current construction to make more exhibit space and more visitor friendly upgrades is evil because it likely will
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"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by....(1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment" which are "uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes" unlike SAT/ACT scores
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
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November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by....(1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment" which are "uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes" unlike SAT/ACT scores
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In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world's news, and have won 36 of AP's 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917. See their most striking photos of 2025.
Associated Press 100 Photos of 2025: AP photos that defined the year
In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world’s news, and have won 36 of AP’s 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In over 200 locations globally, photojournalists with The Associated Press are trusted eyewitnesses to the world's news, and have won 36 of AP's 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917. See their most striking photos of 2025.
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
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Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
Infuriating. Horrible.
American citizen sick with cancer lets her rep Senator Angus King of Maine know that because he did not fight for her during the shutdown, her premiums will now be around $49K per year. She makes $67K per year.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Infuriating. Horrible.
OU doesn’t want to be an American public university.
OU doesn’t want to be a university.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
OU doesn’t want to be an American public university.
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He’s right! You don’t have to use it—but it’s going to sweep through codeworld like a purifying fire. You may not care! But it’s not like when it draws you a bad picture of a large-breasted elf. It’s more like it shreds the foundation of what makes tech “valuable.”
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
He’s right! You don’t have to use it—but it’s going to sweep through codeworld like a purifying fire. You may not care! But it’s not like when it draws you a bad picture of a large-breasted elf. It’s more like it shreds the foundation of what makes tech “valuable.”
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Psst, as with the murder of Nat’l Guard personnel in DC, guns are the issue.
Law enforcement responded to a shooting in Stockton Saturday evening that sent several victims to area hospitals.
Shooting at children’s birthday party sends several victims to hospitals
Law enforcement responded to a shooting in Stockton Saturday evening that sent several victims to area hospitals.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Psst, as with the murder of Nat’l Guard personnel in DC, guns are the issue.
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criminal fascist
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
criminal fascist
Did Kegseth think he was anonymous on social media?
Kristi Noem dismisses reporting about Hegseth murdering people at sea: "That entire story is based on anonymous sources. We see the press and that rag use anonymous sources all the time to print things that aren't true, that are lies, that are completely not based in reality."
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Did Kegseth think he was anonymous on social media?
But all kidding aside, corruption vying with cruelty to be the top hallmark of the Trump Regime.
And calling tariffs a tax in the crossword.
NYT on a roll today! Great primer on Trump’s AI *AND* Crypto czar, David Sacks. Gift link, read & share.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
But all kidding aside, corruption vying with cruelty to be the top hallmark of the Trump Regime.
And calling tariffs a tax in the crossword.
NYT on a roll today! Great primer on Trump’s AI *AND* Crypto czar, David Sacks. Gift link, read & share.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
And calling tariffs a tax in the crossword.
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Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
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Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
Kegseth has lost a Fox analysts.
Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
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It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
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It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Kegseth has lost a Fox analysts.