Burck

Edu entrepreneur in higher ed and K-12. Aspiring policy nerd. Irrationally defensive of Baltimore. tburck at bluesky.

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

@1NCRDB1 Nobody tell him who is head coach is!

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[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

How could President Biden have planted 274 agents at the January 6 insurrection when Trump was president then?

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

All this to stop a nuke that didn't exist and open a strait that wasn't closed.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Reporter: What if you want to travel on a road trip? Well, bad news. $4.55 is the price of gas today. That is about 53% more expensive since the start of the war.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I used to make fun of this kind of thing when reporting in North Korea.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump took $59 million from 590,000 Americans for a phone that may never exist.

Then quietly updated the terms:

“No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold.”

The crypto coin. The sneakers. The Bible. The gold card. The ballroom. The phone.

Every single time the same pattern.

Take the money. Change the terms. Walk away.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit.

Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:

Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is nuts.

[Aaron Astor @AstorAaron]

My general tendency is to reject conspiracy theories. And yet, this keeps happening - massive trades just minutes before Trump announces something. And that something (Iran handing over uranium and opening Hormuz) often turns out not to be true at all.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It's amazing how Republicans control every branch of government and still speak of 'Washington DC' like it's someone else.

Trump is currently suing the federal government and directing his flunkies to settle the case by giving him billions. That's the corruption.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump is suing his own IRS for $10 billion — and he’s planning to settle it quickly to avoid going to court.

To be clear: This is a scam to steal $10 billion from taxpayers, while Republicans scream about “fraud.”

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The phones were cut on April 2, days after a federal judge ordered unmonitored legal access. Then came documented beatings, pepper spray, a knee on a neck, a broken wrist, an older man losing consciousness.

Court filings. Attorney photos. On the record.

The facility was ordered closed by a district court last summer. Two Trump-appointed appeals judges reopened it. An Amnesty International report published in December used the word "torture" in the title. Ossoff and Durbin sent three pages of questions to DHS about outdoor shackling in direct heat with no water. No public response.

This is not fading into the background. The abuses are accelerating.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@axios Since that $20b was frozen in 1979 and had presumably long been written off, this is more like a way to pay the Iranians $20b without it sounding like that's what's happening.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Remember: The election was not rigged, and Fox News had to pay a $787.5 million settlement for lying and saying it was.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime

https://t.co/yfMCWUFk34

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Weaken NATO.
Give Iran Hormuz.
Bailout Russia.
Empower China.

It’s the weakest and most Anti-American foreign policy in the history of the Republic.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

I guess I'll have to blog about this tomorrow, but "LOL, Trump TACO'ed out" is decidedly not the right reaction as compared to "that kind of brinkmanship is really fucking dangerous".