Mena Burke
@menaburke.bsky.social
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
Oh ffs
OpenAI fired one of its top safety execs, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product.
OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination
Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Oh ffs
Of course he was. This is so Trumpian
A man who does background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was among 30 people arrested in a recent prostitution sting by Bloomington police.
Bloomington police arrest federal contractor in prostitution sting
The man was among 30 people arrested in a recent prostitution sting by Bloomington police.
bit.ly
February 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Of course he was. This is so Trumpian
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DNI Gabbard claimed she attended the FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots bec she oversees matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to U.S. elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the FBI search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-c...
Gabbard’s Claim of “Foreign” Interference in Georgia Election Takes a Hit
Unsealed FBI affidavits make no mention of DNI’s claim rationalizing her involvement in Georgia election probe
www.spytalk.co
February 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
DNI Gabbard claimed she attended the FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots bec she oversees matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to U.S. elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the FBI search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-c...
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Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.
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The only Republican challenging Dem Sen. Ben Ray Lujan is disqualified by New Mexico SoS. The ABQ Journal says this would leave the GOP without a Senate candidate for the first time in "modern history," and just six years after Lujan won by only 6 points. www.abqjournal.com/news/four-ne...
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 AM
The only Republican challenging Dem Sen. Ben Ray Lujan is disqualified by New Mexico SoS. The ABQ Journal says this would leave the GOP without a Senate candidate for the first time in "modern history," and just six years after Lujan won by only 6 points. www.abqjournal.com/news/four-ne...
Lies and coverups
Newly released documents show the FBI's scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.
Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail solved
Documents that were part of the Epstein files release help explain why a video released from the night of Epstein's death was missing one minute close to midnight.
cbsn.ws
February 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Lies and coverups
Wait, now we’re losing?
February 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Wait, now we’re losing?
Tired? What the heck happened?
February 11, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Tired? What the heck happened?
2 goals in first half of his home debut. Bravo Strand Larsen.
Palace fans singing "Strand Larsen, wooah, Strand Larsen, wooah. He's Scandinavian, he hates the Albion" #CPFC
February 11, 2026 at 8:18 PM
2 goals in first half of his home debut. Bravo Strand Larsen.
apnews.com/article/biat...
And the sheer narcissism of this as he says « I hope I didn’t ruin Johan’s day. » Johan-Olav Botn being his teammate who won gold but has indeed been upstaged by this pathetic man. His ex is well rid of him.
And the sheer narcissism of this as he says « I hope I didn’t ruin Johan’s day. » Johan-Olav Botn being his teammate who won gold but has indeed been upstaged by this pathetic man. His ex is well rid of him.
Norwegian biathlon bronze medalist confesses to cheating on girlfriend in post-race interview
Sturla Holm Laegreid, a top Norwegian biathlete, made a surprising revelation during a live broadcast after winning bronze in the men's Olympic biathlon.
apnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
apnews.com/article/biat...
And the sheer narcissism of this as he says « I hope I didn’t ruin Johan’s day. » Johan-Olav Botn being his teammate who won gold but has indeed been upstaged by this pathetic man. His ex is well rid of him.
And the sheer narcissism of this as he says « I hope I didn’t ruin Johan’s day. » Johan-Olav Botn being his teammate who won gold but has indeed been upstaged by this pathetic man. His ex is well rid of him.
Gee, and yet Trump said it was universities
The infrastructure of X, which our friends at @thejcpa.bsky.social and @counterhate.com have documented as the primary engine of antisemitism online, does exactly what it was built to do: amplify & reward this content.
New Report Exposes X/Twitter as One of the Most Dangerous Vehicles in History for Spreading Antisemitism - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
As antisemitic conspiracies fuel anti-Jewish hate across social media and cause real-world harm, a new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and the Jewish Council for Public Affai...
jewishpublicaffairs.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Gee, and yet Trump said it was universities
The thrills, the spills … of the tea.
new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The thrills, the spills … of the tea.
Navarro is despicable and really bad at the narrative
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Navarro is despicable and really bad at the narrative
February 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM
JFC. Abolish ICE & DHS. Put the things in DHS we need in other agencies. Impeach and prosecute all of the chain of command of DHS that did this.
Yeah, being white isn’t gong to save you folks who think you can’t be attacked by your government.
Boycott every company doing business w/ICE
Yeah, being white isn’t gong to save you folks who think you can’t be attacked by your government.
Boycott every company doing business w/ICE
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
JFC. Abolish ICE & DHS. Put the things in DHS we need in other agencies. Impeach and prosecute all of the chain of command of DHS that did this.
Yeah, being white isn’t gong to save you folks who think you can’t be attacked by your government.
Boycott every company doing business w/ICE
Yeah, being white isn’t gong to save you folks who think you can’t be attacked by your government.
Boycott every company doing business w/ICE
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Catholic Archbishop John Wester tells Southern Baptist & Christian Nationalist Speaker Mike Johnson that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about on the Bible & immigration.
files.ecatholic.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Catholic Archbishop John Wester tells Southern Baptist & Christian Nationalist Speaker Mike Johnson that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about on the Bible & immigration.
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Ebo Taylor, légende du highlife ghanéenne, est mort
Ebo Taylor, légende du highlife ghanéenne, est mort
Depuis samedi, les hommages du monde de la musique affluent. Ebo Taylor avait 90 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Ebo Taylor, légende du highlife ghanéenne, est mort
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As the Olympic Games bans the helmet of Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych with portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed by russia, let us be his voice and spread his message🫶🏻
February 10, 2026 at 8:54 AM
As the Olympic Games bans the helmet of Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych with portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed by russia, let us be his voice and spread his message🫶🏻
Reform are very Trumpian, which is, to say, very like the Mob.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Reform are very Trumpian, which is, to say, very like the Mob.
And I’m done with more money for the military for anything but housing of enlisted and defendants, schooling for dependents, and healthcare for currently serving, their dependents and retirees, until the leaders start acting honorably and within their constitutional oaths. As it is it’s just going
Everyone in the chain of command is implicated. Bodes ill if Trump decides to issue other unlawful orders.
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
February 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
And I’m done with more money for the military for anything but housing of enlisted and defendants, schooling for dependents, and healthcare for currently serving, their dependents and retirees, until the leaders start acting honorably and within their constitutional oaths. As it is it’s just going
Everyone in the chain of command is implicated. Bodes ill if Trump decides to issue other unlawful orders.
We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Everyone in the chain of command is implicated. Bodes ill if Trump decides to issue other unlawful orders.
www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
« we left with all of my children, my nannies… . » - guess he thinks not leaving his privileged kids to be abused is a +? Multiple nannies. Guess it’s good he’s not raising his own kids.
Lutnick = out of touch ass who thinks lying to us about Epstein is ok.
« we left with all of my children, my nannies… . » - guess he thinks not leaving his privileged kids to be abused is a +? Multiple nannies. Guess it’s good he’s not raising his own kids.
Lutnick = out of touch ass who thinks lying to us about Epstein is ok.
Howard Lutnick sweats as he backtracks on Epstein ties: 'You misled the country'
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) turned up the heat on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Tuesday in a Senate hearing over his past ties with Jeffrey Epstein, who Lutnick falsely claimed last year to have ...
www.rawstory.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
« we left with all of my children, my nannies… . » - guess he thinks not leaving his privileged kids to be abused is a +? Multiple nannies. Guess it’s good he’s not raising his own kids.
Lutnick = out of touch ass who thinks lying to us about Epstein is ok.
« we left with all of my children, my nannies… . » - guess he thinks not leaving his privileged kids to be abused is a +? Multiple nannies. Guess it’s good he’s not raising his own kids.
Lutnick = out of touch ass who thinks lying to us about Epstein is ok.
Absolute corruption. A huge part of Trump’s illicit fortune is controlled by people outside the US by the firm of a guy he gave a pardon to. Changpeng Zhao still owns 90% of Binance.
I know that we all know Trump = corruption but how the hell is this not a huge story being trumpeted daily?
I know that we all know Trump = corruption but how the hell is this not a huge story being trumpeted daily?
New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange.
Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119.
me, for @forbes.com
Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119.
me, for @forbes.com
Trump's Stablecoin USD1: Binance Holds 87% After Founder's Pardon
World Liberty Financial's founding document describes the company as "pioneering a new era of Decentralized Finance." Its flagship stablecoin is anything but.
www.forbes.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Absolute corruption. A huge part of Trump’s illicit fortune is controlled by people outside the US by the firm of a guy he gave a pardon to. Changpeng Zhao still owns 90% of Binance.
I know that we all know Trump = corruption but how the hell is this not a huge story being trumpeted daily?
I know that we all know Trump = corruption but how the hell is this not a huge story being trumpeted daily?
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Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
The US is going to kill Cubans. For what? So Rubio can be El Présidente?
Cuban government has informed airlines that they only have about 24 hours worth of fuel left for planes.
Beyond the obvious damage that suddenly shutting down any country's air travel would have, a not at all small % of food and medicine in Cuba comes by luggage on airlines
efe.com/economia/202...
Beyond the obvious damage that suddenly shutting down any country's air travel would have, a not at all small % of food and medicine in Cuba comes by luggage on airlines
efe.com/economia/202...
Cuba comunica a las aerolíneas que en 24 horas se queda sin combustible para aviones - EFE
El Gobierno de Cuba advirtió a las aerolíneas internacionales que operan en la isla que a partir de este lunes el país se queda sin combustible para aviación.
efe.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
The US is going to kill Cubans. For what? So Rubio can be El Présidente?