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
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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.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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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
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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.
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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.
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« 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
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« 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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February 10, 2026 at 7:35 AM
The US is going to kill Cubans. For what? So Rubio can be El Présidente?
Really horrifying. Racist terrorism against children. Want to know where ICE got it? They looked at our history.
Before her retirement, this judge oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail.
In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist.
Revisit our 2021 story with @wpln.bsky.social:
In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist.
Revisit our 2021 story with @wpln.bsky.social:
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem t...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Really horrifying. Racist terrorism against children. Want to know where ICE got it? They looked at our history.
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Columbia will never be free of this stain.
When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.
By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
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By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
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‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her.
The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.
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February 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Columbia will never be free of this stain.
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Canada. Paid. For the whole. Bridge.
He keeps saying China will kill hockey in Canada, & I cannot figure out where the hell he got that batshit idea. (I’m sure it’s from some right-wing online thing that’s been twisted into this nuttery.)
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Canada. Paid. For the whole. Bridge.
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Not only did Canada pay for the whole bridge, Michigan gets half control of it anyway. The U.S. ALREADY HAS what Trump is demanding.
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Not only did Canada pay for the whole bridge, Michigan gets half control of it anyway. The U.S. ALREADY HAS what Trump is demanding.
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Neighbors packed a Southwest Side coffee shop to show support for its anti-ICE stance. blockclubchi.co/45SmrPx
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Neighbors packed a Southwest Side coffee shop to show support for its anti-ICE stance. blockclubchi.co/45SmrPx
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some things are actually getting worse here.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
some things are actually getting worse here.
ICE terrorized this child and is doing that to tens of thousands.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
ICE terrorized this child and is doing that to tens of thousands.
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The IOC won’t let a Ukrainian skeleton racer wear a helmet with pictures of the dead. There’s no writing. Literally just portraits. Um, the Swiss flag is literally a cross, and the Saudi flag has the shahada, how do they not violate Rule 50.2 if this does?
The IOC won’t let a Ukrainian skeleton racer wear a helmet with pictures of the dead. There’s no writing. Literally just portraits. Um, the Swiss flag is literally a cross, and the Saudi flag has the shahada, how do they not violate Rule 50.2 if this does?
Skeleton-Ukraine's Heraskevych says banned by IOC from wearing helmet showing athletes killed in war
Ukrainian skeleton competitor Vladyslav Heraskevych said on Monday he had been told by an IOC representative that he was banned from wearing a helmet at the Milano Cortina Games showing images of the ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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The IOC won’t let a Ukrainian skeleton racer wear a helmet with pictures of the dead. There’s no writing. Literally just portraits. Um, the Swiss flag is literally a cross, and the Saudi flag has the shahada, how do they not violate Rule 50.2 if this does?
The IOC won’t let a Ukrainian skeleton racer wear a helmet with pictures of the dead. There’s no writing. Literally just portraits. Um, the Swiss flag is literally a cross, and the Saudi flag has the shahada, how do they not violate Rule 50.2 if this does?