Sarah Burris
@sarahburris.bsky.social
Writer @alternet.org some at RawStory ex: @salon
*opinions might be jokes*
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Oklahomie in Washington, D.C.
Animal lover
Recovering social media expert
*opinions might be jokes*
Threads: @sarahburris
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Email: sarah at alternet.org
Oklahomie in Washington, D.C.
Animal lover
Recovering social media expert
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Georgia elections raid comes week after FBI replaced top agent: AP source
The FBI raided an elections office in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, but last week it replaced the top agent in the field office. According to the report, "agents were seen entering the Fulton Count...
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BUT WAIT - there's more!
Georgia elections raid comes week after FBI replaced top agent: AP source www.alternet.org/fbi-georgia-...
Georgia elections raid comes week after FBI replaced top agent: AP source www.alternet.org/fbi-georgia-...
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Gutsy of Colbert to tell viewers that CBS is complying in advance.
“at this point, [Carr has only] released a letter that says he’s thinking about doing away with the exception—but my network is unilaterally enforcing it as if he had."
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“at this point, [Carr has only] released a letter that says he’s thinking about doing away with the exception—but my network is unilaterally enforcing it as if he had."
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Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead
Stephen Colbert explained on Monday night’s Late Show that CBS lawyers told him “in no uncertain terms” that he could not have James Talarico, a Democratic Texas state representative currently running...
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February 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Gutsy of Colbert to tell viewers that CBS is complying in advance.
“at this point, [Carr has only] released a letter that says he’s thinking about doing away with the exception—but my network is unilaterally enforcing it as if he had."
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“at this point, [Carr has only] released a letter that says he’s thinking about doing away with the exception—but my network is unilaterally enforcing it as if he had."
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Reminder that the FBI Director got--and I believe still GETS--$$$ from Shein.
EU tech law
European Commission begins investigation of Shein under the Digital Services Act - re sale of illegal products (child sex dolls), recommender systems, and addictive design
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European Commission begins investigation of Shein under the Digital Services Act - re sale of illegal products (child sex dolls), recommender systems, and addictive design
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Commission launches investigation into Shein under the Digital Services Act
Today, the European Commission has opened formal proceedings against Shein, under the Digital Services Act.
ec.europa.eu
February 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Reminder that the FBI Director got--and I believe still GETS--$$$ from Shein.
Even when one GOP Senator was asked if they were doing enough on the affordability crisis. He answered: "We’re not doing anything.”
Republicans tell Trump there’s no way to convince people their financial woes are fake
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Republicans tell Trump there’s no way to convince people their financial woes are fake
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February 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Even when one GOP Senator was asked if they were doing enough on the affordability crisis. He answered: "We’re not doing anything.”
Republicans tell Trump there’s no way to convince people their financial woes are fake
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Republicans tell Trump there’s no way to convince people their financial woes are fake
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unless they're trans tho, right?
February 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
unless they're trans tho, right?
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Mahmoud v. Taylor 2.0
It's a movement!
Great piece from @tktk.bsky.social on the parents pushing back against the edtech that has taken over K-12 teaching and learning over the past decade-plus.
Great piece from @tktk.bsky.social on the parents pushing back against the edtech that has taken over K-12 teaching and learning over the past decade-plus.
Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
A loose network of parents are teaching one another how to get their kids off of school-issued Chromebooks and iPads.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Mahmoud v. Taylor 2.0
This is an important point - but it also should address a huge problem in SAG AFTRA. If you don't work, you don't get health insurance. If you're dying of cancer for many years, you can't work.
Only in America, can you be a successful television star where others made millions off of you, and can't access healthcare without going bankrupt.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
This is an important point - but it also should address a huge problem in SAG AFTRA. If you don't work, you don't get health insurance. If you're dying of cancer for many years, you can't work.
Anybody checked in with Bret Kavanaugh lately?
February 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Anybody checked in with Bret Kavanaugh lately?
um......??
These are the oligarchs who seek to rule every aspect of our lives, and the current US regime is doing everything possible to facilitate that because it is owned by them.
February 16, 2026 at 12:47 PM
um......??
You know it's bad when even MTG is like - um... y'all have gone off the rails when you're making fun of women who were molested when they were young. Like wtf is wrong with you
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns GOP has a growing women problem as MAGA mocks Epstein victims www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns GOP has a growing women problem as MAGA mocks Epstein victims www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech with the words let 's get this show on the road below him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech with the words let 's get this show on the road below him
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February 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
You know it's bad when even MTG is like - um... y'all have gone off the rails when you're making fun of women who were molested when they were young. Like wtf is wrong with you
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns GOP has a growing women problem as MAGA mocks Epstein victims www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns GOP has a growing women problem as MAGA mocks Epstein victims www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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These cases continue to arise, reminding there’s seemingly no ‘correct’ way to dispose of pregnancy remains that will protect us from criminal investigation—not while abortion bans and fetal personhood laws exist:
Breaking: Another Kentucky Woman Arrested for Miscarriage
She's sobbing in her mugshot
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February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
These cases continue to arise, reminding there’s seemingly no ‘correct’ way to dispose of pregnancy remains that will protect us from criminal investigation—not while abortion bans and fetal personhood laws exist:
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We’re at the point in Trump’s America where they will criminalize any pregnancy outcome they don’t like.
February 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
We’re at the point in Trump’s America where they will criminalize any pregnancy outcome they don’t like.
oh my god
Complaint alleges officers descended on the families, guns drawn, with a helicopter, 2 drones, 5 armed vehicles, rifles, tasers, pepper balls. They allegedly grouped the Latinos (mostly ethnically Mexican) by skin color as a proxy for presumptive citizenship. No water, few bathrooms.
2/7
2/7
February 15, 2026 at 7:43 PM
oh my god
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The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
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#1 in Rodriguez v. Porter (D. Idaho, 1:26-cv-00075) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number AIDDC-3055371.), filed by All Plaintiffs. (Attachments: # 1 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet Attachme...
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February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
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The amount of Epstein info the federal government had is closer to 50 TB of data, new FBI emails show.
Bombsell: Only 2 percent of Epstein files have been released by DOJ www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Bombsell: Only 2 percent of Epstein files have been released by DOJ www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Bombsell: Only 2 percent of Epstein files have been released by DOJ
The UK's Channel 4 News reported this week that the Justice Department isn't being honest about what they have on trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplices and the years of investigation done by the...
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February 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The amount of Epstein info the federal government had is closer to 50 TB of data, new FBI emails show.
Bombsell: Only 2 percent of Epstein files have been released by DOJ www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Bombsell: Only 2 percent of Epstein files have been released by DOJ www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Not sure if she's joining the resistance or trying to get publicity again
Republican lawmaker tears apart DOJ for making her lose 'all faith in our justice system' www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Republican lawmaker tears apart DOJ for making her lose 'all faith in our justice system' www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Republican lawmaker tears apart DOJ for making her lose 'all faith in our justice system'
While the Justice Department has focused largely on pursuing charged against President Donald Trump's perceived enemies, those who participated in horrific crimes are getting a pass, one GOP lawmaker ...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Not sure if she's joining the resistance or trying to get publicity again
Republican lawmaker tears apart DOJ for making her lose 'all faith in our justice system' www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Republican lawmaker tears apart DOJ for making her lose 'all faith in our justice system' www.alternet.org/epstein-file...
Mullin literally contradicts himself in less than 20 seconds. It's a skill few really have
CNN's @jaketapper.bsky.social catches Republican in about-face on live TV www.alternet.org/msn-uk/markw...
CNN's @jaketapper.bsky.social catches Republican in about-face on live TV www.alternet.org/msn-uk/markw...
CNN's Jake Tapper catches Republican in about-face on live TV
CNN's Jake Tapper wasn't allowing Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to get away with cTapper began with a commentary about the unified Republican anger over President Donald Trump's effort to prosecute ...
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February 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Mullin literally contradicts himself in less than 20 seconds. It's a skill few really have
CNN's @jaketapper.bsky.social catches Republican in about-face on live TV www.alternet.org/msn-uk/markw...
CNN's @jaketapper.bsky.social catches Republican in about-face on live TV www.alternet.org/msn-uk/markw...
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The govt continues to send detainees to nations it knows, or should know, will send them back to home countries where judges have found they'll face persecution, torture, or death. SCOTUS blessed these bank-shot crimes in a shadow docket order last June. ...
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U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
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February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The govt continues to send detainees to nations it knows, or should know, will send them back to home countries where judges have found they'll face persecution, torture, or death. SCOTUS blessed these bank-shot crimes in a shadow docket order last June. ...
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Trump's new commission wants to 'redefine the boundaries between government and religion'
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Trump's new commission wants to 'redefine the boundaries between government and religion'
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was founded after the Wall Street Crisis and mortgage collapse that happened in 2007 and 2008, with the specific purpose of having a government agency that wou...
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February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Trump's new commission wants to 'redefine the boundaries between government and religion'
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I love that it's only gold-leafed .... they couldn't make it into a real gold statue.
'Drunk on power': Experts say Trump's cult of personality rivals history's worst dictators www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
'Drunk on power': Experts say Trump's cult of personality rivals history's worst dictators www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
'Drunk on power': Experts say Trump's cult of personality rivals history's worst dictators
President Donald Trump’s cult of personality is reaching a whole new level in his second term.New York Times reporter Peter Baker notes that Trump has always been obsessed with his own image and with ...
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February 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
I love that it's only gold-leafed .... they couldn't make it into a real gold statue.
'Drunk on power': Experts say Trump's cult of personality rivals history's worst dictators www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
'Drunk on power': Experts say Trump's cult of personality rivals history's worst dictators www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
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GERMANY (pointing): we learned it from YOU!
USA (pointing): well we learned it from YOU!
Germany (pointing again): well we learned it from YOU!
USA: welp you got us there
USA (pointing): well we learned it from YOU!
Germany (pointing again): well we learned it from YOU!
USA: welp you got us there
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
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February 15, 2026 at 8:19 AM
GERMANY (pointing): we learned it from YOU!
USA (pointing): well we learned it from YOU!
Germany (pointing again): well we learned it from YOU!
USA: welp you got us there
USA (pointing): well we learned it from YOU!
Germany (pointing again): well we learned it from YOU!
USA: welp you got us there
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If I were Chuck Schumer, I simply would not allow myself to get dunked on from the left by Bill Kristol
C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.
This is why there must be a full, independent investigation of every incident that ICE has been involved in. DHS and this administration cannot be trusted to carry out investigations on their own.
And it’s why Democrats are fighting to rein in ICE.
And it’s why Democrats are fighting to rein in ICE.
February 15, 2026 at 9:56 AM
If I were Chuck Schumer, I simply would not allow myself to get dunked on from the left by Bill Kristol
Omg yall watching this disabled woman get into it with this awful @amtrak.com fool who tries to say her service dog was out of control. We need better laws about service animals.
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February 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Omg yall watching this disabled woman get into it with this awful @amtrak.com fool who tries to say her service dog was out of control. We need better laws about service animals.
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“Upon arrival at the center — which is the same where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was held with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias — Amalia's health worsened quickly, the lawsuit said, and on Jan. 1, she developed a fever that peaked at 104 degrees and would not break.”
Amalia, 18 months, "nearly died" at Dilley migrant family jail, a lawyer for her family said in a statement to @people.com: people.com/toddler-hosp...
Toddler, Hospitalized with Life-Threatening Respiratory Failure, Was Returned to ICE Detention and Denied Prescribed Meds
A toddler at an ICE detention center in Texas was rushed to the hospital with respiratory failure, pneumonia and more, and when the 18-month-old and her parents had to return to the center, ICE office...
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February 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
“Upon arrival at the center — which is the same where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was held with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias — Amalia's health worsened quickly, the lawsuit said, and on Jan. 1, she developed a fever that peaked at 104 degrees and would not break.”
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Does Meta talk to regular degular people to find out what they want (if anything)?
We used AI to find the moment of social unrest most optimized to distract from our launch of the Torment Nexus
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
@kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Does Meta talk to regular degular people to find out what they want (if anything)?