Alexandra Burack
@aburack.bsky.social
Poet, Editor, Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing
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The first things I do when added to a new group chat are
1. Check who all else is in there
2. Text the person who added me to ask who the unknown numbers are
So not a single one of these people in charge of our whole entire national defense has the detail orientation to check a group chat list??
1. Check who all else is in there
2. Text the person who added me to ask who the unknown numbers are
So not a single one of these people in charge of our whole entire national defense has the detail orientation to check a group chat list??
The scope of this story will make it a major challenge to cover as a scandal. It's not just one person or department screwing up, ALL of them are on it, ALL of these people participated in an enormous national security breach that I suspect is also extremely illegal:
![J.D. Vance, Vice President
Michael Waltz, National Security Adviser
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Scott Bessent, Secretary of Treasury
Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East
Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center [NOT CONFIRMED BY SENATE]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreiekkin3ovntyut2v5gvhj53hoaa6jbko6x2xab52tphqxwwrz3tiu@jpeg)
March 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The first things I do when added to a new group chat are
1. Check who all else is in there
2. Text the person who added me to ask who the unknown numbers are
So not a single one of these people in charge of our whole entire national defense has the detail orientation to check a group chat list??
1. Check who all else is in there
2. Text the person who added me to ask who the unknown numbers are
So not a single one of these people in charge of our whole entire national defense has the detail orientation to check a group chat list??
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⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
March 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
STARTING TOMORROW.
Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙
See you there 💪🏽🌞
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Outright thuggery. A hearing has been scheduled in the USIP lawsuit as of 2:00 this afternoon on a motion for a TRO. Seems likely a lot of stuff will be destroyed just in the interim, because the DOGE folks know they can smash quickly before the pushback from the courts.
After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency.
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
March 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Outright thuggery. A hearing has been scheduled in the USIP lawsuit as of 2:00 this afternoon on a motion for a TRO. Seems likely a lot of stuff will be destroyed just in the interim, because the DOGE folks know they can smash quickly before the pushback from the courts.
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In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
America's "Constitutional Crash"
This isn't "just" a crisis.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In effectively a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop. We can clearly see what’s happening is wrong—illegal and unconstitutional—and the actors who can do something about that just … aren’t. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-s-...
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"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks.
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there."
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The plus to this is that Gorsuch self-evidently will need to recuse when this gets to SCOTUS, making any DC Circuit decision *much* more likely to be upheld 4-4 at the worst
Worth noting that one of the named defendants in this suit is Jacob Altik, a 2021 University of Michigan Law graduate who has been selected to clerk for Justice Gorsuch starting *later this year.*
March 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The plus to this is that Gorsuch self-evidently will need to recuse when this gets to SCOTUS, making any DC Circuit decision *much* more likely to be upheld 4-4 at the worst
I still don't understand why ignoring a FEDERAL Court Order does not result in a penalty.
UPDATE: Chief Judge Boasberg schedules a hearing for 4p today on the government’s notice and the plaintiffs’ response, notes that the gov’t “shall be prepared to provide answers to the questions raised by Plaintiffs on page 6 of their Response.”
Here are those questions:
Here are those questions:
March 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I still don't understand why ignoring a FEDERAL Court Order does not result in a penalty.
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priorities
March 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
priorities
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
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Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."
March 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Murphy: "The president is continuing to act unconstitutionally. He shut down some of our most important programs that protect us abroad, like Radio Free Europe, that were funded & authorized in that spending bill. So it doesn't seem like we have restrained any of the president's lawlessness."
Folks outside the U.S.: we who predicted the current neo-fascism have been doing our best to end it, simultaneous to losing our jobs, health insurance, student loans, savings, & places to live. The best way you can be allies to anti-fascist Americans is to welcome us to your countries as refugees.
You'd better shut this down right now, Americans. You're looking more and more like 1938 Germany every day. We all know what happens if you get to 1939.
March 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Folks outside the U.S.: we who predicted the current neo-fascism have been doing our best to end it, simultaneous to losing our jobs, health insurance, student loans, savings, & places to live. The best way you can be allies to anti-fascist Americans is to welcome us to your countries as refugees.
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In the Alien Enemies Act-related case in which Chief Judge Boasberg issued a TRO this morning, he is holding his class certification hearing now.
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump admin from deporting several Venezuelans
The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed suit early Saturday in advance of Trump's expected effort to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. DOJ is appealing the TRO.
www.lawdork.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
In the Alien Enemies Act-related case in which Chief Judge Boasberg issued a TRO this morning, he is holding his class certification hearing now.
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...
Isn't it illegal to invoke a War Powers Act when no foreign enemy is at war with the USA and Congress has not declared war?
Here we go-
Trump invokes rarely-used Alien Enemies Act to target Venezuelan gang www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump invokes rarely-used Alien Enemies Act to target Venezuelan gang www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump invokes rarely-used Alien Enemies Act to target Venezuelan gang
A federal judge has already limited the Trump administration's ability to deport migrants under the wartime law.
www.nbcnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Isn't it illegal to invoke a War Powers Act when no foreign enemy is at war with the USA and Congress has not declared war?
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The Musk-rats are firing people who block their access to your private tax records. Data is money to the billionaire tech bros, so look out.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Top IRS lawyer pushed aside as DOGE seeks records and 20% staff cuts
The acting chief counsel of the IRS has been removed from his position as Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service seeks access to sensitive taxpayer records, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The Musk-rats are firing people who block their access to your private tax records. Data is money to the billionaire tech bros, so look out.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Neville Chamberlain celebrated "peace in our time"
Schumer and his 9 Senate appeasers can celebrate this piece of shit CR in their time.
Schumer and his 9 Senate appeasers can celebrate this piece of shit CR in their time.
March 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Neville Chamberlain celebrated "peace in our time"
Schumer and his 9 Senate appeasers can celebrate this piece of shit CR in their time.
Schumer and his 9 Senate appeasers can celebrate this piece of shit CR in their time.
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The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity
I’m bringing this up because this is a simple procedural way to fuck with republicans even if they’re in the majority. Call them out of order, rise to a point of personal privilege, use the very procedural rules that organize their meetings to strangle them. It fucking works.
March 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The fact congressional Democrats have not hired three dozen D&D rules lawyers with oppositional defiant disorder and turned them loose on parliamentary procedure with the goal of maximum obstruction is such a fucking missed opportunity
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Voting with MAGA to censure Al Green is a deal breaker.
They've already voted across the aisle for Trump's nominees instead of blocking. The party is in crisis while everyone is trying to kiss Trump's ass.
Trump is a Nazi. To vote with his people makes another a Nazi by proxy. Cut it out, assholes.
They've already voted across the aisle for Trump's nominees instead of blocking. The party is in crisis while everyone is trying to kiss Trump's ass.
Trump is a Nazi. To vote with his people makes another a Nazi by proxy. Cut it out, assholes.
Ami Bera
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Marcy Kaptur
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
Ed Case
Jim Costa
Laura Gillen
Jim Himes
Chrissy Houlahan
Marcy Kaptur
Jared Moskowitz
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Tom Suozzi
March 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Voting with MAGA to censure Al Green is a deal breaker.
They've already voted across the aisle for Trump's nominees instead of blocking. The party is in crisis while everyone is trying to kiss Trump's ass.
Trump is a Nazi. To vote with his people makes another a Nazi by proxy. Cut it out, assholes.
They've already voted across the aisle for Trump's nominees instead of blocking. The party is in crisis while everyone is trying to kiss Trump's ass.
Trump is a Nazi. To vote with his people makes another a Nazi by proxy. Cut it out, assholes.
No more freedom of the press/freedom of speech, apparently.
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
No more freedom of the press/freedom of speech, apparently.
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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My drawing displaying the 37 senators that voted for an anti-trans, anti-lgbtq+ bill (the NDAA) before Trump got into office and when Democrats controlled the Senate. Biden signed it.
These senators obeyed in advance.
These senators obeyed in advance.
February 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My drawing displaying the 37 senators that voted for an anti-trans, anti-lgbtq+ bill (the NDAA) before Trump got into office and when Democrats controlled the Senate. Biden signed it.
These senators obeyed in advance.
These senators obeyed in advance.
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All part of the GOP plan.
The former Social Security chief has warned that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting spree could cause a system breakdown within the next 30 to 90 days.
Former Social Security Head Warns System Could ‘Collapse’ in ‘Next 30 to 90 Days’
The agency’s former commissioner said the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts could cause disruptions in benefit payments.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
All part of the GOP plan.
Immense gratitude to @bulbculture.bsky.social for the honor of appearing in their outstanding literary magazine, and the double honor of being featured in their Shine a Light project!
Happy Sunday! We’re thrilled to Shine A Light on Alexandra Burack! @aburack.bsky.social!
Alexandra’s interview is super smart, interesting, and timely, and we know you’re going to love it!
Alexandra’s interview is super smart, interesting, and timely, and we know you’re going to love it!
BCC Shines a Light On: Alexandra Burack — Bulb Culture Collective
Name of the piece published by BCC: With Wormwood at the Craps Table When/where was it originally published: My poem was originally published (in a slightly altered version) ...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Immense gratitude to @bulbculture.bsky.social for the honor of appearing in their outstanding literary magazine, and the double honor of being featured in their Shine a Light project!