Alex Burch
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Authoritarians hurt everyone— your silence = compliance He set cop beaters free & they are organizing. Lots of snark to alleviate the pain …in Nebraska, so it’s rough. *Peace is not passive* Banner pic:On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder
On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough.
Sep. 7, 1913 | 8 Black Men Suffocate In Prison Cell, Punished for Not Picking Enough Cotton
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You may not realize it, but the terror we’re seeing on America’s streets today — masked federal officers, ICE raids, families torn apart at the border — is a byproduct of post-9/11 fear, when the U.S. embarked on the largest bureaucratic overhaul in half a century.
What is the legacy of 9/11? We’re living in it
Long Lead's Signal Award-winning history podcast 'Long Shadow' returns with a special episode about the legacy of September 11 — and how it’s impacting America today.
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"I think we got almost everything wrong after 9/11" shares historian @vermontgmg.bsky.social who's studied 9/11 and its effects for decades. The world we're living in currently is one born from the United States' response to the terror attacks — but now we're experiencing a different kind of terror.
BREAKING: Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr. Amy Acton was attacked by an armed individual who lunged at her during a campaign event at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown. 1/
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social Looks like Elon Musk learned about his grandpa,then convinced trump that the rebirth of technocracy is the goal:world domination,kleptocracy,fascism. Joshua N. Haldeman,Musk’s grandpa.Antisemite,Nazi sympathizer,racist,apartheid supporter ⚠️ bsky.app/profile/mich...
Dr. Michael MacKay@michaelmackay.bsky.social · 3d agoSteve Witkoff and Jared Kushner presented commemorative coins to the terrorist leader Putin. One side features a map showing all of North, Central and South America under U.S. political domination. It is an expansion of the "Technate of America" map presented by American fascists in the 1930s.
Looks like Elon Musk learned about his grandfather, then convinced trump that the rebirth of the technocracy movement should be their goal:world domination, kleptocracy, fascism. Joshua N. Haldeman,Musk’s grandpa.Antisemite,Nazi sympathizer,racist,apartheid supporter,technocracy movement supporter.
Dr. Michael MacKay@michaelmackay.bsky.social · 3d agoSteve Witkoff and Jared Kushner presented commemorative coins to the terrorist leader Putin. One side features a map showing all of North, Central and South America under U.S. political domination. It is an expansion of the "Technate of America" map presented by American fascists in the 1930s.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mich... 5 alarm fire. Calling all authoritarian experts! The work is endless and we need your expertise, your voice, your assessment. No one is saving us.
Dr. Michael MacKay@michaelmackay.bsky.social · 3d agoSteve Witkoff and Jared Kushner presented commemorative coins to the terrorist leader Putin. One side features a map showing all of North, Central and South America under U.S. political domination. It is an expansion of the "Technate of America" map presented by American fascists in the 1930s.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner presented commemorative coins to the terrorist leader Putin. One side features a map showing all of North, Central and South America under U.S. political domination. It is an expansion of the "Technate of America" map presented by American fascists in the 1930s.
This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce
Doug Burgum wants a Great Triumphal Arch for Fuckface with a gilded eagle on Columbia Island, because nothing says humble public service like Rome cosplay next to Arlington Cemetery. Somewhere there's a budget line for veterans' care that just got quietly deprioritized for this.
The Trump regime won't even admit its war with Iran is a "war." So why would we trust what they say about casualties, civilian deaths, weapon supplies and negotiations? This war is indeed a war, and it's one big con job, too.
Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.
He’s got Dr. Phil working on invasion plans for Greenland, so Kid Rock might be a contender.
Military Times@militarytimes.bsky.social · 4d agoThe White House has reviewed candidates to potentially replace Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, Reuters reports. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
Is it Kid Rock? Because that would be in the realm of possibility with our clown fascist tyranny.
Military Times@militarytimes.bsky.social · 4d agoThe White House has reviewed candidates to potentially replace Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, Reuters reports. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
Trump says illegal Iran war is “Small potatoes”. Would the #GoldStar families agree?
Alex Burch@alexkburch.bsky.social · 6d ago🇺🇸 Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii 🇺🇸 Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas 🇺🇸 Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York
Trump says illegal Iran war is “Small potatoes”. Would the #GoldStar families agree?
Alex Burch@alexkburch.bsky.social · 6d ago🇺🇸 Maj. John A. Klinner, 33, Auburn, Alabama 🇺🇸 Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, Covington, Washington 🇺🇸 Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, Bardstown, Kentucky 🇺🇸 Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38, Mooresville, Indiana 🇺🇸 Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30, Wilmington, Ohio 🇺🇸 Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28, Columbus, Ohio
Trump says illegal Iran war is “Small potatoes”. Would the #GoldStar families agree?
Alex Burch@alexkburch.bsky.social · 6d agoKilled in Iraq: 🇺🇸 Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
Trump says illegal Iran war is “Small potatoes”. Would the #GoldStar families agree?
Alex Burch@alexkburch.bsky.social · 6d ago🇺🇸 Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards of Oakland, Oregon On July 1, 2026 a helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea after what the U.S. Navy said was an “emergency landing.” Three members of the four-person crew were rescued, and the fourth was declared missing. Edwards is survived by his wife and two children.
Trump says illegal Iran war is “Small potatoes”. Would the #GoldStar families agree?
Alex Burch@alexkburch.bsky.social · 6d ago🇺🇸 Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky. Trump did not attend his dignified transfer. Trump had a rally in KY on 3-11-26, yet didn’t mention Pennington’s death or honor him.
Trump says illegal Iran war is “Small potatoes”. Would the #GoldStar families agree?
Alex Burch@alexkburch.bsky.social · 6d ago🇺🇸 Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, Winter Haven, FL 🇺🇸 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, Bellevue, NE 🇺🇸 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, White Bear Lake, MN 🇺🇸 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, West Des Moines, IA 🇺🇸 Maj. Jeffrey O'Brien,45, Waukee, IA 🇺🇸 Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54,Sacramento, CA
Listen to @vermontgmg.bsky.social ‘s podcast on 9-11, 25 years later. Graff: “Reacting in the middle of one nightmare, we created another. An apparatus, that in the wrong hands, has become one of the most authoritarian tools in the history of our country.” #911NeverForget #91125Years #ICEOut
Long Lead@longlead.com · last wk.In a new special episode of LONG SHADOW: 9/11'S LINGERING QUESTIONS — out today — Graff traces how the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 led to the buildup of a massive federal police force that's now terrorizing the very citizens it was meant to protect. Listen now.
⚠️ “AI models learn to design viruses by training on curated, laboratory-validated datasets. These datasets include the DNA or RNA sequences of different viruses. They’re often produced for beneficial purposes such as part of biological surveillance campaigns…(also) potential recipes for misuse.”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists@thebulletin.org · 4d ago"Nature is the world's worst bioterrorist" is a common maxim in the field of biosecurity — the idea that naturally emerging pathogens cause far more deaths than any biological attack a terrorist could carry out. That trope may soon be outdated, writes Steph Guerra of @rand.org.
VICTORY: a judge just SHUT DOWN Trump's illegal mail voting rule Seniors, veterans & military families keep their ballots. NO CHAOS before Nov 3 His order was illegal--The court's isn't @campaignlegal.org & @democracydefendersfund.org are proud to have filed a brief for LULAC in this win 👇 -TN
As I predicted, now that he’s been charged federally, suspended ICE agent Christian Castro has turned himself in and should now face justice in Minnesota as well. All no thanks to Texas Governor Abbott, who did his level unconstitutional best to keep Castro from being extradited to Minnesota.
russia attacked a WHO warehouse storing humanitarian medical supplies near Kyiv. This is the 2nd attack on WHO warehouses in just 2 weeks🧵
As a Nebraskan who has seen this live and in the flesh, can confirm.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d agoMy man looks like he has a tattoo of Calvin pissing on a Ford logo
⚠️ “AI models learn to design viruses by training on curated, laboratory-validated datasets. These datasets include the DNA or RNA sequences of different viruses. They’re often produced for beneficial purposes such as part of biological surveillance campaigns…(also) potential recipes for misuse.”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists@thebulletin.org · 4d ago"Nature is the world's worst bioterrorist" is a common maxim in the field of biosecurity — the idea that naturally emerging pathogens cause far more deaths than any biological attack a terrorist could carry out. That trope may soon be outdated, writes Steph Guerra of @rand.org.
"Nature is the world's worst bioterrorist" is a common maxim in the field of biosecurity — the idea that naturally emerging pathogens cause far more deaths than any biological attack a terrorist could carry out. That trope may soon be outdated, writes Steph Guerra of @rand.org.
Newly created viruses are a warning. We still have a window to stop AI-enabled bioweapons
Scientists showed recently that AI can be used to produce novel viruses. We need to build a layered system of defense before AI-enabled bioweapons capabilities become undeniably advanced—or worse,…
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