Mena Burke

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

1,409 Followers 1,156 Following 10,711 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 hours ago

She would need to sue whatever jurisdiction arrested her and kept her locked up all that time but private parties would not be liable for any of the property taken. This thing of releasing people w/no way to get home is insidious. I hope she gets some kind of justice.

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2 hours ago
Screenshot of Fairfax Chair Jeff McKay's statement regarding a proposed casino in Tysons

Fairfax Chair Jeff McKay's statement on the Fairfax casino legislation (he thanks @SpeakerDonScott and the Fairfax County House delegation for rejecting language "to force a casino in Tysons")
bluevirginia.us/2026/03/satu...

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4 hours ago

#BAONPDX #RCTID #SCUSA Volunteering Opp: the article in the QT is more info about a very fantastic tournament coming up at the end of the month and they need volunteers to make it happen. Sign up here: forms.gle/4EvgScs7bi8S...

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4 hours ago

What the hell?

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9 hours ago

More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.

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4 hours ago

The company making it is marketing it as an e-bike…so maybe some state AGs might want to start there.

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4 hours ago
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Not gonna lie, looking at the terrain here, a boots on the ground operation in the Strait of Hormuz is giving off some real Gallipoli vibes.

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4 hours ago
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James Carville Slams Dems For Not Knowing How To Talk To Men James Carville believes the Democratic Party has trouble communicating with young men, so he busted out Stephen A. Smith for a quick lesson.

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Oh for f^ck’s sake. Why are these two a thing? And together? Carville hasn’t had an original thought since the ‘80s. Together it’s just killing brain cells.

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4 hours ago

So their preparation was as bad as Trump’s.

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Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

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4 hours ago

Actively trying to be worse than the men’s hockey team.

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5 hours ago

Mavropanos?!

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5 hours ago

Bravo West Ham

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5 hours ago

Actually her life was destroyed by people in the « justice » system who decided to use AI and by the people who made the AI and don’t give a sh*t about what it’s misused for and by every person who really didn’t care to check facts because she’s not wealthy.

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5 hours ago

Israel hit a yogurt factory and killed at least 5 children and 4 others. What are they targeting? Probably just trying to destroy Lebanon again.

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9 hours ago
“O’Brien: They have a very great geographical advantage. They control the coast of the Gulf to the north. That’s basically all Iran. So the Iranians are the north coast of the Gulf, and what they really have to attack to keep that closed is shipping. And ships are slow. They’re slow and big and not that difficult to hit with a drone and they can’t maneuver. They’re not gonna be able to maneuver out of the way. And these are civilian ships that don’t have any protective devices on them. No one seems to want to go in and protect those vessels. So actually the Iranians have a very easy job in that way, that the targets they’re going for are targets that really are not protected and as long as they can keep attacking those with a small number of drones, they don’t need a lot. As long as they can keep shutting down shipping, they are going to put massive pressure on the Trump administration.

Oil prices are already up. They dipped a little bit when Trump acted like the war was almost over. They’re back up. We’ve seen real problems with nitrogen supplies and real trouble with helium supplies. And the irony is, the only country shipping out of the Gulf is Iran. Iranian shipments of oil are up, so Iran is sending everything it wants out of the Gulf and they’re sending oil directly to the Chinese. I think the Chinese are laughing at this, that they’re seeing the US unable to have its allies get their oil out.

Krugman: Yeah. There were Chinese chartered ships going through the Strait of Hormuz broadcasting in English. “We are a Chinese ship carrying Iranian oil,” and they were transiting the strait. But just to enlarge this a bit, there’s a lot of talk about how the Strait of Hormuz is 33 kilometers wide at its narrowest point, but in some ways I think that, as I understand, it’s irrelevant. Essentially, the entire Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf is easy drone range for the Iranians, right?

O’Brien: Yeah. It’s a very narrow body of water considering the vital shipping that goe…

Btw just getting control of Hormuz will not be enough. As military historian Phillips O’Brien explains to @pkrugman.bsky.social Iran controls hundreds of miles of coast and can launch attacks on ships from anywhere putting “massive pressure” on the Trump regime. 😬 open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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6 hours ago

Epstein Trump again

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6 hours ago

Our government is torturing children

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7 hours ago

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

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6 hours ago

St Gallen women’s match has snow. And there was one person shoveling during announcing of the players. And the swatch they shoveled is completely covered again.

And it’s cancelled.

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7 hours ago

head in. So yeah, Trump 2 way worse than Trump 1 in all sorts of ways.

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7 hours ago

Realizing if Rex Tillerson were Secretary of State, this war doesn’t happen (or he resigns in protest and there’s more Congressional cover) because he knew what it would do to the world economy and his old company and he knew Netanyahu was full of sh*t too much (most?) of the time. Kind of does your

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8 hours ago

I don't think this will work. The voters have determined your service literally does not count if you are a Democrat. Kerry getting three purple hearts and Walz retiring after 24 years were seen as proof of cowardice compared to ANG cowboy and cadet bone spurs.

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8 hours ago

Guess we’re losing the war not a war simply an excursion maybe a 3-hr tour.

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8 hours ago

Warner does go to all parts of the commonwealth.

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8 hours ago

This.

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20 hours ago

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

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8 hours ago

Oh this is excellent.

In the US, there are fewer transgender people than people named William.

Like in Australia transgender people are about 1% of the population. Supporting basic human rights for transgender adults and kids really not impacting you all and stop harassing them.

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8 hours ago

Reminder, while Trump is failing so badly at war and protecting the US, that the credible sexual assault allegations against him are about sexual assault and threats against a middle school girl.

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8 hours ago

In spring 2003, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy quietly set conditions for divisions of Russian and Indian soldiers to arrive in Iraq and help with the post-war occupation,

which was ridiculous,

but they didn't just put it out over AOL Instant Messenger while doing it, either.

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