Alexandra Burack

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??

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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.

America's "Constitutional Crash" This isn't "just" a crisis.

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-...

"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."

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.

priorities

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

🚨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.

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."

We are, in many places not covered by media to which you may have access. Do note the most vulnerable Americans are over 65, chronically ill, or in nursing homes, & necessarily prioritize daily access to food/medicine, itself a form of protest when oligarchs want us just dead.

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.

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.

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...

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?

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.

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...

Neville Chamberlain celebrated "peace in our time"

Schumer and his 9 Senate appeasers can celebrate this piece of shit CR in their time.

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

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.

No more freedom of the press/freedom of speech, apparently.

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."

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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Drawing displaying the 37 senators that voted for an anti-trans, anti-lgbtq+ bill ( the NDAA ) before Trump got into office with the caption: They obeyed in advance. They are: Michael Bennett of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Ben Cardin of Maryland, Tom Carper of Delaware, Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania, Chris Coons of Delaware, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Dick Durbin of Illinois, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, John Hickenlooper of Colorado, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Patty Murray of Washington, Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Alex Padilla of California, Gary Peters of Michigan, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Chuck Schumer of New York, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Jon Tester of Montana, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Mark Warner of Virginia, Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. In the corner of the cartoon is a dying butterfly in trans colors.

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.

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!

"No senator has blockaded the Trump administration's appointments to demand Musk be removed, investigated, and prosecuted. No judges have locked anyone up for contempt yet, despite a stance from the administration of unbroken contempt toward the courts. "

Democrats have added 🎯targets to their list of 2026 vulnerable Republicans

And one of those is #CA40 Rep Young Kim

Kim is now pledging she won't vote for a budget bill that does not protect Medicaid & address SALT caps 👀

KEEP THE PRESSURE ON HER:
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(714) 984-2440

c: @indivisible.org

THANK YOU with all my heart for the opportunity to talk about "With Wormwood at the Craps Table" and my writing in general. Kudos to Bulb Culture Collective for curating one of the most exciting lit mags online! 💖