Burke Burnett
@burkeburnett.bsky.social
Honolulu-based politics junkie, science guy, space nerd, SAG-AFTRA actor, musician, & Twitter refugee. Whew - glad I got that all out.
I'm as anti-MAGA as it's possible to be, but I am a pro-NatSec, anti-crime liberal - not a progressive.
I'm as anti-MAGA as it's possible to be, but I am a pro-NatSec, anti-crime liberal - not a progressive.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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This is a war crime. It's no different than Nazi submarines machine-gunning survivors from a ship they just torpedoed.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is a war crime. It's no different than Nazi submarines machine-gunning survivors from a ship they just torpedoed.
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Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Q: Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
TRUMP: I haven't thought about it yet, but it's certainly something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Straight-up sociopath.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.
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If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
Trump during his Thanksgiving call with service members: "We're ordered a lot of Coast Guard cutters. Brand new, beautiful, the best machines in the world. I'm a looks person. I wanted the hull to be perfect. You know, I sort of redesigned the hull a little bit. The hulls. But we ordered a lot."
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
If Joe Biden had claimed that he redesigned the hulls of Coast Guard cutters, we'd be way over in 25th amendment territory.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
With Trump, it's so common that most Americans don't even notice it now.
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This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
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Trump pick for whistleblower office texted he has 'Nazi streak,' Politico reports reut.rs/3WM7ido
Trump pick for whistleblower office texted he has 'Nazi streak,' Politico reports
The nominee for U.S. Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, told a group of other Republicans in a text chain that the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday should be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell" and that he has a "Nazi streak," according to a report published on Monday by Politico.
reut.rs
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Trump pick for whistleblower office texted he has 'Nazi streak,' Politico reports reut.rs/3WM7ido
Our inexorable march to becoming North Korea continues apace.
News outlets criticize Pentagon's new restrictions on media coverage reut.rs/46qJJvi
News outlets criticize Pentagon's new restrictions on media coverage
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is imposing new restrictions on media coverage of the U.S. military, requiring news organizations to agree they will not disclose information that the government has not approved for release.
reut.rs
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Our inexorable march to becoming North Korea continues apace.
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Why do they bother? We all know this will end up at SCOTUS and the six Republican lickspittles will simply rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants.
BREAKING: The DOJ has SUED Maine and Oregon for refusing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists.
As more states push back against federal overreach in their elections, the DOJ is now suing to force access to sensitive voter data.
As more states push back against federal overreach in their elections, the DOJ is now suing to force access to sensitive voter data.
DOJ Sues Maine, Oregon in Aggressive Move to Seize State Voter Data
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Why do they bother? We all know this will end up at SCOTUS and the six Republican lickspittles will simply rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants.
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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DT is permitted by Putin to YOWL at his master, to maintain credibility. What he will never, ever do is actually and palpably harm his master's interests. In this case, he knows that Europe needs to get through one more winter before lining up full energy independence. Hence DT safely does nothing.
September 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
DT is permitted by Putin to YOWL at his master, to maintain credibility. What he will never, ever do is actually and palpably harm his master's interests. In this case, he knows that Europe needs to get through one more winter before lining up full energy independence. Hence DT safely does nothing.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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The President of the United States is openly conspiring with a convicted child sex trafficker serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Maxwell is a monster. This is as low a point as America has reached this century.
Everyone knows Maxwell has been bribed to exculpate Trump—everyone.
Maxwell is a monster. This is as low a point as America has reached this century.
Everyone knows Maxwell has been bribed to exculpate Trump—everyone.
Ghislaine Maxwell completed a second day of questioning with the DOJ, where she shared information on about “100 different people” in connection with Epstein.
Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Brazen Pardon Quid Pro Quo
The late convicted sex offender’s partner met with the deputy AG for two days of questioning.
trib.al
July 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The President of the United States is openly conspiring with a convicted child sex trafficker serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Maxwell is a monster. This is as low a point as America has reached this century.
Everyone knows Maxwell has been bribed to exculpate Trump—everyone.
Maxwell is a monster. This is as low a point as America has reached this century.
Everyone knows Maxwell has been bribed to exculpate Trump—everyone.
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This dope @jd-vance-1.bsky.social seems to have forgotten how the show your receipts Signalgate dare went.
July 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This dope @jd-vance-1.bsky.social seems to have forgotten how the show your receipts Signalgate dare went.
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During her brief tenure, Admiral Davids oversaw the death of academic freedom at the 180-year-old school on the banks of the Severn River in Annapolis, Md., which has produced some of the nation’s greatest naval heroes and scholars www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Marine General to Lead Naval Academy, a First
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
During her brief tenure, Admiral Davids oversaw the death of academic freedom at the 180-year-old school on the banks of the Severn River in Annapolis, Md., which has produced some of the nation’s greatest naval heroes and scholars www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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Yeah, it does seem kinda bad for a newspaper owner to get into business with a guy who vivisected one of his opinion columnists.
Jeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggi in public—now the Amazon billionaire is making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, which reveals more about his values than any vigil ever could.
More in Status: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
More in Status: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
Jeff Bezos Abandons Khashoggi to Cut Deal With MBS
Jeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggi—now he's making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, revealing more about his values than any vigil ever could.
www.status.news
May 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yeah, it does seem kinda bad for a newspaper owner to get into business with a guy who vivisected one of his opinion columnists.
Why is @kristenwelker.bsky.social thanking Barrasso so profusely at the end?
Barrasso does not deserve that kind of genuflection after his repeated refusal to answer a direct question of the highest possible constitutional importance.
Barrasso does not deserve that kind of genuflection after his repeated refusal to answer a direct question of the highest possible constitutional importance.
Sen. John Barrasso leaves the door open to voting to support the suspension of Habeas Corpus
May 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Why is @kristenwelker.bsky.social thanking Barrasso so profusely at the end?
Barrasso does not deserve that kind of genuflection after his repeated refusal to answer a direct question of the highest possible constitutional importance.
Barrasso does not deserve that kind of genuflection after his repeated refusal to answer a direct question of the highest possible constitutional importance.
They'd be so outraged they'd all stroke out in seconds. But somehow now it's ok.
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
They'd be so outraged they'd all stroke out in seconds. But somehow now it's ok.
Harrowing.
You probably won't believe how desperate Starliner's flight to the space station got last summer ...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
April 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Harrowing.
A million years from now, Marjorie Taylor Green will be known as "Eve" for the species Homo morlockensis, following what will become known as the Great Speciation Event.
March 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
A million years from now, Marjorie Taylor Green will be known as "Eve" for the species Homo morlockensis, following what will become known as the Great Speciation Event.
Hogsbreath is not a very good con man. Any idiot can see right through this level of BS.
Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
March 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Hogsbreath is not a very good con man. Any idiot can see right through this level of BS.
Make America Sick Again
USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula
USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.
www.reuters.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Make America Sick Again
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Cool cool.
This is the same SpaceX that Musk/Trump say are going to run the FAA now, yes?
This is the same SpaceX that Musk/Trump say are going to run the FAA now, yes?
FAA halts flights at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Orlando airports for "space launch debris" after SpaceX test flight 8 explodes, like test flight 7 did. Debris falling broadly across the Caribbean and Bahamas areas. FAA will certainly need to do mishap investigation again.
March 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Cool cool.
This is the same SpaceX that Musk/Trump say are going to run the FAA now, yes?
This is the same SpaceX that Musk/Trump say are going to run the FAA now, yes?
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To lose one starship, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose b̶o̶t̶h̶ eight looks like carelessness.
SpaceX lost another Starship shorlty after launch in Texas during Flight 8 and we're seeing flights now begin to divert/manuever possibly due to the potential risk of debris off the coast of Florida into the Altantic. @flightradar24.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To lose one starship, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose b̶o̶t̶h̶ eight looks like carelessness.