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Burck Smith

@tburck.bsky.social
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Baltimorean, Dad, edu entrepreneur not necessarily in that order.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 18h
11-3-26: Stain Removal
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
An ICE agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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Uniongrl ☮️ 🌍🎵🌻🦋 @uniongrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How embarrassing that it was a woman (Amy) who knew that he was so misinformed that he confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks. Amy, my future Governor, was awesome! We know our sports in my State! What a sickening display of a petulant child. Please vote! 🗳️
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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i wonder if the people at flock see the irony in this.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s never just “they lied when confronted,” it’s always “they lied and it’s worse”
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Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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NPR @npr.org · 21/09/2026
KUT News spoke to two people who work at a business nearby, who said they heard two gun shots and went to see what happened. One witness encountered an ICE agent and a man in a car who had been shot in the back.
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Man injured in shooting by ICE officer in North Austin
The shooting happened Sunday afternoon near Anderson and U.S. 183.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 02/09/2026
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/08/2026
More than half of all the people ICE arrested in July did not have a criminal record, the highest single-month total since January 2025, newly released government data shows.
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ICE is arresting soaring numbers of immigrants with no criminal record
Federal immigration officers are shifting their targets and tactics to increase arrests. More than half of those detained last month did not have a criminal record.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2026
President Trump accused vandals of damaging the grass on the National Mall between the Washington Monument and World War II Memorial — the same area he placed a large stage to speak to crowds on the Fourth of July.
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Trump blames vandals for dead grass on lawn where he held Fourth of July event
Similarly damaged grass was seen at the White House Ellipse and South Lawn after the UFC Freedom 250 events this summer.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
Susan Collins campaign photo.
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
To put this in perspective... The Frijoles fire 🔥 in Santa Fe County, burning for about a week, spread to 8,200-acres today, has 3 aircraft working the fire (2) Chinook air tankers & (1) Type 1 helicopter In comparison, Michael Boren deployed 9 gov't Forest Service aircraft for a 7-acre fire
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Instead of ankle monitors, maybe they can just be forced to wear a colored symbol of some kind?
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NPR @npr.org · 13/08/2026
In online focus groups, 10 of 12 Biden-to-Trump voters said they wouldn't automatically think negatively of a politician who identifies with socialism. n.pr/4i6fXTY
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The dashcam video in the follow-up post here shows that Officer Roid Rage here was completely lying about why he blocked this woman and pulled a fucking gun on her, but of course there will be no consequences for him.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/08/2026
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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Ahead of midterms, Republicans run ads after cutting healthcare funds
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/08/2026
This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
Trump AI slop post showing him on the battlefield in a general's uniform flanked by bad AI versions of Patton and MacArthur
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is such complete and utter bullshit on the part of Thom Tillis and John Cornyn. Giving the Trump crime family immunity from tax audits remains as corrupt as anything we’ve ever seen in this country. Todd Blanche should be impeached, not confirmed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/08/2026
The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws. n.pr/4fHpgIF
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For sale: early access to Trump's Truth Social posts
The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/08/2026
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche has insisted for weeks that President Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is completely, undeniably dead. But on Friday, Trump twice undermined Blanche’s sworn testimony.
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Why senators fear Trump’s DOJ payout fund isn’t dead, despite Blanche’s promises
Legal experts say that changes to a deal would ordinarily be put in writing, but the acting attorney general says the administration’s word should be enough.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/08/2026
The government had accused David Hearn of ripping a piece of sealant after a $14 million renovation. Hearn has repeatedly said that he simply touched the water in the pool out of curiosity last month.
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Prosecutors move to dismiss Reflecting Pool vandalism case, saying 'botched installation' to blame
The government had accused David Hearn of ripping a piece of sealant after a $14 million renovation. Hearn has repeatedly said that he simply touched the water in the pool out of curiosity last month.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The crucial information here isn't about Blanche, who will continue on as Acting. It's that Trump REALLY REALLY REFUSES to commit to abolishing the January 6 Slush Fund or to giving up any part of his above-the-law get-out-of-audits-free card. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Trump Says He May Drop Blanche’s Attorney General Nomination, for Now
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two holdout Republicans, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
NEW: OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agent didn’t just breach Hugging Face — it also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services. It's now clear that the incident was more extensive than the company initially disclosed.
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If the Baltimore Orioles were to win a World Series -- a moment I've waited on for four decades now -- and showed up as a team to grip and grin with a corrupt, racist, pedophilic narcissist who debases our republic at every turn, I would never be seen at Camden Yards again. Fuck the L.A. Dodgers.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Susan Collins voted for $70 billion in ICE funding just before an ICE agent gunned down a young immigrant father in Maine. Collins also voted against an amendment requiring bodycams. These votes will now be hung around her neck, Dems in the state tell me. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2133...
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Trump Badly Screws Susan Collins as Maine ICE Death Takes Darker Turn
Collins cast some recent votes that can help likely Democratic challenger Troy Jackson tie her to Trump and to ICE. And there’s evidence that both liberals and moderates will listen.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
Seen in Philadelphia.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 20/07/2026
"More than 400 U.S. service members have been injured in the Iran conflict, according to Central Command.... More than 1,700 Iranian civilians have died in the war, according to estimates." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War
Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Such a clown
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Thank you Clean Air Act
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/07/2026
An egregious scheme to profit off the presidency and enrich Wall Street while doing nothing to help Americans.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.
Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I bet Susan Collins will assure Mainer voters that she is "troubled" and might even show a slightly furrowed brow. That's how serious this is.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Welcome to the meritocracy, Sen. Graham’s Sister
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
🔴 BRAVA ‼️ this intrepid woman, shut ice down ✊🏾🇺🇸✊🏻
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2026
Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK
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Mexican Man Fatally Shot by ICE Wasn’t the Intended Target
Officials say agents believed the driver resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
All the greatest hits.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ted Lieu: “There is a 24/7 camera that shows the reflecting pool. If someone went into the pool and made a 250 foot gash, it would have been seen trump is lying again. Everyone knows it, but the people at the Justice Dept are randomly going after people to soothe trump’s fragile ego”
U.S. Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) at a press conference. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
great language pulled right from the origins of totalitarianism
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 21/06/2026
Vance flew all that way just to have the purpose of his entire trip detonated by Trump before he even got there.
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