Albert Burneko
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i'm hearing that a lot of the new people here do not even fr*ckin know about Defector, so here is a link to my author page on there, with my face all huge and terrible for some reason
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Albert Burneko | Defector
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about 1 year ago
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southpaw
about 10 hours ago
The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.
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the drama!
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The Super Bowl Could Not Compete With Tape-Delayed Olympic Curling | Defector
Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy at least as far as concerns the television. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my liâl lapt...
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Anthony L. Fisher
1 day ago
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.
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Joshua Rivera
1 day ago
on benito, and america
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The Deeper Meaning of Bad Bunnyâs Super Bowl Halftime Show
The Puerto Rican rapperâs performance wasnât a crossover event. It was something better.
https://slate.com/culture/2026/02/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-2026-lady-gaga.html?pay=1770643882728&support_journalism=please
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i like all the different types of helmets they have now. every few seconds a guy will cross the screen who looks like he asked his mom who doesn't watch football to make him a helmet for christmas
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Sean T. Collins
1 day ago
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
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Jonathan M. Katz
1 day ago
Not beating the Nazi allegations over there
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this is creepy because for years i had regular dreams about a part of town that only existed in my dreams and in it there was a forested hillside that had a riveted iron door to hell in the side of it
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would eat but also, would never order
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lauren
1 day ago
it'll take ten years of ads where a smiling man holds a can of beans in front of the camera saying "you eat them. in your mouth" before we can sell a real product again. maybe we never find the golden age of the gorilla on a drum kit ever again
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
about 1 year ago
Never Forget
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at the end of the six months, only one of you will have written a book
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Paul Maidment-ass clown
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
3 days ago
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man âpurposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.â What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldnât remember he had a daughter.
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Denny Carter
3 days ago
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield
3 days ago
fully capable of believing that our president would knowingly post wildly racist content, that he doesn't actually bother or have the attention span to actually watch what he reposts, and, this is the key thing, that he's a racist prick who shouldn't be in office regardless
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Chris Person
3 days ago
Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"
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Adam Serwer
4 days ago
Now that Trump has deleted the post, the defenses will shift from "stop the fake outrage" to "see he deleted it, not a big deal"
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Adam Serwer
4 days ago
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again
bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Norm Charlatan
4 days ago
Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for âimpeding a federal investigation.â These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.
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Razzball
5 days ago
Is this good chat
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what we loved about Dan McQuade
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What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuadeâs funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Danâs widow Jan,...
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Defector
5 days ago
What we loved about Dan McQuade:
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What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuadeâs funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Danâs widow Jan,...
https://defector.com/what-we-loved-about-dan-mcquade
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nobody
6 days ago
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i donât doubt that people are sincere when they say this stuff, but this has been the line for over 40 years and is perhaps the biggest reason why âsorting out the restâ never, ever, ever happens
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the thing is, people already pay for journalism. as
@pareene.bsky.social
points out, thatâs no small part of what they pay their ISP for: so they can access the news. none of that money makes its way to press shops or journalists, so we end up trying to survive on the margins of peopleâs budgets
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Greg Sargent
6 days ago
Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)
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Arizona Right Watch
6 days ago
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf mustâve thought before he died by suicide: âHe might have thought âhow is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over thisâ maybe he said âthis site was not subject to local zoning.ââ
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remember when Gavin Newsom vowed to defeat extreme wealth taxes, that was great, i love to share a party with people who think he should be president
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don't worry, i'm sure once they've finished intentionally crippling our ability to discover and tell each other what they're doing, they'll be satisfied and will stop there
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Jack Mirkinson
6 days ago
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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lauren
6 days ago
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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Brian Phillips
6 days ago
Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives
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Dogpatch Press
9 days ago
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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one of the two of us doesnât know what the word âprolificâ means, either me or Shams
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rich traditions
7 days ago
this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children
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bort
7 days ago
sorry nothing short of âthese people never get to have lives in public society againâ is gonna cut it. unmask, prosecute, and blacklist every last one
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7 days ago
alleged constitutional scholar mike johnson: imagine if everyone we wanted to arrest was "due" some sort of "process"
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Moira Donegan
7 days ago
I hadnât known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help.
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Norm Charlatan
7 days ago
I am going to keep hammering what I see as the dichotomy between offense and defense in how people are confronting ICE here. The offensive aspects (e.g. tracking or observing ICE or doing rapid response) are much less like traditional organizing, whereas the defensive aspects (e.g. mutual aid) are.
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Ed Burmila
7 days ago
A lot of people are choosing to miss the point here which is not âEvery problem is super easy to solve and democrats refuse to do itâ but that when there *is* a simple solution they will insist itâs much more complicated and the simple solution is impossible.
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Brad Lander
8 days ago
House Democrats must vote ânoâ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.
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utopia deferred
8 days ago
An understated detail here is how ICE are literally just thugs. They are going around the country and literally just stealing shit as routine part of their operational mission to terrorize, assault, rape, and kidnap. They are literally thugs.
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Jane
8 days ago
Everyone thatâs drawn a paycheck from DHS in the last year needs to see the inside of a cell at minimum.
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molly conger
8 days ago
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Justin Zimmerman
9 days ago
Now for the rest of the babies theyâve shoved into that detention center.
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Norm Charlatan
9 days ago
Nothing has changed and these masked, armed federal paramilitaries are just as aggressive and lawless as ever.
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