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
https://defector.com/author/albert-burneko
about 1 year ago
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"Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my li'l laptop screen, and the gigantic TV was showing a tape-delayed CNBC broadcast of mixed doubles curling."
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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 liālā¦
https://defector.com/the-super-bowl-could-not-compete-with-tape-delayed-olympic-curling
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Chris Ingraham
about 11 hours ago
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting
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Tom Scocca
about 10 hours ago
But doctor, the Great Pagliacci says, his voice cracking with despair, I AM the Great Pagliacci. Oh, says the doctor. Oh, I'm so sorry, says the doctor. I had no ideaā
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Aaron Rupar
about 11 hours ago
Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
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Kelsey McKinney
about 13 hours ago
can this man call me? I have 100 questions
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Norwegian Biathlete, At Summit Of His Lifeās Work: I Cheated On My Girlfriend | Defector
The biathlon encourages athletes to balance two things at once. A competitor must be able to ski a great distance at an immense speed, and then, as if turning off a light switch, lower their heart rat...
https://defector.com/biathlon-olympics-cheated-girlfriend-cry
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Kate Riga
about 14 hours ago
More McIver (D-NJ) to ICE chief at today's hearing: -"How do you think Judgment Day will work for you, with so much blood on your hands?" -"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?" -"How many government agencies are you aware of that routinely kill American citizens and still get funding?"
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Zito
about 16 hours ago
What I appreciate from Wired though, and what sets it apart ethically, is that they just donāt tell a vague story about expansion but explicitly list out the locations to help the people preparing to resist this state violence. Itās very courageous.
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Senator Ed Markey
about 16 hours ago
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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Tim Marchman
about 16 hours ago
NEW: Over the last several months, ICE has carried out a secret campaign to place new and expanded facilities for its agents and lawyers in nearly every state and major metro area in the USāover 150 in all.
@wired.com
is publishing dozens of these locations;
@leahfeiger.bsky.social
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Hereās Where Itās Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/
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southpaw
1 day 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 liāl lapt...
https://defector.com/the-super-bowl-could-not-compete-with-tape-delayed-olympic-curling
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Anthony L. Fisher
2 days 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
2 days ago
on benito, and america
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The Deeper Meaning of Bad Bunnyās Super Bowl Halftime Show
The Puerto Rican rapperās performance wasnāt 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
2 days 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
2 days 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
2 days 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
4 days ago
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man āpurposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.ā 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 couldnāt remember he had a daughter.
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Denny Carter
4 days ago
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield
4 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
4 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
5 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
5 days ago
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again
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Norm Charlatan
5 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 āimpeding a federal investigation.ā These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.
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Razzball
5 days ago
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what we loved about Dan McQuade
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What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuadeās 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 Danās widow Jan,...
https://defector.com/what-we-loved-about-dan-mcquade
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What we loved about Dan McQuade:
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What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuadeās 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 Danās widow Jan,...
https://defector.com/what-we-loved-about-dan-mcquade
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nobody
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i donāt 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 āsorting out the restā never, ever, ever happens
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the thing is, people already pay for journalism. as
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Greg Sargent
7 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
7 days ago
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf mustāve thought before he died by suicide: āHe might have thought āhow is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over thisā maybe he said āthis site was not subject to local zoning.āā
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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
7 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
7 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
7 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
10 days ago
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
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one of the two of us doesnāt know what the word āprolificā 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 āthese people never get to have lives in public society againā is gonna cut it. unmask, prosecute, and blacklist every last one
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alleged constitutional scholar mike johnson: imagine if everyone we wanted to arrest was "due" some sort of "process"
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