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Albert Burneko
@albertburneko.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Albert Burneko | Defector
defector.com
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 defector.com/author/alber...
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How it's done
January 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
How it's done
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It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
January 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
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Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.
January 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.
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Intolerable to spend even one more minute under this, to see my neighbors grappling with living under this, to make the little practical concessions and plans it requires. countless little tragedies all over the city
The ICE presence here is so loathsome it has basically foreclosed all other political or organizing thought for me. There is nothing more urgent than dismantling this. There is nothing good that can happen before doing so. it is an abomination and a stain on all of us every second it continues
January 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Intolerable to spend even one more minute under this, to see my neighbors grappling with living under this, to make the little practical concessions and plans it requires. countless little tragedies all over the city
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The story of 2025 was mostly “the media believes everyone has been waiting for permission to be a fascist and it turns out they were way way way off”
January 7, 2026 at 12:06 PM
The story of 2025 was mostly “the media believes everyone has been waiting for permission to be a fascist and it turns out they were way way way off”
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MTG on the Epstein scandal—"elites doing horrible things and getting away with it"—may have an egalitarian air about it, but only if you fail to read it alongside the rest of her conspiracism. She's talking about the Jews. She's always talking about the Jews. flaminghydra.com/marjorie-tay...
January 7, 2026 at 3:26 AM
MTG on the Epstein scandal—"elites doing horrible things and getting away with it"—may have an egalitarian air about it, but only if you fail to read it alongside the rest of her conspiracism. She's talking about the Jews. She's always talking about the Jews. flaminghydra.com/marjorie-tay...
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journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
Here's the clip of Tony Dokoupil ending tonight's broadcast by absolutely gushing over "ultimate Florida Man" Marco Rubio.
January 7, 2026 at 3:16 AM
journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
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one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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Got paid AND his job back, lmao. Keep fighting these dweebs
January 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Got paid AND his job back, lmao. Keep fighting these dweebs
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bluesky has a problem: shit sucks real bad everywhere and that's what's on everybody's mind all the time. everything else also has this same problem
September 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
bluesky has a problem: shit sucks real bad everywhere and that's what's on everybody's mind all the time. everything else also has this same problem
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They'll stall, delay, and deflect until he's dead and powerless, at which point the files will show he was an even bigger raping criminal scumbag than anybody assumed, at which point they'll pivot to their new chosen one and memory hole the last decade
From the politics community on Reddit: Epstein files might not be released in full until after Trump leaves office
Explore this post and more from the politics community
www.reddit.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
They'll stall, delay, and deflect until he's dead and powerless, at which point the files will show he was an even bigger raping criminal scumbag than anybody assumed, at which point they'll pivot to their new chosen one and memory hole the last decade
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“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:
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This is not any big insight but it is especially important during wartime to remind ourselves that journalism does not serve the US military, or American interests, but rather "the public good," which includes all of humanity.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...
The Public Good, Not Patriotism
Journalists don't work for the United States of America.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This is not any big insight but it is especially important during wartime to remind ourselves that journalism does not serve the US military, or American interests, but rather "the public good," which includes all of humanity.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public...
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"This is bad politics!" I shout, as I hide behind anonymity lest anyone learn that I, the cleverest politician, am the one advocating such a popular position
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
"This is bad politics!" I shout, as I hide behind anonymity lest anyone learn that I, the cleverest politician, am the one advocating such a popular position
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This should rank as one of the most serious corruption scandals in history- the White House sharing top secret military information with oil company executives but not with Congress, creating massive opportunities for insider trading and other corrupt deals.
January 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
This should rank as one of the most serious corruption scandals in history- the White House sharing top secret military information with oil company executives but not with Congress, creating massive opportunities for insider trading and other corrupt deals.
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A real take I have is that comprehensive mafia history should have been taught in schools in the U.S. for the last 50 years
A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
A real take I have is that comprehensive mafia history should have been taught in schools in the U.S. for the last 50 years
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true
NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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Jeremiah Wright vindicated again
January 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Jeremiah Wright vindicated again
it’s like Jesus famously said: “whatever a lax regulatory environment allows these least brothers of mine to do for themselves with no help, it allows me to do also for myself”
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
it’s like Jesus famously said: “whatever a lax regulatory environment allows these least brothers of mine to do for themselves with no help, it allows me to do also for myself”
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they opened with artificially low rates to price out all of your local restaurants' in-house delivery drivers specifically so they could do this
always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc
January 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
they opened with artificially low rates to price out all of your local restaurants' in-house delivery drivers specifically so they could do this