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Albert Burneko
@albertburneko.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Albert Burneko | Defector
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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 defector.com/author/alber...
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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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Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for “impeding a federal investigation.” These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.
February 6, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Today they threatened to arrest all of the neighbors who came out and watched 20 agents struggle to change a flat tire for “impeding a federal investigation.” These are just clowns and they absolutely know it.
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what we loved about Dan McQuade defector.com/what-we-love...
What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuade’s 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 Dan’s widow Jan,...
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February 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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What we loved about Dan McQuade:
What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector
Today is Dan McQuade’s 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 Dan’s widow Jan,...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
What we loved about Dan McQuade:
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i don’t 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 “sorting out the rest” never, ever, ever happens
I never pretended that. I just said your statement wasn’t accurate. My concerns are only that everyone votes for Dems. Once we can get Republicans out, we can sort the rest.
February 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
i don’t 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 “sorting out the rest” never, ever, ever happens
the thing is, people already pay for journalism. as @pareene.bsky.social points out, that’s 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 people’s budgets
How do you fix journalism?
Fucking pay for it.
Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe.
The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.
Fucking pay for it.
Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe.
The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
the thing is, people already pay for journalism. as @pareene.bsky.social points out, that’s 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 people’s budgets
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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)
*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)
February 4, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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)
*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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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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
February 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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
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
February 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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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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
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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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"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
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"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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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
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
one of the two of us doesn’t know what the word “prolific” means, either me or Shams
February 4, 2026 at 1:35 AM
one of the two of us doesn’t know what the word “prolific” means, either me or Shams
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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
February 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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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sorry nothing short of “these people never get to have lives in public society again” is gonna cut it. unmask, prosecute, and blacklist every last one
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 PM
sorry nothing short of “these people never get to have lives in public society again” 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"
Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases:
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
February 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
alleged constitutional scholar mike johnson: imagine if everyone we wanted to arrest was "due" some sort of "process"
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I hadn’t 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. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
February 3, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I hadn’t 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. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
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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.
February 3, 2026 at 4:34 AM
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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A lot of people are choosing to miss the point here which is not “Every problem is super easy to solve and democrats refuse to do it” but that when there *is* a simple solution they will insist it’s much more complicated and the simple solution is impossible.
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 5:26 AM
A lot of people are choosing to miss the point here which is not “Every problem is super easy to solve and democrats refuse to do it” but that when there *is* a simple solution they will insist it’s much more complicated and the simple solution is impossible.