Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
Game designer @adastragames.com, writer, monkey servant of Theoden Cat, discusser of certain varieties of politics.
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Ken Burnside
@kenburnside.bsky.social
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Tagging you in for Recounting of the Arizona Minutemen Militia Girl Scout Cookie Burglary.
You may now prepare popcorn.
Tagging you in for Recounting of the Arizona Minutemen Militia Girl Scout Cookie Burglary.
You may now prepare popcorn.
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150) As all children were taught to sing by Gordon Lightfoot after the Edmund Fitzgerald's crew died in a solar storm when their magsails quenched one after the other after the other...
"Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes
"When Cerenkov
Paints things cerulean."
"Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes
"When Cerenkov
Paints things cerulean."
August 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
150) As all children were taught to sing by Gordon Lightfoot after the Edmund Fitzgerald's crew died in a solar storm when their magsails quenched one after the other after the other...
"Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes
"When Cerenkov
Paints things cerulean."
"Does anyone know
Where the love of God goes
"When Cerenkov
Paints things cerulean."
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The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
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The failure to fight back then — when this was happening in 2023 — harms us today.
The lesson is: Pick Big Fights. When you’re on the right side, fight!
The fight draws attention, which is essential in today’s media environment.
The lesson is: Pick Big Fights. When you’re on the right side, fight!
The fight draws attention, which is essential in today’s media environment.
Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The failure to fight back then — when this was happening in 2023 — harms us today.
The lesson is: Pick Big Fights. When you’re on the right side, fight!
The fight draws attention, which is essential in today’s media environment.
The lesson is: Pick Big Fights. When you’re on the right side, fight!
The fight draws attention, which is essential in today’s media environment.
Rand Paul thinks that giving money to American consumers to deal with insurance companies, with financial incentives to deny payment, and the deep pockets of a multi-billion dollar industry is "a dawning new age."
He and Luigi Mangione need talk.
Luigi's 2nd Amendment rights should be respected.
He and Luigi Mangione need talk.
Luigi's 2nd Amendment rights should be respected.
so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
my out of pocket cost: $473
what my insurance paid: $4258
what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Rand Paul thinks that giving money to American consumers to deal with insurance companies, with financial incentives to deny payment, and the deep pockets of a multi-billion dollar industry is "a dawning new age."
He and Luigi Mangione need talk.
Luigi's 2nd Amendment rights should be respected.
He and Luigi Mangione need talk.
Luigi's 2nd Amendment rights should be respected.
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Also if you get insurance through your employer and are sighing a deep breath of relief (while obviously still giving a shit about this issue)
understand your insurance through your employer can go up as well, and coverage offered lessened.
And if you lose your job and can't quickly find another
understand your insurance through your employer can go up as well, and coverage offered lessened.
And if you lose your job and can't quickly find another
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Also if you get insurance through your employer and are sighing a deep breath of relief (while obviously still giving a shit about this issue)
understand your insurance through your employer can go up as well, and coverage offered lessened.
And if you lose your job and can't quickly find another
understand your insurance through your employer can go up as well, and coverage offered lessened.
And if you lose your job and can't quickly find another
Free Sarah Kendzior.
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Free Sarah Kendzior.
If you're going to be charged with a felony for putting a cardboard bugge out there...what've you got to lose for doing something more extreme, like playing clips of Kirk's own words on Bluetooth speakers?
Or making eye contact with a cop?
Or making eye contact with a cop?
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
If you're going to be charged with a felony for putting a cardboard bugge out there...what've you got to lose for doing something more extreme, like playing clips of Kirk's own words on Bluetooth speakers?
Or making eye contact with a cop?
Or making eye contact with a cop?
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🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/
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We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
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The NASA Technical Report Server is not being updated due to funding cuts. This is a disaster. 🧪 🔭
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh
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In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
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Posting tonight about great city-making books made me realize, to my shock, that I never posted about the deeply sad death this year of one of the greatest urbanists who ever lived— Allan Jacobs. Jake was a big hero of mine in my early life, who became an advisor & friend later on. A GREAT man. #RIP
In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Allan B. Jacobs, influential urban planner and thinker about cities - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Remembering Professor Emeritus Allan B. Jacobs, an influential urban planner and thinker about cities. Jacobs had an outsize impact on the field of urban
ced.berkeley.edu
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Posting tonight about great city-making books made me realize, to my shock, that I never posted about the deeply sad death this year of one of the greatest urbanists who ever lived— Allan Jacobs. Jake was a big hero of mine in my early life, who became an advisor & friend later on. A GREAT man. #RIP
And if you couldn't have predicted this before you fucking caved, you deserve to be sent to one of RFK Jr's "Wellness Farms" to muck out stables with your bare hands in roughspun cloth.
You knew this would happen. Democrats caved anyway.
You knew this would happen. Democrats caved anyway.
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
And if you couldn't have predicted this before you fucking caved, you deserve to be sent to one of RFK Jr's "Wellness Farms" to muck out stables with your bare hands in roughspun cloth.
You knew this would happen. Democrats caved anyway.
You knew this would happen. Democrats caved anyway.
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Yup. Gotta say it’s interesting you never hear about the disability part in the retelling of their story and how the court case came to be. (And by ‘interesting’ I mean…)
www.aclu.org/bio/jim-ober...
www.aclu.org/bio/jim-ober...
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Yup. Gotta say it’s interesting you never hear about the disability part in the retelling of their story and how the court case came to be. (And by ‘interesting’ I mean…)
www.aclu.org/bio/jim-ober...
www.aclu.org/bio/jim-ober...
Honestly, at this point, I think Trump is a wind-up dementia patient and every time he's on camera, they've got him on enough Adderall to make a sloth chase down a cheetah.
Love to have a President who can't be left alone for five minutes with his grifting, con men advisors.
‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage
The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Honestly, at this point, I think Trump is a wind-up dementia patient and every time he's on camera, they've got him on enough Adderall to make a sloth chase down a cheetah.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid —
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
Former USIP security chief says MPD gave 'high-fives and fist bumps' after raid
The latest on the lawsuit to get MPD's body cam footage released.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid —
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
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LET’S GOOOOOOO
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Alt: a woman in a pink shirt says, "I need your help"
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
LET’S GOOOOOOO
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This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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After more than 3 YEARS on strike facing relentless union busting, @pghguild.com members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have won!
This is a testament to the power that working people have when we stand in solidarity with each other.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
This is a testament to the power that working people have when we stand in solidarity with each other.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
After more than 3 YEARS on strike facing relentless union busting, @pghguild.com members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have won!
This is a testament to the power that working people have when we stand in solidarity with each other.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
This is a testament to the power that working people have when we stand in solidarity with each other.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
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I swear to god if they fix Bivens but only for members of Congres...
Fascinating. So Congress knows how to write a bill allowing people to sue federal officers?! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I swear to god if they fix Bivens but only for members of Congres...