Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
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On abandoning cable TV news in favor of reading it, and slowly realizing you no longer know how things you've read a thousand times are pronounced.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On abandoning cable TV news in favor of reading it, and slowly realizing you no longer know how things you've read a thousand times are pronounced.
Received a random gift with no note today and I must say: flawless
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Received a random gift with no note today and I must say: flawless
On abandoning cable TV news in favor of reading it, and slowly realizing you no longer know how things you've read a thousand times are pronounced.
SOUND IT OUT | Gin and Tacos
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December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On abandoning cable TV news in favor of reading it, and slowly realizing you no longer know how things you've read a thousand times are pronounced.
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Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
Introducing The Union Bug, a new podcast
The Union Bug is a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering January 2.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
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it happened at the same time that the old urban machines were finally falling apart without a realization of how much the old precinct captains actually did
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
it happened at the same time that the old urban machines were finally falling apart without a realization of how much the old precinct captains actually did
"Ebert Wins"
What is the quintessential Onion headline? The strong contender that just randomly popped in my mind is "Hank Williams Jr. Honored by Institute For Football Preparedness"
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Ebert Wins"
+1.
The neoliberal revolution boiled down to center-left parties wanting to tear down the old way of doing politics and replace it with nothing. When you create a vacuum you need a better strategy than bitching about who and what fills it when your preferred answer is "Nobody, and nothing."
The neoliberal revolution boiled down to center-left parties wanting to tear down the old way of doing politics and replace it with nothing. When you create a vacuum you need a better strategy than bitching about who and what fills it when your preferred answer is "Nobody, and nothing."
4) That orgs as unhinged as Code Pink and PSL are so visible in street-level organizing should prompt feelings of embarrassment and reflection on the part of the Democratic Party
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
+1.
The neoliberal revolution boiled down to center-left parties wanting to tear down the old way of doing politics and replace it with nothing. When you create a vacuum you need a better strategy than bitching about who and what fills it when your preferred answer is "Nobody, and nothing."
The neoliberal revolution boiled down to center-left parties wanting to tear down the old way of doing politics and replace it with nothing. When you create a vacuum you need a better strategy than bitching about who and what fills it when your preferred answer is "Nobody, and nothing."
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Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
does anyone else notice the giant lady doesnt cut up your hot dogs anymore!?
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These kinds of posts have a "going through the motions" feel to them, like it's the way they decided to defend Democrats from the left a decade ago and haven't had a new thought since.
It doesn't hold up given that all the same people who want Jeffries gone also want Schumer gone, but whatever.
It doesn't hold up given that all the same people who want Jeffries gone also want Schumer gone, but whatever.
Watch how white leftists will start shouting and demanding a primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries as we get closer to the midterms. Especially once it looks like Democrats are poised to reclaim the House. It’s already starting.
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These kinds of posts have a "going through the motions" feel to them, like it's the way they decided to defend Democrats from the left a decade ago and haven't had a new thought since.
It doesn't hold up given that all the same people who want Jeffries gone also want Schumer gone, but whatever.
It doesn't hold up given that all the same people who want Jeffries gone also want Schumer gone, but whatever.
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62-34...what are we doing here? 9 Dems voting yea for an anti-choice nominee who served on the board of a Catholic crisis pregnancy center. This week is destroying me.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
62-34...what are we doing here? 9 Dems voting yea for an anti-choice nominee who served on the board of a Catholic crisis pregnancy center. This week is destroying me.
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Looks like we're going to get 3 judges confirmed this week with Democratic support. Up now is a cloture vote Susan Courtwright Rodriguez to be a District Judge for Western North Carolina. As of now, we have at least 1 member of the Democratic caucus giving this anti-choice nominee a yea vote.
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Looks like we're going to get 3 judges confirmed this week with Democratic support. Up now is a cloture vote Susan Courtwright Rodriguez to be a District Judge for Western North Carolina. As of now, we have at least 1 member of the Democratic caucus giving this anti-choice nominee a yea vote.
Even starting from a baseline of understanding that we are cooked, at least once a day I see something on here that blows my hair back at how cooked we are.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Even starting from a baseline of understanding that we are cooked, at least once a day I see something on here that blows my hair back at how cooked we are.
*stadium PA guy voice* whooooooooooooo's about to beg for a bailouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
Sam Altman is headed to late night. The OpenAI chief executive will make his 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' debut on Monday, Dec. 8.
OpenAI Chief Sam Altman to Sit With Fallon, Marking Late-Night TV Debut
Sam Altman is headed to late night. The OpenAI chief executive will make his 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' debut on Monday, Dec. 8.
dlvr.it
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
*stadium PA guy voice* whooooooooooooo's about to beg for a bailouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
"We're doing arch" in the voice-bubble image meme with Palladio would slay in a universe in which anyone recognizes Palladio.
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"We're doing arch" in the voice-bubble image meme with Palladio would slay in a universe in which anyone recognizes Palladio.
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We must focus on kitchen table issues, unless it's time to tell everyone Donald Trump is doing a great job
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We must focus on kitchen table issues, unless it's time to tell everyone Donald Trump is doing a great job
bro look at my Opposition Party dawg
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
bro look at my Opposition Party dawg
Normalizing corruption isn't a partisan project for Trump. The important thing is not whether the Menendezes and Cuellars of the world are on the Trump Train - it's establishing that corruption is no longer a thing that's worth prosecuting.
*CORRECT: TRUMP PARDONS TEXAS CONGRESSMAN HENRY CUELLAR, IMELDA
December 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Normalizing corruption isn't a partisan project for Trump. The important thing is not whether the Menendezes and Cuellars of the world are on the Trump Train - it's establishing that corruption is no longer a thing that's worth prosecuting.
The misery has barely even started.
December 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The misery has barely even started.
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Honestly, this would be like if when Kennedy was president, the entire Republican opposition was a bunch of Herbert Hoover staffers and their hangers on.
And this isn't your imagination, or a fake problem I'm fabricating to get mad at. It's a few weeks until 2026 and we still have the opinions of *James Carville* force-fed to us like fois gras geese every 2-3 months. This is not normal. It's not. It's not supposed to work like this.
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Honestly, this would be like if when Kennedy was president, the entire Republican opposition was a bunch of Herbert Hoover staffers and their hangers on.
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Anyone with access to Bookscan data provide me with a couple sales figures? DM if willing, and I won’t out you as the data source unless you’d like to be credited!
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Anyone with access to Bookscan data provide me with a couple sales figures? DM if willing, and I won’t out you as the data source unless you’d like to be credited!
There’s a good chance that when it finally happens it will happen on camera and you’ll get to enjoy watching it over and over and over for the rest of your life, and while that’s not much, it’s not nothing. We’ll have that.
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
There’s a good chance that when it finally happens it will happen on camera and you’ll get to enjoy watching it over and over and over for the rest of your life, and while that’s not much, it’s not nothing. We’ll have that.
A core problem for American liberalism is a constitutional inability to tell people who were important to the movement decades ago to go away because they're not relevant anymore.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A core problem for American liberalism is a constitutional inability to tell people who were important to the movement decades ago to go away because they're not relevant anymore.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Reagan/GW Bush admin people might as well not exist to the modern right. Maybe that's...something to consider.
Anyone with access to Bookscan data provide me with a couple sales figures? DM if willing, and I won’t out you as the data source unless you’d like to be credited!
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Anyone with access to Bookscan data provide me with a couple sales figures? DM if willing, and I won’t out you as the data source unless you’d like to be credited!
GI Joe was full of shit, knowing is at best like 12% of the battle.
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
GI Joe was full of shit, knowing is at best like 12% of the battle.