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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 32m

On the time I crushed a fence and a ladder with a giant tree and why the lesson I learned is on my mind a lot in the last nine months.

THE FENCE | Gin and Tacos

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1h

These days most people know that Christopher Columbus was a genocidaire and that celebrating him is a disgrace. But did you know that he was also mediocre sailor nearly forgotten to history? @edburmila.bsky.social explained the Columbus myth back in 2017. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero

How the founding fathers turned Christopher Columbus, a mediocre Italian sailor and mass murderer, into a historical icon.

www.thenation.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

The best butterfly magnet by far is cheap, simple lantanas. You don’t need anything fancy.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h

The Sondheim songs are so good.

Moooooooooooore
Moooooooooooore
MOOOOOOOOORE

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h

They didn’t talk about heaven in Catholic school as much as trump brings it up lately. What did those doctors say to you buddy.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 16h

Sure, I can’t talk or think and parts of me turn purple and sometimes half my face is 2” lower than the other half and I talk about heaven regularly at inappropriate times but don’t let that fool you I’m as healthy as a horse.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Opened a haunted house. It's just a big, windowless room full of Radical Centrist columnists lauding Bari Weiss. Entrance is free but it costs $50 to get out.

Anyone know if I take a Hefty bag full of cash to the bank, will they count it for me.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18h

Look as soon as they get 70 D in the senate there are gonna be BIG changes

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18h

It’s more the way they constantly turn third and forever incompletions into first downs with flags. If there are defensive penalties that are automatic first downs, there should be offensive penalties that are automatic fourth downs.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

*too

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

People like to complain that NFL officiating is biased when the problem is simply that there is two goddamn much of it. Why is there so much officiating in every single game.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

“Everyone telling me I’m wrong and to shut up proves that I am right” my brother in Christ, you are literally 12 years old, you are late for homeroom.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

Everybody is 12. The people who are most eager to present themselves as the adults in the room are, in fact, the most likely to be 12.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 21h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23h

Same

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23h

There is finally a proper challenger to the slut gnomes of false Berlin

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

We see it. We see what you did.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when crypto was a brand new thing and every single explanation of what it was boiled down to ”it’s like money but digital and specifically for doing crimes”

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit. President Crimes and his crimes friends are committing crimes with the fake money for doing crimes. Have you guys seen this.

August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Mashed Potatoes cannot be “scalding”. This is not an opinion, it’s science. Physical reality.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Laura San Giacomo's career, Wikipedia tells me, followed the arc I would have guessed if I had remembered she existed at any point since 2000.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

I think I watched a season or two of this...David Spade, right? I think they stuck it on after "Friends" or "Seinfeld" or one of the big guns...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

"Too Close for Comfort" and "Benson" ran back-to-back for SEVEN YEARS. There are people who acted in those shows who probably don't remember them!!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

That and some of its contemporaries (HIMYM, Big Bang Theory, etc) are the dying gasp or the tail end of the pre-cable Three Networks era where any sitcom that put up better numbers than reruns of old movies got 10 seasons and became embedded in the culture. It's watched because it's on!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

"Well he did win the popular vote by almost 1.5% over a candidate who wasn't the nominee until July" damn what a mandate

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