Ed Burmila but Thankful
@edburmila.bsky.social
Ex- lots of things.
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Burmila, 47, lives in a normal house in North Carolina uninhabited by wild animals - just two dogs. His table holds a copy of The People’s Almanac 2 next to a second copy of The People’s Almanac 2.
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Burmila, 47, lives in a normal house in North Carolina uninhabited by wild animals - just two dogs. His table holds a copy of The People’s Almanac 2 next to a second copy of The People’s Almanac 2.
I’ve always described Bari Weiss as someone wearing a journalist costume to a Halloween party which is only unfair inasmuch as that describes like 90% of the people at the top of the field now.
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’ve always described Bari Weiss as someone wearing a journalist costume to a Halloween party which is only unfair inasmuch as that describes like 90% of the people at the top of the field now.
This came up in FB Memories today, and,
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This came up in FB Memories today, and,
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It’s funny that the guy who made the icons on his campaign website his naval rank wants to talk about how Democrats were too into identity
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s funny that the guy who made the icons on his campaign website his naval rank wants to talk about how Democrats were too into identity
The great thing about this is that you know there are 50 people around him trying various strategies they recall from parenting a toddler or training a puppy to get him to stop bringing up Epstein, and none of it is working. Right now they're baking him an Optimus Prime cake and hoping for the best.
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The great thing about this is that you know there are 50 people around him trying various strategies they recall from parenting a toddler or training a puppy to get him to stop bringing up Epstein, and none of it is working. Right now they're baking him an Optimus Prime cake and hoping for the best.
"This is definitely the first instance of one President blowing another President!" the curators of the presidential libraries of Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce exclaim a little too loudly, almost in unison.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"This is definitely the first instance of one President blowing another President!" the curators of the presidential libraries of Millard Fillmore and Franklin Pierce exclaim a little too loudly, almost in unison.
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That altarpiece …. Holy shit
One of the only constructivist churches in the world, in Kouvola, Finland, is scheduled for demolition because the declining population of the town no longer matches up with the cost of maintenance.
See things while you can.
See things while you can.
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
That altarpiece …. Holy shit
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One of the only constructivist churches in the world, in Kouvola, Finland, is scheduled for demolition because the declining population of the town no longer matches up with the cost of maintenance.
See things while you can.
See things while you can.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
One of the only constructivist churches in the world, in Kouvola, Finland, is scheduled for demolition because the declining population of the town no longer matches up with the cost of maintenance.
See things while you can.
See things while you can.
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The people who built the tech destroying society are antisocial weirdos, which is why their products are socially corrosive. But as tools have advanced, incidental pro-social functions (Facebook as Rolodex, Twitter as news hub) have decayed and it’s just “you consume slop, you talk to computer” etc.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The people who built the tech destroying society are antisocial weirdos, which is why their products are socially corrosive. But as tools have advanced, incidental pro-social functions (Facebook as Rolodex, Twitter as news hub) have decayed and it’s just “you consume slop, you talk to computer” etc.
I'm not going to learn what a labubu is and you can't make me
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I'm not going to learn what a labubu is and you can't make me
you: please act normal you need these people to like you
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: when the "Blue Marble" photo was taken the astronauts were upside down and the photo had Antarctica at the top so NASA inverted it before its release so people wouldn't think it was a different planet.
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: when the "Blue Marble" photo was taken the astronauts were upside down and the photo had Antarctica at the top so NASA inverted it before its release so people wouldn't think it was a different planet.
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you: please act normal you need these people to like you
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: when the "Blue Marble" photo was taken the astronauts were upside down and the photo had Antarctica at the top so NASA inverted it before its release so people wouldn't think it was a different planet.
people: hello Ed nice to meet you
me: when the "Blue Marble" photo was taken the astronauts were upside down and the photo had Antarctica at the top so NASA inverted it before its release so people wouldn't think it was a different planet.
The persuasiveness of this argument depends entirely on people being completely ignorant of anything that has been published in the New York Times at any point in the last 20 years.
Like all elites when the unwashed have the temerity to call them out, they talk to us like we’re stupid.
Like all elites when the unwashed have the temerity to call them out, they talk to us like we’re stupid.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The persuasiveness of this argument depends entirely on people being completely ignorant of anything that has been published in the New York Times at any point in the last 20 years.
Like all elites when the unwashed have the temerity to call them out, they talk to us like we’re stupid.
Like all elites when the unwashed have the temerity to call them out, they talk to us like we’re stupid.
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here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...
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Filing for major party primaries closed in Arkansas yesterday. Of the eight statewide races, Democrats filed to run in three. The Dems bailed on running for Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Auditor, Treasurer, and Land Commissioner.
Who has filed for the November 2026 election in Arkansas?
Top races that will be up for consideration in November 2026 will be Arkansas's next governor, lieutenant governor, U.S. representatives and senators, and more.
www.5newsonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Filing for major party primaries closed in Arkansas yesterday. Of the eight statewide races, Democrats filed to run in three. The Dems bailed on running for Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Auditor, Treasurer, and Land Commissioner.
I give it about two more weeks until someone introduces a bill in Congress to lower the age of consent
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I give it about two more weeks until someone introduces a bill in Congress to lower the age of consent
We’re about 72 hours from Trump invading Venezuela to take back the headlines, aren’t we.
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We’re about 72 hours from Trump invading Venezuela to take back the headlines, aren’t we.
The Trump Inner Circle group chat right now as they decide which right wing influencer has to get iced as a distraction this time
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Trump Inner Circle group chat right now as they decide which right wing influencer has to get iced as a distraction this time
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From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
To: [email protected]
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
To: [email protected]
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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One thing I think we will collectively revisit if we're ever able to catch our breath is how Trump was convicted of a bunch of crimes but because he was a guy a lot of people backed he was just allowed to walk out of there with no follow up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One thing I think we will collectively revisit if we're ever able to catch our breath is how Trump was convicted of a bunch of crimes but because he was a guy a lot of people backed he was just allowed to walk out of there with no follow up.
What a horrible day to have eyes
"Subject: Trump"
"Importance: High"
"The allegation was not at a pedophile party. It was at my house with me."
"Importance: High"
"The allegation was not at a pedophile party. It was at my house with me."
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What a horrible day to have eyes
It’s time for one staffer with nothing to lose to just dump everything online. You will be a hero forever. We will put up statues. Someone will write folk songs about you.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It’s time for one staffer with nothing to lose to just dump everything online. You will be a hero forever. We will put up statues. Someone will write folk songs about you.
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*running into frame out of breath* high quality candidates!
Labour reinstating a racist councillor in East Bristol because the Greens are one short of an outright majority and would absolutely smash them in in a by-election.
Bristol Labour councillor re-instated after racist comment
Fabian Breckels was suspended in October over a comment he wrote on Facebook.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
*running into frame out of breath* high quality candidates!