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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something I learned from a doctor while getting travel vaccinated recently: MMR protection *may* wear off over time, especially with respect to Mumps. Measles and Rubella protection generally lasts a lifetime, but not always. Even if you are vaccinated, you may want to revisit this with your doctor.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three inerrant indicators that the GOP is about to get crushed in an election are a “migrant caravan” in September, discourse about the deficit/debt being the priority issue, and these “isn’t the important thing civility?” thinkpieces.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s deeply frustrating to me to be 10, 15 years into this and routinely have to remind some liberals that the New York Times is not your fucking friend and is not going to do the job of the Democratic Party for it.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump is, like all people whose racism is simultaneously casual and bone-deep, racist in ways normal people don’t even know about. Brain like a slot machine for racism. Hispanics can fall real far. Black people have an extra tendon. Indians can see in the dark. Japanese people hoard matchbooks.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"no books are lesser than others" ok man explain hillbilly elegy

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guy Speaking at Town Hall meme: I think it's smart to build a lineup out of contact hitters, even if it also includes two world-class whiff artists too.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a real and important dividing line between people who want to write, and people who want to be A Writer. AI is a gift from heaven for the latter, letting them skip the part where they have to think thoughts and write sentences and go (they hope) directly to the book tour.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Proud Graduate of the Mr Hulot School of Normal Posture

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:

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Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms

Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "eight relievers throwing an inning instead of a starter" thing is baffling to me. Probability of 2 or 3 of them being off on a given day is very high!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FREE / public Patreon On Updike, narcissism at the end of the world, and Renee Good's mom explaining how she voted for Trump to kill other people's children instead of her own.

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THE SOLIPSISTS | Gin and Tacos

In one of the best book reviews of my lifetime, David Foster Wallace skewered what he called the Great Male Narcissist novelists of the post

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First group trip in the car and the photo perfectly captures their respective personalities. Marple is apprehensive. Tuppence is a puppy on a new adventure. Olive is insane.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once you start noticing how often this guy Announces something that becomes discourse for 12 hours and then is literally never heard of again you will not un-notice it. bsky.app/profile/edbu...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the Falklands war, Argentina attempted “operation Algeciras” to smuggle a team of guerillas into Gibraltar and attack Royal naval shipping with limpet mines. They were caught by a tip off from the rental car company because they were posing as Costa tourists.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometimes I feel like I’m one of the only people processing the death of journalism happening in real time. If a description of what is happening appeared in a dystopian novel it wouldn’t be out of place and everyone would know it was the death of the free press.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The newspapers now are essentially gaming apps with an op-ed page attached that occasionally calls powerful people to ask what’s going on and reports what they say as news. Journalism as we think of it does not exist, at least at the national level. And the local papers are dying by the day.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can we talk about this fuckin goofball, I think he might be the first interesting person on this show in about eight seasons

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The NFL is so stupid now with the kickoff rules combined with every kicker being able to hit from 65 now. I'm sorry, seven seconds shouldn't be enough for a scoring drive. That's stupid. That's incredibly stupid.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Impossible to overstate how much it drives the right insane to see people outside of their homes appearing to enjoy themselves in the presence other people who are strangers. Keep it up.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English language conveniently offers us a term for people who hear what fascists have to say and think "This sounds good to me."

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“I’m a single issue voter and that issue is Lysenkoism”

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just watching "Fallout", best part so far is the casting director realizing they needed to find the absolute biggest, most sniveling bitch in Hollywood - possibly on Earth - for one specific scene and anyway Michael Rapaport has a cameo

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Donald Trump gets exposed as the weakest and most inept political figure who ever lived in any situation in which someone - anyone - other than Donald Trump has agency.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The viral lesbian bar story reminds me of a joke I saw a pretty well-known comedian tell (he does not remember telling it, after ~12 gin & tonics) about how in a big city gay bars have raunchy names like "MAN HOLE" and when you grow up in rural Louisiana the nearest gay bar is called "rumors."

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The more John Cleese talks the more apparent it becomes that he wasn't acting in Fawlty Towers.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hazily remembered this today and it really is incredible how many things this guy Announces and Declares that are never heard of again. In a matter of hours it disappears from our collective consciousness, and almost certainly from his own, like a fart in a hurricane.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some people are convinced that we have to accept spineless 90s Republicans like this because that is a sacrifice Democrats must make to win, casually overlooking the fact that nothing these people do is popular and “he’ll win” is as reliable a prediction as guessing tomorrow’s lotto numbers.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Let no one convince you Bluesky is not great

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A useful way to think about it is to imagine a republican candidate saying one thing that you liked, agreeing with you on exactly one issue. That would totally work, right? Donald Trump announces he’s for one thing you are also for and then you vote for him. See how stupid it sounds.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

re: "AI Actor," the thing about a bunch of Tech Overlords who are not interested in reading, knowing, or learning anything is that every idea they have ever had has already been 1) thought of and 2) exposed for the pure idiocy it is

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

pretty funny that he thinks his base (people with 84 month loans on $75,000 trucks that get 14mpg) are going to ignore $7/gal gas because they’re so excited about him picking another fight with MSNBC

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@edburmila.bsky.social on the problem with Jeffries and Schumer. " When you tell voters Trump is the Antichrist to win their vote, you can’t then get into power and say, 'The Antichrist and I are working together to see where we have common ground." newrepublic.com/article/2155...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Autumn is when refineries typically shut down for maintenance because demand usually tails off at the end of summer. This year, instead, they’re running at full tilt and will skip the maintenance. I wonder what happens next!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're all having a good time watching Trump flail and take the GOP down with him but without being alarmist I think the odds are creeping upward that he loses all restraint as the Iran debacle gets more and more out of hand.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A fun thing that's going to happen this winter when demand for other distillates like heating oil ramps up is that not only is diesel going to be expensive but there just isn't going to be enough of it to go around.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Haven't seen a Briton miscalculate this badly with its opener since the landing at Puys before the Dieppe raid.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

It really is worth remembering just last year the conventional wisdom on immigration was that people supported mass deportation to such a degree people should be cautious in opposing the Trump administration snatching people and sending them to CECOT.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I need to reiterate that 6 mo. ago I did not know Hasan Piker from Hasson Reddick and these people obsessed with criticizing him have succeeded in doing the greatest free marketing job for him in history. Congratulations he's a household name, you are a Publicist and you didn't get paid.

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