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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Over at emptywheel they explain (emptywheel.net/2026/09/29/the-natio…) how bipartisanship can be a choice, but stupidity isn't...

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@louisabee110.bsky.social (110.bsky.social) asked me why I hadn't written about the Cornell 7. I was uncomfortable when I really thought about my answer. sergeiburbank.substack.com/p/what-m…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's old is new; this time it's 21st century industrialists who get away with whatever they can while their in-pocket politicians tell us there's nothing they can do arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Tech Industry is inherently fascist; any attempts at "neutrality" have to start from this core assumption www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nothing to see here, just Stephen Miller targeting the weakest as a priority, like the ghoul he is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The craziest thing about Trump's $5,000 dividend is that he's mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In New York City, this is the week we pay the price for the return of competent governance by a Muslim mayor -- as we have to suffer through absolutely unhinged racist bullshit from the worst people you know

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Padres have a Black woman co-owner, now the Cubs announce a gay co-owner ... along with demanding a new CBA undergirded by socialism they sure are getting woke before this lockout

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

But I thought campaign spending was speech? Why do they hate corporate FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOM arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

trials would be more than these fascist shock troops deserve when their time comes gothamist.com/news/a-summer-surge-i…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In 2026 it's probably worth revisiting what international prosecutors (eventually) termed a genocide and punishable under international law www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

they really 'bout to take every 80-something-year-old-on-earth except one, huh www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This looks all the world to me like a reunion special where Hansen checks in one one of his subjects in federal prison

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"mundane at best and threatening at worst" -- this is the subtitle to my comparative history of the Trump's Era Exceedingly White Mediocrity www.npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-s1-593997…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Such rage when Dr. El-Sayed asks Waters if he's circumcised; Americans sure are comfortable talking about the viability of hypothetical fetuses (not to mention the wombs of real women we don't know personally), yet faint over the mention of a procedure half of all male babies born in the US have

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We've lost her, but Donald Trump still lives. Let's wrap this whole American experiment up; we keep losing the best of us and are left with the dregs www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

want so badly to loudly declare that I will boycott Rensselaer except...I never go there now, it already sucks and I don't even take the train to Albany anymore gothamist.com/news/the-new-york-cou…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

SecDef can't supply ships. DC US Atty can't convict violent thugs. GOP candidate can't campaign. White supremacists say brown bodies lie between them and greatness. Are we sure? www.mediaite.com/media/news/darline…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not to be lost in this mess of an answer from Lindsay Graham's sister is Rro. Norman proving HE knows where Taiwan is on a map ... and then defending Trump's stupid war. We're living in Idiocracy. share.google/XrvA8o5OwZ39ZNhpK

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a nightmare. I can't even be snarky about this it's so horrifying. www.ms.now/news/navy-meeting-san-di…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We will increasingly see competing narratives: one treats li'l poll swings as earthquakes; the other focuses on coordinated efforts to overturn election results they don't want www.mediaite.com/politics/just-in-n…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Throw a punch at a marginalized group, get called out, immediately want no part of the culture war you started. [link]

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Sen Cassidy cries explaining why he's confirming the glaringly mediocre acting AG because the president already sucks. But tell me again that we can't have Muslim and/or DSA candidates in case we might appeal to the knuckle dragging mouthbreather who thinks Cassidy is a profile in courage.

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Cunningham zeroed in on trans athletes in an ESPN profile — unprompted, no question asked — and then three days later complained that WNBA media covers everything except basketball. The audacity of the climbdown is really something. [link]

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The fact that the media gave wall-to-wall coverage of every sign Old Joe Biden was old but now gives us nothing but deafening silence on Trump's Dollar Tree hair extensions does not surprise me. But it would be funnier -- and in tune with the zeitgeist -- to talk about his gender-affirming care.

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Watching this guy learning about the Trump discard couldn't possibly be more fun. Trump should Rubio next. nypost.com/2026/08/03/business/fifa…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Opening up the floor to any and all ideas after shitting the bed by starting a disastrous war brooking no dissent is peak mediocre white man www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Worth noting, as others have, that we are now in day two in the inaugural WPBL season and not a word from Major League Baseball. If the owners lock the players out next summer I hope the WPBL devours their lunch

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I think part of the reason ESPN signed up for broadcast rights to the WPBL was to hedge against the MLB lockout next summer

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I know that this comeback is great for the Queens and a dramatic win for the league but goddamn that sucks as a Heights fan. #WPBL #NYHeights

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What's wild about this race is how Kean, Jr. should lose his seat due to his flagrant hypocrisy and corruption, and yet these facts are only emerging because he is also mentally unfit to work at all gothamist.com/news/nj-rep-kean-prof…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I know that normalizing fascism by visiting the White House is the top offense and should get all the opprobrium, but I'm more personally offended by the Brooklyn caps the Dodgers are wearing in Queens tonight. Save that mess for the Field of Dreams game or whatever

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The truly mind-boggling part of the fascists' efforts to undermine the midterms is trying to figure out why, exactly, they're doing it. What grand plans await? A handful of oligarchs are getting rich while life sucks for absolutely everyone else. Is the humiliation kink that depraved for MAGAts?

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Spent yesterday afternoon in an incredible writers accountability session sponsored by Quick Silver Theater Company -- this company is doing outstanding work nurturing and platforming the next generation of BIPOC talent for the stage www.quicksilvertheater.com

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The legacies of outsized monsters atop fascist regimes obscure the middling mediocrities who ignore larger atrocities to stuff their grubby little pockets www.mediaite.com/media/sports/bryso…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Readers who engage with your early drafts thoughtfully, lovingly, but unremittingly -- asking hard questions of your text -- are treasures. They are your best friends. #writing

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The sight of a bumbling old man wandering on someone else's stage, willfully oblivious to the desperation of others for him to leave it, will be the lingering image of this election year -- and, indeed, his enduring legacy

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I know that the rest of the world wants to blame America for this abomination of a FIFA halftime show. Far be it from me to keep us from being accountable but... I'm going to have to say we as a species own the collective blame on this one.

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The fact that Major League Baseball expects fans to line up behind baseball executives like this over the players' union in this upcoming lockout is objectively very funny defector.com/buster-posey-sucks-but…

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

finished a second draft of a short piece, boosted it to novella length. I am ambivalent AT BEST as to whether more words makes it better, so pretty sure I need to turn in my "writer" card. yes, my card is handwritten and laminated using packing tape why do you ask #writingcommunity

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Sergei Burbank @sergeiburbank.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Did I miss it, did he proclaim himself god-emperor of dune over his own cacophonous farts?

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