@jcburns.bsky.social
Playing just what I feel. Drinking scotch whiskey all night long.
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No, ✌🏾America✌🏾 is not mourning this man. Stop it.
September 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
No, ✌🏾America✌🏾 is not mourning this man. Stop it.
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one of the radicalizing incidents of my youth was when the NYPD brutalized a judge who was volunteering as a legal observer at a protest. I'm afraid that "Feds arrest judge" is the incident that has fully broken my brain
April 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
one of the radicalizing incidents of my youth was when the NYPD brutalized a judge who was volunteering as a legal observer at a protest. I'm afraid that "Feds arrest judge" is the incident that has fully broken my brain
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His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.
March 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.
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This does not bode well for the future of MSNBC.
I ❤️ Joy Reid and will miss her honesty, her intensity, and her humor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
I ❤️ Joy Reid and will miss her honesty, her intensity, and her humor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
MSNBC Cancels Joy Reid’s Show in Major Shake-Up
Ms. Reid’s 7 p.m. program will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This does not bode well for the future of MSNBC.
I ❤️ Joy Reid and will miss her honesty, her intensity, and her humor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
I ❤️ Joy Reid and will miss her honesty, her intensity, and her humor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...
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"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
nymag.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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“I am alarmed that as one of your first acts as secretary, you appear to have handed over a highly sensitive system responsible for millions of Americans’ private data — and a key function of government — to an unelected billionaire and an unknown number of his unqualified flunkies.”
Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System
In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
“I am alarmed that as one of your first acts as secretary, you appear to have handed over a highly sensitive system responsible for millions of Americans’ private data — and a key function of government — to an unelected billionaire and an unknown number of his unqualified flunkies.”
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Breathe, my friends. Breathe. Don’t forget to breathe.
February 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Breathe, my friends. Breathe. Don’t forget to breathe.
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There's something about writing to your representatives that feels like the proverbial wetting your pants in a navy-blue suit, but both of my DEMOCRATIC senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem, and I feel like the top of my skull will blow clean off.
February 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
There's something about writing to your representatives that feels like the proverbial wetting your pants in a navy-blue suit, but both of my DEMOCRATIC senators voted to confirm Kristi Noem, and I feel like the top of my skull will blow clean off.
A big part of what made ABC's World News Now what it was. We'll miss you, Aaron.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
Aaron Brown, CNN Anchor During the Sept. 11 Attacks, Dies at 76 (Gift Article)
He was still in training when he was rushed into live coverage of the collapse of the World Trade Center, and his broadcast became one of the enduring records of the day.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:53 PM
A big part of what made ABC's World News Now what it was. We'll miss you, Aaron.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/b...
Sammy found this Korean/Netflix thing for us to watch this weekend called Culinary Class Wars. As we plowed through the episodes, news came out of Korea of martial law declared and this morning, I read Verge editor Sarah Jeong's write-up of being there. Wow. www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
Six hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building.
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Sammy found this Korean/Netflix thing for us to watch this weekend called Culinary Class Wars. As we plowed through the episodes, news came out of Korea of martial law declared and this morning, I read Verge editor Sarah Jeong's write-up of being there. Wow. www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
I spent too much time rummaging through my laptop's drive for evidence of how I survived the first Trump administration. It's there, I'm here, but the nuts and bolts remain a mystery.
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I spent too much time rummaging through my laptop's drive for evidence of how I survived the first Trump administration. It's there, I'm here, but the nuts and bolts remain a mystery.