Van der Burgh
@stephenintheburgh.bsky.social
U.S. Navy veteran, retired Fire Captain, animal lover and History nerd.
Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
E pluribus unum is what makes us great.
Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.
E pluribus unum is what makes us great.
I love this perspective. I always identified with my ancestors, Irish immigrants and Union soldiers. They fled oppression, fought to free their fellow Americans and save the Union.
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I love this perspective. I always identified with my ancestors, Irish immigrants and Union soldiers. They fled oppression, fought to free their fellow Americans and save the Union.
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This story alone gives me hope in a world full of tragedy and hate.
This story alone gives me hope in a world full of tragedy and hate.
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Eleven people were killed in the shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, as crowds attended an event to celebrate Hanukkah.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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This story alone gives me hope in a world full of tragedy and hate.
This story alone gives me hope in a world full of tragedy and hate.
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Please get vaccinated. This doesn’t have to happen. But it will happen more, and with more fatalities as long as RFK Jr and his anti-science enablers continue to spread disinformation. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine
Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please get vaccinated. This doesn’t have to happen. But it will happen more, and with more fatalities as long as RFK Jr and his anti-science enablers continue to spread disinformation. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Trump just took this giant step towards authoritarian rule — and the media ignored it
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You've been warned. The criminal is legal in an upside down world.
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You've been warned. The criminal is legal in an upside down world.
Trump just took this giant step towards authoritarian rule — and the media ignored it
The Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public: Do you “advance … opposition to law and immigration enforcement”? Do you have “extreme views in favor of ...
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December 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trump just took this giant step towards authoritarian rule — and the media ignored it
www.rawstory.com/trump-memo-2...
You've been warned. The criminal is legal in an upside down world.
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You've been warned. The criminal is legal in an upside down world.
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This money was not "diverted", it was stolen by this kleptocratic regime.
Democrats, stop whitewashing their criminal behavior. They are criminals!! Use in-your-face language to properly describe their crimes, theft, kidnapping, murder, extortion...
Grow a spine.
This money was not "diverted", it was stolen by this kleptocratic regime.
Democrats, stop whitewashing their criminal behavior. They are criminals!! Use in-your-face language to properly describe their crimes, theft, kidnapping, murder, extortion...
Grow a spine.
$2B in Pentagon funds diverted to immigration operations, congressional Democrats say
Democrats review finds that $2 Billion in Pentagon Funds has been diverted to fund military operations on border and other immigration operations.
abcnews.go.com
December 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
abcnews.go.com/US/2b-pentag...
This money was not "diverted", it was stolen by this kleptocratic regime.
Democrats, stop whitewashing their criminal behavior. They are criminals!! Use in-your-face language to properly describe their crimes, theft, kidnapping, murder, extortion...
Grow a spine.
This money was not "diverted", it was stolen by this kleptocratic regime.
Democrats, stop whitewashing their criminal behavior. They are criminals!! Use in-your-face language to properly describe their crimes, theft, kidnapping, murder, extortion...
Grow a spine.
Could we please just fast forward to the scene where he blows his brains out in a bunker?
I love a happy ending.
I love a happy ending.
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Could we please just fast forward to the scene where he blows his brains out in a bunker?
I love a happy ending.
I love a happy ending.
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JUST TO CLARIFY…👇
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
JUST TO CLARIFY…👇
This is courage.
This is defiance, grace under pressure, dignity, character, resolve and resilience.
This is what a leader does.
This is the Winston Churchill of the 21st century.
We are better for knowing that his steadfastness is the beacon Ukraine and the world needs.
🇺🇦Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
This is defiance, grace under pressure, dignity, character, resolve and resilience.
This is what a leader does.
This is the Winston Churchill of the 21st century.
We are better for knowing that his steadfastness is the beacon Ukraine and the world needs.
🇺🇦Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This is courage.
This is defiance, grace under pressure, dignity, character, resolve and resilience.
This is what a leader does.
This is the Winston Churchill of the 21st century.
We are better for knowing that his steadfastness is the beacon Ukraine and the world needs.
🇺🇦Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
This is defiance, grace under pressure, dignity, character, resolve and resilience.
This is what a leader does.
This is the Winston Churchill of the 21st century.
We are better for knowing that his steadfastness is the beacon Ukraine and the world needs.
🇺🇦Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Free entrance on Dumb Furor's birthday. That's straight out of the Kim Jung Un handbook.
December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Free entrance on Dumb Furor's birthday. That's straight out of the Kim Jung Un handbook.
Now Is Our Time
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I'm sharing this because it is even more relevant in December than it was in May.
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I'm sharing this because it is even more relevant in December than it was in May.
Now Is Our Time
Courage in an age of cowardice
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December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Now Is Our Time
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I'm sharing this because it is even more relevant in December than it was in May.
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I'm sharing this because it is even more relevant in December than it was in May.
This needs to be posted every day.
Donald Fucking Quisling!!!
Donald Fucking Quisling!!!
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This needs to be posted every day.
Donald Fucking Quisling!!!
Donald Fucking Quisling!!!
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"Whatever you did for the least of these...you did for me" Matthew 25:40-45
"Whatever you did for the least of these...you did for me" Matthew 25:40-45
Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
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December 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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"Whatever you did for the least of these...you did for me" Matthew 25:40-45
"Whatever you did for the least of these...you did for me" Matthew 25:40-45
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TOP SECRET ICE VIDEO JUST RELEASED!!!
DHS recruitment brainstorming session leaked.
TOP SECRET ICE VIDEO JUST RELEASED!!!
DHS recruitment brainstorming session leaked.
An Army
YouTube video by 1_Horizon
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December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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TOP SECRET ICE VIDEO JUST RELEASED!!!
DHS recruitment brainstorming session leaked.
TOP SECRET ICE VIDEO JUST RELEASED!!!
DHS recruitment brainstorming session leaked.
There is Justice. We'll need to go to Belgium for it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
There is Justice. We'll need to go to Belgium for it.
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This is state sponsored terrorism, ICE cold terrorism.
Unidentified masked men kidnapping people off the street.
Only the shamelessly depraved would consider this "Great".
This is state sponsored terrorism, ICE cold terrorism.
Unidentified masked men kidnapping people off the street.
Only the shamelessly depraved would consider this "Great".
Video shows masked Border Patrol agent chasing woman back to her Louisiana home
Jacelynn Guzman said she is a U.S.-born citizen. The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it "determined the individual in question was not the target."
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December 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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This is state sponsored terrorism, ICE cold terrorism.
Unidentified masked men kidnapping people off the street.
Only the shamelessly depraved would consider this "Great".
This is state sponsored terrorism, ICE cold terrorism.
Unidentified masked men kidnapping people off the street.
Only the shamelessly depraved would consider this "Great".
The facts speak for themselves.
Release the Trumpstein files, Piggy.
Release the Trumpstein files, Piggy.
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The facts speak for themselves.
Release the Trumpstein files, Piggy.
Release the Trumpstein files, Piggy.
Donald Fucking Quisling
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Donald Fucking Quisling
A clear and concise description of the last 80 years of our Transatlantic relationship and it's cost/benefit for the partners.
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A clear and concise description of the last 80 years of our Transatlantic relationship and it's cost/benefit for the partners.
www.meidasplus.com/p/europe-sou...
This is a wake up call we cannot ignore.
This is a wake up call we cannot ignore.
Europe Sounds the Alarm as the United States Sides With Putin
While Russian drones target NATO allies and Ukraine’s president, Trump’s America abandons its commitments and openly embraces a strategy that weakens Europe and empowers the Kremlin.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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This is a wake up call we cannot ignore.
This is a wake up call we cannot ignore.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
FOUR STRIKES!!!! To kill people on a boat that had turned around.
Hopefully the International Criminal Court is opening a case. We are a nation of laws that must hold these brigands accountable.
FOUR STRIKES!!!! To kill people on a boat that had turned around.
Hopefully the International Criminal Court is opening a case. We are a nation of laws that must hold these brigands accountable.
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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FOUR STRIKES!!!! To kill people on a boat that had turned around.
Hopefully the International Criminal Court is opening a case. We are a nation of laws that must hold these brigands accountable.
FOUR STRIKES!!!! To kill people on a boat that had turned around.
Hopefully the International Criminal Court is opening a case. We are a nation of laws that must hold these brigands accountable.
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Let me see if I got this right.
On September 2nd 2025 the U.S. killed 11 Venezuelan fishermen on a boat claiming, without evidence, that they were transporting drugs.
From the video the boat looks to be about 40 feet long.
You don't need an 11 man crew to transport drugs. 2-3 will do.
On September 2nd 2025 the U.S. killed 11 Venezuelan fishermen on a boat claiming, without evidence, that they were transporting drugs.
From the video the boat looks to be about 40 feet long.
You don't need an 11 man crew to transport drugs. 2-3 will do.
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Let me see if I got this right.
On September 2nd 2025 the U.S. killed 11 Venezuelan fishermen on a boat claiming, without evidence, that they were transporting drugs.
From the video the boat looks to be about 40 feet long.
You don't need an 11 man crew to transport drugs. 2-3 will do.
On September 2nd 2025 the U.S. killed 11 Venezuelan fishermen on a boat claiming, without evidence, that they were transporting drugs.
From the video the boat looks to be about 40 feet long.
You don't need an 11 man crew to transport drugs. 2-3 will do.
How much does a Trump pardon cost?
Is the money transfered through the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, or Russia?
Follow the money.
It's the only thing he loves more than himself.
Is the money transfered through the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, or Russia?
Follow the money.
It's the only thing he loves more than himself.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How much does a Trump pardon cost?
Is the money transfered through the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, or Russia?
Follow the money.
It's the only thing he loves more than himself.
Is the money transfered through the Cayman Islands, Switzerland, or Russia?
Follow the money.
It's the only thing he loves more than himself.