Andrew Elliott McBurney
@andrewmcburney.bsky.social
Texas schoolteacher
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🗽civics 🎠current events 🦕history ✒️education 🚀outer space 🏛️archeology 🔭science 🎨arts ⛈️wx ❓obscure miscellany ⭐Texas
This is (well, once upon a time) an impeachable offense. And if the President were determined to have ordered it, it would be an impeachable offense against him as well. Illegally withholding allocated funding in order to exert political pressure.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This is (well, once upon a time) an impeachable offense. And if the President were determined to have ordered it, it would be an impeachable offense against him as well. Illegally withholding allocated funding in order to exert political pressure.
It's is ONLY the Kennedy Center. And if any semblance of good governance is restored in our nation's capital, and his name is finally removed, the headline had better be:
“Years-long defacemant and vandalism finally removed”.
“Years-long defacemant and vandalism finally removed”.
First, a takeover of leadership, then a renaming. Now, the Trump-Kennedy Center is facing canceled performances and a drop in overall ticket sales. https://to.pbs.org/4ppKbkJ
Kennedy Center faces artist cancellations, drop in ticket sales after Trump's name added
First, a takeover of leadership, then a renaming. Now, the Trump-Kennedy Center is facing canceled performances and a drop in overall ticket sales. Jeffrey Brown reports on the turmoil at one of the n...
to.pbs.org
January 4, 2026 at 7:28 PM
It's is ONLY the Kennedy Center. And if any semblance of good governance is restored in our nation's capital, and his name is finally removed, the headline had better be:
“Years-long defacemant and vandalism finally removed”.
“Years-long defacemant and vandalism finally removed”.
RFK, Jr.: “C'mon y'all! We can get that 4.2 higher! Who's with me!”
January 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
RFK, Jr.: “C'mon y'all! We can get that 4.2 higher! Who's with me!”
I used to say “If” but really it's now “As” we go into a dark age, we are doing it to ourselves, and it's stupid.
“Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I used to say “If” but really it's now “As” we go into a dark age, we are doing it to ourselves, and it's stupid.
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
If it's Friday night, and you don't have “The Hut-Sut Song” stuck in your head, are you even really living?
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
If it's Friday night, and you don't have “The Hut-Sut Song” stuck in your head, are you even really living?
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One of the most important American artists who ever lived, his influence up there with the great jazz & bluesmen - I mean what he did was totally new & unique to where he came from
“All I wanted to do was make people laugh.”—Charles M. Schulz
🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922.
Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.
Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922.
Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.
Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
One of the most important American artists who ever lived, his influence up there with the great jazz & bluesmen - I mean what he did was totally new & unique to where he came from
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
I wonder after the Mamdani-Trump meeting, how many of the devout Red Hats are rocking back and forth, chanting “Trust the plan . . . trust the plan . . . .”
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I wonder after the Mamdani-Trump meeting, how many of the devout Red Hats are rocking back and forth, chanting “Trust the plan . . . trust the plan . . . .”
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ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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For a decade, political support for Israel has come from conservative Christians. But now isolationism and antisemitism are changing the tone. n.pr/47IHdkv
Support for Israel among U.S. conservatives is starting to crack. Here's why
For a decade, political support for Israel has come from conservative Christians. But now isolationism and antisemitism are changing the tone.
n.pr
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
For a decade, political support for Israel has come from conservative Christians. But now isolationism and antisemitism are changing the tone. n.pr/47IHdkv
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Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Trump administration of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs through unauthorized social media posts of his work aimed at framing the administration's mass deportation agenda with classic American imagery.
DHS keeps posting Norman Rockwell after family condemns use of his art
Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Department of Homeland Security of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs.
wapo.st
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Descendants of Norman Rockwell have accused the Trump administration of misrepresenting the painter’s beliefs through unauthorized social media posts of his work aimed at framing the administration's mass deportation agenda with classic American imagery.
Somebody come get me
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Somebody come get me
So, did Vincent Price share the Grammy? Asking for a fiend.
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 AM
So, did Vincent Price share the Grammy? Asking for a fiend.
So . . . Nick Fuentes—avowed white supremacist, anti-semite, and Hitler-sympathizer—is one of the Heritage Foundation's “friends on the right,” apparently.
October 31, 2025 at 3:22 AM
So . . . Nick Fuentes—avowed white supremacist, anti-semite, and Hitler-sympathizer—is one of the Heritage Foundation's “friends on the right,” apparently.
The music for Chariots of Fire is really like, “Love Theme from The Six Million Dollar Man”.
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The music for Chariots of Fire is really like, “Love Theme from The Six Million Dollar Man”.
You know, we don't really think about it, but Barry Manilow's “Copacabana” is a murder ballad.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
You know, we don't really think about it, but Barry Manilow's “Copacabana” is a murder ballad.
Helped fix a deer blind with torn sheet metal and vinyl tape. Done my Texas for today.
(I've said before that a lot of Texas looks like it was put together by an old guy with a hammer & holding nails in his teeth, and for a brief shining moment today, that was me.)
(I've said before that a lot of Texas looks like it was put together by an old guy with a hammer & holding nails in his teeth, and for a brief shining moment today, that was me.)
October 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Helped fix a deer blind with torn sheet metal and vinyl tape. Done my Texas for today.
(I've said before that a lot of Texas looks like it was put together by an old guy with a hammer & holding nails in his teeth, and for a brief shining moment today, that was me.)
(I've said before that a lot of Texas looks like it was put together by an old guy with a hammer & holding nails in his teeth, and for a brief shining moment today, that was me.)
Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips.
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips.
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"The military can be called in to assist civilian authorities only under the most extreme scenarios," @lizagoitein.bsky.social tells @wbur.org. And "the facts on the ground" in Chicago and Portland "do not justify military deployment."
Could Trump invoke the Insurrection Act to police cities?
President Trump posted that both the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois should both be jailed for “failing to protect ICE officers.”
www.wbur.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"The military can be called in to assist civilian authorities only under the most extreme scenarios," @lizagoitein.bsky.social tells @wbur.org. And "the facts on the ground" in Chicago and Portland "do not justify military deployment."
It's a problem when leaders in a representative democracy believe their own press, especially when they were the source of their own press. There's already a fair amount of pride there to begin with (and not the good kind), so imagine when their line doesn't jibe with reality.
October 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It's a problem when leaders in a representative democracy believe their own press, especially when they were the source of their own press. There's already a fair amount of pride there to begin with (and not the good kind), so imagine when their line doesn't jibe with reality.
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If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.
We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
October 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.
We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.
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“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.independent.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"