Brian Burns
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When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,it is their right,it is their duty,to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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Bingo.
Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.”
They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.
Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.
They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.
Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Bingo.
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Birds are such a strange kind of dinosaur, we would be astonished by them if they weren't around us all the time.
Goblin-like puppeteers behind a screen of feathers, as described by Gary W. Kaiser in his book The Inner Bird.
Goblin-like puppeteers behind a screen of feathers, as described by Gary W. Kaiser in his book The Inner Bird.
July 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Birds are such a strange kind of dinosaur, we would be astonished by them if they weren't around us all the time.
Goblin-like puppeteers behind a screen of feathers, as described by Gary W. Kaiser in his book The Inner Bird.
Goblin-like puppeteers behind a screen of feathers, as described by Gary W. Kaiser in his book The Inner Bird.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Former President of the United States
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Former President of the United States
June 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
June 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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The fact of the matter is that this compulsive fornicator both campaigned on making it a national holiday, and recognized it every year of his first term. So what changed?
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president
President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.
apnews.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The fact of the matter is that this compulsive fornicator both campaigned on making it a national holiday, and recognized it every year of his first term. So what changed?
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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It's always two weeks. I keep thinking of the Money Pit.
two men are standing next to a car in a garage and talking to each other .
ALT: two men are standing next to a car in a garage and talking to each other .
media.tenor.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's always two weeks. I keep thinking of the Money Pit.
“Be engaged and don’t accept any order that your conscience could not approve.” It’s hard to find better advice, especially during these tumultuous times. RIP
"Her odyssey from German-speaking Alsace Lorraine as the granddaughter of a rabbi to her recruitment as a French spy and then life in America...Asked for a life lesson Ms. Cohn replied, 'Be engaged and don’t accept any order that your conscience could not approve.'”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...
Marthe Cohn, a Wartime Jewish Nurse Who Spied for the French, Dies at 105
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Be engaged and don’t accept any order that your conscience could not approve.” It’s hard to find better advice, especially during these tumultuous times. RIP
Prescient.
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
June 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Prescient.
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When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
June 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
“To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.” - Edward R. Murrow
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.” - Edward R. Murrow
Broadway’s “Goodnight and Good Luck,” starring George Clooney, is airing live on CNN tonight. The Post’s theater critic praised the “sensually detailed” play as a timely rallying cry for integrity.
Review | George Clooney delivers a liberal rallying cry in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
The actor makes a shrewd Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in a handsome adaptation of the 2005 film.
wapo.st
June 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.” - Edward R. Murrow
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.” - Edward R. Murrow
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Yeah, I don't think centrism is the way to anything but more fascism.
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yeah, I don't think centrism is the way to anything but more fascism.
MAGA is not a philosophy. It is a shield against accountability.
“Because when a political movement lies compulsively, rationalizes cruelty, and flinches at accountability, the question isn’t just ‘what do they believe?’ but ‘why must they believe it?’”
open.substack.com/pub/theratio...
open.substack.com/pub/theratio...
When MAGA Tries to Unlock Freedom with the Tools of Tyranny
A psychological autopsy of the movement that confuses strength with subjugation and freedom with obedience.
open.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
MAGA is not a philosophy. It is a shield against accountability.
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America did not storm the beaches at Normandy alone on June 6, 1944.
We had allies who fought with us.
Allies from Britain, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Poland.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
We had allies who fought with us.
Allies from Britain, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Poland.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
What We Need to Remember About D-Day
We were not alone.
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
America did not storm the beaches at Normandy alone on June 6, 1944.
We had allies who fought with us.
Allies from Britain, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Poland.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
We had allies who fought with us.
Allies from Britain, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Poland.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Harvard offers a range of online courses, with about half available for free.
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#academicsky #academicchatter #educationsky #academicresearch #research #highereducation
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Catalog of Courses
Browse the latest courses from Harvard University
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June 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Harvard offers a range of online courses, with about half available for free.
pll.harvard.edu/catalog
#academicsky #academicchatter #educationsky #academicresearch #research #highereducation
pll.harvard.edu/catalog
#academicsky #academicchatter #educationsky #academicresearch #research #highereducation
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Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.
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The great Gordon Lightfoot, gone two years ago today.
“I have several songs that you would think I would get tired of playing,” he once said, “but the opposite is true. .. They have a way of expressing themselves each time, and that expression is automatic.” #RIP 🙏🏼
@benstiller.redhour.com
“I have several songs that you would think I would get tired of playing,” he once said, “but the opposite is true. .. They have a way of expressing themselves each time, and that expression is automatic.” #RIP 🙏🏼
@benstiller.redhour.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The great Gordon Lightfoot, gone two years ago today.
“I have several songs that you would think I would get tired of playing,” he once said, “but the opposite is true. .. They have a way of expressing themselves each time, and that expression is automatic.” #RIP 🙏🏼
@benstiller.redhour.com
“I have several songs that you would think I would get tired of playing,” he once said, “but the opposite is true. .. They have a way of expressing themselves each time, and that expression is automatic.” #RIP 🙏🏼
@benstiller.redhour.com
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I long for the days when Carlos Danger was the biggest political story.
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I long for the days when Carlos Danger was the biggest political story.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
100 years ago, today: The Great Gatsby published.
100 years ago, today: The Great Gatsby published.
April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
100 years ago, today: The Great Gatsby published.
100 years ago, today: The Great Gatsby published.
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Prediction:
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
April 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Prediction:
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.