250 years ago today a pamphlet, about 40 pages long, changed the world. It inspired a revolution that would in turn inspire the world. Time to celebrate Thomas Paine!

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www.pbs.org/show/thomas-paines-to-begin-the-world-over-again until 2/2, then w/PBS passport. America needs to hear Paine's words more than ever. We will post Station airings at ruskinproductions.com
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From "Magic and Lightning: into the Mind of Nikola Tesla" –
"I would have preferred that Marconi had realized that radio was not about sending messages somewhere, but about the transmission of intelligence".
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thank you, Felicia and Michael Kelley, for being such exceptional and thoughtful hosts of the Thomas Paine Fundraiser and Brainstorming Event on Sunday, September 14, at Throop Unitarian-Universalist Church in Pasadena. Funding and ideas flowed as momentum builds towards July 4th, 2026!

Very excited to be returning to Kilkea Castle...this time to tell Nikola Tesla's story!

Interested in Thomas Paine? This will be a great event, featuring Paul Fitzgerald, author of the wonderful graphic novel "Paine; Being a Fantastical Visual Biography of the Vilified Enlightenment Hero..." Join the webinar tomorrow..at 7pm UK time!
freethinker.co.uk/2025/08/free...

“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday morning, an off-base reference to the famous line in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.”
The President of the United States

Farewell to the Lewes Pound, the UK’s last local currency.
All things must pass...away.
Paine lived his formative years in Lewes, before leaving for the colonies.

In 1835 a young lawyer wrote an essay defending Deism and Thomas Paine, and criticizing Christianity. His name was Abraham Lincoln. The essay disappeared. The story is that Samuel Hill, a friend and ally, burned it, thus saving Lincoln’s political career.

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Do you know about the American Garden of Heroes? It'll take your breath away! Click on the link below to check it out and let us know who you'd want in or out:

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Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, Reserve Reading Room, Paris, where I will be performing my Tesla play in the autumn.