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Patrick Burns

@terriermanpburns.bsky.social
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Retired, former non-profit executive, dogs, bicycles, kayaks, birds, garden. Anti-Trump, pro-democracy, reality-based. Blog at Terrierman.com and Terrierman on Facebook. Words and numbers are my friends.

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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
How did they get Covid? The same way they got STDs.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
Remember when the President was a good husband and father who loved his wife and kids, and was loved back? Remember when he was smart and calm, honest and respected?
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
INCENTIVIZING LIES AND PENALIZING TRUTH One reason sensational misinformation and disinformation is so prevalent is that it's free on Facebook and Twitter where it is incentivized by a pay-per-click advertising model,
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
Leaves will be falling soon. C&O Canal, Frederick, Maryland, with the Wee Wolves in repose.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." — Robert Louis Stevenson
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
I could not love this more. I grew up with Deux Chevaux’s, Tintin & Milou.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
DID YOU KNOW that the Buffalo head nickel is anatomically correct? True!
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
TOKYO AND THE FOREST The forest cover of Japan is 67 percent, which is almost as high as Sweden (68.95 percent) and far higher than the US (33.84 percent), or even Brazil (56 percent). England’s forest cover? Just 7 percent! Wales’ forest cover is 11.9 percent, and Scotland’s is 17 percent.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 6h
FEWER MILK COWS AND MORE MILK Improved efficiency in milk production has enabled the U.S. dairy industry to produce 237 billion pounds of milk from 9.71 million cows in 2026 , as compared to only 117 billion pounds of milk from 25.6 million cows in 1944.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 13h
He’a nothing with nothing. Except syphlis. I’m pretty sure he has that.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 15h
HEART OF GLASS by Elisapie Isaac, Canadian Inuk, singing it in Inuktitut, the principal laguage of the Inuit. ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=tKKW...
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Elisapie - Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart Of Glass) (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 16h
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 16h
October 2, 1918 - Americans Bogged Down in the Argonne Forest.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 16h
WONDERFUL! ❤️😃 youtube.com/watch?v=Q2PB...
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"They Don't Let You in the Opera" Kelli O'Hara (Michael J Moritz Jr-Conductor)
YouTube video by Michael J Moritz Jr
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 17h
I’M SO FAR LEFT, I’M AN EISENHOWER REPUBLICAN I’m an Eisenhower Republican, which means I support killing Nazis, funding national construction projects like the repair of interstate bridges and roads, and I think the New Deal was a great deal.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 20h
Circus Dog Appreciation Day. No need to send in the clowns — we’ve got plenty!
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 20h
Darwin always bats last.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 20h
NATIVE CURES…. The “binocellate” cobra is also known as the Indian or Spectacled cobra. Not all native remedies are as… colorful or suspect as “chicken anuses, well-stretched”. Zedoary, an Asian spice, is a native remedy that helps reduce inflammation due to snakebite.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 20h
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to writer Graham Greene. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” --Graham Greene
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 20h
MY MOTHER used to say my brother and I were raised by wolves. I never knew if she was apologizing or bragging. 🤷‍♂️
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
DOGS ARE THE REAL EXPERTS "There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.” -- J. Allen Boone
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FOX WILL SHOW UP WHERE THERE ARE RATS.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨The biggest changes among the key Senate battlegrounds that Nate Silver highlighted recently were: Ohio: D +5.3 — up from D +4.5 Texas: D +3.6 — up from D +3.4 Maine: D +2.7 — up from D +2.5 Michigan: D +3.4 — up from D +3.2 Alaska: D +2.5 — up from D +2.4 Iowa: D +2.1 — up from D +2.0
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Henry Thomas’ audition for E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) remains one of the greatest auditions ever captured on film. Spielberg: “Okay, kid, you got the job.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My friend’s 16 year old daughter told her she only listens to music released prior to 2020 because she knows it won’t have AI involved.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He's so far gone he can't even maintain consciousness as his little toadies blow him
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you're having trouble visualizing 57 men ignored an attack on another human, this might help. 57 people is 11 basketball teams + 2 5 football teams + 2 A school bus full of children Four 12-person felony juries, plus nine people. That's how many men failed to help this poor woman. #Cornell7
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Voters have begun to wake to the fact that America has a genuine maniac at the helm, and one who has bogged down the economy to boot. Spotlighting his criminal and authoritarian behavior today intensifies these concerns. This time really might be the time:
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TIME TO CHANGE THE COLLAR BATTERIES? A graduate student crawls into a 70-foot den to re-collar a Black Bear near Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. The bear weighs 320 pounds. There are about 500,000 black bear in the US — 400,000 in the lower 48, and another 100,000 in Alaska.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Single White Male Seeks Female for Recreational Sex
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks to unnatural selection alone (no hormones are used) today's meat chickens are more than twice as big, in half the time, at a cost of less than half the feed per pound, and with one fifth the mortality of their brethren 65 years ago.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes!
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks to unnatural selection alone (no hormones are used) today's meat chickens are more than twice as big, in half the time, at a cost of less than half the feed per pound, and with one fifth the mortality of their brethren 65 years ago.
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WE NEED NUREMBERG TRIALS
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Patrick Burns @terriermanpburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GAZA IS A HOLOCAUST, NOT A WAR
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💙 This is a company with integrity 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
El Salvador is still imprisoning ICE deportees from the U.S., even after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case sparked a backlash. Some are disappearing.
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ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sign being used in stores across Canada, thanks to Trump. =====================
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