Lucy Burns

@lucyburns.bsky.social

🦋 Aunt Aoife. Fierce Warrior Princess with law license. 🇺🇸 ”A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” US Congress Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

Likely more of Y’all’s hard-earned tax dollars at work on another US Agent47 Morally Neutral Professional government demolition program. In similar news, reruns of “Project 2025 Up Uranus” are invading political theater near you, near them, and just bout near Democracy obliteration and oblivion.

A chunk of a SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon

The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, making a new crater on the lunar surface.

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“The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.” James Madison

“War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement. In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them.“ James Madison

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department…. the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man” James Madison

The total death toll in the ongoing Iran war ranges from roughly 8,000 to over 18,000 killed humans across all regions and factions, driven primarily by United States of America and Israeli strikes and regional fighting.

“Long ago there was a noble word ‘liberal’ which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. Hitler made it a term of abuse…then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word….many Americans began to distrust the word which derived from “free” E Roosevelt

“After the Civil War…as a handful of men began to make great fortunes the voice of the people as a whole began to be disregarded.It is not pleasant now to look back at that era of exploitation when not only the vast resources of the land but Human Resources as well were ruthlessly used.” E Roosevelt

“There are certain words of our own and others’, we’re used to—words we’ve used, Heard, had to recite, forgotten… Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, to none we sell, refuse or deny, right or justice… what if these words pass? What if they pass and are gone and are no more” —Stephen Vincent Benet

Well, well, well. In the latest reconciliation bill, Senate Republicans are sneaking in a whopping $1 BILLION dollars in funding for Trump's ballroom. (h/t Aaron Parnas)

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When Trump removes the 200 year old Ionic columns at our White House and replaces them with Corinthian columns, someone please make sure our historic columns end up in whole at the Smithsonian, not dumped in a landfill.

Linsay Rousseau testified before the National Capital Planning Commission against Trump’s 250-foot arch at Arlington. Dictators build monuments to its living rulers. Asked who the arch was for, Trump said, “Me.” Her #CupOfJoe has a latte passion re: democracy.

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.