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Stephen Burks

@stephenburks1.bsky.social

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Creative. Documentary Filmmaker. Composer. LGBTQ Ally/Dad. Chagrin Falls (if you know, you know). Visit: www.goodcityconcepts.com

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Apr 16

Hi. Let me introduce myself. Professionally I make films/videos (see below). I love to take pics-some I like and hope you do too. My degree is in Music Theory and Composition and I made a living doing that for 30+ years. I have a dog. I’m caregiver to my wife who has stage 4 ovarian cancer.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · 11d

Christian compassion and Project 2025 are an abomination. All I can think of is millstones and oceans, goats and sheep and everything I’ve grown to detest about Evangelicals.

Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · 16d

This week, the documentary film, I directed “Hiking Through Grief” will premiere at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival 10/8/2025. It was also selected and will be screened at the meliorafilmfest.com in NYC during November (13-16). #grief #hiking #healing #documentary

A Widower Abroad

Grief doesn’t mean the journey is over.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Sep 19

I called our President a fascist 10 years ago when he called for a complete Muslim ban on entering the country. I wasn’t wrong then or now.

But he sure does like that Middle Eastern money - don’t he?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 18

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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23:

Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 18

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 18

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 18

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Sep 18

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

Tweet from Ilya Shapiro: "Wait, is it the government that makes hiring/firing decisions at ABC?"
responding to Chris Hayes saying: "This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Aug 23

Excellent. Where can I hear it?

Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Aug 19

Can a place thrive when its foundation is hate? Seems unlikely in the long run.

Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Aug 10

Removing “love” from Christianity is the single most dangerous thing the right has done. From John: 13:34–35 “Love one another as I have loved you.”
15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.” 15:17 “These things I command you, that you may love one another.”

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Jul 12

Since the Epstein thing is destroying MAGA, expect Foxnews to find some new trans athlete to be outraged about soon.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Jul 12

It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Good “Christian” values: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and . . . self control. I guess that was left out of the Christian Nationalist bible.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · Jun 20

I remember once when a couple of pickups with Trump flags ran the CAMPAIGN BUS off the road.

www.forbes.com/sites/andrew...

Trump Praises Drivers That Biden Campaign Says Tried To Run Bus ‘Off The Road’

The Biden campaign canceled the rest of the bus tour out of an ‘abundance of caution’ after the pickup trucks surrounded a campaign bus on the highway.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 18

When will China invade Taiwan? I’ve got a son living there.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 17

Only communist, dictatorships and socialist governments tell businesses what to charge.

Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 16

Saving-face with the base. They might have dodged (or Doge’d) a bullet by blocking it. But we cannot let up pressure.

Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 13

Lovely photograph. Well done!

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 12

My best friend and I on a lovely drive in the mountains.

#MountainMonday #blueskymonday
#eastcoastkin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #thephotohour #BlueRidgeMountains #BlueRidgeParkway #SkyLineDrive
#HumansofBluesky #SelfPortrait

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 9

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · May 9

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 8

My family.

#HumansOfBluesky #Photography #EastCoastKin

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Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 7

I snapped this picture on January 21, 2017 - the first day of the 1st Trump administration. Perfect metaphor.

#cityscape #downtown #NYC #WorldTradeCenter #NewYorkCity #skyscrapers #airplanephotography #photography
#EastCoastKin #photographersunited #windowwednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

Stephen Burks @stephenburks1.bsky.social · May 5

What a day when I’m in alignment with Rand Paul. That’s how far we’ve come.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · May 5

WATCH: “One person is not allowed to raise taxes… the founding fathers saw this and said taxation begins with Congress…”

@RandPaul rips his own Republican caucus for turning their backs on “conservative principles” to “let the president do whatever”. #TrumpTradeWar