Dave Burhenn
@daveburhenn.bsky.social
Lawyer, Los Angeleno, antiquarian, double Wolverine (Go Blue!), lover of fine music, architecture, Chicago, ships, planes, trains, cars; West Michigan native. Also, I have an unnatural interest in the dreadnought era Royal Navy.
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Dave Burhenn
@daveburhenn.bsky.social
· Nov 14
The orangey building in my profile is Schloss Rastatt, built in that town by Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden. Oma grew up there before emigrating to Ohio.
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Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
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"It cannot possibly be completed on the schedule Trump announced. I’ll go a step further: It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware."
Trump-Class Battleships Are the Navy’s Trump Ballroom
Trump Steaks. Trump University. Trump Coins. Why not? Let’s do this and be legends.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"It cannot possibly be completed on the schedule Trump announced. I’ll go a step further: It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware."
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A genius, who made this. 😂
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A genius, who made this. 😂
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'Epstein, Epstein? Why do you want to talk about Epstein? Epstein's a hoax!'
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
'Epstein, Epstein? Why do you want to talk about Epstein? Epstein's a hoax!'
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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Pretty much sums up America today.
December 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Pretty much sums up America today.
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Babies are going to die. This is what Donald Trump, Russ Vought, RFK Jr., Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli have brought us. Avoidable child deaths from preventable infectious diseases. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
Why Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States
With its vaccine schedule, “Denmark has made a values choice to accept preventable hospitalizations and illnesses that other countries have chosen to prevent.”
www.statnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Babies are going to die. This is what Donald Trump, Russ Vought, RFK Jr., Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli have brought us. Avoidable child deaths from preventable infectious diseases. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
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Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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December 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope)
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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Nothing that an "AI" does has any anchorage in material reality, it's all just code, continuously juggling. It has no grounded understanding of anything, no responsibility, no reasoned sense of consequence, or anything else...
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Nothing that an "AI" does has any anchorage in material reality, it's all just code, continuously juggling. It has no grounded understanding of anything, no responsibility, no reasoned sense of consequence, or anything else...
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As it is a week to Christmas I thought I should do a Christmas article.
This week’s free to read compares the Christmas of the cruisers SMS Dresden & HMS Kent (the latter hunting the former) off Tierra del Fuego I n December 1914.
#navalhistory #ww1
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/two-cruise...
This week’s free to read compares the Christmas of the cruisers SMS Dresden & HMS Kent (the latter hunting the former) off Tierra del Fuego I n December 1914.
#navalhistory #ww1
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/two-cruise...
Two Cruisers, two Chrismases
Christmas 1914 is famous for its Christmas truce on the Western Front but if you head south, as south as you can go, there was a German cruiser, SMS Dresden, hiding in the myriad of islands of Tierra ...
jerijerod14.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
As it is a week to Christmas I thought I should do a Christmas article.
This week’s free to read compares the Christmas of the cruisers SMS Dresden & HMS Kent (the latter hunting the former) off Tierra del Fuego I n December 1914.
#navalhistory #ww1
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/two-cruise...
This week’s free to read compares the Christmas of the cruisers SMS Dresden & HMS Kent (the latter hunting the former) off Tierra del Fuego I n December 1914.
#navalhistory #ww1
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/two-cruise...
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LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥
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NEW: In an historic pick, Pope Leo XIV will appoint Bishop Ron Hicks — a protégé of progressive Cardinal Blase Cupich — as the next Archbishop of New York.
He replaces the retiring Cardinal Dolan, who recently faced criticism for calling Charlie Kirk a “modern-day St. Paul.”
He replaces the retiring Cardinal Dolan, who recently faced criticism for calling Charlie Kirk a “modern-day St. Paul.”
Leo’s Chicago “Trifecta”: Cupich Protégé Tapped to Lead New York
Pope Leo XIV is set to appoint Bishop Ronald A. Hicks — a protégé of Chicago’s progressive Cardinal Blase Cupich — as the 11th Archbishop of New York, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
NEW: In an historic pick, Pope Leo XIV will appoint Bishop Ron Hicks — a protégé of progressive Cardinal Blase Cupich — as the next Archbishop of New York.
He replaces the retiring Cardinal Dolan, who recently faced criticism for calling Charlie Kirk a “modern-day St. Paul.”
He replaces the retiring Cardinal Dolan, who recently faced criticism for calling Charlie Kirk a “modern-day St. Paul.”
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Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Maybe this is why I'm not a Beltway journalist, but I think the fact the United States is about to invade Venezuela to take their oil is an 100X bigger story than Trump's chief of staff going on the record with Captain Obvious characterizations of their dysfunctional regime
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.