Stephen Burks

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.

A Widower Abroad Grief doesn’t mean the journey is over.

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

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?

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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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

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.

Excellent. Where can I hear it?

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

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Lovely photograph. Well done!

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

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

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

My family.

#HumansOfBluesky #Photography #EastCoastKin

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

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

Thank you!

Leigh Lake, a calm lake with clear reflections of Boulder Island, a small island covered with pine trees, and Mount Moran, a large mountain looming in the background. Dense forest lines the shore, and the sky is clear.

Mount Moran, Boulder Island, and Leigh Lake, Grand Teton National Park. September, 2021.

📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR
🎞 16 mm – 1/25″ – f/11 – ISO 160
🏷️ #Landscapes #Photography #NationalParks

A high-resolution photograph taken from Isabelle Glacier in Colorado, showing a rugged alpine ridgeline beneath a deep blue morning sky. The jagged peaks dominate the lower two-thirds of the frame, their rocky textures catching angled sunlight that casts long, crisp shadows. Small patches of lingering snow cling to the steep terrain, emphasizing the elevation and harshness of the environment. Above the ridgeline, the moon appears large and luminous, caught just before it dips below the mountains. The moon is in a waxing gibbous phase, its craters and surface details visible against the clear sky. The image captures the stark contrast between the rough, sunlit rock and the cool, soft presence of the moon, suspended in the atmosphere. There are no visible people or signs of movement—just geology, light, and timing. The photograph conveys a fleeting moment of calm and precision in a harsh but beautiful high alpine landscape.

Shot this from Isabelle Glacier last summer. One of those mornings where everything lined up... the timing, the trail, the silence, and the moon hanging just right over the ridge. Glad I was there for it.

It all starts with being there.

#glaciermorning

The Girl from Ipanema is the gateway song to an addiction to Samba.

Taiwan is a beautiful place with lovely people. My wife thought it looked like a 1950’s postcard. I’ll take it!

#BlueSkyMonday
#MountainMonday #photography #SunMoonLake #Taiwan #Nikon #DSLR #Travel #TravelPhotography