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Brian [email protected]‬

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Semi-retired, but still kicking. MA/History. Lifelong Californian. Lifelong Democrat. Naval and Maritime History aficionado. Servant to two cats. Reasonably articulate, but becoming more acerbic as time goes on.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · Oct 15

Still valid.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 13h

If black and white cats are Tuxedo Cats, are gray and white cats Ascot Cats?

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 13h

Still not Portland.

The Dead City from "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (1973).

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 13h

And lo! the Wind shall rise!

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 15h

This victory followed the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore (of which the French and Batavians apparently never knew) and restored confidence in the Royal Navy that its men would fight.
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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 15h

Among Duncan's captains was William Bligh, of the Bounty mutiny fame. At Camperdown he commanded the 64 gun ship Director and captured the Batavian flagship Vrijheid for which he received the Navy Gold Medal, one of seventeen given to officers for the battle. (2/3)

William Bligh in an 1814 painting by Alexander Huey. He wears his Navy Gold Medal, won at Camperdown.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 15h

On this day in 1797 a British fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Adam Duncan defeated a Batavian fleet off the Dutch coast at Camperdown (Kamperduin). Nine Batavian ships of the line and two frigates were captured. (1/3)🧵

Admiral Adam Duncan, commander of the British Fleet at Camperdown, enobled as Viscount Duncan. Painting by John Hoeppner.

Battle of Camperdown by Thomas Whitcombe.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently there were conditions after all.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...

US accepts 'unconditional donation' of Qatari jet, cost of retrofitting is classified: Sources

The Pentagon has accepted the “unconditional donation” of a luxury jet from Qatar, according to an agreement reviewed by ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 16h

The nice thing about this is that should his body be found somewhere in a dumpster, the family will be looked at first for suspects.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 17h

After Trump falls, they'll show him the door in like, 45 seconds.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 22h

They must have some pretty good drugs on that side of the street!

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

If he can't do specificity in a demand letter, how can we expect it of him as a Special Counsel?

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

There will, however, be a brief moment of levity at the end of the Miller regime.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

And the plastic is hand-washable!

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

There's cold, then there's Robert Falcon Scott cold.

Cairn built over the bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and two of his companions in Antarctica.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

She looks like the taxidermist had a really bad day.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

When doing something you love becomes a task, it's time to do a review. And there's nothing worse than letting a passion become a poison.
That 74 still needs building, though.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

Poor Andy strikes me as an unhappy person.
Maybe he should try on a inflatable frog costume.
It might do him a world of good, and we wouldn't have to see him.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't have to be intoxicated to be stupid.
The booze just enhances the stupidity.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

The last thing to terrorize Chicago was the Great Fire of 1871.
And maybe the Beer Wars of the 1920s.

Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

That thread on carrier-based Fairey Battles was a doozy, chum.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it's time to show the "ruling class" what an industrial-grade sausage making machine can do to a body.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

During your busy day today, please give some thought to the poor schmuck at Walter Reed who has to give Trump his prostate exam.
"Mr. President, please bend over..."

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

When President Garfield died in September 1881, Chester Arthur was sworn in to office by the Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court, John R. Brady.
He took the Oath of Office again on September 22, 1881, this time in front of the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

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Brian [email protected]‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 1d

If you belived Fox News, NYC looks more like this:

The Dead City from "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"

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