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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 1d

At a moment of existential threat to
American liberty by the Trump Regime, the Nobel Committee points the way.

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 1d

What is amazing and tragic is that the lawbreaker in this case is Trump and the degraded and compromised DOJ. They are breaking the law in plain sight. When the system rights itself there will be nowhere for Trump and his enablers to run to escape real justice except, perhaps, Russia or Hungary.

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Crimson & Clover @crimsoncloverone.bsky.social · 2d

The Original AntiFa

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Crimson & Clover @crimsoncloverone.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my take on ☢️🤥 and R F K Jrs whole discussion on circumcisions, Tylenol and Autism…

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Crimson & Clover @crimsoncloverone.bsky.social · 2d

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Aug 7

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
—General William Francis Butler, British Army GCB, PC (Ire)
#militaryleadership
#integrity
#DoD

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Aug 6

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
—Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

#BookSky
#Resilience
#Hope

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Aug 3

Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Aug 2

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
—William Ernest Henley

#PoetrySky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 28

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many-they are few.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
#Liberty
#Freedom
#PoetrySky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 27

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
—John Masefield
#Freedom
#PoetrySky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 11

Slow burn about the last Supreme Court's democracy undermining session, but did a deep dive after Justice Barrett revealed her hidden Serena Joy Waterford in lying about the baselessness of Justice Jackson's critique. CRS analysis: www.congress.gov/crs_external...
#democracy
#supremecourt
#reform

www.congress.gov

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 11

Books I would recommend to others.

Sinclair Lewis knew America better than it knew itself: delusional, subject to extremism, and vulnerable to grift. Self-serving platitudes since this book on American exceptionalism fails with the Republican Party, MAGA, Conservatives, and Trump.
#Books
#BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thinking Jazz.

Metheny and his band were considered fusion at the time, but one only needs to hear "So May It Secretly Begin" to come to the realization that he expresses in music the inner voice in us that says: “I know this. I have lived this. I have felt this.” It’s jazz.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 9

Books I would recommend to others.

Few writers can look at themselves and the culture around them and write so honestly and fearlessly as Baldwin did in this work. Even today, it is both shocking and disturbing in its ability to tear down facades of race, love, sex, and self-image.
#Books
#BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think we deploy mimes.

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 9

False advertising. Should be the Mugwump Party with their mugs on one side of the fence and their wumps on the orher.

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Why would you expect anything else from this guy? Birds of a feather. It’s not that “all the devil are here,” it’s “all the sociopaths are here.”

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jun 27

From Valley Dude in 2020 warning about Justice Barrett’s extreme reactionary views on the 14th Amendment and expressing the game-plan of negating it. Aligns with today’s ruling on birthright citizenship.
#SupremeCourt
#Barrett
#14thAmendment

www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/...

Amy Coney Barrett and the Fourteenth Amendment — Valley Dude

There’s a lot that is going to be written about Amy Coney Barrett about her policies, her religion and the balance of the court.  But what I’d like to focus on is something far more troubling fou...

www.valleydude70.com

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jun 27

The radicals on the Supreme Court today handed down this week a set of judicial rulings that are the modern equivalent of the Coercive Acts of 1774. Third American Revolution will be the result, hopefully peaceful and successful.
#SupremeCourt
#History
#Constitution
#Liberty

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congressman Frost of Florida gave his State of the District briefing this past weekend. He has done a great deal for Orlando and environs and is well versed on the issues. Key takeaway: issues of oligarchic governance and immigration started in FL first.
#AlejandroFrost
#CongreemanFrost
#Florida10th

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thinking Jazz and feeling blue.

Driving to music this morning a bit under the weather and Wes comes on with Hancock on piano, Carter on bass, Tate on drums, and Barretto on percussion along with a full orchestra playing “Eleanor Rigby” and that healing thing happens.
#Music
#Jazz
#JazzSky

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Greater Assabet Indivisible Network (GAIN) @gain-indivisible.bsky.social · Jun 25

This man moved to the US when he was 7 years old and had legal permanent residency under a green card.

How is this not headline news?

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jun 25

Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country.

He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.

U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii

Kunia resident Sae Joon Park, a decorated Army veteran, was given three weeks to return to South Korea, after 48 years in the U.S.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jun 25

Books I would recommend to others.

The template for the corruption and abuse of power we’ve experienced. Defeated by an independent judiciary and strong professional institutions in 1974, our anti-democratic Republican and MAGA insurgents attacked those first. Take it back.
#Books
#BookSky

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · Jun 25

Unidentified individuals in balaclavas without a badge taking people is abduction. With the absence of a legal warrant or due process it is criminality. Remember that undocumented status is not a criminal issue, it is a civil one. Local police are usually not aware of the raids.
#ICE
#DHS
#Raids

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