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GaryTheDad

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Husband, father of daughters, retired Navy, big data geek, cancer survivor (so far 😎).

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To recap: Drag Shows ❌ Miss Rachel ❌ Books ❌ Public executions ✅
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When you’ve lost white people in Florida.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nailed it 👇🏽 🎯 #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, it does sound familiar.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
While Trump makes love to Kim Jong Un and betrays U.S. ally South Korea, North Korean ballistic missiles are slamming into Kyiv. Trump blocks Ukraine from buying or making missile interceptors for Patriot air defence systems, helping russian/North Korean aerial attacks on Europe get through.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
😕🔥🌎
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have no fresh food. The Secretary of Defense spent millions on Lobsters. Ordinary Americans are struggling to pay for food, gas, and rent. The Trump family has made BILLIONS from insider trading and graft. This regime doesn’t care about us—only themselves.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/08/2026
Why wait
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Defenders of Our Republic @defendersofourrepublic.org · 14/08/2026
Imagine if this was happening under Lloyd Austin. 24/7 news coverage, Congressional investigations, #JamesComer would've opened an impeachment inquiry. This is dereliction of duty on behalf of #Hegseth and our military deserves better. #Impeach #Convict #Remove www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pete Hegseth dismisses reports of deteriorating conditions on USS Abraham Lincoln
Defense secretary said conditions on aircraft carrier deployed in support of Iran war have been ‘completely misrepresented’
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Listen as @duckworth.senate.gov shares the true meaning of patriotism. This #CupOfJoe recognize emphasizes the importance of standing up & exercising your hard-won First Amendment right! 🇺🇸
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
Not a conspiracy. Not pattern matching. Mention a document that makes people look silly, and they will wipe years of documents and paid-for research to save face. Only some forward thinking to save a copy prevents oblvion. Or as the Internet Archive calls it, Friday. Anyway. archive.org/donate
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Admiral (ret.) William H. McRaven: "In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Secret Pentagon vetting under Hegseth blocked dozens of military promotions | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
WASHINGTON >> The Navy’s top leadership believed that Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was by far the best choice to lead the command that oversees the Navy’s bases at home and abroad.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And under the treaty they signed at Versailles in 1919, the Germans paid less to the Allies in constant dollars than Trump agreed to pay Iran in the surrender instrument he signed there yesterday.
John Cusack: It was in this palace in June of 1919 that the President of Germany Gustav Bauer signed the treaty of surrender and agreed to pay restitution to the allies. Trump is clueless as to what he just did
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I just want 1 day of peace. Just One Day I will never forgive this country for re-electing that orange demon. Never www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets
An Air Force spokesperson acknowledged that the service “declined participation in compliance with Executive Orders … and DoW guidance.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Can’t be repeated enough👇🏽 Just so insane
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026
Let’s all post it and see if they indict all of us.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
happy lesbian visibility day xoxo
job interview….. vs…. Lesbian visibility week meme but it’s Fritzi Ritz in two cute outfits
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A draft dodger is arresting war veterans for protesting his illegal war with Iran. Remember in November.
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A masters degree in national security from Liberty University? International Relations from Hillsdale College? This will certainly be what our hollowed-out military leadership needs to excel in today’s geopolitical hellscape. www.tennessean.com/story/news/2...
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Hegseth taps University of Tennessee for potential military training
In a geographic shift, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth eliminated military programs at elite schools and shifted south, potentially tapping UT.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/02/2026
New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Stephen Leacock describes such a command strategy:
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Always read Jim Fallows fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
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‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
BREAKING: How Canada Quietly Planted It's Flag In Greenland Under Trump's Orange Nose open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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BREAKING: How Canada Quietly Planted It's Flag In Greenland Under Trump's Orange Nose
The story of how Ottawa dismantled MAGA’s Greenland fantasy without firing a shot
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/01/2026
Flip both houses of Congress so we can defund ICE please.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Trump’s press conference today was among his more haywire performances, and his slushy delivery and meandering answers will not halt speculation about his cognitive health. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The Russia-backed Trump regime in the United States appointed an "envoy" for Greenland. In response to this unfriendly act (which portends aggression), Denmark summoned the U.S. ambassador.
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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A very interesting (and ominous) article. Bonus, it also explains how that nuclear scientist at MIT who the Brown University shooter also murdered is tied into all of this.
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BREAKING: Russia Is Buying Trump for $6 Billion — And It’s Happening in Plain Sight
A failing social media company. A Russian-backed fusion deal. AI panic. Presidential conflicts. And now, a dead American nuclear scientist. Tell me again this is “just a tech story.”
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Early morning at No Kings in Nashville. Hundreds of people still streaming in every minute. #NoKings
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
MEMPHIS — “WE SAY NO! We didn’t wake up with this problem, it was systematically created (by Lee, Trump, etc.)” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social calls out “some in positions of power bending a knee and kissing the ring” as Trump & Lee send the military — after decades of underinvestment.
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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 14/09/2025
S Korean employees at Tennessee GM Ultium factory, making LG batteries for GM electric vehicles, mostly left the USA. They’d used the same visas & waivers that Hyundai employees had in Georgia. Curious if Taiwanese at TSMC chip fab in AZ are making escape plans… www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
First attempt at some astronomy photography.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
@carriealee.bsky.social of the German Marshall Fund: “this suggests ‘they understand that actions they’re taking are skirting the line.’” newrepublic.com/article/1987...
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Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.
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The Ghost of Mark Twain @ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Powell smacks down Trump right to his face This is how you do it
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Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalks.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Well then. www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/2026...
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2026 World Cup: FIFA considers moving games from USA to Canada amid immigration policies
The global football governing body, FIFA, is reportedly weighing the possibility of relocating some of the 2026 World Cup matches from the United States to Canada.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Just heard this Octavia Butler quote for the first time and am now obsessed with it.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United. Repost if you agree.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Trying to demonstrate the military’s “freedom of maneuver” INSIDE a US city is about as dystopian as you can get. “Freedom to maneuver” is the type of thing we practice in, say, disputed Chinese waters.
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Happy Independence Day
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"What should we do?" People keep asking me this in response to the moral horrors we see playing out every day. Well, allow me to undertake the challenge of coming up with something like an answer.
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What You Should Do
Why your authentic self is your most powerful weapon
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Is trump performing in blackface at the NATO summit? He needs to be arrested by The Hague for war crimes, certainly, but can we charge him for this too?
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“When I say ‘Red light!’ you’re supposed to stop until I say ‘Green light!’” -baby trump
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Rikard Vilhelm @rikardvilhelm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Nashville. #NoKings
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14/06/2025
Happy 250th birthday to U.S. Army! 🇺🇸 The brave men and women of our Army are the real heroes we should be celebrating. Not a wannabe king who throws himself a $40 million birthday parade.
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A president we could all be proud of
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GaryTheDad @garythedad.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is The Borowitz Report, but it’s not a joke today:
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