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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Has anyone noticed that the 10-points of the ceasefire are a Trump capitulation?

OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Don't forget to celebrate 14 October as the birthday of philosopher Hannah Arendt, famous Anitfa! In her honor, read her books: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and "The Origins of Totalitarianism." If you feel ambitious, throw in "The Human Condition." #Antifa #Anti-facist #HannahArendt #14October

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Crimson & Clover @crimsoncloverone.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The Original AntiFa

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Crimson & Clover @crimsoncloverone.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

“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

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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 · 03/08/2025

Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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 · 28/07/2025

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 · 27/07/2025

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 · 11/07/2025

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

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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 · 09/07/2025

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 · 09/07/2025

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 · 27/06/2025

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/...

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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...

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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 · 26/06/2025

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

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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 · 25/06/2025

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?

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I agree with the sentiments and did at the time, but it led to the all-volunteer military and the imperial presidency. War powers must never be exercised by one person. When the country is wrong it must course correct and citizens be allowed to protest. The power elite, instead, insulated itself.

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. I was a Jersey shore boy before it was overdeveloped and a joke, and later a Florida naturalist. I came across this book at the age of 10. Since then, I learned that dollarized and exploited, what people covet and develop destroys the thing itself. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thinking Jazz. One of the mainstays of bop, by the 1960s Max Roach had fully integrated his music with the social consciousness of equality and civil rights, evolving into post-bop and modal. This album aurally captures the chaotic advances and setbacks of the time. #Music #Jazz #JazzSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. I am a product of a good liberal arts education. When I become overwhelmed by the misinformation and fuzzy thinking of our time, I return to science as a restorative. Physics is a precise science, presented here by a giant of the 20th century. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thinking Jazz. You didn't imagine it: I had started to post Nina Simone, but I had honored that album previously. Instead, here is Coltrane at Birdland containing the thoughtful and mournful "Alabama." One of his best across a lifetime of consistent brilliance and exploration. #Music #Jazz #JazzSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. Written during the McCarthy era and in light of the Nazi book burnings, Bradbury’s novel is as urgent in its message today. That we have a president mentored by a McCarthy lieutenant speaks volumes. Ignorance and malice doesn’t rest. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. This book is not about battles, it is about the social, political and military events that led to open battle. We are in a similar period today, facing an oppressive neo-Confederate regime, but, instead, having subsumed our central government. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Fatty McFascist with Little Mussolini of Tallahassee are going to find that to vets, this not so veiled threat is a challenge, not a warning to heed. In the Services, deadly force is a strictly defined rule and accountability means you answer for your actions. Time to outlaw police unions.

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thinking Jazz. What is old is new again. Music for liberty, and liberation from oppression and autocracy. Haden looked back to connect the dots to how Vietnam disfigured American institutions in his time, which we are still dealing with half a century later. #Music #Jazz #JazzSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. Though our present circumstances are unique in the challenges that confront us by a dictatorial madman in the White House, Americans have faced more insurmountable challenges. Time to step up. Give this a read and become part of the solution. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

After listening to Gavin Newsom’s powerful speech, Kaitlin Collins’ take was that the California governor “attacked what Trump has done over the past several months.” Another corporate media tool. It’s not what the rest of us heard. #CNN #CorporateMedia #PoliticalTools

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. Non-violent resistance is based on “holding onto the truth.” Authoritarianism depends on a core of true believers combined with compliance and collaboration by the populace. Here Gandhi teaches active resistance and how to disrupt that base. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Books I would recommend to others. The best book on the lie of “warrior ethos” that mines the chaotic disfiguring power of America’s self-delusional war in Vietnam. That the post 9-11 wars resurrected these dark human faults makes our own times a prelude to the disaster to come. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Spouse: Do you think the majority of Supremes are sorry about their awful ruling on Presidential immunity now? Me: They just allowed the president to remove protections from 500k legal immigrants using the emergency docket. Spouse: I hadn’t kept up. Now I’m upset. #SupremeCourt #Legitimacy #Tyranny

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Bombus (Cullumanobombus) griseocollis (brown-belted bumble bee) on Firebush in Central Florida. #Gardening #entomology #nature #pollinators

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Zebra Longwing Butterfly (Heliconius charithonia) in my garden this week. The Florida state butterfly. #Gardening #entomology #nature #pollinators

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Books I would recommend to others. Most have seen the movie, but the book is the epitome of writing economy, condensing a trove of primary sources and interviews of the invasion to liberate Europe. The focus is on the men who fought and those who gave the last full measure. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Books I would recommend to others. “The Naked and the Dead” provides a perspective on war that most histories miss: the stupidity, horror, moral injury, and meaningless of battle cannot be papered over by words, medals, and talk of heroics. Better be just to ask for this sacrifice. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thinking Jazz. Booker Ervin produced one of the best albums of the 1960s and Freedom Book is it. Modern hard bop and covering all of the themes of the time, his muscular tenor sax sets the stage for group interplay and improvisation. A desert isle disc. #Music #Jazz #JazzSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Books I would recommend to others. Memorial Day is arriving. Here, Halberstam writes of a war that most people preferred to overlook and--as a result--one shrouded in mystery, misunderstanding, and ignorance. The author shines a light on power and its inherent hubris. Essential. #Books #BookSky

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OldNavyGuy @oldnavyguy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Behind on Posting Jazz. San Fran was always a great town for Navy and the Fairmont Hotel its crown jewel. McCorkle was a great songstress at the height of her talents when I saw her sing there. She breathed new life into standards and mined meaning from every song. #Music #Jazz #JazzSky

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