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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The Potomac River is in Maryland not West Virginia. But I'm glad you had a nice time.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The stink will remain. Je me souviens.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In 1958, Clennon King Jr. tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Instead, he was committed to an insane asylum. Because, reasoned the judge, a black man would have to be crazy to think he could get in to all-white Ole Miss. (4 years later James Meredith did enroll.)

Mug shot of Clennon Washington King Jr after being arrested during a failed attempt to enroll at the University of Mississippi, 1958.

James Meredith in suit and tie on the campus of the University of Mississippi on his admission in 1962. He is closely escorted by federal officers while numerous other federal officers populate the background.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

On the left is a slice of Nature's Own butterbread from a forgotten loaf I pulled from the back of my spare freezer. On the right is a slice from a loaf of Nature's Own butterbread I bought within the past week. Same exact packaging, $1 cost increase.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was stationed in Panama during my US Army days some decades ago. Strangely, the Canal Zone TV station broadcast Canadian, not US, football. Calgary had quite the fan base among US soldiers. Go Stampeders!

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yesterday, St. Louis Cardinals baseball rookie Joshua Baez hit the first Major League pitch he ever saw for a home run. Next time at bat, he hit another. Third at bat, one more. 3 homers in 3 at bats by a rookie. Holy Moly.

Baseball player Joshua Baez swings his bat, watching his first home run sail away.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Little chi mix buddy Toby & I were kicking back in the den when a lizard scuttled along the baseboard. Pup immediately dropped back to 10,000-year-old factory settings & went on the hunt. Chase, stalk, ambush. 8.5 pounds of ancestral canine behavior. (The lizard escaped; c'est la guerre)

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reported by Newsweek Looks like she hasn't been paying attention for the last several years. Leopards eat another pre-leopard face.

Newsweek article extract:
Trump-voting Texas woman's law-abiding longtime nanny arrested by ICE. She is quoted as saying "I don't think this is what I voted for...I thought we were targeting criminals." She is now facing $1.8 million in civil immigration penalties.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

True confession: I hate cats. I spent the whole weekend playing with a kitten. Maybe not all cats.

Kitten in my lap chasing a dangling toy bird on a string.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kids today will never know the sweet anticipation and joy of the odometer rollover.

Pictures of mechanical car odometer as the milage rolls over from 99,999.9 to 100,000.0.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So the National Guard occupiers of DC are "law enforcement?" No, they are tyranny enforcement. Anyone else having trouble finding the thinning line between the American military and the Wehrmacht? (disclosure: I, too, am a former Army CPT, combat vet & Bronze Star holder.)

My Vietnam Veteran cap with an "I Voted" sticker on the bill of the cap.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Little buddy 8 pound murder pup.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

But they didn't sink Bismark's sidekick heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which survived shootout with Hood & Prince of Wales, the Channel Dash, torpedo hit from HMS Trident, fighting the Russians in the Baltic & TWO nukes (Crossroads Able & Baker tests).

Photo of the Nazi German cruiser Prince Eugen.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What did you do in the National Guard, daddy? Did you defend us? Well, I protected algae and paint chips.

4 National Guard soldiers stand at one end of the Reflecting Pool, with the Washington Monument at the other end while tourists walk and stand around the Pool.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Just voted "Yes" to steal the VA Congressional delegation in the mid-terms. Because...spite.

Photo of Vietnam Veteran cap with an "I Voted" sticker on the bill.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Max Hastings on conditions endured by Patton's troops in Lorraine in Autumn, 1944:

Text: Condoms became a universal prophylactic not for sexual activity, but for protecting rifle barrels, gunsights and radio and telephone mouthpieces from the relentless precipitation.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Protocols of the Elders of Antifa

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Um... Blacker? Steal it, change it, make it your own, associate it with accomplishment. Shove it in their faces.

Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed at white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. Also referred by the euphemistic contraction C-word, it is commonly a pejorative, though is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Does anyone really expect the Tritrumpal Arch to be built? We all know the money will disappear to Trump, Trump family, Trump cronies, crooked overcharging contractors, shoddy materials, damaged public land, disrupted traffic, bribes & lawsuits by stiffed subcontractors.

Trump with small models of his proposed Triumphal Arch.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I get confused. Please tell me, is this a terrorist, a rapist, or a murderer?

Photo of 6-month-old baby who was tear gassed by ICE in the family car.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Toby wants everybody to know there are way too many cat pics on bksy and this offends him.

Toby, our chihuahua mix, 8 pounds of aggression, staring straight at the camera.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My little buddy, the Murder Dog.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

TWO religious holidays? in THIS Republican-battered economy? Gotta combine 'em to save some cash.

A dummy in a Santa Claus costume crucified like Easter Jesus.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Let's not spend a lot of time and energy on the demise of MTG. Let's concentrate on facing down the remaining Trumpers, MAGAts, GPers and ICE thugs.

US Army claymore mine, with one side reading "Front Toward Enemy."

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Less food + more poor, hungry people =

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

File this with the rest of them.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

If one has a need to protect Democracy & the Constitution from, er ... birds. Available on Amazon.

Amazon ad with picture of flat tire and caltrops spikes. Caltrops are four-pronged spikes fashioned so that a spike always points up. Ad reads, "1.8 inch Anti Bird Spikes, Metal Tire Spikes for Vehicle Security & Garden Bird Deterrent...Pigeon Spikes for Balcony Fence..."

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Mr. Farneman? You wanna buy a soybean?

From the Seinfeld episode "Serenity Now" where George Costanza is a salesman for his dad's garage-based computer business. Original text read "Mr. Farneman? You wanna buy a computer?", a line from the episode. Followed by a picture of George above a caption reading "This is George. He sells computers." At the bottom is another episode line, "You wanna sell computers? I will show YOU how to sell computers." In this meme, the word "computer" ha been replaced with "soybean" throughout.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

On left: Biden-era bread slice. On right: Trump slice. Same brand, same single loaf product from same store. Price is up, size is down. But, hey, we sure showed those Venezuelan fishermen, right?

Two slices of Butterbread from two separate loafs. The one on the left is about 30 percent larger than the one on the right.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Helen Dortch Longstreet, 2nd wife and widow of Confed LtGen James Longstreet. Shown working in a defense plant during WWII. Environmentalist, Progressive, civil rights advocate. Antifa.

Photo shows the widow of James Longstreet using a pneumatic rivet gun on an aircraft part during World War 2. She is 80 years old.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My Mom & Dad, 1942. He flew in the back seat of dive bombers. She tested machine guns. Antifa.

My parents' 1942 wedding portrait . She wears a pale half-sleeve dress with a matching bow in her hair and holds a large bouquet. He wears his Navy sailor's white uniform. Her smile shows joy and contentment. His shows "look what I got!"

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

A black bear entered a Dollar General store in Vernon NJ, bit a woman. Had to be put down by wildlife cops. Witness said bears had been feeding on unsecured dumpsters/garbage cans behind local businesses. A FED BEAR IS A DEAD BEAR.

A large black bear wandering between aisles inside a Dollar General store.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In 1776, pro-British Loyalists (AKA: Tories) gathered north of Wilmington, NC in anticipation of meeting a British amphibious landing. A Patriot force met them at Moore's Creek Bridge. The Loyalists - mostly Scots - attacked waving claymores. The last Highland charge. They were shot to pieces.

Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Loyalists, many with claymore swords and wearing kilts, advance on the Patriot position hidden in dark woods.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

George Washington wanted very much to be a British Army officer. After his services to the Crown during the French & Indian War he applied for a commission. He was told, essentially, Thank you for your service, vile colonial, now GTFO. Bad mistake. Bad. bad mistake.

Portrait of a younger-than-we-normally-picture-him George Washington in his colonial Virginia officer's uniform.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Von Steuben had been portrayed on postage stamps, given his name to naval vessels and several places in the US, has annual parades in his honor (incl the one shown in "Ferris Bueller"). His statue is at Valley Forge, PA and Lafayette Square, DC. Von Steuben was almost certainly gay.

Statue of Von Steuben in Washington, DC. He is shown standing, pointing ahead with his right arm extended while his left hand grips the hilt of the sword by his side. He wears full uniform from riding boots to tricorn hat with his cloak billowing behind him.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

When the war moved south, von Steuben was sent by Washinton to VA where he organized & dispatched the supplies and reinforcements that enabled the Americans to successfully oppose the British & then recapture N & S Carolina & GA. Von Steuben was almost certainly gay.

Drawing of von Steuben in full uniform mounted on his horse while his staff members ride behind him.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Not only did von Steuben train America's troops in battlefield drill from the individual soldier to the full regiment, but he instituted camp sanitization measures that reduced losses from disease & death. Von Steuben was almost certainly gay.

Portrait of von Steuben poised in his uniform as an American Lieutenant General. He wears his German and American medals and decorations.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Without Friedrich Wilhelm "Baron" von Steuben, the American Revolution would have been longer, harder and perhaps unwinnable. He turned a pick-up army into a trained force able to stand up to the British best. Von Steuben was almost certainly gay.

Illustration of von Steuben training Patriot troops. They stand before him in their rank, with rifles at "present arms" while he is facing them, holding his sword up as if making a point. Behind him are other troops in their ranks and in the background tents neatly aligned in good military order.

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