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Navy Blue Seas
@cdrjames.bsky.social
Political Moderate. Protect Democracy, the Constitution, Rule of Law, Women’s Rights, Nature. 🙏🏻👍: First Responders,Teachers, Military/US Navy Freedom Fighters! 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🐶🏈🏒⚾️📷
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A good summary of the Vueling situation.

Quoting Cheryl E 🇮🇱🎗️
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Congratulations to a fine naval officer who will be a terrific chief of naval operations! I’ve worked with him many times over the years… news.usni.org/2025/06/18/f...
Fleet Forces Commander Caudle Nominated as Next Chief of Naval Operations - USNI News
President Donald Trump tapped Adm. Daryl Caudle to serve as the next chief of naval operations, nearly four months after the removal of Adm. Lisa Franchetti. The Senate Armed Services Committee receiv...
news.usni.org
June 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🚨🚨 Trump’s VA just allowed doctors to deny care to Democrats, unmarried Veterans, among other groups.

This isn’t healthcare. It’s political purity tests for people who risked their lives for this country.

It’s unethical, authoritarian, and every one of us should be outraged.
June 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The fact is, 215 Republicans, some of whom are in very tough swing districts and are up for reelection next year, just voted to take Medicaid away from millions of Americans. That includes these Republicans who said they wouldn't:
May 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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NEW: Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary at the DOD who has come under fire for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, has been promoted to serve as the department’s press secretary

Wilson has also called Confederate General Robert E. Lee “one of the greatest Americans to ever live”
May 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Our task: To stop Trump from making the United States of America his ultimate bankruptcy, his ultimate failure.
May 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Trump has time to host a dinner for the rich crypto guys who bought his memecoin, but not to shake hands with West Point graduates. Priorities.
May 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Trump, Who Dodged the Draft, Chooses Memorial Day to Lash Out at Political Foes Rather Than Honor the Fallen

www.kyivpost.com/post/53398?u...
Trump, Who Dodged the Draft, Chooses Memorial Day to Lash Out at Political Foes Rather Than Honor the Fallen
The commander-in-chief who used family connections to avoid service during the Vietnam War, and who called KIA soldiers “suckers”, spent a day dedicated to heroes to advance his own agenda.
www.kyivpost.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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"This bill cuts Medicaid very deeply; more deeply than I've ever seen it cut." Jack Lew, former OMB director, explains how new requirements in the Republican budget bill would force people out of having healthcare.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Putin rejects a U.S.-Europe ceasefire proposal and Trump responds not by sanctioning Russia but by punishing our European allies with a 50% tariff.

Whose side is he on?
May 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.

www.cbo.gov/system/files...
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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turns out the GOP budget bill adds so much to deficits that it will automatically trigger cuts to Medicare (not just Medicaid).
Older voters unlikely to be happy about this when word gets out
democrats-budget.house.gov/news/press-r...
CBO Confirms GOP Budget Bill Triggers Medicare Cuts
Republican Plan Adds to the Deficit, Will Trigger Automatic Cuts Under Federal Law
democrats-budget.house.gov
May 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The Wall Street Journal: On a call Monday, Trump told European leaders that Vladimir Putin isn’t ready to end the war because he believes he’s winning.

It’s time for the Senate to pass the bipartisan Graham-Blumenthal sanctions bill, already backed by 81 co-sponsors.
May 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Trump official ordered rewrite of intelligence report explicitly to protect Trump's political interests: "We need to do some rewriting" and more analytic work "so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)
budgetlab.yale.edu
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Do you know who Brad Smith is? Republicans who are dismantling healthcare right now are counting on you not to. Rep. Auchincloss breaks down who Smith is and how he stands to profit as the GOP guts healthcare.
May 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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“Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia…After nearly three decades serving our country, I resigned as our ambassador to Ukraine.”

www.freep.com/story/opinio...
I was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. I resigned because of Trump's foreign policy. | Opinion
I served in our country's foreign service for three decades. The Trump administration's Ukraine policy will make the U.S. less safe.
www.freep.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“But the focus on the delays can be a bit of a distraction. Because right now the real question is not why the Republicans are moving so slowly but why they are moving so quickly—and what they don’t want you to see.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tak...
How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours
There’s a reason Republicans are in such a rush to get Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress.
www.thebulwark.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Buried in the House's 1,000-page tax-and-budget bill: a provision banning federal judges from enforcing contempt of court rulings over a wide range of court orders open.substack.com/pub/walterol...
Wild: House bill would strip courts of contempt enforcement power
In the ongoing public discussion about whether the courts will try to rein in the Trump administration’s lawlessness, or will prevail in a resulting showdown if they do, the story that follows has bee...
open.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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News:

Former Congressman and Assistant Secretary of State @tommalinowski.bsky.social, reports that the Qatari plane may well have been not a gift but a shakedown. And that in return for the emirates’ crypto cash, Trump waived AI restrictions on the emirates, and thus China.
youtu.be/aIks_UA7D2w?...
Was the Crypto Deal Just a Cover for a Shakedown? (Tom Malinowski) | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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May 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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At 1:34 a.m., Trump went on a rant calling for investigations into Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Bono.

Hard to believe 77 million Americans looked at this broken, deranged man and thought he should lead the free world.
May 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🚨Trump is willing to cut suicide prevention research for Veterans—because it's based at Harvard. He despises those who’ve served with such a passion, he’s willing to bury the science that could save lives.

All while spending $45 million on a birthday parade. Deplorable.
May 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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WSJ exclusive:

This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out.

Manager at Newark says his agency is understaffed, stressed out, experienced equipment failures that forced him to record flight info with pen and paper

www.wsj.com/business/air...
Exclusive | This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out.
Jonathan Stewart was badly shaken by a recent close call in airspace around Newark, N.J. “I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people,” he said in an interview.
www.wsj.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM