Dan Ray
@danray05.bsky.social
music librarian, retired military musician, recovering music teacher, bicycle enthusiast
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Dan Ray
@danray05.bsky.social
· Aug 20
It’s important to remember when I share opinions and thoughts on politics and the military, it is with the expertise of a trombone player in the National Guard. And I read a book by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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The Trump DOJ played down the risk of deploying the National Guard to DC, despite warnings, and now one of them is dead. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Trump DOJ played down the risk of deploying the National Guard to DC, despite warnings, and now one of them is dead. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Reposted by Dan Ray
Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Place National Guard in harm’s way for no good reason. Two members are tragically and unnecessarily shot. The reckless regime’s response: We’re sending 500 more National Guard troops! What a disgrace.
This is a breaking story and details are still unknown, but the fact is they shouldn’t even be there. Responsibility for any damage, injury or death lies squarely with the Trump administration.
BREAKING: Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says
Two National Guard soldiers were shot Wednesday near the White House and their conditions aren’t immediately known, according to a law enforcement official not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.Emergency vehicles were seen responding to the area.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is a breaking story and details are still unknown, but the fact is they shouldn’t even be there. Responsibility for any damage, injury or death lies squarely with the Trump administration.
I have a feeling Trump is almost as happy to have us fighting about the military and unlawful orders as he would be to have the military actually attacking civilians.
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I have a feeling Trump is almost as happy to have us fighting about the military and unlawful orders as he would be to have the military actually attacking civilians.
And here are some Christmas decorations in Sydney. Christmas in Summer still kind of blows my mind.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
And here are some Christmas decorations in Sydney. Christmas in Summer still kind of blows my mind.
Stores in Australia were playing Christmas music in early November. I wondered why they didn’t wait until after Thanksgiving like decent human beings, then I remembered they don’t have Thanksgiving. Those poor souls start in right after Halloween. No holiday buffer. Guess I’m thankful for that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Stores in Australia were playing Christmas music in early November. I wondered why they didn’t wait until after Thanksgiving like decent human beings, then I remembered they don’t have Thanksgiving. Those poor souls start in right after Halloween. No holiday buffer. Guess I’m thankful for that.
Returning to Virginia from an overseas trip and I feel like I missed all the Fall colors, but UVA’s Pratt Gingko was still on display when I arrived at work this morning.
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Returning to Virginia from an overseas trip and I feel like I missed all the Fall colors, but UVA’s Pratt Gingko was still on display when I arrived at work this morning.
Some important points about military oaths of service from the General.
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Some important points about military oaths of service from the General.
Reading about this policy change leaves me with one question: How many people currently in or trying to join the USCG have swastika tattoos?
"The Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol.
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines.
"The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag."
Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
"Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi insignia as 'potentially divisive' under its new guidelines.
"The new policy similarly downgrades the definition of nooses and the Confederate flag."
Free link wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Reading about this policy change leaves me with one question: How many people currently in or trying to join the USCG have swastika tattoos?
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/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
www.pbs.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
New Zealand McDonalds has a salad burger.
November 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
New Zealand McDonalds has a salad burger.
“Never forget” means continuing to teach the truth about what happened on Jan 6.
THE DAY AHEAD: States maneuver to preserve and teach the history of Jan 6
youtube.com/shorts/nlmMw...
youtube.com/shorts/nlmMw...
DAY AHEAD: States maneuver to preserve history of U.S. Capitol siege.. teach school children
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“Never forget” means continuing to teach the truth about what happened on Jan 6.
Coogee Beach, NSW Australia 11/10/25
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Coogee Beach, NSW Australia 11/10/25
Active attacker alert at UVA Shannon Library! WTF people? Hope everyone is ok.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Active attacker alert at UVA Shannon Library! WTF people? Hope everyone is ok.
Bike parking at Manly ferry terminal. More of this, please!
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Bike parking at Manly ferry terminal. More of this, please!
Sydney Opera House has bike parking! How cool is that!
November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sydney Opera House has bike parking! How cool is that!
Australia I am in you
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Australia I am in you
Movies I watched in preparation to my Australia/New Zealand trip:
Strictly Ballroom
Quigley Down Under
The Castle
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Gallipoli (1981 film)
ANZAC girls (series)
Ten Canoes
Whale Rider
Strictly Ballroom
Quigley Down Under
The Castle
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Gallipoli (1981 film)
ANZAC girls (series)
Ten Canoes
Whale Rider
November 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Movies I watched in preparation to my Australia/New Zealand trip:
Strictly Ballroom
Quigley Down Under
The Castle
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Gallipoli (1981 film)
ANZAC girls (series)
Ten Canoes
Whale Rider
Strictly Ballroom
Quigley Down Under
The Castle
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Gallipoli (1981 film)
ANZAC girls (series)
Ten Canoes
Whale Rider
DC Metro tap on/off with phone is a huge upgrade!
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
DC Metro tap on/off with phone is a huge upgrade!
Welp, I’m off to Australia.
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Welp, I’m off to Australia.
Game six starts with a serviceable Star Spangled Banner followed by O Canada a with crowd singing, bi-lingual, and modulating to the last stanza! Toronto means business!
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Game six starts with a serviceable Star Spangled Banner followed by O Canada a with crowd singing, bi-lingual, and modulating to the last stanza! Toronto means business!
Happy Halloween morning bike commute!
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Happy Halloween morning bike commute!
Morning commute. Any views of your morning ride?
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Morning commute. Any views of your morning ride?
Maybe he thinks if he doesn’t do anything she’ll end up in the basement with the January 6th Plaque.
It's been 33 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Maybe he thinks if he doesn’t do anything she’ll end up in the basement with the January 6th Plaque.