Lindsey Brock

Son, husband to @CarolSBrock, father & attorney moving clients from complexity to clarity in maritime, logistics, public policy & commercial law.

[Jacksonville Young Republicans @JaxYRs]

The Council President is spot on! Let’s get her across the finish line! VOTE like your future depends on it!

[Maritime Reporter @ShipNews]

This is the Last Article on the Jones Act you Ever Need to Read (Really) https://t.co/tBvhiP3WW8 The Jones Act isn't just legislation; it's a lifeline for US maritime integrity. Debate rages on, but its historical benefits can't be ignored. #JonesAct #Sh… https://t.co/dBgql3nVRI

[Transport Topics @TransportTopics]

Some small trucking companies are being dragged into lawsuits fueled by outside capital, inflated claims and settlement demands untethered from reality, writes @TRUCKINGdotORG Chairman Greg Hodgen in this week's Perspective.
https://t.co/FWgNX0enJb

[Peter Schorsch @PeterSchorschFL]

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Amendment 3 ruling!

Leon Circuit Judge David Frank ruled the ballot language "clearly and conclusively defective."

@AGJamesUthmeier has 10 days to rewrite title and summary.

Read the ruling here:

https://t.co/iOip7BiNqr

#FlaPol

[Lindsey Brock @LindseyBrock]

@barstoolsports Sounds like someone rubbing a cat’s fur backwards.

[Lindsey Brock @LindseyBrock]

Some people can’t stand others having LEGAL fun🙄

[The American Waterways Operators @AWOAdvocacy]

What's the Jones Act waiver delivering for consumers? Russian troops in U.S. waters. Not kidding. A Maltese tanker with a Russian crew is moving cargo from Lake Charles to Tampa. The argument that this waiver is for national security is laughable. #EndTheWaiver now.

[The American Waterways Operators @AWOAdvocacy]

The Jones Act waiver hasn't delivered on its promises. Instead, it has handed opportunities to foreign vessels while sidelining U.S. maritime.

@realDonaldTrump: American jobs belong in American hands. Do not renew the waiver. #Endthewaiver

[The American Waterways Operators @AWOAdvocacy]

Foreign vessels are now operating in U.S. domestic trade under the Jones Act waiver without being held to the same laws and standards as American operators.

Hear AWO's Jennifer Carpenter discuss the implications of another extension on WWL AM 870:
https://t.co/Jjne0ycuhJ

[FMCSA @FMCSA]

🚨FMCSA Removes 10 ELDs from Registered List 🚨
Today, FMCSA removed 10 Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) from its list of approved devices for use in commercial motor vehicles. Drivers using these devices must switch to paper logs immediately. Carriers have 60 days to replace them. 🔗More in comments.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[The American Waterways Operators @AWOAdvocacy]

🚨 NEW ads launching across LA, AL, MS, FL, and KY. AWO and @AMPmaritime are bringing the facts directly to the public: the #JonesAct waiver is costing American mariners work and creating uncertainty for the U.S. maritime industry. #Endthewaiver now @realDonaldTrump

[Lindsey Brock @LindseyBrock]

Honor to have contributed to the blog post. @JAXPORT Jacksonville does have an incredible history. Happy 250th Independence Day! https://t.co/7Z2D08B94V

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

1. That’s not how science works genius. One “side” of the planet doesn’t warm while the other does not.

2. There were 2,394 heat deaths in America in 2024. In Europe there more than 175,000 heat-related deaths annually, according to the WHO.

The annual European heat death toll is four times the U.S. gun death toll (44,000 in 2024)— and nearly 12 times the U.S. gun homicide toll (15,000 in 2024).

AC saves lives. Idiotic climate policy kills.

[The American Waterways Operators @AWOAdvocacy]

Consequences of #JonesAct waivers are impossible to ignore: uncertainty for U.S. shipbuilding, fewer incentives to invest, real impacts on American jobs—with no consumer relief. Waivers should never come at the expense of U.S. maritime: https://t.co/Sq6fQfFqq1 @realDonaldTrump

[The American Waterways Operators @AWOAdvocacy]

Stop allowing foreign adversaries to benefit. #Endthewaiver and keep our waterways in American hands.

[REO Industries @reoindustries]

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[The Fire Watch @YourTurnToStand]

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