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Professor of history, Tae Kwon Do black belt, poker player, bicyclist, skier, travel, animals. I’ve written 4 books on the FBI, currently finishing a history of the FBI, 1908-1945. Also working on a history of Tae Kwon Do in North America.
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Like this was so long ago? 1 point but that’s because my grandmother had the encyclopedia that I used and loved.

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He’s 10 years older than me, but that is also my experience growing up.

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I worry deeply that it’s only 55%

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Well, that narrows it down.

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The Minnesota shooter had some sort of manifesto? So why is it secret?

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There is feckless Hakeem Jeffries on MSNBC 🤷

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To say the least, this parade is creepy

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Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money. We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies. I'm sure you understand.

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FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

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It is the path to autocracy

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If you haven’t been following it, CBP’s social media posts have been some of the most unhinged, aggressive, and un-American content I’ve ever seen posted to an official USG account. No sense that they answer to the American people. It’s what an invading army posts. www.instagram.com/reel/DK2GVid...

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Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

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On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.

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Whatever keeps this crook out of prison, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w...

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He's a coward is what he is.

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If you ask how the book writing is going.

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On to the thoroughly corrupt Supreme Court Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard in Los Angeles www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Of course this criminal regime loses in court. The only thing this criminal regime has going for it is that the Supreme Court is thoroughly corrupt.

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Kristi Noem has that rare ability to shoot her dog in the face and it *still* not be the worst thing she ever did in her sorry, lying life.

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Senator Alex Padilla of California was removed by force from Kristi Noem’s presser and handcuffed for his free speech. This is what a fascist regime does that rejects the laws of the US. It should horrify every American. Let’s stop pretending we are approaching authoritarian rule. We are there.

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Do you expect anything but lies from the cosplay, airhead, dog-killing DHS secretary?

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A.I. will do this and do that. It utterly mangled autocorrect, and you think it will do something good?

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The FBI is participating in this political police action?

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This is where we’re at as a country: Federal thugs detaining & roughing up a United States Senator for trying to speak to a cabinet secretary & question administration policy. Anyone who continues to doubt whether this is fascism is living in an alternate reality.

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Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."

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...I mean, yes.

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I’d rather watch Indiana Jones beat up Nazis than the Nazis doing their raids on cable news

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ABSOLUTELY. And some of us warned about this.

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A secret police is always at the heart of a fascist regime

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WTAF?

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No #OTD in history for a few days. Was bicycling in Pittsburgh & won a door prize to break badly my left humerus. Surgery at the crack for pins & plates.

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And NOW — with dreams of dictatorship over masses of ignorant — he calls out the guard. But the two incidents are related in this regard

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, in Philly: 1920s boxing.

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, Pittsburghers graduate West Point.

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, in New York: the Bobbed Hair Slayer!

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, 😐

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, his 2nd wife.

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, in Germany. Hitler knew what he was doing years later when he used black, white, & red for his flag.

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, in Massachusetts.

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#OTD 1925, a century ago, the early FBI investigated inter-state car thefts (Dyer Act) to good press.

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Everything he says is a lie

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Goose steppers at heart

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I remember growing up in the 1980s & you'd see these Soviet military parades on TV. It was roundly seen with disgust in the U.S. as a function of dictatorship.

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Meanwhile, behind the scenes and in private, these southern Baptists are boffing whom?

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