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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 3h

The biggest thing that keeps us from seeing our world accurately is organized crime is not an outlaw force, but a managed, transactional component of state power. The pretense has been dropped with Trump but this is a likely a timeless truth, in America its well documented from the 1940s forward

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 1d

America is a functionally illiterate society, our culture ignores the fact fairly consistently. We underestimate the number of folks navigating their lives based on images.The WH destruction will be Trump's biggest mistake. The image is too powerful and too simple. This man is ruining America

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the context of that picture, not the real meeting that inspired Rockwell, but Rockwell's selling America on a suburban vision of itself that didn't ever exist in reality. I think Rockwell's art should be viewed alongside AI slop as as cultural degradation.

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Would have assume the Clockwork reference as well.

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 1d

Trump wont be able to walk soon, no way he lives long enough.

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 2d

Competence is collective and systemic, not individual and heroic.

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 3d

the memo circulates the highest levels of FBI HQ receiving a hand correction from Hoover himself. The complaint was probably from Mary Curtis Zimbalist. A CIA financier destabilized her families publishing empire to control the worlds largest volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in Canada

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 3d

Possibly responsive files destroyed 11/78, 2/78, 06/78, and 5/79 during the HSCA investigation timeline, and one possibly responsive file just plain missing. The complainant is told matter is not FBI jurisdiction and to hire competent counsel if concerned. Despite this seeming non event 2/3

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 3d

When the FBI investigates a CIA front (proprietary) you get weirdness in the meta data. Curtis at the time was engaged in a covert economic warfare operation involving the Canadian land and Mr. Semenenko and it was to the detriment of Curtis. Lots here despite the brush off of the complainant 1/

Company and that Mr/Sinko had arranged several large loans for the Curtis Publishing Company through the First National Bank oi Boston and other banks with which Mr, Sinko is associated.
She advised
Curtis Publishing.
Company owned some land in canada adjacent
to property owned by the Texas Gull Sulphur Company.
The Curtis
Publishing Company land allegedly contains huge mineral deposits.
According to
Mr. Sinko and Mr. Culligan are working on
an agreement whereby Texas Gulf Sulphur Company would handle the mineral mining operations on Curtis Publishing Company's land.
This
agreement will result in Texas Gulf Sulphur Company obtaining of the revenue from the operation and Curtis Publishing Company
90%
would receive 10% of the net profit.
stated she was
concerned because she thought the integrity of both Sinko and Culligan might be questionable and this agreement might be to detriment of the Curtis Publishing

Records (173-NY-165, 60-NY-1527, 60-PH-759, and 174-PH-295) which may be responsive to your Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) request, were destroyed on 11/78, 2/78, 06/78, and 5/79. Since this material could not be reviewed, it is not known if it was responsive to your request. The retention and disposal of records are governed by statute and regulation under the supervision of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Title 44, United States Code, Section 3301 and Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 12, Sub-chapter B, Part 1228.
The FBI Records Retention Plan and Disposition Schedules have been approved by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and are monitored by NARA. Please also note that file 80-PH-949 may be responsive to your request, however, it could not be located

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 3d

I'll check it out. I loved Trujillo: The Last Caesar" by Arturo R. Espaillat but I also want to learn more details about what Bobby Baker and I think it was Ed Levinson and the other mobsters attached to the Fremont Hotel skim were doing there.

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 4d

Also hits a theme you touch on in a number of posts to do this well you have to know human nature and have a good theory of mind about who you are interacting with.

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 4d

Masterclass in the technique from my grandfather and the gang at Gulf Oil as they get grilled in a 1957 senate subcommittee hearing by Senator Estes Kefauver and Senator Joseph O'Mahoney. Interesting read for anyone into cold war petroleum cartel logistics post Suez.

babel.hathitrust.org

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 4d

Its good tradecraft to practice elicitation and counter elicitation but even though some people have a natural instinct for it it also flags the liklihood of specialized training in someone's background.

The Complete Guide of Elicitation and Counter Elicitation Techniques | Igor Vitale

This article include a full description of the elicitation and counter elicitation techniques. The description include examples, sentences and exercises

www.igorvitale.org

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 4d

LOL

Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 4d

This is at once one of the most gobsmacking examples of utter incompetence I've read to date coming from the current administration, and yet also a fascinating train wreck of hilarity.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4d

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 5d

I forget where but I've heazrd it called pollen before. I'm like 100 percent its trichomes scrapped off flower and trim.

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Troy Oppie @troyoppie.bsky.social · 5d

it's so interesting when big music rights companies choose to enforce copyrights, with use like this is largely left to individual artists to criticize the unauthorized use.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 5d

Do not under any circumstances cross the King of Yacht Rock.

"This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately"

variety.com/2025/music/n...

Kenny Loggins Slams Donald Trump for Using ‘Danger Zone’ in AI Video Bombing No Kings Protesters With Poop: ‘I Request That My Recording Is Removed Immediately’

Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Trump using his song "Danger Zone" in a bizarre AI video of him bombing No Kings protesters with fecal matter.

variety.com

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

one of those east coast media bias stories. if new jersey shut down 95 after the military wanted to fire artillery over the highway despite safety concerns from the governor and then some of it accidentally blew up, i think it'd be a bigger story.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 6d

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 5d

Paranoid thought of the day. They are going to do a Paul Wellstone on Mamdani.

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 9d

Would love some more Nugan Hand and Whitlam dismissal details but even if those are not part of your subject more background context for those events is welcome.

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 10d

taskandpurpose.com/news/mv-ocea...

The elusive ship built to carry US special operators is in the Caribbean

The ship is built to carry up to 159 special operations forces plus its crew of 50 for up to 45 days at sea.

taskandpurpose.com

RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 10d

I'm going back to UHF and VHF

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 10d

Lisa Pease's Midnight in the Congo was eye opening about Dag Hammarskjöld, look forrward to this.

Ekimellnea @ekimellnea.bsky.social · 12d

Want to understand Cold War Africa? Read The Lumumba Plot. It’s history that still matters today.
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The Lumumba Plot Book Review: Stuart A. Reid’s Insightful Take

The Lumumba Plot book review Stuart A. Reid reveals CIA involvement in Lumumba’s assassination and its impact on Congo’s history.

smpl.is

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10d

More images from what was just reported in Politico (www.politico.com/news/2025/10...)

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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 10d

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RDM @coverthistory.bsky.social · 10d

A fair critique of certain aspects of our culture but also heavily skewed by an always dated east-coast perspective that California is a place to go to or avoid but not a place anyone might actually be from.

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