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Nov 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Buckle up friends, this is going to be good. For those of you who are new here, my daughter’s preschool teacher is serving a 20 year prison sentence on child porn charges.
What some may not know, is that I sued the school. After my psychologist called CPS on this teacher on my behalf while I was in her office, the school made my life a living hell. I told them I was not letting my daughter come back, but I still had a job to maintain
Nov 2, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
The History teacher in me needs to do this. History does not exist in a vacuum, nor does history justify killing and war. But, it is historically incorrect to boil this conflict down from 1948-present. I never thought providing history, in an unbiased way would be a scary thing to do, but here goes. This area of the world has never been JUST an Israeli place or JUST a Palestinian place. It’s so much more.
Bronze Age: 3300-1200 BC, Canaanites establish independent city states and adopted practiced a pagan religion with multiple dieties
Aug 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 1/6 Let’s do a thread on this. I discussed it last week, but this doesn’t give the full picture so I wanted to provide it based on my extensive research and working of Chinese CI cases at the FBI.
2/6 What are Confucius Institutes? The Confucius Institute program (est in about 2011) was formerly under Hanban, an organization affiliated with the Chinese government. The stated aim of the program is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jun 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵 NOFORN/ORCON, what does that me? I’m your friendly neighborhood spy here to help!
NOFORN: Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals. Indicates intelligence information that may not be released in any form to foreign governments, foreign nationals, foreign organizations, or non- U.S. citizens.
Jun 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵 the 5 eyes are Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, and US.
The 5 eyes are a cooperative intelligence network that monitors the electronic communications of citizens and foreign governments (signals intelligence)
Jan 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Idaho affidavit 🧵, I read it so you don’t have to: Day of crime: knife sheath found in Maddie’s room. Dog began barking at 4:17. RoomMate did wake up and came face to face with murder
Evidence found:
Latent shoe print, digital evidence of Elantra making numerous passes around the home from 3:30-4:30am, digital evidence of Elantra returning to WSU at 5:25am, on an 11/25 Elantra was found at BK’s apartment complex
Oct 18, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Tonight seems like a good time to get real about my time as a Special Agent. Buckle up. This is a THREAD 🧵
I loved my time at the CIA.I#I left the CIA not because of some disagreement or dissatisfaction, but because I didn’t want to be overseas anymore. I would work counterterrorism stateside, at the FBI. I had never been disciplined during my time at the CIA, it was all positive.
Aug 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🧵 An explainer on the classification of docs trump had per the affidavit
ORCON - originator controlled. The person who wrote said classified document is the only on who can disseminate/release it
Aug 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
🧵1/6 let’s talk declassification. Yes the President has sweeping powers to declassify, BUT this is how it works:
2/6 The request cannot be solely verbal written documentation is usually made by White House Counsel
Jul 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 just finished the uvalde report. Here are the most important 3 screenshots to me
1) Arredondo is a liar. He indeed did know that he was in charge based on the training he had through ALERRT training
Dec 3, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: Let’s talk about why the Oxford HS shooter was charged with terrorism, which is incredibly rare, yet much overdue. This is what I teach so I’d like to break it down in a factual, apolitical way
1/8 The why: The prosecutors sentiment that “we must have an appropriate consequence that speaks for the victims that were not killed or injured but also, they were affected, how do they go back to school?"
