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Cindy Storer

@cindystorer.bsky.social
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Former counterterrorism intelligence analyst now working as an intelligence educator. I have a tendency to end up in documentaries. Also single childless woman dog lady who people say achieved something meaningful.

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Diana Bolsinger @dianabolsinger.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Nothing better than a project where you get to collaborate with smart friends. This roundtable was fun! Thank you, @lucatrenta.bsky.social, Michael J. Ard, @cindystorer.bsky.social, @paulmcgarr.bsky.social, and the one-and-only @tim-weiner.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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H-Diplo|Jervis Forum Roundtable Review 17-5 on Weiner, _The Mission_ | H-Net
The Jervis ForumH-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies ForumRoundtable Review 17-35Tim Weiner, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century. Mariner Books, 2025. ISBN: 978063270190.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Protest in Wesley Chapel, Florida
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Does the intelligence community warn of imminent threats? After speaking with my students, I’ve decided to offer clarification of the threat warming process.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Re Mark Kelly, I’m watching A Few Good Men and it got me wondering, what IS the penalty for a bringing false accusation against a senior officer?
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Socialism is not Communism. Democratic socialism is not “pure” socialism. Crack a book, or stop supporting lies for your agenda, whatever that is.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is what I see from my students. ChatGPT can help research, it is not research.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I worked for the CIA. Counterterrorism. I disobeyed illegal orders. Anyone else?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
That’s nice re Democratic strategy Lawrence O’Donnell, but meanwhile I will not have health insurance next year.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hegseth’s speech today is one more indication they plan to invade other countries and declare martial law in our own. Why not comply with the laws of war? To invade. Why practice in cities? Why emphasize “brutality”? Etc etc.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Cancelled Disney+ today. I love the content but love my country more. I did not defend my country from terrorists for this.
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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Friends it is so essential to find your people. Hang out as much as possible with people who have decent values, who do their best to be kind You should have a community where you will be welcomed just as you are. And where your soul will be nourished. My community’s doors are open.❤️
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
CNN has made the editorial decision to keep playing this clip on air for guests making sure they get the full context of what Kimmel said. Good.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.
Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
So is it just me, or does anyone else think these plans to deploy the national guard all over are preparation for protests this coming weekend?
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Liz has a plan. A good plan. Who’s in?
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Crimes against humanity
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Cara Pelletier @scaradactyl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.facebook.com/share/1AdN32... Hell YES
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Redirecting...
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Interesting add tonight in Florida. Biden broke Medicaid but Trump will save it. Does this signal a reversal?
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
All of the autistic people I know are accomplished in their own ways.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Notably, in his media availability in El Salvador, @vanhollen.senate.gov truthfully keeps saying that Abrego Garcia was "illegally abducted" and "disappeared" instead of the more antiseptic, and factually incorrect, "deported."
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 16/04/2025
Oh wow. This just in from a CISA spokesperson: “The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of CISA. Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services. We appreciate our partners’ and stakeholders’ patience.”
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=GX0o...
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I Am Altering The Deal, Pray I Don't Alter it Any Further
YouTube video by Samuel Seager
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In Congress, July 4, 1776. “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution….For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses…”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
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‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/04/2025
As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A screenshot of an Azure cloud network traffic monitor showing a big in outbound traffic leaving the NLRB system
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"Saruman, I have heard such speeches before, but only in the mouths of emissaries sent from Mordor to deceive the ignorant." (Since Palantir is run by alleged Tolkien fans...)
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“To have a hope of combating the end times fascists, with their ever-constricting and asphyxiating concentric circles of “ordered love”, we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures”
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Patrick G. Eddington @pgeddington.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Absolutely epic parody. 💯
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2025
The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is great advice. People are complex, emotional beings. We need to use that, not deride it. Is anyone listening?
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Making it all disappear …
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home. Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
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Try that in a small town
ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.
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Robert G. Reeve @robertgreeve.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.
On her first day in the facility, Becky asked for a scrap of paper and a pen, and began to draw the inmates on the table next to her. She was immediately inundated with portrait requests. A Mexican woman called Lopez, who had a photo of her children stored on one of the iPads, told Becky she would buy her some paper and colouring pencils from the commissary if Becky drew her kids. She soon became the dorm’s unofficial artist-in-residence, with women huddling around the dirty mirrors to make themselves look presentable before they sat for her. They would decorate their cells with Becky’s drawings, or send them to their families. Lopez declared herself Becky’s manager. “She kept saying, ‘Becky, you need to ask for stuff in exchange. Ask for popcorn.’ And I’d be like, ‘Lopez, I don’t need anything.’ I thought, I’m here briefly, you’re stuck here a long time. I’m not going to take your food away from you.”A three by three grid illustrating in blue pen cartoon portraits of women in an ICE detention center. “Mrs Kailey,” Bana, Lewelyn, Ikram, Asil, ‘Auntie,’ ‘F.Z,’ Kseniia, and “P.A.” Two have light hair, three have glasses, one wears a hijab, one poses, and one holds a drink.
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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Dr Fry is an Associate Prof. Of History at the Army Command and General Staff College, where officers on-track for higher command learn the profession, including the history of both successes and failures. Halting this education is not just a failure, it is gross negligence.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 05/04/2025
X-FILES x HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY "Congratulations on your new time machine! Please don't destroy the world. It takes forever to repair, and it never comes out quite right afterwards." #1stlinepit #Q #A #SF
Agent & Editor Guide to TIME TRAVELER'S ETIQUETTE GUIDE

Standalone Sci-fi of 99,000 words
Revisionist history
Mulder/Scully protagonists
The secret origin of platypuses
Time-traveling bunny assassins

Grigory LukinPitch:

When careless time travelers almost destroy history, the only solution is to write a better guidebook!

Our timeline is falling apart, and its last defender is Bob Renner, the overworked 28th-century bureaucrat from the Organization for Time Travel Oversight (OTTO). Snarky, exhausted, but always helpful, writing this guide is his last chance to save the world as we know it – and to work off his own time-crime debt to the OTTO. But first, he needs help from a skeptical 21st-century scientist.

As Bob and his aloof colleague analyze the 100 worst time-crimes, we realize the OTTO itself caused many of them. Juggling inept interns, time-traveling influencers, and the imminent risk of timeline collapse, Bob must save history – and gain back his freedom – or disintegrate trying.Comps:
Killing Time by Jodi Taylor
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsMoodboard:
public domain images:
Vampire: Bela Lugosi's Dracula (1931)
Watches: Rhetos
Golem: Thander
Wizard: ErikaWittlieb
Theseus: ArchaiOptix
Platypus: Nellie Pease/CABAH
The Valkyrie: Peter Nicolai Arbo (1869)
UFO: George Stock

Book snippet in the middle:
"Congratulations on your new time machine! Please don't destroy the world. It takes forever to repair, and it never comes out quite right afterwards."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I am told that DOGE showed up at the peace corps this morning. If you’re there or know details please contact me at joshtpm.99 on signal.
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Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 @debpixcom.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on
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Cindy Storer @cindystorer.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My mom died of Alzheimer’s. It’s an awful process.
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