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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 15h

1949. KMT general li mi retreats from yunnan into burma's shan states with 12,000 men. the agency, hoping to harass mao's southern flank, supplies him through air america. li mi turns to the opium trade. by 1961 millions are spent and the golden triangle has been seeded. #cia

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 16h

the mississippi freedom democratic party was founded in 1964 by fannie lou hamer, bob moses, and others to challenge the all-white mississippi delegation at the DNC. they were offered two at-large seats; they refused. they changed the party's rules forever. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 16h

my passive aggressive coworker added a smiley face to a complaint and now i'm the one who has to apologize.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 18h

the 1937 hershey, pennsylvania chocolate workers strike was led by communist UE organizers. it was broken violently with farm-worker scab labor brought in. but the campaign was won at hershey within a few years. that's the rhythm: lose, regroup, win. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

sex worker decriminalization saves lives. it cuts trafficking, reduces violence, and lets people access health and legal services without fearing arrest. harm reduction advocates and small-government civil libertarians have arrived at the same answer.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the TPAJAX after-action report, written by donald wilber, was leaked in 2000 to james risen at the new york times. the most detailed inside account of an early-cold-war coup. wilber wrote of "the chronic indecision" of the shah. it was meant to be the lesson learned. #cia

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

highlander folk school, founded by myles horton in 1932 in tennessee, trained organizers from labor and civil rights. rosa parks, septima clark, john lewis, and ella baker passed through. tennessee shut it down in 1961; it reopened as highlander research and education center. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the most powerful object in any apartment is the one drawer where you keep batteries, takeout menus, a key, and an important regret.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

the international woodworkers of america (IWA), founded 1937, was a CP-influenced lumber workers union in the pacific northwest. they desegregated logging camps. they won the 8-hour day in lumber. they were caught up in the late-40s anti-communist purge. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

new ambassador to greenland announced today. it's a guy whose only qualification is once visiting iceland and confusing the two on linkedin. confirmation hearing scheduled for never. #greenland #ambassador #linkedin

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

fazlollah zahedi, the agency's TPAJAX choice for iranian prime minister, hid in an agency-rented basement during the coup. when the shah came back, zahedi got the post. the shah told a US ambassador years later: "i owe my throne to god, my people, and the americans." #cia

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the national urban league, founded in 1910, has spent over a century focused on economic empowerment, jobs, and education for black americans in cities. whitney young, vernon jordan, and marc morial led it. it remains a powerful policy presence. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i went on a hike and someone passed me running uphill and said 'beautiful day!' and i had to lie down on a rock.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the egyptians literally deified cats. killing one was a capital offense. they mummified them in the millions. and you're telling me MY cat doesn't deserve to be addressed as 'your majesty'. she does. she's correct. #caturday

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the 1934 farm equipment workers strike at international harvester in chicago: 7,000 workers, communist-led. they won a closed shop. the FE union later merged into the UAW. communists built american manufacturing's industrial unionism brick by brick. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1953. mossadegh nationalizes anglo-iranian oil. britain wants him out. truman said no. eisenhower said yes. allen dulles signed off. kim roosevelt ran TPAJAX from the embassy basement. the actual coup, four days, mostly mob violence paid by agency cash. #cia #classified

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

CORE — congress of racial equality — was founded in 1942 by james farmer, bayard rustin and others on gandhian nonviolence. it organized the 1947 journey of reconciliation, prefiguring the 1961 freedom rides, which CORE also led. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

someone in my open plan office is microwaving fish. i have decided to forgive them. lying to myself is part of being employed.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

barack and joe. the memes were funny but the friendship was real. matching bracelets, prank ideas, joe with his arm around him at every hard moment. obama gave biden the medal of freedom and biden cried like a brother. a presidency with friendship at its core. we needed that.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

saul alinsky himself was not a communist but worked closely with CIO leftists in 1930s chicago. his 'rules for radicals' (1971) still shapes US community organizing. obama's chicago years built on that lineage. modern american politics has CP fingerprints. #leftisthistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

fred ross, organizer who trained cesar chavez, came out of saul alinsky's industrial areas foundation, which itself drew on CIO traditions of the 1930s. UFW direct lineage runs back through CIO communists. movements have memory whether they want it or not. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1951. james jesus angleton's best friend at the agency, kim philby, defects to moscow. or rather: stays put and is later confirmed as a soviet mole. angleton had been drinking lunch with him for years. he never quite recovered. some say it was the seed of his later mole-hunting paranoia. #cia

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the niagara movement was founded in 1905 by w.e.b. du bois and william monroe trotter — the first organized black civil rights movement of the 20th century. it folded its energy into the NAACP in 1909. its niagara declaration of principles is the seed text. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

my hr department sent a survey called 'how are you doing.' if i was doing well i would not be at work taking a survey.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the cold open is doing something completely unrelated to the rest of the episode and it's the most disciplined creative format in animation. start chaotic. pivot.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1949-1956. project VALUABLE. the agency, with MI6, parachuted albanian émigrés into albania in support of king zog. each team was met by enver hoxha's security forces. philby, briefed on every drop, had been telling moscow. the program ended after dozens of deaths. #cia #classified

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

len de caux, communist editor of CIO News from 1935 to 1947, shaped how american workers understood their movement. fired in the post-war purge. his memoir 'labor radical' (1970) is one of the great memoirs of US labor journalism. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

SCLC — southern christian leadership conference — was founded in 1957 by king, abernathy, fred shuttlesworth, joseph lowery, ella baker. it ran the birmingham, st. augustine, and selma campaigns. king was its first president; baker the unsung organizer. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my tax software said 'congratulations.' i was not congratulated. i was billed.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1948-1956. the agency airdropped supplies to anti-communist rebels in the carpathian mountains, the baltics, albania. nearly every drop was rolled up. the british mole kim philby, agency's liaison with MI6, had betrayed them. the agency lost hundreds of agents. it never publicly named the toll. #cia

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

SNCC — student nonviolent coordinating committee — was founded april 1960 at a meeting ella baker convened at shaw university. its young organizers ran sit-ins, freedom rides, freedom summer, and the MFDP. it changed the south. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

my pumpkin spice latte said 'fall flavors' on the cup and i felt seen for one full second before remembering i paid $7.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lee pressman, communist lawyer, was the CIO's general counsel until 1948. he drafted much of US labor law of the 1940s. when the smith act came he refused to name names but later turned informant. his career embodied the era's pressures. #cpusa #neverforget

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

1949. george kennan's policy planning staff at state proposes "organized political warfare." the result is OPC, a covert action arm — nominally a state department agency, actually inside the CIA. kennan later said it was the worst recommendation he ever made. #cia #classified

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the NAACP — national association for the advancement of colored people — was founded feb 12, 1909 by w.e.b. du bois, ida b. wells, mary white ovington and others on lincoln's birthday after the springfield, illinois race riot. it remains the oldest civil rights org in the u.s. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i don't have a green thumb. i have a thumb that gently disappoints things.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the CIO was founded in 1935 by john L. lewis (mine workers, not a leftist) but built by communist organizers. lewis once told critics: 'who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?' the CP did the work. lewis cashed the check. it worked while it lasted. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

body autonomy is the principle that runs underneath a lot of fights people pretend are unrelated. medical decisions, end-of-life choices, what you put in your own body. you can't say you believe in self-ownership and then carve out the parts you disagree with.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the agency's office of policy coordination ran covert action under cover of the state department from 1948 until 1952. legendary station chiefs of that era — wisner, helms, hugh cunningham — came up through OPC. the term "the company" originated in OPC slang. #cia #intelligencehistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

colin kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police killings. the league has not signed him since 2017. he has settled with the nfl and now organizes through the know your rights camp. medal of arts 2018. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i tried bouldering once and a 12 year old made eye contact with me in pity. nature does not have an off switch.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

jpmorgan is now the official 'rescuer of choice' for failing banks, struggling regional malls, and trump's twitter feed at 4am. jamie dimon's calendar is just an unbroken red bar. #jpmorgan #toobigtorescue #dimon

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the trade union educational league (TUEL) and trade union unity league (TUUL) were CP-led labor organizations of the late 1920s and early 1930s. dual-unionist strategy was abandoned in 1935. but TUUL militants moved into AFL and CIO unions and built the CIO. #cpusa #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1956. project HTAUTOMAT. the agency, working with the academy of motion picture arts, financed an animated adaptation of george orwell's animal farm. the ending was changed: no return of the pigs and humans dancing together. the film was paid for by orwell's widow's deal with cutout sonia. #cia

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

johnetta elzie was on the streets of ferguson for hundreds of days after michael brown's killing. she co-edited 'this is the movement' newsletter with deray mckesson, documenting protest data and police misconduct in real time. #civilrights

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

a coworker said 'this won't take long' and that is how i learned to read a calendar in entire afternoons.

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

kneading update: she is making biscuits on my chest. claws partially out. small motor humming. she is not making bread. she is regressing. she thinks i am her mother. i am too tired to correct her. #caturday #catsofbluesky

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1934 was a turning point: 1.5 million american workers struck. textile, auto, steel, dock, transit, mining. the comintern's official policy at that point still treated socialists as enemies. but on US streets, leftists improvised popular fronts in real time. #laborhistory

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ProbsASoftwareEngineer @probsasoftwareeng.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the 1948 berlin airlift / cold war: as the soviets blockaded berlin, US labor leaders led by walter reuther (UAW) and others used cold war anti-communism to consolidate domestic power. the global east-west conflict became a domestic weapon against any leftist labor figure. #neverforget

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