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Douglas M. Charles, PhD

@dmcharles.bsky.social

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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GOP Vermont State Senator Sam Douglass Resigns Over Hate-Filled Group Chat Vermont state Sen. Sam Douglass is set to step down Monday after being exposed as a participant in a Young Republican group chat in which members—including at least one Trump administration official—e...

Fortunately, "ass" was in his name already.
www.rawstory.com/gop-group-ch...

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Colombia’s Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid

You, of course, cannot believe anything coming from this US regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

19.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel Suspends Aid and Strikes Gaza After Accusing Hamas of Violating Truce

“Shocked.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

19.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chuck Todd II is interviewing Zelinsky, and asking the worst questions ever. Most of them are simply make dramatic news questions.

No surprise. Will she have Putin on next and toss softballs to help him out?

19.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bargain! About $185 today

19.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas hold 'em?

19.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#OTD October 19, 1925 . . . a century ago.

19.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh good god. Green Day is college music for me

18.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trump in the same breath says he’s not a king, but that he can cut programs.

He has no authority to cut any programs. Only Congress does. Of course, a large percentage of Americans are too ignorant to know that.

And Congress has the backbone of a chocolate eclair, total rollover wimps.

18.10.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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With a phone call, Putin appears to change Trump’s mind on Ukraine. Again. It was the latest swing in President Donald Trump’s position on the war that often shifts following contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin knows how to manipulate this chump, not that it's difficult.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

18.10.2025 15:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HAHA nice

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How horrible.

18.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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That was a lot of money then.

18.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#OTD October 18, 1925 . . . a century ago.

18.10.2025 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Backing Off Tomahawk Suggestion, Trump Again Defers to Putin

He can’t upset his big daddy now can he?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

18.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

They then immediately made an entry on Wikipedia about it 🤪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

18.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it deploy troops in Illinois Federal judges have so far not let the Trump administration send troops into the Chicago area.

How many times, now, has this regime run to the corrupt Supreme Court?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

17.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 53    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 0

The Republican Youth disbanded in NY?

17.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He just dropped the F bomb on live TV at 2:13 PM.

SOOOO presidential, but Im sure this make-up wearing, fake hair creepers thinks he is "tough."

17.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And by all means let's hear the insane ravings of this man.

17.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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He’s learned to play this chump, of course he still has a Johnson for Putin in his malignant personality disorder

17.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sick of the talking heads: "Oh this is so serious."

17.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So John Bolton shared diary entries with his wife & daughter regarding the book he was writing?

Gimme a fucking break.

17.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In Pittsburgh. Hell of a card game for 1925.

17.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And now, a century later, we elect con men to high office.

17.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In my home county. If you ever saw the 1980s movie "Gung Ho," the river scenes are in the Beaver river but downstream from this quite a bit.

17.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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They do not see the coming disaster in 4 years.

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Some sort of huge spy story

17.10.2025 14:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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