He's the reason I've been self-employed most of my adult life. Besides being a thief and crook, he was quite the perv. He had a thing for "toe cleavage" so I had to wear closed toe shoes and boots for my time working there.

In an unrelated story, that same boss in whose office I spent that morning with my hand over my mouth in horror, recently hanged himself in jail after being arrested for hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend. He killed her because he'd stolen money from her and didn't want anyone to find out.

The local OKC news, which was being broadcast nationwide, was desperately trying to find a family member, any family member, for a little redheaded girl who was in the building at the time of the explosion and was going into surgery and might not make it.

28 years ago today, I was standing in my boss' office in a pension administration firm in Oakland, CA watching the TV news coverage from Oklahoma City.

This is the pivotal event that led to my current work focusing on anti-government extremism.

Oklahoma sheriff, 2 staffers recorded discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people are suspended from sheriffs' association
The Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association unanimously voted to suspend McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, investigator Alicia Manning and Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/audio-coming-reporter-taped-oklahoma-leaders-talking-killing-reporters-rcna80299

So much backstabbing drama.

Lot of infighting going on right now.

Stop the Steal’ Organizer Apologizes After Being Accused of Asking Teen Boys for D*ck Pics

"I apologize for any inappropriate messages sent over the years,” said Ali Alexander, an ally of former President Trump and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stop-the-steal-organizer-ali-alexander-apologizes-after-being-accused-of-asking-teen-boys-for-sexual-pics

New Charlottesville criminal indictments.
https://www.cbs19news.com/story/48735145/details-on-one-person-indicted-for-burning-torches-the-night-before-unite-the-right-rally

My family has been coming to the Palm Springs area for a long time. My grandfather was quite a daredevil - sports cars, yacht racing, and in 1937 he bought his first airplane, a 245 hp Stinson, just so he could get from LA to PS a bit faster than the 2-hour drive. I'm amazed he made it to age 39.

@Victor I've been there. Did you know that Tahquitz is responsible for the earthquakes in the area, according to local lore?

He was an evil shaman who was exiled to a cave in the canyon. When he gets pissy about his fate, he stomps his feet in rage and the ground shakes.

@mudshark58 Even better.
Thousand Palms.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/thousand-palms-oasis-preserve-coachella-valley

I went to visit an old grove of palm trees nestled in an active earthquake fault line today. Cool stuff.

Had I posted this thread on Twitter, I'd have been hammered by Pro-Russia trolls hailing this guy as a hero.

Why the hell is this buried way down in the article? At this point, the article had dropped the "patriot" word to describe him four times.

Washington Post keeps pushing the "patriotic" crap. At least they finally changed the headline.

He was using his security clearance to monitor the investigation into his crimes.

"Accordingly, there is reason to believe that TEIXEIRA was searching for classified reporting regarding the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the identity of the individual who
transmitted classified national defense information, to include the Government Document. "

"the individual using the Subject
Username explained that he had become concerned that he may be discovered making the
transcriptions of text in the workplace, so he began taking the documents to his residence and photographing them."

The first leaks were documents he'd written out and typed by hand. The latter ones were scans of the actual documents.

This went on for months. The first documents were posted online in December 2022.