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Refreshing perspective…makes this gramma think there is hope for our future. Keep it up!

This is excellent writing my friend.

Keep living and telling your story. You’re strong and brave and it seems that scares them. 💙

Beautiful writing.

I think this piece offers a glimpse into the person and writer I might have been, if not for my powerful family's interference, abuse, and terrorism. I'll never be as young as I was when I wrote this, or as naive. I doubt I'll ever feel as much hope, either for myself or the world.

saw this sticker downtown today. It me

Michael, you are such a talented writer. If I was still teaching, I'd read this with my kids to show them what a good writer does. Thank you for allowing your readers into your personal space. I'm feeling it.

There are long threads on this bluesky about the tragedy of my brother becoming an abuser, and about all the harm my dad has done. I haven't written a long thread about my mom yet, and I'm going to try to do one now. She ghosted me after I called out my dad on his long career of terrorism . . .

Because my spook brother stalks me online, I don't spend much time on the internet anymore. I post occasionally and do most of my reading and writing on paper. I'm sorry to miss out on the full experience, it isn't fair to me or others, but my brother's harrasment is bone-chillingly creepy.

Since I started writing and publishing on the subject, people in the local community have related allegations to me about sexual abuse by my dad, Peter Lehman (pictured below), a former professor and reseach director at Cal Poly Humboldt University, formerly Humboldt State University.

I read everything you write on my Bluesky feed. I find myself with no words every time, so I want you to know I think you are a brave man and I believe writing about your experiences can create change for yourself and others. Your strength is inspiring.

Back then, we called it "ritual" abuse, not knowing the "rituals" were theater meant to inflict maximum distress, a psychological trick to make "brainwashing" work. Apparently, members of the Intelligence "Community" do this to their families, perhaps as a information security measure, but . . .

I've been at the farmer's & art markets in Arcata & Eureka recently, handing out the latest issue of my zine, Free Reading. It's been great to meet readers, make new friends and see old ones, and to connect with other local survivors and compare notes. This song's for you, Humboldt people!

Somehow the men who sexually abuse kids convince their victims to protect them with their silence. That you have stopped is a testament to your courage.

I wrote this super long thread about my brother, and I haven't even told the worst of it yet. They say "You've only as sick as your secrets," so here goes . . . When he was 14 years old, my brother climbed this tree at the Manila Community Center and refused to come down or talk to anyone . . .

You’re an incredible writer. Thank you for not stopping. Truly

This is a whole long thread about my brother and family (and some gnarly secrets) but for some reason Bluesky isn't showing it as a thread right now on my main page.

I've been talking about my dad’s abuse for a long time, and he's used his capabilities to harass and attempt to discredit me in awful ways. What happened to my brother, Ben, was much worse. My dad trapped him into participating in his evil; and I do mean evil: terrorism, treason, rape, and murder.

I'm just waiting to see the next awful, sneaky thing Peter Lehman will do to try to discredit me - it's happened every time I've spoken out. He's still directing acts of terrorism, too. His early terrorist attacks had political goals, now he just seems to be killing out of rage and spite . . .

You did the right thing❤️

I believe you.

My dad always thought he was too smart, too sneaky, and too connected to ever get caught; and maybe he is. But he abused me so badly, trying to get me to participate in his evil acts, that in the end I had no choice but to tell the world about him as best I could.

My mom had a hard life. She was brainwashed, abused, and lied to by both her father and her husband, who were both connected to organized crime and the national security establishment. Despite that, she tried really hard for a long time to be a good person, a good writer, and a good mom.

my mom tried so hard to protect us, my brother and I, but she didn't know what she was up against

When I was a kid and my mom started pushing back against the sexual abuse of my spy bio dad, Peter Lehman, we experienced organized street stalking/harassment. Now there's been more, as I've tried to tell the world about Peter’s crimes. Street troops have been camera shy until yesterday . . .

there was a mass shooting last night at a park in Las Cruces where Holly and I hung out

Maple tree on Redwood Creek

streets of my town

In their latest installment of narrative-flipping gaslighting, Cal Poly now says this charge hasn't been dropped, but is in a kind of limbo - I was arrested and booked but the DA hasn't charged me - and this gives them an excuse to withhold what would otherwise be public records of my arrest . . .

reposting more comments from this thread to the main By the way, the Lafayette has not been the only U. S. Navy ship to burn at the dock; the most recent was the Bonhomme Richard 7/12/20

from the replies, context about my 'family of origin'

from the replies, context about my 'family of origin'

Open letter to the members of the Congressional intelligence oversight committees. I also sent this to my representatives in Congress: Huffman, Schiff, and Padilla.

thanks for still following me, @maddow.msnbc.com saw the paperback of your book, Prequel, today while I was shopping (and of course I've read about the attempted coup against Roosevelt) I was struck by the similarities of what certain wealthy industrialists did for the Nazis and what my own . . .

graphite is carbon, compressed over high pressure over millions of years and transformed not into coal or diamond but into something even more precious, a pencil, into graphite, which can record everything you've known and seen . . . It is a greater miracle than diamonds –Varlam Shalamov

Recently, I took the bus up to Trinidad, to deliver the latest edition of Free Reading, and to pay my respects to John Jackson, my first civics teacher and, as I see it now in hindsight, my spiritual father. We scattered his ashes here at State Beach 25 years ago. He was a newspaperman all his life.

amazing tiny movie, starts slow but it's worth it

I went to jail for a week for speaking truth to power and this is the essence of what I said: It doesn't matter how rich he is, INVESTIGATE the heinous and disgusting crimes of my biological father, Peter Lehman.

per advice from a faculty member, I'm planning on attending the university senate meeting (and also returning this overdue book to the library) this afternoon, to make a public statement about my latest report, which should be available free at jacoblehman.substack.com/p/cal-poly-coverup

Recently, I received a call from a gentleman in the NSA OIG. He asked me a lot of detailed questions about what I know and suspect about my dad and brother's criminal activity. Now, I don't really expect an in-house OIG (which is similar to an internal affairs department) to bring my dad . . .

The mother's day I remember best was when I was in 5th grade. Evan Plath, a kid from down the street named Justin Buffington, and I threw a surprise party for our moms. It was Justin's idea: we prepared snacks in the utmost secrecy, and made excuses to lure our moms to the party location . . .

Now three weeks without an update. Come on lostcoastoutpost.com, you can do it! People are counting on you to report this important public safety news.

how much trouble could have been saved by *listening to the whistleblower?*

In 2003 I remember my bio bro gloating about the CIA getting run out of China due to comprised electronic coms. My impression from listening to him talk about it was the CCP was worlds ahead hacking computers/phones; on a deeper system level than the US was responding to, and since then . . .

"This story . . . will be updated," ryanburnsy.bsky.social wrote, but almost two weeks later, I haven't seen any updates on lostcoastoutpost.bsky.social. There has been no word on the condition of the victim, or the possible cause of this tragic incident.

time to tap this sign again . . . it was a helicopter today . . .

Iris blooming this morning in Uniontown/Arcata/Goudi'ni