Eric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt · Oct 2, 2025

In one 18-month period in the early 1970s, there were 2,500 bombings on American soil—nearly 5 a day. Did you know…

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This thread documents how Weather Underground members and other left-wing extremists from the 1970s bombing era went on to hold prestigious positions at top universities, law firms, and nonprofits, including figures like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who influenced major American institutions and political figures.

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In one 18-month period in the early 1970s, there were 2,500 bombings on American soil—nearly 5 a day. Did you know that? Many Americans don't. These leftist terrorists who declared war on America went on to work at top law firms, nonprofits, and Ivy League universities. 🧵
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The left-wing violence of the 1970s was horrific. The most infamous extremist group was the Weather Underground—which issued a "Declaration of War" against the U.S. government in 1970. They bombed the Pentagon. They bombed the State Department. They bombed the U.S. Capitol.
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And then? Many of them simply...waltzed right back into mainstream liberal society. Worse, actually: They were given positions of power and prestige in the defining mainstream institutions. White-shoe law firms. Cushy book deals. Ivy League professorships. The whole nine yards.
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Take Kathy Boudin—a Weather Underground terrorist who was sentenced to 20-years-to-life for her role in a 1981 Brink's truck robbery in New York, in which she helped her accomplices execute two policemen and a security guard in cold blood. She was granted parole in 2003.
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By 2013, Kathy Boudin was an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work—where she co-founded and co-directed the "Center for Justice"—and a scholar-in-residence at NYU Law School. Boudin died in 2022. Columbia memorialized her in glowing terms:
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Her son, Chesa Boudin, was elected as the notoriously far-left District Attorney in San Francisco in 2019, backed by—surprise, surprise!—George Soros. Since Kathy was in jail, Boudin was adopted and raised by Weather Underground co-founders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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Bill Ayers played a leading role in planning and directing the Weather Underground attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department. Decades later, he told the New York Times: "I don't regret setting bombs.'' In fact, ''I feel we didn't do enough.''
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Ayers became Professor of Education at University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2008, he was elected vice president for curriculum studies at the American Educational Research Association. In other words: This is the person who was training the teachers that teach our kids.
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Oh, and guess whose political career was launched in Ayers' and Dohrn's house? The 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama’s first-ever campaign event—launching his 1995 State Senate run—was held in the living room of Ayers and Dohrn.
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Bernardine Dohrn—herself another Weather Underground co-founder who oversaw the massive bombing campaigns and terrorist attacks—was hired by the elite law firm Sidley & Austin. Later, she was hired as a professor at Northwestern Law School—where she taught for over 20 years.
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The examples go on and on. As I've said before, the radical Left of the 1960s-70s didn't disappear—they simply took over mainstream institutions: Academia, the media, the NGOs, etc. The radical Left didn't lose—they won, by becoming the mainstream itself.
Eric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt · Mar 20, 2025
The Tesla attacks are getting worse. Arson. Molotov cocktails. Bouts of gunfire. This isn't new. The Left has used violence as a political tool for decades. Only one thing can stop this. In the words of Pat Buchanan: "Force, rooted in justice, and backed by moral courage." 🧵