Gram

Boomer, Atheist! Retired, mom, stepmom, Gram! #IStandWithUkraine #BLM #NeverVoteConservative

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Her name was Betty Ong. She was forty-five years old. She had grown up in San Francisco's Chinatown, the daughter of Chinese-American parents, and she had been a flight attendant with American Airlines for fourteen years. She was known to colleagues as "Bee."
On the morning of September 11, 2001, she was working American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles. It was a trip she had chosen — she wanted to get to the West Coast so she could travel home to San Francisco and then on to Hawaii for a vacation with her sister. She was looking forward to it.
At 7:59 a.m., Flight 11 took off from Boston Logan Airport.
At approximately 8:19 a.m., from a phone at the back of the plane, Betty Ong dialed American Airlines.
The call was answered by Vanessa Minter, a reservations agent at the Raleigh-Durham center. She heard a woman's voice, calm and precise, say the words that no one had ever called in before.
"I think we're getting hijacked."
Minter immediately patched in her supervisor, Nydia Gonzalez. Betty stayed on the line.
For the next twenty-three minutes, in a voice that witnesses would later describe as composed, professional, and methodical, Betty Ong told the ground what was happening.
The cockpit was not answering. Two flight attendants had been stabbed. A passenger in business class had been attacked. Someone had sprayed what she thought was Mace, and people couldn't breathe. She gave the seat numbers of the men she believed were the hijackers. She described exactly what she could see and hear, in the rear of the aircraft, as far as she was from the cockpit door that would not open.
"In a very calm, professional and poised demeanor, Betty Ong relayed to us detailed information of the events unfolding on Flight 11," Gonzalez later told the 9/11 Commission. "Several media accounts claimed that Betty was hysterical with fear, shrieking and gasping for air. Those accounts were wrong."
She had been there. She knew.
On the ground, the information Betty was providing was being relayed to American Airlines operations, then to the FAA, then to air traffic control. The picture she was painting — in real time, from the back of a hijacked aircraft — was giving the people trying to understand what was happening on the East Coast of America that morning their first clear confirmation that this was not an accident, not a malfunction, not a confusion.
This was intentional. This was coordinated. This was something no one had a protocol for.
She stayed on the phone.
At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
The line went silent.
Gonzalez stayed on the open call for a moment afterward, not yet knowing what had happened.
"Betty, talk to me. Betty, are you there? Betty? Okay... I think we might have lost her."
Betty Ong's family spent months after September 11 fighting to hear her voice. Her brother Harry called Senator Edward Kennedy's office to ask for help. In January 2002, the family was brought to a private room at San Francisco Airport and played the tape. It was the first time they had heard her speak since the morning of the 11th.
"Her first duty is for the passengers and for the plane," Harry said later. "She didn't call us because her first responsibility as a flight attendant that day was to help the plane and the passengers, and that's why she made that call."
When the 9/11 Commission heard portions of her call in 2004, the room was silent.
Vanessa Minter — the reservations agent who answered the phone that morning and stayed with Betty for fifteen minutes until Gonzalez took over — still thinks about her. She has given interviews for years about what it meant to be on the other end of that call.
"You have to understand," Minter said. "Betty Ong, to me, was the hero. She was the hero. Not me."
Betty Ong's name is on the memorial at Ground Zero. There is a street named for her in San Francisco's Chinatown. A park. A middle school.
She was going to Hawaii.
Instead, she picked up the phone. She told us what was happening. She stayed on the line until the line went quiet.
That is what quiet courage looks like when it matters most.

[IslandMan @LaBeaujardine]

Hey! Just got back from Calgary where virtually every person I spoke to was dead against separation or any kind of ballot question in October. The entire thing is a farce. #DanielleSmithisaliar

[Jen (ESC) 🇨🇦❤️🦋 @Smil3yAngel]

Can you imagine what Canada could be like if every province had a Premier like Wab Kinew?

It would be wonderful 🇨🇦🥰

[Gram @pmtw1173]

https://t.co/n5Lw9xXKWn

[Mark 🍁 @Markfry809]

Our Prime Minister graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University in 1987, and earned a master's degree in 1993 and a doctorate in 1995 from the University of Oxford.

Your President raped little girls

[Paul Stewart II @PaulStewartII]

From American Pulse.

“Carney has been Canada’s Prime Minister for one year. In that year, he has rearmed his country, rebuilt its alliances, secured its Arctic, reoriented its trade away from the United States, and stood on the world stage at Davos to say — without euphemism, without apology — that the old order is over and America is no longer its anchor”

https://t.co/ziNs8cZq5l

[Vicki Campbell🇨🇦 @merry123459]

Stephen Harper, yes Stephen Harper managed to install one of the most corrupt Premiers into the wealthiest Province in Canada so he could siphon tax dollars off every hard working Ontarian, privatize healthcare and destroy our education system. Cons are thieves. It needs to stop.

[Concerned Canadian @MaskedModerate1]

@Coffey4Canada2 He voted against an insincere, incompetent government's ability to properly implement those pieces of legislation.

I love sandwiches, but if the LPC wanted to make me one I'd decline, because a simple BLT made by them would somehow take 40 years and cost $35 million dollars.

[NYKO DEL TORRO @NykoKony]

@Coffey4Canada2

[Gram @pmtw1173]

@BalserDon @Coffey4Canada2 Never!!

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

BREAKING : 🇺🇸 Trump’s own Senator gave him brutal reality check

Trump — We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

US Senator — But the SOH was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war?

You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING” 🔥🔥🔥

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WTF: In a stunning exchange, Mike Johnson
says the reason its OK for Trump to vote by mail in Florida while railing against it everywhere else - is because Florida “handles mail-in balloting well.”

Johnson is no Christian if he’s willing to lie for power.

#TrumpVotesByMail

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Bruce Springsteen just announced that his band will be doing a tour in effort to fight back against Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. The Boss is back!

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Day by day, Doug Ford is turning into Donald Trump. 

We've seen this play out before. 

Shielding his phone records from the public and changing the law to protect himself isn't democracy. And it certainly isn't what he wasn't elected to do.

[Vicki Campbell🇨🇦 @merry123459]

Remember when the Conservatives pounded Kathleen Wynne’s spending into every Ontarian’s head so they could win the election? And they tried to paint her as corrupt over the gas plant. Well, she never came even close to the spending or being as corrupt as Doug Ford.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America. 

Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.

They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.

This was not a drill.

This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.

Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.

Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.

The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  https://t.co/lxQD3X8jaM

[Gram @pmtw1173]

This young woman has been completely brainwashed! A woman doesn’t need a man to form an opinion. This is 2026! Sean Duffy's daughter: Single women 'vote poorly' without 'the security of a male' https://t.co/6bLkqbaJL6

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Let’s open that big can of worms.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump's stock market manipulation is criminal. Ever since the corrupt US Supreme Court ruled that Trump is immune from prosecution as president, the motherfucker has gone on a crime spree unlike anything seen before in a democratic country.