🧸raggityanni

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Wife. 4sons. gramma. Love♡ books,music,beaches, flowers, the Ocean 🎡🎠🐬🥠🍹🎶🎈 Miss my sweet Bella & Kiki🧶

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Bill Madden

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17 days ago

The condemnation is universal. Republicans, Democrats, independents, world leaders... With the lasting ramifications being likely worse than Vietnam, everyone is accurately stating that this is the biggest geopolitical fuck-up in US history. Not only did Trump LOSE his war of choice against Iran, but he has made billionaires of Iranian regime officials. What Iran now knows that they did not know before is that they can shut down the Strait of Hormuz whenever they feel like it — and there's not a fucking thing Trump can do about it. Everything Trump did was ass-backwards. From being conned by Netanyahu, to not even bothering to consult with America's allies, this was a catastrophe and exercise in dumbfuckery from the very beginning. Billions of tax dollars wasted, over a dozen American soldiers dead, hundreds of soldiers maimed and mutilated — and for what? So a pedophile president could change the divert attention away from the Epstein files? Un-fucking-believable! Trump's incompetence is no longer debatable, nor is his place in history. The sick fuck is America's worst president.

maddenifico's tweet photo. The condemnation is universal. Republicans, Democrats, independents, world leaders... With the lasting ramifications being likely worse than Vietnam, everyone is accurately stating that this is the biggest geopolitical fuck-up in US history.

Not only did Trump LOSE his war of choice against Iran, but he has made billionaires of Iranian regime officials. What Iran now knows that they did not know before is that they can shut down the Strait of Hormuz whenever they feel like it — and there's not a fucking thing Trump can do about it.

Everything Trump did was ass-backwards. From being conned by Netanyahu, to not even bothering to consult with America's allies, this was a catastrophe and exercise in dumbfuckery from the very beginning.

Billions of tax dollars wasted, over a dozen American soldiers dead, hundreds of soldiers maimed and mutilated — and for what? So a pedophile president could change the divert attention away from the Epstein files? Un-fucking-believable!

Trump's incompetence is no longer debatable, nor is his place in history. The sick fuck is America's worst president.

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James Tate

@JamesTate121

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On October 1969, in a quiet advertising office in Los Angeles after midnight, Daniel Ellsberg stood alone at a Xerox machine feeding page after page of classified documents through the feeder. Each sheet was stamped TOP SECRET. Each copy he made was a federal felony. He was not a radical or a traitor. He was a 38-year-old former Marine Corps officer with a Harvard PhD in economics, a senior Pentagon analyst who had helped shape U.S. Vietnam policy, and one of the few civilians granted the highest security clearances in the country. He had believed in the war. He had briefed cabinet members, advised ambassadors, flown combat missions as an observer. He had seen the inside of the machine. Then he read 7,000 pages that proved the machine had been lying for a quarter century. The documents—later known as the Pentagon Papers—were a classified, 47-volume study commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967. They traced American involvement in Vietnam from World War II through 1968. Their central revelation was stark: four consecutive presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson—had privately concluded the war was unwinnable yet continued to escalate it, sending tens of thousands of young Americans to their deaths to avoid the political cost of withdrawal. By late 1969 more than 40,000 U.S. troops had been killed in a war the government knew it could not win. The public had been told victory was near, progress steady, the dominoes safe. The documents showed the opposite: deliberate deception, manipulated intelligence, repeated decisions to prolong a lost cause for reasons of credibility and domestic politics. Ellsberg faced a choice: protect his career, his freedom, his family—or expose the truth that was killing thousands. He chose truth. Copying 7,000 pages alone at night was excruciatingly slow. Every passing headlight outside could be the FBI. Every jammed sheet risked exposure. The risk was not abstract: under the Espionage Act he could face life in federal prison. Then Ellsberg made a decision that still stuns people who hear it. He brought his children into the room. His son Robert was 13. His daughter Mary was 10. On the nights they helped, Robert ran the Xerox machine—feeding pages, collating stacks. Mary sat cross-legged on the floor with scissors, carefully cutting the words TOP SECRET off each photocopy so the duplicates would not be immediately identifiable as stolen classified material. Years later Ellsberg explained why he involved them: “I expected to be in prison very shortly. I wanted them to know that their father was doing something in a businesslike way—a calm, sober way—that I thought had to be done.” He told Robert directly: this would probably put him in prison. He wanted his children to understand that conscience sometimes demands sacrifice, that doing the right thing is not always safe, and that a parent’s most important legacy is not wealth or status but the example of moral courage. For nearly two years Ellsberg tried to act through official channels. He approached six senators and several congressmen, urging them to enter the documents into the Congressional Record so they could be published legally and protected by the Speech or Debate Clause. Every one of them declined—some out of political caution, some because they feared the legal consequences. So in March 1971 he gave copies to The New York Times. On June 13, 1971, the Times published the first installment. The Nixon administration reacted with fury. For the first time in American history, the federal government sought prior restraint—asking a court to block a newspaper from publishing. A federal judge issued a temporary injunction against the Times. Ellsberg responded by giving the documents to The Washington Post. When they were blocked, to the Boston Globe. Then to more outlets. The truth spread faster than the government could contain it. President Nixon did not merely want the leak stopped. He wanted Ellsberg destroyed. He formed a secret White House unit nicknamed “the Plumbers,” tasked with discrediting the leaker by any means necessary. They broke into the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding, searching for compromising personal material. They found nothing usable, but the break-in was a felony. The Justice Department charged Ellsberg with espionage, theft, and conspiracy. He faced 115 years in federal prison. The trial began in Los Angeles in 1973. Prosecutors portrayed Ellsberg as a traitor who had endangered national security. They demanded he be made an example. Then the government’s own misconduct began to surface. The Fielding break-in became public. Evidence of illegal wiretaps and prosecutorial overreach mounted. Most explosively, it emerged that Nixon had offered trial judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. the directorship of the FBI—while the trial was under way. The offer was blatant judicial tampering. On May 11, 1973, Judge Byrne dismissed all charges against Ellsberg with prejudice, citing “improper government conduct that precluded a fair trial.” Daniel Ellsberg walked free. The Pentagon Papers did not end the Vietnam War overnight, but they changed everything. They confirmed what millions already suspected: the government had systematically lied to the public for decades about a war that cost more than 58,000 American lives. Public opposition surged. Congress began restricting funding. The war that could not be ended politically was finally being ended by exposure. There was one more consequence Nixon had not foreseen. The same Plumbers unit that burgled Ellsberg’s psychiatrist later broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. Nixon’s obsession with destroying Daniel Ellsberg helped set in motion the scandal that destroyed his presidency. Ellsberg did not just expose lies about Vietnam. He inadvertently helped expose corruption at the highest level of American government. He lived to 92, dying on June 16, 2023. For the rest of his life he remained an antiwar activist, whistleblower advocate, and lecturer on government secrecy and conscience. He never regretted his decision. His children, Robert and Mary, grew up understanding something profound: that citizenship sometimes requires courage. That doing the right thing is not always safe. That their father chose conscience over comfort, even when it meant risking prison and involving them in an act that could have cost him everything. The Pentagon Papers did not stop the war immediately. But they changed how Americans view their government. They proved that citizens have both the right and the responsibility to demand truth from their leaders. Today Daniel Ellsberg is remembered as one of history’s most consequential whistleblowers. The phrase “pulling an Ellsberg” entered the language as shorthand for exposing government wrongdoing at great personal risk. But in late 1969 he was simply a man in a friend’s office at night, feeding classified pages into a Xerox machine while his 13-year-old son collated and his 10-year-old daughter cut TOP SECRET stamps off the copies. He could have stayed silent. Kept his clearances. Protected his career and family. Instead he handed scissors to his daughter and told her to start cutting. Because sometimes the most patriotic act is to tell the truth—even when your government calls it treason.

JamesTate121's tweet photo. On October 1969, in a quiet advertising office in Los Angeles after midnight, Daniel Ellsberg stood alone at a Xerox machine feeding page after page of classified documents through the feeder.

Each sheet was stamped TOP SECRET. Each copy he made was a federal felony.

He was not a radical or a traitor. He was a 38-year-old former Marine Corps officer with a Harvard PhD in economics, a senior Pentagon analyst who had helped shape U.S. Vietnam policy, and one of the few civilians granted the highest security clearances in the country. He had believed in the war. He had briefed cabinet members, advised ambassadors, flown combat missions as an observer. He had seen the inside of the machine.

Then he read 7,000 pages that proved the machine had been lying for a quarter century.

The documents—later known as the Pentagon Papers—were a classified, 47-volume study commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967. They traced American involvement in Vietnam from World War II through 1968. Their central revelation was stark: four consecutive presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson—had privately concluded the war was unwinnable yet continued to escalate it, sending tens of thousands of young Americans to their deaths to avoid the political cost of withdrawal.

By late 1969 more than 40,000 U.S. troops had been killed in a war the government knew it could not win. The public had been told victory was near, progress steady, the dominoes safe. The documents showed the opposite: deliberate deception, manipulated intelligence, repeated decisions to prolong a lost cause for reasons of credibility and domestic politics.

Ellsberg faced a choice: protect his career, his freedom, his family—or expose the truth that was killing thousands.

He chose truth.

Copying 7,000 pages alone at night was excruciatingly slow. Every passing headlight outside could be the FBI. Every jammed sheet risked exposure. The risk was not abstract: under the Espionage Act he could face life in federal prison.

Then Ellsberg made a decision that still stuns people who hear it.

He brought his children into the room.

His son Robert was 13. His daughter Mary was 10.

On the nights they helped, Robert ran the Xerox machine—feeding pages, collating stacks. Mary sat cross-legged on the floor with scissors, carefully cutting the words TOP SECRET off each photocopy so the duplicates would not be immediately identifiable as stolen classified material.

Years later Ellsberg explained why he involved them:

“I expected to be in prison very shortly. I wanted them to know that their father was doing something in a businesslike way—a calm, sober way—that I thought had to be done.”

He told Robert directly: this would probably put him in prison. He wanted his children to understand that conscience sometimes demands sacrifice, that doing the right thing is not always safe, and that a parent’s most important legacy is not wealth or status but the example of moral courage.

For nearly two years Ellsberg tried to act through official channels. He approached six senators and several congressmen, urging them to enter the documents into the Congressional Record so they could be published legally and protected by the Speech or Debate Clause. Every one of them declined—some out of political caution, some because they feared the legal consequences.

So in March 1971 he gave copies to The New York Times.

On June 13, 1971, the Times published the first installment. The Nixon administration reacted with fury. For the first time in American history, the federal government sought prior restraint—asking a court to block a newspaper from publishing. A federal judge issued a temporary injunction against the Times.

Ellsberg responded by giving the documents to The Washington Post. When they were blocked, to the Boston Globe. Then to more outlets. The truth spread faster than the government could contain it.

President Nixon did not merely want the leak stopped. He wanted Ellsberg destroyed.

He formed a secret White House unit nicknamed “the Plumbers,” tasked with discrediting the leaker by any means necessary. They broke into the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding, searching for compromising personal material. They found nothing usable, but the break-in was a felony.

The Justice Department charged Ellsberg with espionage, theft, and conspiracy. He faced 115 years in federal prison.

The trial began in Los Angeles in 1973. Prosecutors portrayed Ellsberg as a traitor who had endangered national security. They demanded he be made an example.

Then the government’s own misconduct began to surface.

The Fielding break-in became public. Evidence of illegal wiretaps and prosecutorial overreach mounted. Most explosively, it emerged that Nixon had offered trial judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. the directorship of the FBI—while the trial was under way.

The offer was blatant judicial tampering.

On May 11, 1973, Judge Byrne dismissed all charges against Ellsberg with prejudice, citing “improper government conduct that precluded a fair trial.”

Daniel Ellsberg walked free.

The Pentagon Papers did not end the Vietnam War overnight, but they changed everything. They confirmed what millions already suspected: the government had systematically lied to the public for decades about a war that cost more than 58,000 American lives. Public opposition surged. Congress began restricting funding. The war that could not be ended politically was finally being ended by exposure.

There was one more consequence Nixon had not foreseen.

The same Plumbers unit that burgled Ellsberg’s psychiatrist later broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. Nixon’s obsession with destroying Daniel Ellsberg helped set in motion the scandal that destroyed his presidency.

Ellsberg did not just expose lies about Vietnam. He inadvertently helped expose corruption at the highest level of American government.

He lived to 92, dying on June 16, 2023. For the rest of his life he remained an antiwar activist, whistleblower advocate, and lecturer on government secrecy and conscience. He never regretted his decision.

His children, Robert and Mary, grew up understanding something profound: that citizenship sometimes requires courage. That doing the right thing is not always safe. That their father chose conscience over comfort, even when it meant risking prison and involving them in an act that could have cost him everything.

The Pentagon Papers did not stop the war immediately. But they changed how Americans view their government. They proved that citizens have both the right and the responsibility to demand truth from their leaders.

Today Daniel Ellsberg is remembered as one of history’s most consequential whistleblowers. The phrase “pulling an Ellsberg” entered the language as shorthand for exposing government wrongdoing at great personal risk.

But in late 1969 he was simply a man in a friend’s office at night, feeding classified pages into a Xerox machine while his 13-year-old son collated and his 10-year-old daughter cut TOP SECRET stamps off the copies.

He could have stayed silent. Kept his clearances. Protected his career and family.

Instead he handed scissors to his daughter and told her to start cutting.

Because sometimes the most patriotic act is to tell the truth—even when your government calls it treason.

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Jet Truth @JettWise

4 months ago

@krassenstein We do not care about what commie’s have to say. Trump has gain more support than he has lost. CNN has been purchase & we will get the truth than a one sided narratives. CNN anchors r speaking out about their one sided view is right. American people want the facts & we will decide

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#TheResistance #UniteBlue #StrongerTogether #FBR I follow back all resisters #VoteBlueNoMatterWho I retweet a lot. “In a world where you can be anything, b kind

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Protect Kamala Harris ✊

@DisavowTrump20

6 months ago

Just hours after Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, tragically died, Donald Trump has launched a series of social media attacks against her family. RETWEET if you stand with @CarolineKennedy against these despicable attacks!

DisavowTrump20's tweet photo. Just hours after Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, tragically died, Donald Trump has launched a series of social media attacks against her family.

RETWEET if you stand with @CarolineKennedy against these despicable attacks! https://t.co/jySiR0Gow5

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Sanibel TBreds @SanibelTBreds

7 months ago

@sweetcarolinatv Nothing beats the feeling of being on the water 🦩🌴🐬

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Colette Harrington

@sweetcarolinatv

7 months ago

Good Monday morning from the Space Coast. Home of NASA, SpaceX, and Larry. I’m working on getting palliative care since by the time the hospital gets the job done, he’ll be stuck there another week. I have a cleaning crew coming today and buying another Christmas tree-cats destroyed two. 3rd time decorating a tree is a charm. Hoping now that I’ll be home full time I can stop any disasters. Plus it will be a REAL tree since that is Larry’s favorite kind. I’m having his bed set up in the living room so he can enjoy the ocean. I have a super comfortable couch and can be right next to him. Luv you all.

sweetcarolinatv's tweet photo. Good Monday morning from the Space Coast. Home of NASA, SpaceX, and Larry. I’m working on getting palliative care since by the time the hospital gets the job done, he’ll be stuck there another week. I have a cleaning crew coming today and buying another Christmas tree-cats destroyed two. 3rd time decorating a tree is a charm. Hoping now that I’ll be home full time I can stop any disasters. Plus it will be a REAL tree since that is Larry’s favorite kind. I’m having his bed set up in the living room so he can enjoy the ocean. I have a super comfortable couch and can be right next to him. Luv you all.

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John Dabell

@John_Dabell

7 months ago

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to wake up and realise you’ve got a broken jaw that wont heal, no tongue, a collapsed lung, a feeding tube up your nose and Stage IV incurable cancer? Of course you haven’t — why would you?! But for me, this is my world. And the important thing is this: I’m still here, still swinging, still in the game, despite every challenge thrown my way. https://t.co/aHDmHWdT6w

John_Dabell's tweet photo. Have you ever wondered what it feels like to wake up and realise you’ve got a broken jaw that wont heal, no tongue, a collapsed lung, a feeding tube up your nose and Stage IV incurable cancer? Of course you haven’t — why would you?! But for me, this is my world. And the important thing is this: I’m still here, still swinging, still in the game, despite every challenge thrown my way.
https://t.co/aHDmHWdT6w

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about 1 year ago

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over 1 year ago

@FPWellman @SpeakerJohnson .

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BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️

@mmpadellan

almost 2 years ago

Donald trump says a lot of things that he later backs away from, and nobody holds him accountable for. For instance, he said he would build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Never happened. He said he'd have a replacement for Obamacare “in two weeks.” Never happened. He said if he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, he'd leave America. Never happened. And when challenged to debates earlier this year, he said “Any time, any place.” But now he's scrambling for reasons to AVOID debating Kamala Harris. Time after time, trump just says whatever is on his diseased, demented mind, and the press fails to question it, or hold him to account. Then his followers all clamor to explain “what he really meant to say is…” while deflecting by spinning a bunch of whataboutisms. For a person whose followers like him because he “says what he means,” it's clear that what he says is meaningless. For now, until the press steps up, we're going to keep calling out his cowardly bullshit to make sure everyone knows #ChickenTrump is a COWARD.

mmpadellan's tweet photo. Donald trump says a lot of things that he later backs away from, and nobody holds him accountable for.

For instance, he said he would build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. Never happened.

He said he'd have a replacement for Obamacare “in two weeks.” Never happened.

He said if he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, he'd leave America. Never happened.

And when challenged to debates earlier this year, he said “Any time, any place.” But now he's scrambling for reasons to AVOID debating Kamala Harris.

Time after time, trump just says whatever is on his diseased, demented mind, and the press fails to question it, or hold him to account.

Then his followers all clamor to explain “what he really meant to say is…” while deflecting by spinning a bunch of whataboutisms.

For a person whose followers like him because he “says what he means,” it's clear that what he says is meaningless.

For now, until the press steps up, we're going to keep calling out his cowardly bullshit to make sure everyone knows #ChickenTrump is a COWARD.

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about 2 years ago

@noneejudi @ElevenFilms Love this 'LIKE'

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @tweetMalena

about 2 years ago

My entire family supports the Biden-Harris Administration! #WeBackBidenHarris 100% Biden 🦺Created 15.6 MILLION jobs [Trump lost 9 million!] 🤑Under Biden Household wealth is up 37% [Trump created the largest recession since the great depression] 💳Biden Lowered the deficit by $1.7T [Trump raised it by 7T] BIDEN'S ECONOMY: 🥳5.2 % GDP [Trump's highest=3% but he left us with -3.7%(note that's NEGATIVE)] 🌎Biden passed biggest climate bill in history & his actions are going to reduce greenhouse emissions 50% below 2005 levels by 2030 & 100% by 2050! [Trump is a climate denier & once asked the military to nuke a hurricane (true story)] 🏗Biden passed the Infrastructure Bill that created over 56,000 projects across the country! [Trump never passed an Infrastructure Bill but declared Infrastructure week 7 fruitless times] 🩹Biden Lowered healthcare costs [Trump raised them & tried to nuke our healthcare system by throwing millions off their insurance] Every one around Biden endorses him fervently! [Trump's closest circle, folks he chose, think he's unhinged & dangerous!]