TressaLouise

Conservative..Love my family, even the Liberal ones (sigh) my friends ..most of all I love red red wine.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

33 years ago this weekend, two Delta Force snipers made a choice almost nobody would make.

Master Sergeant Gary Gordon was 33, from Lincoln, Maine, with a wife and two young kids at home. Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart was 35, a farm kid from Newville, Pennsylvania.

On October 3, 1993, they were in a Black Hawk circling over Mogadishu when another Black Hawk, Super 64, was shot down. Pilot Mike Durant was alive in the wreckage with a broken back and a crushed leg. His crew was hurt. There were no friendly ground forces anywhere near them, and hundreds of armed militia and locals were already converging on the crash site.

From the air, Gordon and Shughart could see exactly what was coming.

They asked to be dropped in. Command said no.

They asked again. No again.

They asked a third time and finally got the green light.

Their helicopter set them down nearby and they fought their way to the wreck on foot. Two men, carrying only what they had on them. They pulled Durant out of the cockpit, set him up in a safer position, and started holding off the crowd.

For a while, it worked. They kept the mob back with precise, steady fire while the numbers against them kept growing.

Shughart was killed first.

Gordon kept fighting alone. When he was nearly out of ammunition, he went back to Durant, handed him a rifle, and told him good luck. Then he went back out. He was killed minutes later.

Durant was captured, beaten, and held for 11 days. He came home alive. He has said for decades that he's only here because of those two men.

In 1994 Gordon and Shughart were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the first since Vietnam. The Navy later named two ships after them, the USNS Gordon and the USNS Shughart.

They didn't stumble into that fight. They watched it from above, understood the odds, and asked three times to go anyway.

Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart. Remember their names.

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@cowboyjeffkent Semper Fi Marine!

[Mr Pool 3.0 @real_EBS_]

BREAKING: Broward County, Florida Sheriff Gregory Scott Tony announced that he will REFUSE to assist ICE agents.

I hope @GovRonDeSantis see's this.. 👇🏼

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@ChrisSinclairrr Are you kidding me? He has no obligation to her or to any sideline reporter, fuck her and her stupid “joke”.

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

After watching people spend the last few days talking about Pike - her childhood, her age, her trauma, her execution, her suffering - I want to talk about Colleen Slemmer.
Because somehow the person who was murdered keeps becoming a footnote in the story of the person who murdered her.

Colleen was 19 years old.
She wasn't a case number. She wasn't simply "Christa Pike's victim."
She was a daughter. A granddaughter. A young woman who loved roller-skating, miniature golf and computers. She could take a computer apart and put it back together again. She even had a shirt that said "Computer Geek."
Her family later had that shirt made into a teddy bear so they could keep a piece of her close. ❤️

Colleen was also the kind of kid who gave up part of her own lunchtime to help children with disabilities - feeding students who needed assistance and helping kids in wheelchairs. She volunteered at Special Olympics events. One summer, she helped paint her school.

She struggled with reading, but she was smart and fascinated by computers. She wanted training that wasn't available at the Job Corps program near her home in Florida, so at 19 years old she left her family and went to Knoxville to learn computers and build a future for herself.

She never got that future.

On January 12, 1995, Colleen was lured to an isolated area near the University of Tennessee agricultural campus.
What happened next wasn't a momentary loss of control.

Colleen was beaten and tortured during a prolonged attack. She was cut repeatedly. Her throat was slashed. A pentagram was carved into her chest. She was struck with a meat cleaver and ultimately suffered devastating blows to her head with a large piece of asphalt. Afterward, Pike took a piece of Colleen's skull from the scene. These details come from the court record - not internet rumor.

Colleen was 19.

Nineteen.

And while the country is now being asked to think about what Christa Pike experienced during a failed execution, I think there's room to remember what Colleen experienced when nobody came to stop it.

There's also room to remember everything that existed before those final horrifying moments.

The girl who loved computers.
The girl who roller-skated.
The girl who helped children with disabilities eat their lunch.
The girl who volunteered at the Special Olympics.
The daughter whose mother has now spent more than three decades trying to make sure the world remembers her name.

Her mother, May Martinez, said something this week that absolutely broke my heart:
"The criminals get so much attention. Why? She has been lost in this."

She's right.

So today, I'm not posting Christa Pike's face.

I'm posting Colleen's name.

COLLEEN ANNE SLEMMER

September 20, 1975 – January 12, 1995

She was here.
She was loved.
She mattered.
And she deserves to be remembered for the life she lived - not only for the horrific way someone chose to end it.

Remember Colleen. 🤍

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

New premium seating option lets you sit next to Israelis for extra security

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@DNA30812959 Same boat here. 26 yrs MRI Tech. Health care is a goddamn disaster. It’s exhausting

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

You were duped. Again.

We all saw the “massive” walkout from the UN general assembly. It seemed like Bibi was talking to en empty room. Some journalists even reported that. Even some Israeli journalists made that claim.

Guess what. The media lied to you. Shocked?

Here are the facts.

The footage is real. As Netanyahu walked up to speak, dozens of diplomats got up and left. It looks like most of the world refused to listen to him. Some even called it proof that Israel is now a pariah state.

And now, reality.

More than 120 countries stayed. That's nearly two-thirds of the world.

All five veto powers stayed: the U.S., China, Britain and France.

So did most of Europe. Even Ireland, one of Israel's toughest critics remained.

So who walked out? And why does it look like so many?

Each country gets six seats in this hall, so when one delegation walks out, several people stand up and walk.

And the Palestinian mission had asked countries to bring as many staff as possible and walk out together.

That can make a walkout bigger than the number of countries behind it.

In Europe, Spain was the only major country to leave its seat empty.

In Latin America, Brazil walked out.

South Africa's seats were empty too.

The rest were mostly small Caribbean island nations, which skip most speeches anyway.

Even in the Muslim world, at least two countries, UAE and Bahrain, stayed.

The walkout was real, but most of the world stayed in the room.

Just thought you’d wanna know the truth.

[Ben 🇮🇱 @journo_ben]

The two partygoers who found a tank and saved 30 lives.

Daniel and Neria Sharabi came to the Nova festival to dance.

Then the shooting started.

As Hamas terrorists stormed the festival, the brothers ran for their lives. A pickup truck of terrorists opened fire. An RPG hit a vehicle near them. In the chaos, they were separated from one of their friends, who was later taken hostage.

They kept running.

About half a kilometer from the festival, they reached a damaged Israeli tank.

Around 30 people were already taking cover there, terrified partygoers, wounded civilians and police officers.

Daniel and Neria were former combat soldiers.
But they knew almost nothing about tanks.

So Daniel called Yoni, an army officer he knew from his military service.

Yoni knew what to do.

With Yoni guiding them over the phone, the brothers climbed into the tank, searched for weapons and ammunition, put on combat helmets and began figuring out how to defend everyone around them.

Then they took command.

They organized the people around the tank, cared for the wounded and turned the disabled vehicle into a defensive position.

When terrorists advanced toward them, the brothers opened fire.

Again and again.

For hours, with very little ammunition, they held their position under gunfire and RPG attacks while Yoni continued guiding them remotely.

That morning, two guys who had come to dance at a music festival found themselves commanding a battlefield from a broken tank.

Around 30 people survived because of them.

Daniel was later chosen to light Israel’s Independence Day torch, representing the heroism of both brothers

#October7Heroes

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@LVpolitic Why though? I will never understand the Tebow hate. People are just miserable cunts.

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@KatieYonkeWI @VP @OscardelaRenta Stunning. Absolutely gorgeous dress and fit.

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have held power for 28 out of the last 32 years.

Yet, all five of them are blaming Trump.

And even better, they claim to have all of answers to fix America’s problems.

You can’t make this stuff up.

[FedUpAmerican 🤨 @AntifaHRDepart]

Let's be fucking real here! This wasn’t some little kid casually pedaling a bicycle 300 feet to his fishing hole. It was a 4,500-watt, pedal-less electric dirt bike — six times the motor power allowed under Florida’s definition of an e-bike. That distinction matters.

These machines can have the acceleration, weight and speed characteristics of small motorcycles, and children have been seriously injured and killed riding electric dirt bikes. Just last month, an 11-year-old girl in New Jersey was killed while riding as a passenger on one being operated by another 11-year-old.

Now, do I think we can have a legitimate conversation about whether fingerprinting an 11-year-old, towing the damn thing and sending him to court was an excessive response? Absolutely. But that's the conversation.

What we're not going to do is strip every relevant fact out of the story and turn it into “mean cops terrorized an innocent little boy for riding his bicycle 300 feet to go fishing.”

Tell the whole fucking story. You can question the punishment without pretending there was no legitimate safety issue in the first place

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@mattvanswol Good . I don’t know about this kid but in my town they’re all little terrorist assholes on E bikes. They all need to be off the roads.

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

He was up working before sunrise in DC.

Got on the plane to New York at 6am.

Addressed the world at the U.N.

Singed America’s deal with Greenland.

Negotiated for 3 hours with the Iranians.

Hosted 10 Gulf countries for a peace summit.

Met with Zelenskyy to end Ukraine war.

Met with Venesuela’s President to ink largest oil and minerals deal in world history.

Hosted Shield of the Americas meeting with 20 other nations.

Dinner at the U.N. with 17 separate pull aside meetings.

Fly back to DC at 1AM.

Back at work today before sunrise.

All this man does is work for America.

I don’t care what the media or polls say — I’m proud Trump is my President 🇺🇸

[Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 @jason_meister]

Man gas is really expensive, I better vote for the party that flooded our country with tens of millions of illegals, funded the creation of COVID-19 that killed tens of millions, turned the intel agencies on private citizens, mutilated & indoctrinated our children at scale, stole an election, illegally spied on the opposition party/candidate, sabotaged an administration, framed a duly elected president, ignited a color revolution, bankrolled Hamas protests on college campuses and universities, censored Americans, jailed supporters, staged a fedsurrection, locked hands with islamists, and installed a non compos mentis dementia patient as leader of the free world.

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@mamboitaliano__ It is otherworldly! lol

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@ThrillrErotik Oh my god! 😂😂😂

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@mrmikeMTL Any of the Truly seltzers 🤢

[TressaLouise @Tress1016]

@letstalkksports Sophie is why I watch