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Tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC, I'll be joined by legendary whistleblower and activist @DanielEllsberg, to talk about his life and legacy in the wake of his diagnosis with inoperable pancreatic cancer.
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Heather Cox Richardson’s helpful review of the history of the 2nd Amendment, the evolution of the NRA, and its convergence with ”Movement Conservatism.” May 6, 2023 open.substack.com/pub/heathe…
Read here the beautiful introduction to Jim Finley’s extraordinary memoir and invitation to the “Healing Path.” Already in a 4th printing after 2 months. @OrbisBooks
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Best? Well, they are available at orbisbooks.com
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@RobertEllsberg retweeted
An Evening With Charles Burack and Matthew Fox
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After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy democracynow.org/2023/5/1/da… via @democracynow
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Entertaining but misleading about the motive for the burglary. NIxon admin was not trying to find evidence that he was a spy or to smear him, but to prevent him from leaking what they feared he possessed, additional docs on Nixon’s secret plans for escalation, including nukes.
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Interesting. They also suggested that he gave over the papers to The Times, which Sheehan confirmed was not entirely the case.
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Ryan, that Sheehan story was nonsense. While true that he copied the papers without my dad's consent, Sheehan himself confirmed in the story that when he finally asked my Dad to give him the papers (tho saying falsely that the Times didn't plan to use them) he did.
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Artist Ade Bethune owed her name to a misprint at the Catholic Worker. Her name, A. de Bethune, was accidentally rendered Ade. She decided to keep it. My reflections jn @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Many yrs ago my dad appeared on stage with Gordon Liddy. He asked the audience if they were familiar with Vonnegut’s concept of a karass—a group of people collaborating unknowingly in a common plan. He said: “Gordon Liddy and I were part of a karass to end the VN war.”
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PART 2: Daniel Ellsberg Warns Risk of Nuclear War Is Rising as Tension Mounts over Ukraine & Taiwan democracynow.org/2023/5/1/da… via @democracynow
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Ten years ago on May 1 2013 my mother, Carol Cummings died. I thought of Blake's line, “We are put on earth for a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love." Sometimes we achieve that by our own efforts and sometimes by what is stripped away.
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She took me to church every Sunday and imparted her values of fairness, kindness and decency. When I left college to join the Catholic Worker she was initially apprehensive but then said: "We want our children to be safe and happy, but that is not what we want for ourselves...
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Her life was a long process of letting go, so many things lost or taken away. But her life was enlarged by the things she carried with her, and it grew larger still as she let go of regrets, resentments. She lost memories and words, til there was nothing left but her smile.
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She took me to church every Sunday and imparted her values of fairness, kindness and decency. When I left college to join the Catholic Worker she was initially apprehensive but then said: "We want our children to be safe and happy, but that is not what we want for ourselves...
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"We want to find our own way—to have a life that is meaningful, to take risks, to fall and get back up again and learn everything we can. So you do that. You go with my blessings and find everything you are looking for." That way my mother's gift. I share it with you today.
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"We want to find our own way—to have a life that is meaningful, to take risks, to fall and get back up again and learn everything we can. So you do that. You go with my blessings and find everything you are looking for." That way my mother's gift. I share it with you today.
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