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@RobertEllsberg

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@RobertEllsberg

Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-watcher @GiveUsThisDayLP. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd. Pictures of trees.

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@RobertEllsberg
Mar 4
My foreword to a new posthumous collection of writings by my father, DANIEL ELLSBERG: "Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope" (Bloomsbury). This is my best reflection of what he was about--a message for today.
commondreams.org
Truth, Consequences, and the Hopes of My Father: Daniel Ellsberg | Common Dreams
In light of what was at stake, the chance of making a difference justified the risk, and at the end of the day, my father believed, that was a good way to use your life.
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jun 16, 2023
My dear father, #DanielEllsberg, died this morning June 16 at 1:24 a.m., four months after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. His family surrounded him as he took his last breath. He had no pain and died peacefully at home. commondreams.org/opinion/daniel…
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Oct 26, 2024
In 1971, after the Justice Dept enjoined The NY Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, my father gave them to the @washingtonpost. It was ultimately the call of Katherine Graham, publisher/owner. She was warned that her paper’s survival was on the line. She didn’t blink.
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Feb 23, 2025
He prayed for us.
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jun 16, 2023
Replying to @RobertEllsberg
At one point he said, if he were to have a gravestone, that he would say: "He became a part of the anti-Vietnam and anti-nuclear movement." By chance, my interview about him, for release this Father's Day weekend, was posted today.
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jun 25, 2023
I remember when my dad spent 2 yrs in Vietnam, and came home prepared to spend 115 yrs in prison to stop the war and the President sent a secret intelligence unit to “get the SOB,” tried to bribe his judge, sent a team to “incapacitate him totally.” Simple, easy times.
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jan 15, 2023
Dorothy Day was speaking at a college when a young man launched into a long tirade, calling her a communist, a traitor, a heretic, etc. She listened patiently and when he was done she replied, “You neglected to mention that I was once arrested on a morals charge in Chicago.”
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jul 11, 2018
Got it: If Jesus had sheltered Anne Frank, or hidden a runaway slave, or allowed Martin Luther King to use a segregated restroom, and thus broken the law, he would have been sinful, and "he would not have been our Messiah." This is #SlaveholderReligion, not the Gospel.
The Christian Post
@ChristianPost
Jul 10, 2018
Paula White: "Jesus did live in Egypt for three-and-a-half years. But it was not illegal. If He had broken the law then He would have been sinful and He would not have been our Messiah." christianpost.com/news/paula-whi…
@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jun 25, 2024
Free at last. #JulianAssange #DanielEllsberg
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@RobertEllsberg
Mar 19, 2018
Feast of San Jose, a dreamer, who, with his wife Maria and baby Jesus, fled the violence in his own country to seek safety in another land.
@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
May 9, 2021
The 100th birthday of Sophie Scholl, b. 5/9/1921, who was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for her role as a member of the White Rose, a circle of young people who distributed leaflets denouncing the crimes of the regime. She was 21. She saw and spoke the truth. Her spirit lives.
@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Aug 14, 2020
On Aug 14 1941 St Maximilian Kolbe died in a starvation bunker in Auschwitz where he had been consigned for weeks with 9 others as punishment for another prisoner’s escape. Kolbe, a Franciscan priest, had volunteered to take the place of another prisoner with a wife and children.
@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Oct 23, 2024
Fr Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian theologian, Dominican, “father” of liberation theology, has died at 96. His work, helped inspire the church in Latin America to adopt a “preferential option for the poor”; transformed global theology; enlarged the social teaching of the church.🧵
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@RobertEllsberg
@RobertEllsberg
Jun 17, 2023
I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Jun 16, 2023
Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92: "We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong" rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
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