Student of William Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
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Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
A man was knocking on doors in Malibu asking for her teenage daughter by name. Months later, the whole world would learn who he really was.
In the late 1960s, Angela Lansbury seemed to have it all. She was a three-time Oscar nominee and a Broadway star with Tony Awards on her shelf. She lived in Malibu with her husband, Peter Shaw, and their family.
But inside that beautiful home, something was quietly falling apart.
Her teenage son, Anthony, had started with cannabis and moved on to heroin. Her daughter, Deirdre, was drifting into the hills above Malibu, where communes, drugs and charming strangers promised freedom and love.
One of those strangers was a scruffy drifter with a guitar who lived nearby in Topanga Canyon. Her stepson David later recalled that this man used to come around their house looking for Deirdre.
His name was Charles Manson.
At the time, he was just another odd character on the edge of the 1960s dream. Then, in August 1969, the world learned the truth. The Tate and LaBianca murders shocked the nation, and Angela realized how close the darkness had come to her own front door.
The danger did not end there. Her children were still caught in that world. Anthony’s addiction grew so severe that he overdosed and fell into a coma. Then a fire swept through Malibu and destroyed the family home.
Angela looked at her husband and said simply, “We have to leave.”
She did not mean a vacation. She meant walking away from Hollywood, from the career she had worked at since she was a teenager, and from everything they knew.
Peter agreed.
In 1970, they moved the family to a quiet farmhouse in County Cork, Ireland, the land of Angela’s mother’s family. There were no Hollywood parties there, no communes in the hills, and no strangers asking for her daughter.
Angela set her career aside and focused on her children. She found a local doctor who helped them through withdrawal, one painful day at a time.
Slowly, the healing began. Anthony recovered first. Deirdre took longer, but she made it too.
When Angela finally went back to work, she had to rebuild her career almost from the beginning. It worked out better than anyone could have imagined.
In 1984, at 58 years old, she became Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote. The show ran for 12 seasons and won the hearts of millions. Behind the camera, her son Anthony, the boy she once feared she would lose, directed 68 episodes of his mother’s show.
Deirdre married and opened an Italian restaurant with her husband in Los Angeles.
Years later, Angela said she had no doubt they would have lost one or both of their children if they had stayed.
She won five Tony Awards, became a Dame, and stayed beloved around the world until she passed in 2022 at the age of 96.
But the role she was proudest of never appeared on any screen.
It was being a mother who was brave enough to give up everything for her children ♥️♥️
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
Fred Wellman ran in a district that was on no one’s race-to-watch list. He’s a U.S. Army vet, a popular progressive podcast host, and now the Congressman-elect for Missouri’s 2nd District, which hadn’t seen a Democrat win in more than thirty years. youtube.com/watch?v=sYSbBx8A…
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
An 11-year-old boy watched the movie Jaws. Then he helped clear the name of a dead man the US Navy had blamed for a terrible disaster.
In 1996, a boy named Hunter Scott was watching the film Jaws at his home in Florida.
One scene particularly fascinated him.
The shark hunter Quint recalled the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during the Second World War.
Hunter had never heard of the ship.
He asked his father whether the story was true.
It was.
On July 30, 1945, a Japanese submarine torpedoed the USS Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean.
The American warship had just completed a secret mission delivering components for the atomic bomb that would devastate Hiroshima.
Within approximately 12 minutes, the ship sank.
Of the 1,196 men aboard, only 316 survived.
Hundreds had escaped the sinking, only to spend days floating in the ocean, suffering from dehydration, exposure, injuries and shark attacks.
Nobody had raised the alarm when the ship failed to arrive at its destination.
The survivors were discovered almost by accident.
And then came another tragedy.
The US Navy court-martialled the ship's captain, Charles McVay, accusing him of negligence for failing to steer a zigzag course to avoid enemy torpedoes.
Yet McVay had not been informed of important intelligence concerning Japanese submarines in the area. His request for an escort had been denied.
Even the Japanese submarine commander testified that zigzagging would not have changed how he fired his torpedoes.
Many survivors considered McVay a scapegoat.
He carried the burden of the disaster for the rest of his life.
In 1968, he died by suicide.
Almost three decades later, an 11-year-old boy decided to investigate what had happened.
Hunter began what was supposed to be an ordinary school history project.
He read books and military documents. He contacted survivors, asking them to describe the disaster and what they thought of their captain.
Eventually, he reached out to all 154 survivors still alive in 1996.
More than 80 responded.
Many were elderly. Some had rarely spoken about their experiences.
They told Hunter about the men they had watched die. About their captain. About the injustice they believed had been done.
The boy kept investigating.
He wrote to President Bill Clinton. He assembled documents. He challenged the official version of events.
His research attracted national attention and helped persuade members of Congress to take up the case.
In 2000, Congress passed legislation calling for McVay's exoneration.
In July 2001, the Secretary of the Navy ordered that the congressional declaration of McVay's innocence be placed in his official military record.
More than half a century after the sinking, the captain's name had finally been officially vindicated, although the original court-martial conviction was not formally overturned.
And the boy?
Hunter Scott eventually became a US Navy officer himself.
There is something profoundly moving about this story.
Hundreds of sailors survived a nightmare. For decades, they struggled to get their captain's name cleared.
Then an ordinary schoolboy watched a film, became curious and refused to stop asking questions.
Sometimes history changes because someone powerful makes a decision.
And sometimes it changes because a child refuses to accept that the adults have already established the truth.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
“Stephen here, seen watching a puppy bite into some chocolate” 🍫
It’s SNL Weekend Update.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
Princess Meghan translating Prince Harry's English Speech to Spanish.
When you have a Queen Camilla who doesn't even care to show some interest in what she does or show respect to the people hosting her, and a Princess of Wales that cannot even speak proper English, naturally you feel threatened and so jealous of Meghan, who speaks so many languages and is so natural and relatable to everything she does and a hard worker.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
NEW BOMBSHELL! RECEIPTS! Elon Musk missed Sen. Richard Blumenthal's Nov. 5 deadline to explain who restricted Ukraine's Starshield and said nothing. No answers. No documents. The Oct. 22 letter asked 9 questions: who ordered the October restriction, who was told, whether Ukraine was warned, who holds the power to shut off Starshield, and how much of your taxpayer money is in his contracts.
The answer: over $2 billion in named Starlink and Starshield contracts, plus a $1.8 billion government-owned Starshield constellation.
On Oct. 13, Starshield terminals were capped above 100 mph—the speed drones fly at—after a conversation with Donald Trump, per the Wall Street Journal. Musk says the military decides. On Oct. 27, the Pentagon's inspector general refused to investigate.
On Nov. 5, Ukraine's Denys Sienik said Kyiv asked the Pentagon, the White House, and SpaceX: "Nobody provided answers." Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he doubts Musk acted alone. Apartheid Clyde controls the satellites your taxes paid for, and he answers to nobody. Donald Trump didn't give him the power—ownership did.
Mr. Trump gives him protection. The briefing is due Nov. 12. Tick tock. This is the scam. This is the fraud. The biggest Ponzi scheme in history—your tax dollars, his switch, no accountability.
"THE LAST THING AUTHORITARIANS WANT IS AN INDEPENDENT THINKER AND A TRUTH-TELLER. They can handle a crowd. They can't handle one person who thinks for themselves and refuses to shut up. That's why they come for the press, the teachers, and every voice that won't obey. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT."
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
Jared Kushner's father paid $25,000 to have a prostitute seduce his sister's husband on a hidden camera. Then he had the sex tape mailed to his sister.
His sister had been cooperating with federal investigators looking into his taxes and campaign donations. Charles Kushner, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, wanted leverage.
According to the FBI complaint, the men he hired couldn't find a woman willing to do it. So Kushner personally recruited a call girl in New York and promised her $7,000 to $10,000.
She met the brother-in-law outside a diner and said her car had broken down. The next day, a hidden camera in her motel room recorded them having sex.
Kushner watched the tape in a conference room at his office and "expressed satisfaction," the complaint says. He asked for copies with her face pixelled out, and still photos.
He tried the same thing on another witness, a former employee, and advanced $10,000 to $12,000 for it. That man turned the woman down twice.
In May 2004 he ordered the tape mailed to his sister and to her children, timed to arrive right before a family party. The investigator he hired talked him out of sending it to the kids. His sister opened the envelope and gave it to federal agents.
In the video below, Chris Christie, the US attorney who prosecuted him, says it was her son's engagement party, one Kushner was going to attend. He calls him "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted in his seven years there.
Kushner pleaded guilty and got 2 years. In 2020, Trump pardoned him. In 2025, the Senate confirmed him as US ambassador to France, 51-45.
At his hearing he said: "I made a very, very, very serious mistake." And: "There's only one accountant I trust that I believe in, and it's God."
Should a man who did this to his own sister represent America in Paris, or did 2 years in prison settle it?
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
I will never forget Scott Jennings bragging about his 20 minute in-depth conversation with Mitch McConnell when he was still in the hospital. How that statement didn’t ruin his career is beyond me.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
Remember when several Republicans were saying they had 20 minute phone calls with him?
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
A 2-year-old boy vanished from his home and spent the entire night alone in the Florida wilderness. Hundreds of people searched desperately, but after nearly 24 hours, there was still no sign of him.
Then a retired Marine who had planned to spend the day fishing made a last-minute change of plans. He joined the search, and after stopping to pray, something happened that he would never forget.
It happened in Brooksville, Florida, where little Joshua “JJ” Rowland had gone missing. Roy Link couldn’t bring himself to go fishing knowing a little boy was still out there, so he headed into the woods to help.
After searching without success, Roy stopped and asked God for guidance. He eventually reached a clearing with two different wooded areas ahead of him. Unsure which direction to take, he trusted his instincts and chose one.
Just minutes later, he heard a faint whimper coming from the brush. He followed the sound and discovered little JJ standing barefoot among the briars, covered in scratches but alive.
When Roy approached, the frightened little boy reached up his arms to be picked up. Roy held him close and reassured him that he was going back to his mommy.
After nearly 24 hours missing, JJ was finally reunited with his family.
Roy later shared that he had prayed just ten minutes before finding the boy, and he believed the Lord had guided him to that exact spot.
He had planned to spend the day fishing. Instead, he became the answer to a family’s desperate prayers.
Sometimes God works through ordinary people who are willing to listen.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
Whoever arranged for a Mariachi band to play outside Greg Abbott’s Texas mansion after he lost is a comedy genius 😂
Writer: Ian
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
Potential traitorous criminality, insider trading, pardon payoffs, foreign money payoffs, crypto fraud, piggybacking trades, and/or self-dealing committed by Trump, his family, his inner circle and associated people MUST be prosecuted in order to restore the Rule of Law to America and restore trust again in the judicial system.
Make them all pay. THIS is what they ALL IN TRUMP’s CIRCLE fear, because many around Trump are likely in on the $Grift...and it's not a stretch to believe that Stephen Miller or even other Cabinet members have joined the Steal$.
America cannot let so many Trump traitors/grifters get away with stealing $millions, if not $billions from the People, and corrupting the integrity of the US free and fair markets. This wasn't petty theft, folks...this was Grand Larceny on a staggering scale.
If crimes were committed, give the people involved with those crimes, both criminals and accomplices, 30 days to come to the proper bipartisan authority (be careful with a likely compromised Trump DOJ, FBI) and admit their guilt/wrongdoing and provide valuable information of what took place and who else is involved…and offer potential reduced penalties and/sentences for stepping forward in advance.
No one shall be Above the Law, including all Americans regardless of political affiliation.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
.@StephenM is a “natural born Nazi” and utterly faithless to the United States of America and the US Constitution. He serves a moral degenerate; a rapist, a liar, a conman and a loser who is the worst president in American history.
President Trump is the most transformative political leader in American History — and he has single-handedly saved America from those who would destroy it.
It has been the privilege of my lifetime to have served on his team from Day One, and I am honored beyond words to serve as his White House Chief of Staff.
I want to thank the incomparable Susie Wiles for her years of devoted service to the President and the Country, and for her friendship.
The mission now is more clear than ever: Fight with all of our soul to support our President and defend this magnificent Republic.
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
El actor Brendan Fraser se volvió viral tras protagonizar una emotiva escena durante la alfombra roja de su película Pressure, en Londres.
Al notar que un fanático con síndrome de Down tenía dificultades para tomarse una fotografía, se acercó, tomó su celular y le explicó con mucha paciencia cómo hacerlo. 📱✨
Finalmente, ambos consiguieron la selfie y el gesto del actor fue aplaudido por miles de usuarios en redes sociales. ¡Un momento que nos recuerda el valor de la empatía y la amabilidad! ❤️
Elaine Darman Levitt retweeted
A huge take from recent developements involving Meg's father is this...
So many have proven themselves, once again, of being monumentally bad at judging character. Instead of truly listening to actual words spoken, by Meghan, they misinterpret, lie, reinvent what is said, and done, to try find a way to justify their own irrational hatred of a woman who has done so much good in the world, from the time she was a child.
They called Tom a "good father" a "decent man", "poor, sick, heartbroken", whilst labelling his daughter "cold", "heartless", "abusive "... They got it WRONG.
People like @according2_taz @danwootton @piersmorgan @RNN_RoyalNews @angelalevin1 @richardaeden @cg66 @thecarolemalone @StephanieSidley @nancytsidley
@kinseyschofield , Tom Bower
have made a living off bashing a woman that has done no wrong, whilst platforming, or cheering on a man that was clearly toxic, and abusive.
Most of us, those who value character, and integrity, saw him for what he was right from the start. We didn’t need this new information to tell us Tom was not "decent" or was not a "good father". Those of us who do have the ability to judge a person's character well, saw the many red flags right from the start. When we pointed them out we were mocked, abused, ridiculed.
News outlets like the @DailyMail @TheSun @DailyMirror @GMB @thenewyorkpost @thedailybeast @SkyNews @TalkTV have a lot to answer for. The relationship between a child, and a parent, should NEVER have become a stick used to beat that child with. It was never fair. It was never right, or ethical.
The same people, the same organisations, and outlets, that threw their support behind Tom snr are the very same that have constantly tried to lie about Meghan's mother Doria.
Doria, the woman who raised Meghan, the woman who took her to volunteer in homeless shelters, and soup kitchens when she was a child. The woman that helped Meghan care for Tom's sick mother when he, and Meghan's half siblings refused to do so. The woman who has worked hard her whole life to support herself, and her child. The woman who has not said a bad word about anyone. This is the parent they came for over these past years. This is who they still continue to drag through the gutter with their lies. Why? She has watched her only child be hated, abused, threatened, bullied, targeted, for close to a decade, yet has stayed quietly in the background, supporting. I am certain she knows it all. Knows the true scope of Meghan's experience as a member of the royal family. Knows exactly what she went through, yet she has continued to maintain her silence and support her child as a parent should.
So why do they drag Doria, more than they ever have Tom, or Meghan's half siblings? Is it race? Or is it the fact that she is everything they are not? Good, decent, intelligent, kind. They had to create red flags where they didn’t exist, whilst simultaneously over looking those that were glaringly obvious on the other side of the family.
They can try flip the narrative now. They can try blame Meghan and Doria, for Tom's behaviour. They can try gaslight, and delete, any support they once showed for this man, this alleged predator, but the internet is forever. We won't let them rewrite history. We won't let them forget that, once again, they threw their total support behind the wrong person. We will never let them erase the part they played.
Will these people reflect? Will they, and the media, finally admit their own failings? I am certain they won't. Doing so would take courage, integrity, a conscience. Unfortunately people like this lack such things. Thankfully the universe has a way of righting wrongs, and ensuring those in the wrong are eventually dealt with, as we have witnessed today. It may take a while, but it does come, and may it reach them all. 🙏
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