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Russell A. Davidson

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Retired Military Officer. Sailor, Citizen, Enthusiast.

Damariscotta, Maine
Joined September 2009
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Russell A. Davidson
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“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won.” —Ernest Hemingway
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@MrDanZak “We have a situation where we are looking very strongly at sinks and showers.” We have a situation alright.
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@AmichaiStein1 @AtticusWest @eslavin_stripes “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” —Theodore Roosevelt
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@TwitterMoments This is a job for Space Force.
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@FPWellman He’s lost more money than anyone, paid less taxes than anyone & owes more money than anyone. And somehow he slipped through. He would be ineligible for a security clearance and yet, here he is, read into the nation’s most sensitive national security programs. It’s problematic.
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@cinematicfella @DannyDrinksWine “You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” Baldwin
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@farquharjulie1 @harrylitman @HC_Richardson he’s made a complete mockery out of everything, including the rule of law and government accountability and it’s absolutely humiliating
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@JoshMankiewicz @kaburke9 “There’ll be no more lazy afternoons on Boston Harbor aboard my little sailboat, The Butterfly; no more surprise telephone calls from buddies like Dave Manzo in Boston, Alan Pergament in Buffalo & Jim Coppersmith in Marblehead, who never hang up without saying, “I love you, Jack”
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@todd_harmon @atrupar it’s not contrived
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@dmclane @elizaorlins “…excuse me your honor, the defendant requests to be allowed to attend the civil war reenactment next weekend.” “I’m going to allow it.”
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@Robbie_Wallis1 @DaniellaMicaela It’s a bit mind-numbing that we have to protect our own country like this from ourselves.
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@GeoffRBennett @vagrantcow @JulesJester “Don’t answer that. It’s the White House calling...”
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@brianklaas *the guy who solicited foreign interference in the first election, was impeached for extorting Ukraine, profited astronomically while in office while botching the pandemic response, who is facing espionage charges and is currently on trial for fraud
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@jimsciutto “I’m sorry that I can’t come to the phone right now because I’m having a debris-generating event”
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4 years
@josh_wingrove @PressSec These people could screw up a coin toss.
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@caslernoel the guy has forced himself on everyone his entire life and he’s still forcing himself on all of us
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“And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall
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“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.” —Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
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@JonLemire “As it turned out, with the two Koreas celebrating a moment of unity, the United States was left outmaneuvered by an adversary and out of step with an ally.” Outmaneuvered & outclassed. Surprised Pence wasn’t wearing his flight jacket.
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@GeoffRBennett @vagrantcow @JulesJester Alternatively, answering the phone: “Please hold for the President of the United States...” “...hang up, hang up!!”
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@atrupar “He’s always negotiating.” Technically it’s blackmail and extortion…that’s what it’s called.
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@rgoodlaw @AWeissmann_ I’m sure they can dig something up
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6 years
@essenviews No one listened to Trump for 30 years. Now everyone is forced to. It’s bloody torture.
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@JeffreyGoldberg “....they had performed poorly and gotten caught and deserved what they got...." The same goes for Trump. When is the comeuppance?
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5 years
@NancyRubino @tribelaw @RepAdamSchiff He is miles and miles ahead of everyone else. And we owe him a debt of gratitude no matter what ends up happening here.
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1 year
@HeartlandSignal guy from “Show-Me” state melts down when asked to show me
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2 years
@Jenna_Blum “Gradually then suddenly.” — Hemingway
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4 years
@kellymagsamen @thomaswright08 Pompeo seems a little smug, unethical and unqualified.
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@eilperin @jdawsey1 “The upcoming pyrotechnics show will include several new elements, including a massive American flag and the words “U.S.A.” spelled out in the sky.” Possibly to eliminate any confusion about the country in which we are living.
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@KateBennett_DC @colvinj @FLOTUS Five-day photo shoot in Africa, funded by taxpayers is not a good look.
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@eosnos @seungminkim “How can we, as a democracy, elect anyone President who says violence is appropriate?” he asked me. And he thinks that the press has failed to take full stock of Trump’s menace. “It’s like you’ve all become numbed by it.”
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@LettersOfNote @jashsf @realDonaldTrump “But in the matter of us giving you Greenland, it is not possible. Good luck finding a suitable country.”
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@brhodes Reprogramming DOD money to pay for a wall. Hijacking the 4th of July. Defying subpoenas. Stonewalling investigations. Failing to protect elections. Joking about murdering asylum seekers. Manufacturing a crisis at the border. Golfing every weekend. Pocketing money each day.
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@Acyn “Colonel, is it standard operating procedure…” (noise which sounds like crabs scuttling across a boardwalk) “Sir, I wish I could comment on that…”
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@IdahoLark @Corb_The_Lesser @mmcassella @TheRickWilson @jonathanvswan To realize that he cannot find joy in simple pleasures or see beauty anywhere, specifically in nature, brings me both profound sadness and infinite satisfaction.
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@neal_katyal the crazy part is that this guy was the President
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@EliotHiggins same energy
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@PressSec @realDonaldTrump These aren’t really peace agreements, they are more about economics. And these countries were never at war with one-another. And the president* had very little if anything to do with them. Also, our own country is in shambles. Thanks.
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@TheDailyShow @snarky_op @ronnychieng “purple is for time he spends with his kids, but I also use it for fraud charge cases because they basically overlap”
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@kyledcheney this is so tragic I hope Giuliani leaves penniless
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@JustSchmeltzer @jonathanvswan not part of the public tour
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@Helen91064703 @politicsusa46 I cannot recall in recent memory anyone more principled or effective than Adam Schiff. Nor is there anyone today as eloquent, who can summon the words and deliver a speech so cogent and moving.
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@ZaleskiLuke imagine faking it your whole life, but it was never really a problem because no one was listening and then winding up in this position somehow and just continuing to fake it because that’s all you really know, but this time there are massive deadly consequences
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@NavalInstitute 92 cans of beer a day per sailor is just about adequate
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@John_Hudson Pompeo clearly hasn’t missed any meals.
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@jdawsey1 @politico "Trump governing by @Twitter as effective as steering a ship by firing a pistol at the waves." -Garrison Keillor
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@AlumniUSC @POTUS he's clearly just signing anything that anyone pushes into his lap out of pure spite.
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5 years
“I'm going to do what feeds my soul.” —Elijah Cummings (1951-2019)
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@PhilippeReines “I prefer students who haven’t been shot.”
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"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, & love, found that none satisfy, nature remains." -Walt Whitman
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5 years
@politico Classic projection and total insanity. Seems impeachable.
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@ProcyonLotor31 @caslernoel one doesn’t wear a suit to a war
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6 years
@realDonaldTrump You colluded, but you and your equally naive campaign had trouble seeing the signs. As far as obstruction, you were a bit more successful, yet ultimately failed when your orders and instructions were basically ignored.
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@AWeissmann_ it doesn’t deter him because it’s never his money
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2 years
@SweeneyABC I’ve been on this train twice in the past year and it was never this exciting.
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@DrGJackBrown @TheHelenChapel I don’t want to look that closely
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@ChrisDJackson he could wear snowshoes…still voting for him
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@brianklaas the “if you vote for him again” should not be possible in a functioning democracy
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@RicoSuaveJD @Stonekettle Goodyear should recall the tires.
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6 years
@publicsquared @CNNPolitics Standard practice went out the window almost two years ago.
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5 years
@IJasonAlexander I know for a fact that Morty Seinfeld was impeached for a hell of a lot less.
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@BeschlossDC we are sleepwalking into this disaster
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@Pervaizistan @docrocktex26 The three-step, three hour combover which lands 10% of his hair on 90% of his scalp. Seems impeachable.
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@EricEllenburg1 @caslernoel @GOP “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.” 1/2
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@cnni Be best.
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@svdate “I can’t get a fair trial because the judge has a bias against crime”
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@nytdavidbrooks I’m sure that ‘America First’ had nothing to do with the loss of selflessness
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@RpsAgainstTrump @Acyn “election hacking, & many other negative things”
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@rgoodlaw Mark Meadows, Associate of Arts, University of South Florida
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5 years
@Acyn This seems miles and miles from Presidential.
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@echosparksband @thehill it's killing all of us.
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@SolidEvidence You should win an award of sorts (I’m being candid). Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us and for the diligent exacting work you perform.
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@halbritz @JamesPindell It breaks my heart in the few places that remain unbroken.
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@davematt88 He’s collapsing under the weight of tanning compound.
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@IJasonAlexander These pretzels are making me thirsty.
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@KaivanShroff we should all be so lucky
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@zim2918 Thanks Lee.
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@OurShallowState does it include criminality, greed, pettiness, ugliness and vengefulness?
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@kkrader @chefjoseandres @WCKitchen @luxury @natemook “When we think about Chef Andrés and his incredible team at World Central Kitchen, we’re reminded that even during a year of unimaginable hardship, there are so many amazing people willing — and working tirelessly — to support each other.” 👏
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@davidaxelrod @realDonaldTrump He just flew to France with an entire entourage of support personnel after the advance, only to watch television.
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@ChrisLu44 ...shared U.S. nuclear capabilities via Twitter.
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For future reference, when I pass this is how I wish to be honoured.
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@jdickerson “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
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@MollyJongFast “It’s flattering to the American people they have to be lied to so much”
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@stengel “Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
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@helaineolen “It was a perfect call.”
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@sbg1 There’s something very wrong with the Navy’s assignment process and the vetting for this particular post.
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@AndyKimNJ nice guys can also finish first
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@EricLiptonNYT Trump seems fairly adept at bilking people. Perhaps is was naive to think there were laws which prohibit this. Carter voluntary gave up his peanut farm. Seems quaint by comparison.
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@arlenparsa @chrislhayes We basically have a drunk driver at the wheel here in the United States.
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In a world where beauty is often squandered or lost, words like these land as both sadness and salvation. Graeme Gibson, The Bedside Book of Birds
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