Have you heard the great news? Poor, poor, put-upon Bradley Chelsea Manning has finally been released from Fort Leavenworth after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence:
First steps of freedom!! ?https://t.co/kPPWV5epwa#ChelseaIsFree pic.twitter.com/0R5pXqA1VN
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) May 17, 2017
So, im already enjoying my first hot, greasy pizza ? https://t.co/ctZ8NdrV16#ChelseaIsFree pic.twitter.com/NZR9cePsFb
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) May 17, 2017
Awww … isn’t that special?
Welcome back
— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) May 17, 2017
Welcome back, Chelsea! Enjoy ur freedom + start a new life ❤ Remember, you served humanity + we will never forget it. Lots of love + ? + ?
— anke domscheit-berg (@anked) May 17, 2017
Welcome back to freedom, @xychelsea! Your courage inspires whistleblowers, trans* people, @TerryReintke & me, and all of us. #chelseaisfree pic.twitter.com/zcP9inOwRo
— Julia Reda (@Senficon) May 17, 2017
Congratulations to @xychelsea, who is free today.
— Eva (@evacide) May 17, 2017
This tweet of @xychelsea eating/ enjoying pizza is making me tear up it's so beautiful https://t.co/piDm31geV0
— ???????? ????? ????? ???? (@mathewrodriguez) May 17, 2017
This is what freedom tastes like. #ChelseaIsFree? pic.twitter.com/219F7iLcV5
— Splinter (@splinter_news) May 17, 2017
Godspeed, @xychelsea
We needed you out here
You arrived just in time.— Xeni (@xeni) May 17, 2017
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Chelsea Manning @xychelsea's leaked cables produced so many under-the-radar news stories and helped me with reporting
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 17, 2017
It's hard to wake up to upsetting news each morning. But today we wake up to the news that Chelsea Manning is free. Welcome home @xychelsea!
— Women's March (@womensmarch) May 17, 2017
Make Leaking Classified Information Great Again! Or something.
Crowd: Trump endangered the country by leaking classified info to Russia.
Same Crowd: Thank god Chelsea Manning is finally free!
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) May 17, 2017
If Trump did, in fact, disclose classified information to Russian officials last week, he should most definitely be held to accountable. But Manning’s actions directly led to people’s lives being put in danger — and being lost. So why are the same people calling for Trump’s head heralding Manning as a hero?
That would make a good Venn Diagram, with 'folks who don't exhibit a lot of logical consistency' being in the middle.
— Marshall Power Locke (@MarshallLocke) May 17, 2017
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