Dalton Schmidt

Having dreams is what makes life tolerable •USI• •EKU• ΦΔΘ (He/Him)

[Dalton Schmidt @D_Schmidt2]

When bae says she's only into guys that lift so you give her free admission to the gun show

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

Sees 67-year-old Madonna on the World Cup halftime: “Couldn’t they get someone more culturally relevant in 2026?”

Sees the 71-year-old Muppets come on screen: “Hell yeah.”

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

COUNTRY ROADS, TAKE ME HOME TO THE PLACE I BELOOOONG, WEST VIRGINIA!!!!!

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It’s very craży that 70-80 year olds are generally seen as unemployable due to physical and mental decline BUT we're allowing them to run our ENTIRE country.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Tweets from 1066, 1113, 1119, 1173, 1194, 1204, 1214, 1217, 1242, 1297, 1324, 1415, 1475, 1492, 1513, 1523, 1544, 1549, 1558, 1627, 1692, 1704, 1745, 1759, 1778, 1781, 1805, and 2026.

[Damon Amendolara @DamonAmendo]

This MetLife Stadium grass looks vibrant, green, and healthy.

They should definitely rip it out tomorrow so the Giants and Jets can slip on drab algae-colored, recycled tire pellets.

[MLB @MLB]

W!

Shota Imanaga: 7 IP, 0 R

@Cubs: 22-9 since June 11 (best in NL)

[The Cub Hub @CubsSkipper]

I’ve got lots of respect for David Ross for coming back. Wearing the uniform. Doing the podcast. Speaking so highly of the organization. It would be very easy and understandable if he didn’t want to take part

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

If we had a nickel for every time Anthony Rizzo's caught a Cubs home run in the bleachers, we'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Erin Brockovich on data centers: “You’re pushing people too far at this point. You’re taking their water. Their air is jeopardized. Their land is jeopardized. Their sanctuary is jeopardized. Their wildlife is jeopardized. The trees, the rivers, the creeks, the birds, all of it”

[Scott Agness @ScottAgness]

Every camper gets a photo with Cunningham. And, as you’d expect, they all want to do the signature point

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too.
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007.
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor.
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech.
22 students out the window.
He held the door.

[George Kittle @gkittle46]

Grass looks great at MetLife! Can we keep it that way @NFL ?? Would appreciate it thanks

[Brendan Miller @brendan_cubs]

In the same jersey he caught the final out of the 2016 World Series, Anthony Rizzo gets a home run ball in the bleachers while celebrating the 10-year championship, sitting next to his mom and dad holding his son.

Rizzo is a fairy tale. Fiction. I don't know what else to say.

[Sam Bernero @sambernero]

I'm sitting behind the dugout 3rd and Jamo and Ben Brown gave me this cute pose when they saw me.
🫶🫶

[Marquee Sports Network @WatchMarquee]

David Ross on his all-time favorite pitcher to catch: "Jonny Lester. Jonny Lester made me a lot of money. I love you buddy, thank you so much." 🤣👏

[Jacob Zanolla @jacobzanolla]

He obviously can't attend these ceremonies since he's on the Rockies, but it hurts not to see Kris Bryant hanging out with the rest of the 2016 team this weekend 😥

[Marquee Sports Network @WatchMarquee]

It's like looking in a mirror!