Frances Huffman

Finance, loves the Huntsville Symphony, devoted to the arts, family, garden, cat

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

For Republicans, this is called an INCONVENIENT FACT.

[Doug Jones @DougJones]

Canada is the biggest importer of Alabama goods and Trump’s trade war with Canada is gonna hurt Alabama workers. But Tommy Tuberville just takes a knee any time Trump speaks. What kind of “coach” takes a knee when your team is losing! That’s not Alabama leadership folks!

[F. Andy Seidl @faseidl]

Yes!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This is a brilliant idea.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This shirt says it all 🔥
#fyp #viral

[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”

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Clearly not the answer they were looking for...

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

False positive my ass

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Dear Canada, some blue states are sending help.

[Goncalodias17 @goncalo_diass17]

Nico Willians:

"Corro rápido, mas não tão rápido como a minha mãe. Ela escapou à morte e atravessou o Saara do Gana até Espanha. Dei-lhe a minha medalha porque ela merece mais." 🥹

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

President Trump just gave a speech about voter fraud.

Someone has been committing voter fraud — and his name is Ken Paxton. He was just caught voting from the wrong address 6 elections in a row.

If the President wants to investigate voter fraud, he should start with Ken Paxton.

[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.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Let’s see Ken Paxton debate James Talarico! He won’t do it because his lying, cheating, scandalous, adulterous, pedophile protecting, voter fraud, low life ass would be chewed up and spit out by Talarico!

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Rep.Jasmine Crockett is letting everyone know that Todd Blanche cannot be appointed as the U.S Attorney General because he walked into the Senate & told them all that he is still Trump’s personal attorney. It’s also a conflict of Interest especially because of the Epstein files.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Army Private Isabella Gonzalez, another American servicemember killed by Iran this weekend. She died in a war that should never have been started.

RETWEET to honor Private Gonazlez's life 💔

[Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️🇺🇦🆘🔄🌍 @SnowdenBishop]

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’

It’s our duty to know.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Trump bet nobody would check the math on his library fund. Warren checked. Up to $21 million is missing.
https://t.co/n23g3E9CVh

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We continue to follow with concern the events unfolding in various countries torn apart by war and violence. Let us not forget those who are suffering and dying because of these conflicts, and let us add our constant prayers to the generous efforts for #peace.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

FUCK YEAH!!!! Judge Casper ruled that pompous Trump lacks the authority to oversee elections and rejected the corrupt, authoritarian Trump regime's unsupported claims of "widespread illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error."

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