Mitch Garber

Exec Cmmt & Minority Owner: @seattlekraken // Board member: @Rackspace @Shutterfly //Chairman: Aiola Ai /Member of the Order of Canada 🇨🇦

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

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[Leslie Roberts 🇨🇦 @MrLeslieRoberts]

Lloyd Robertson: former CTV News anchor dies at 92. A gentleman and a true journalist. Always kind to local anchors across the network. They don’t make them like Lloyd anymore. RIP. https://t.co/LfUrrspNnH

[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.

[Eric Engels @EricEngels]

A must-read message from Brendan Lemieux, posted on his Instagram 15 minutes ago:

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

I do!

[Québec libre et vert @ClaudeLalondMtl]

@mitchgarber @RealChalamet Blame the English education system, Joe Ortona, EMSB. They don't prepare the youth to live and work in a French society.

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Ce jeune homme (@RealChalamet) a grandi à New York. Son exposition au français s’est essentiellement limitée aux étés passés en France. Pendant ce temps, nos enfants anglophones apprennent le français tous les jours pendant 12 ans et vivent dans une province dont la langue officielle est le français.

https://t.co/fXWu6YliZQ

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

This young man (@RealChalamet ) grew up in New York . His exposure to French was summers spent in France. Our Anglo kids learn French every day for 12 years and live in a province where the official language is French.

https://t.co/5cBrFdC35R

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Most people that want English debates want it because they don’t understand the French debates . That’s the wrong reason . The right reason is language rights and that we are in Canada . Leslie and I agree.

[GhitaVee🇨🇦 @GhitaVee]

@mitchgarber @MrLeslieRoberts What does Roberts say in that article that suggests such a thing? It has zero to do with speaking French.

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Je suis un très, très grand admirateur de @MrLeslieRoberts, un défenseur des droits des anglophones et des débats en anglais… mais, au nom du ciel, quelle excuse peut bien avoir toute personne de 50 ans ou moins au Québec pour ne pas parler ou comprendre le français conversationnel?

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

I am a big big fan of @MrLeslieRoberts and a defender of Anglo rights, and English debates , ..but what in god’s name is the excuse of anyone 50 or younger in Quebec for not speaking or understanding conversational French?

[GhitaVee🇨🇦 @GhitaVee]

@claudiacm1146 This is very good, we need more voices like @MrLeslieRoberts’.

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Wow 83 years already. Seems like just yesterday the Jews were to blame.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — July 10, 1933

Time Magazine put Joseph Goebbels on its cover — and praised the Nazis.

Just months after Hitler seized power, the American magazine featured the Nazi propaganda minister and described Adolf Hitler as a “vegetarian superman.” The article lauded how Nazi rule had “lifted the spirit of the German people” and openly noted that one of the regime’s most effective tactics was “explaining away all Germany’s defeats and trials in terms of the Jew.”

Goebbels’ own line — “The Jews are to blame!” — actually appeared on the front cover.

This was mainstream American media treating the rising Nazi regime with a mix of fascination and reluctant admiration — while the machinery of antisemitic propaganda was already in full gear.

By the time the world woke up, it was too late for millions.

Some warnings were printed in plain sight.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

What happened at @startupfest yesterday was antisemitism. Pure & simple. Disguised under a thin veil of advocacy, and everyone in the room saw right through it.

I was on stage with Georges St-Pierre talking about entrepreneurship. Not politics. A man burst in screaming horrible accusations at me anyway. Third time in 2 years, including at the opening of a Jewish community centre.

My parents were in the front row. I'll never forget their faces.

When the target is always the Jew and never the topic, it's not advocacy. It's hate.

The room booed him down and cheered as he was walked out. I'm grateful for that.

Hate got escorted out. We got right back to building.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Thank you @GeorgesStPierre for joining me on the @startupfest stage today.

One of the greatest fighters who ever lived. And the biggest takeaway had nothing to do with fighting.

The best performers aren't fearless. They've just learned to aim the fear at the work instead of at themselves.

Honoured to call you a friend.

Thank you for the pics @evablue

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

If the Americans want to learn how to seal the border so that not a single person can pass thru it, they can learn from Egypt’s border with Gaza.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Egyptian head coach Hossam Hassan brought a Palestine flag onto the pitch after Egypt’s historic victory over Australia

[Casey Babb @DrCaseyBabb]

You’ll never convince me that this guy isn’t being backed and coached by a foreign regime.

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

I read it quickly as @DarrenDreger 6 year extension 12.5m AAV.

[Pierre LeBrun @PierreVLeBrun]

Six-year extension, $12.5 M AAV per season as per @DarrenDreger for Byram in Chicago 👀

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Yes sir

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[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

You need to play the game to be in position to choose those players. Good luck.

[Le Baron @Le_BaronQC]

@mitchgarber Wayne Mario Ovi avec Ray Bourque et Nicolas Lidstrom et Hasek … n’importe quand Mitch!😉

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Can you go 84–0? · https://t.co/ZpmzaiiwgW

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Deepest sympathies for you and your family David.

[David P. Samson @DavidPSamson]

Yesterday, my daughter, Kyra, passed away peacefully after a 9 month and 11 day fight against one of the cruelest diseases I’ve ever seen up close. She was diagnosed with Brain Cancer, specifically Glioblastoma. I have felt all of your concern and love for these months and wasn’t ready to be anymore specific than I was.
Kyra was a 28-year-old young woman who loved deeply and who is impossible to describe in 280 characters. While her life got stolen from her, she handled these months with courage, poise, and resolve. And all I want is for no family to feel what we feel today. For no young person to suffer the way she did.

In lieu of flowers, if you are moved to make a memorial gift, please consider “The Kyra Fund” (https://t.co/4bl8cxV1Dt)

This fund will be used solely to research treatments for Glioblastomas.

[Mitch Garber @mitchgarber]

Let’s put it this way ; 99.3% of Quebecers don’t vote for you. So by not being in politics at all, I am only 0.7% behind you. In the last election you got far fewer votes than I have Twitter followers. So I would really focus on your political “career”or maybe change careers.

[Alex Tyrrell @AlexTyrrellPVQ]

@mitchgarber How is your political career going?