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[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@gggirl924 Noggin the Nog

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@BBCSport My husband loves a Tunnock tea cake.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Check out this American Hero 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

I will just leave this here and watch the comments burn as normal :)

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

This fat f^ck could not even bow his head or show respect to our service members that gave the ultimate sacrifice and lost their lives, due to an unnecessary and illegal war HE started with Iran. 🤬

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

If you’re just waking up and haven’t caught the news yet…

Reform UK lost two council by-elections to Labour last night in Thurrock.

I know Zia Yusuf and Nigel Farage won’t be tweeting about this one, so just making sure you’re all aware 😂😂😂

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Never gets old...

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨OMG: An audience member behind Trump is going viral for MAKING FUN of Trump and impersonating his movements during his boring speech.

This is absolutely humiliating.

[Sec. Scott Bessent RV 🇺🇸 @_ScottBessentRV]

you don't spend decades paying national insurance just to be told your pension is a "benefit."

for millions of britons, it's deferred earnings, not charity.

do you agree? 👇🇬🇧

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Here’s trump being mocked the same way that he mocks others.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

You think we are supposed to fucking care?💀

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

Immersive Van Gogh today

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@karenfthompson Immersive Van Gogh, shopping. Buying paints for when the littles come, new boots for the man, ' posh ' lunch at Gregg's (my old man's idea of a treat 😉🤣), then home to cold coffee and lemon cake.

[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.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE WORLD SAW ON SUNDAY 💯🤡

[Capitán General de los Tercios @capTercio]

La imagen de la vergüenza que ha dado la vuelta al mundo.
Argentina debe hacer una profunda reflexión sobre su comportamiento en este Mundial.

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@AntiTrumpCanada Hey don't bring Nottingham into this. We haven't got any time for him either.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE WHO IS THANKING DONALD TRUMP FOR MAKING THE WORLD CUP POSSIBLE THAT AMERICA GOT THE WORLD CUP UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA 🙄

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@history99917180 Well done!