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Enjoying sunshine & tasty waves! 23 year Air Force veteran. Part of #BBN! Jesus loves you!

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

Ashli Babbitt = Crispus Attucks?

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@mazemoore Second was 1960.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Our hearts are heavy today for 19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton, Texas. This brave young soldier was killed Friday in Iranian missile and drone attacks on a U.S. base in Jordan.

At just 19, she selflessly answered the call to defend our nation. Her courage and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Sending deepest condolences and prayers to her family, friends, and all who loved her. May God wrap you in comfort and grant her eternal peace.

Thank you for your service, Isabella. You are a true hero. 🇺🇸

[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.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Firefighters and college football players showed up to a Tennessee senior home...to pull grandmas and grandpas down a MASSIVE slip 'n slide!!!

Seniors with dementia and Parkinson's laughed like little kids again.

This is the annual "Ride 'n Slide" at Adams Place in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where a giant tarp is stretched across the lawn and the Murfreesboro Fire Department keeps it soaked and lifts residents safely on and off.

The Middle Tennessee State football team spent their day pulling grandmas across the water on inner tubes and cheering them on every single ride.

One resident, Mike Mitchell, an Army veteran and a retired minister who preached for SIXTY YEARS, talked himself into it right there on the lawn.

One grandma went down FOUR times and came up smiling saying, "Well that was fast!"

Organizers say the residents with dementia and Parkinson's light up brightest of all.

For one afternoon, no diagnoses, no age, just water, laughter, and people cheering your name.

That's so amazing...

GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE!!!! 🇺🇸

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@SGTWipper1Each I was stationed on an Army post in Korea for a year and a half in the 80s. The Air Force guys got separate rations and never ate at the Army mess. A couple of us tried it for breakfast one day thinking they couldn't mess up bacon and eggs. We were sorely mistaken!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Nashville I ordered hot chicken.

The woman at the counter was named Brenda. She did not ask if I wanted it spicy.

She asked how much of my afternoon I was willing to lose.

"Mild, medium, hot, XXX, or the one we do not put on the menu?"

A guest does not choose the lightest blade.

"XXX," I said.

Brenda looked at me the way a smith looks at a man who has asked for a sword sharper than his hands.

"You ever had this before?"

"No."

"You sure?"

"I am sure."

She wrote it down. No mercy.

It arrived. Red. Gleaming. Beautiful the way a warning is beautiful.

I took one bite.

For three seconds there was chicken.

Then there was only light.

A child at the next table whispered, "Mama, that man is glowing."

Brenda glanced once. "You good?"

I could not feel my tongue. I nodded anyway. A samurai does not negotiate with poultry.

She set down a glass of milk I had not ordered.

"On the house. Everybody gets one lie. Yours was XXX."

I finished it. The chicken won.

I returned the next day.

Brenda smiled, not unkind.

"Medium?"

"...Medium."

She nodded like a teacher watching a student finally read the room.

In Japan we test a blade by cutting, then leave the student alone with the lesson.

In Nashville they test a man by fire—

then set the milk down like a hand on his shoulder.

That is not cruelty.

That is belonging.

America does not ask if you can take the heat.

America brings the heat.

Then America brings the milk.

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

A US senator killed a 28 year old woman, left her to drown, spent zero days in jail, and then served 40 more years in the Senate. 57 years ago tonight. Almost nobody remembers her name.

57 years ago tonight, July 18 1969, on a tiny island called Chappaquiddick that most Americans could not find on a map, the most infamous car accident in US history happened while the entire world was staring at the sky waiting for men to walk on the moon.

Senator Ted Kennedy left a cottage party for the "Boiler Room Girls," the young women who had worked themselves to exhaustion on his brother Bobby's campaign the year before Bobby was shot, and he drove off with 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne around 11:15 pm. He said he was taking her to the ferry.

Instead the car went off the Dike Bridge, a narrow wooden bridge with no guardrail, and flipped upside down into the black tidal water of Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out. Mary Jo did not.

And here is the part history never forgave: he did not knock on the lit up house just yards away that had a phone, he did not call police, he walked back to the party and then he went to bed.

He reported it roughly 10 hours later, the next morning, only after two fishermen had already found the car and her body. The diver who pulled her out, John Farrar, said she had likely survived for a while inside an air pocket and might be alive today if anyone had simply called for help that night.

Two days later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, and so the greatest achievement in human history shared the front page with a drowned woman and a senator who waited until sunrise.

The punishment for all of it: a guilty plea to leaving the scene, a two month suspended sentence, not a single day served. He kept his Senate seat for 40 more years until he died in 2009, one of the most powerful men in the country.

Strip away the famous last name and you are left with something painfully simple. A young woman trusted the wrong man to drive her home, and he chose himself.

Say her name tonight. Not his. Mary Jo Kopechne.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Bible → Enlightenment → French Revolution → Spider-Man

Most people know the line from Marvel:

"With great power comes great responsibility."

But the idea is ~2,000 years older than Peter Parker.

In Luke 12:48, Jesus says, "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required."

That is the root.

If you are given more, more is expected of you.

Centuries later, the Enlightenment starts applying that same moral logic to rulers, elites, and institutions. Voltaire is often credited with the exact phrase, but there is no solid proof he ever said it. Still, the idea fits the age perfectly: power was no longer treated as divine decoration. It had to answer to reason, morality, and the people.

Then, in May 1793, the French National Convention writes it into an official decree:

"Great responsibility follows inseparably from great power."

Now it is not just a personal moral lesson. It is political.

And here is the dark irony. That decree was written for revolutionaries being handed nearly unlimited emergency powers. Four months later, the Reign of Terror begins.

The phrase keeps climbing.

1817: William Lamb warns the British Parliament that "the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility." He goes on to become Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister.

1906: A young Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons, "Where there is great power there is great responsibility."

Then, in August 1962, Marvel puts this ancient principle on the shoulders of a teenage boy in Queens.

In Amazing Fantasy #15, Peter Parker learns that power without duty can destroy the people closest to you.

But here is the detail almost everyone gets wrong: Uncle Ben never says the line in that comic. It appears in the final panel as narration. Ben only gets the quote in later retellings, most famously the 2002 movie.

So no, Spider-Man did not invent the idea.

The Bible gave it its soul.
The Enlightenment gave it teeth.
The French Revolution gave it politics.
Marvel gave it a mask.

And in 2015, it came full circle. In Kimble v. Marvel, a Supreme Court case about Spider-Man toy royalties, Justice Kagan quoted the line in the official opinion and cited the comic itself.

A warning from Jesus now sits in American case law with a comic book citation.

An idea does not survive 2,000 years because it is catchy. It survives because the powerful keep proving it necessary.

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@howcoryseesit Good luck with that!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is WILD

American went to a parking garage in Detroit with a friend. They leave the parking garage and the friend who drove didn’t pay

That parking garage somehow automatically identified her by her phone, charged her card and texted her a receipt with the make, model and license plate of her friends vehicle

Again she didn’t drive, she didn’t interact with any machines, the parking garage was able to just identify her and charge her because she had her cell phone with her

This is real

The building was the Fisher Building garage in Detroit. It’s a shopping area

It’s a modern automated parking management system on Metropolis Parking’s platform that has License Plate Recognition cameras combined with phone-linked accounts and stored payment details

Because this woman had been there before and paid, the system saved her data, recognized her by her phones signal and automatically charged her with a previous payment method

Technology is going way too far

[Spectrum News 13 @MyNews13]

Viewer video shows a waterspout near Florida's Sebastian Inlet.

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@Real_RobN Were these idiotic judges thinking 99 fouls and you're out?

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@SGTWipper1Each None of us airmen can tell what's missing. #WhatsARuck

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@teamreal321 #Gadget

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Justice Clarence Thomas 1991: "I'd rather die than withdraw. If they're gonna kill me, they're gonna kill me... I'd rather die than withdraw from the process. Not for the purpose of serving on the Supreme Court, but for the purpose of not being driven out of this process. I will not be scared. I don't like bullies. I've never run from bullies. I never cry uncle and I'm not going to cry uncle today whether I want to be on the Supreme Court or not."

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@swd2 @SecMullinDHS @MarkHalperin Even accepting these numbers as accurate (which I do not) the middle bar is 674 too high because they shouldn't even be here.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

🚨🚨 The Supreme Court is asking Congress for millions more in security funding, including six additional security agents per justice.

Here is the leader of the Democrat Party threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I don't think the GOP fully grasp how badly they are fucking up right now.

I'm talking to people who normally have ZERO interest in politics who are legitimately pissed off.

They are not seeing the major reform they thought would happen and are REALLY MAD about it.

No true accountability.
No true mass deportations.
No meaningful decrease in the deficit.
Lots of very long vacations and no work.
No bills being passed that REDUCE the government involvement in their lives.

I'm very worried the GOP is sleepwalking toward a midterm reckoning they don’t see coming.

People are pissed off that they voted Trump into office and then the GOP continues to slow-walk every reform people want.

Where are all the DOGE cuts that were promised?
Where is the SAVE ACT?
Why haven't we defunded the Taliban yet?

Why are bills passing the House and then disappear in the Senate?

Why are the GOP still funding Left-wing NGOs that target and hate MAGA Republicans?

Why are members of the GOP pushing for mass amnesty instead of mass deportations?

People are waking up and they aren't happy about it.

People believed they were voting for the Trump agenda. and instead, many feel like they’re getting the same old Washington.

If Republicans in Congress don’t start producing tangible results, they’re going to discover that frustration has consequences...

...And by the time they realize how deep-seeded that frustration is, it may already be too late.

[Space 🚀 Coaster 🎢 @space_florida]

@TomiLahren I don't vote against someone (protest vote), but I also don't vote for anyone opposed to supposedly conservative positions....deportations, pro life, lower taxes, smaller government, etc. And big talk isn't enough!

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

One of the worst decisions ever made was forcing out Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino

Bovino’s "TURN AND BURN" strategy scared literally MILLIONS of illegals into self-deporting in mere months

Bring Back Bovino. It’s time.

There is NO incentive for illegals to self-deport if DHS is going to keep bending the knee to leftist terrorists.

Why the hell would they? The pressure is gone.