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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac, one of France’s most wanted Resistance leaders.

The German secret police sentenced him to death, and his execution was only days away.

At that very moment, his wife Lucie was six months pregnant with their second child.

Most people would have hidden, mourned quietly, and hoped for a miracle.

Lucie Aubrac chose a different path.

Using forged identity papers and a carefully crafted story, she walked directly into the office of Klaus Barbie, the man history would remember as the Butcher of Lyon.

She looked him in the eye and persuaded him to allow one final visit with her condemned husband.

But she wasn't there to say goodbye.

Inside the prison, Lucie studied everything.

She memorized the guards' positions, counted the time between patrols, and traced the exact route the prison truck would follow.

Every detail became part of a carefully planned mission.

On October 21, 1943, the prison truck carried Raymond and other prisoners through the streets of Lyon toward what should have been their final destination.

What the German guards didn't know was that Lucie had spent weeks assembling a Resistance team and planning an ambush with extraordinary precision.

When the truck reached the chosen location, her team struck without hesitation.

Gunfire erupted.

Amid the chaos, Raymond Aubrac was pulled from the truck and set free.

The operation had been organized by a woman who was visibly pregnant.

After the rescue, the couple disappeared into hiding.

Weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a secret safe house while German forces searched across France.

They remained free until the w@r finally ended.

When peace returned, they chose to rebuild rather than retreat.

Raymond became an engineer and helped rebuild France's infrastructure.

Lucie became a respected historian, dedicating her life to ensuring the women of the French Resistance were never forgotten.

Together they raised three children, shared decades of life, and grew old side by side.

When asked why she risked everything, Lucie answered without hesitation.

"He was my husband. What else would I do?"

Their story proved that love is strongest when it refuses to surrender, even in history's darkest moments.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Trump ousts the three remaining members of a federal election assistance panel, crippling the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. https://t.co/ieZXWrxlOy

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

That says it all!

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

This woman is reciting Trump’s words exactly as he said them during the NATO summit.

We have become so inured to Trump’s incoherence that is sanewashed by the media 24/7 that we fail to recognize just how much he’s declined.

Reading a transcript of his words makes it SO CLEAR.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Authenticity is not about saying whatever pops into your head. It's about sharing what reflects who you want to be.

Healthy self-expression doesn't mean no filter. It involves weighing whether your current thoughts and emotions are aligned with your lasting values.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

.@MittRomney is no Communist. Nor is he disparaging of wealth.
But here he puts his finger on the problem:
When so MUCH wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, and money speaks so loudly in our campaigns, it also represents a concentration of power that skews our democracy.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

OMG.

Maybe you shouldn’t have January 6’ed then

These people always turn themselves into victims. Never take responsibility for their own actions. And then call everyone else snowflakes

It will be in the history books about the class of whiney, weak betas who follow a MAN like he’s a god

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! SAY IT LOUDER: Pastor Loran Livingston just said what your MAGA uncle's pastor is too scared to say: "There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be."

A Christian nation doesn't kill 20 million Native Americans, steal their land, and leave their descendants in poverty.

A Christian nation doesn't fight a Civil War—losing 500,000 of its own people—just to keep owning human beings.

That's not Christianity. That's conquest with a Bible in one hand and a LIE in the other.

Stop calling it what it never was. HEAT CHECK!!!

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I cannot believe he said that out loud and with a straight face. Here he is three weeks after Jan. 6.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Four-star General Donahue who resigned after pressure tied to Pete Hegseth’s leadership. This is the respect he was shown as he left his home and his post.

[Joe Byerly @jbyerly81]

As we celebrate America’s 250th, this message from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson feels especially important.

Rick is the author of the Liberation Trilogy and the ongoing Revolution Trilogy on America’s War for Independence (he’s currently working on the third volume).

His words here are a great reminder of the enlightened political heritage and personal liberties we’ve inherited — and the enormous sacrifices made to secure them over 250 years.

This is a great message for our 250th.
I had the pleasure of interviewing him last summer on From the Green Notebook.

Grateful for voices like his that help us remember where we came from!
🇺🇸 #America25 #July4

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Literally socialism

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[ZorbaGarp @ZorbaGarpRules]

@jaketapper @maggieNYT @jonathanvswan Jake, you treat this like it's sane, mature, literary criticism. C'mon, man.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[ZorbaGarp @ZorbaGarpRules]

@thestateoflou Great article! Summed it up perfectly.

[State of Louisville @thestateoflou]

An empty chair, a ghost in Buffalo, and an unfinished legacy

The Mikel Brown saga at Louisville closes with more questions than answers.

https://t.co/sFm5m6kswv

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.

The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.

Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.

Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.

In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
A gaudy performance.
A caricature masquerading as leadership.
A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.

And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....