A four-generation Hokie family has made a record-setting $75 million donation to Virginia Tech's athletics department and Honors College 🤑
The previous largest athletics gift to the university was $20 million.
A cat in Istanbul grabbed a plastic bag containing stale bread that had been left in front of a bakery and started walking away with it. This unusual sight caught the attention of a local resident, who decided to follow the cat out of curiosity.
The cat was dragging the plastic bag full of bread, which was almost bigger and heavier than itself, with great effort. From time to time, it stumbled and dropped the bag, but it never gave up. After a while, it entered an empty shop that was under renovation.
When the local resident followed the cat all the way inside, she experienced emotional moments after seeing what was there. It turned out that the cat had been making all that effort for her kittens 🥹
Motherhood is truly something sacred... No matter the species, a mother's struggle for her children touches the heart 😭❤️
رجل مهاجر ومشرد يقترب من بائع تاكو في الاكوادور ويمد له يده لكن البائع رفض اخذ المبلغ وحضر له الاكل واعطاه، واكتشف ان الرجل كان بحاجة الى حضن اكثر من الطعام
They deleted 35K followers to bury this. So I’m louder.
If the Epstein files were nothing, why erase me? They can kill an account. They can’t kill a fact.
I’m back. Same fight. Bigger voice.
If you’re not scared of the truth: Follow + Repost.
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In 1931, in Scottsboro, Alabama, nine Black teenagers were pulled off a freight train. Two white women accused them of rape. No evidence. All-white jury. Eight sentenced to death. One, 13-year-old Roy Wright, got life because he was a child.
The case became international news. But inside Kilby Prison, the boys were alone. Except for one woman: Jane Newton, 57, a white seamstress from Birmingham. She read about it in the paper and took a bus.
She wasn’t a lawyer. She wasn’t an activist. She just sat in the visitors’ room every Tuesday. She brought fried chicken, cornbread, and pencils. She taught them to write their names. Most were illiterate.
The guards called her “Nigger Lover.” She said: “I’m a Christian. You boys write your mothers.” She mailed the letters herself. When Olen Montgomery went blind from prison beatings, she read to him. When Andy Wright turned 18 in a cell, she baked him a cake and sang through the glass.
The Supreme Court overturned the convictions twice. It took 6 years, 4 trials. Four boys were finally freed. Four served decades. One, Haywood Patterson, escaped in 1948 and died in a bar fight.
Jane died in 1946. She left no family. The boys chipped in for her tombstone. It says: “She came when no one else did.”
In 2013, Alabama posthumously pardoned the Scottsboro Boys. Olen Montgomery, 95, the last survivor, was asked if he was angry. He said: “No. Miss Jane taught me to write my name. That’s how I signed the pardon. That’s enough.
Oggi ho letto di un orangutan di Sumatra che, ferito al volto, ha fatto qualcosa che dovrebbe far riflettere profondamente la nostra specie. Gli scienziati che lo hanno studiato lo hanno chiamato Rakus.
Questo straordinario primate dopo aver riportato una grave ferita alla guancia destra, è stato osservato mentre selezionava una specifica liana medicinale della foresta tropicale, la Fibraurea tinctoria (“Akar Kuning”). Ma non si è limitato a mangiarla.
L’ha masticata lentamente fino a ricavarne una pasta, quindi ha applicato con precisione il succo direttamente sulla ferita aperta, ripetendo il gesto più volte per diversi minuti.
Successivamente ha coperto la lesione con il residuo vegetale, come una vera medicazione.
Nei giorni successivi la ferita si è chiusa senza infezioni.
Lo studio, pubblicato nel 2024 su Scientific Reports dal Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, rappresenta il primo caso documentato di un animale selvatico che tratta attivamente una ferita aperta utilizzando una pianta medicinale appropriata.
E forse la questione più importante non è soltanto biologica. Perché episodi come questo incrinano ancora una volta l’antica arroganza dell’uomo di sentirsi “padrone” assoluto del mondo naturale.
Troppo spesso abbiamo immaginato gli animali come esseri inferiori, guidati soltanto da automatismi ciechi, dimenticando che la Natura custodisce forme di intelligenza molto più profonde, antiche e sottili di quanto il nostro orgoglio sia disposto ad ammettere.
Infatti l’orangutan non sta “imitando l’uomo”. Sta semplicemente vivendo secondo una sapienza inscritta nella vita stessa.
Forse è proprio questo che oggi ci emoziona tanto: scoprire che la distanza tra noi e il resto del vivente non è così assoluta come abbiamo creduto.
Gli animali non cercano di dominare il pianeta. Lo abitano.
E forse la vera superiorità non consiste nel conquistare la Natura, ma nel riuscire a restare in armonia con essa senza distruggerla.
They know, we know, the world knows: Led by the second most notorious child rapist in history after Jeffrey Epstein, the Republican Party is a cesspool of pedophilia.
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Now they want to remove it from the internet..
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An abandoned cat was adopted by lions. Safari park rangers heard commotion near the reserve in the middle of the night and checked the CCTV. A car had pulled up, someone threw out a pile of trash, then sped away. But in the garbage was an orange cat. Rangers searched for him for hours, but he vanished. Sadly, they said animals being dumped near the outskirts was not unheard of. But this cat did something no piece of trash ever had.
Days later, trail cameras caught him walking beside a local lion pride. Then they saw him lying in the sun with them, grooming himself like he belonged there. He does not hunt with them. He does not fight with them. He just follows, rests, and somehow became part of the pride. Scientists say it is strange, but not impossible. Because lions are cats. And apparently, cats know when another cat needs a family.
Inside The NBA: While discussing Jason Collins' passing, Charles Barkley: "We live in a homophobic society ... anybody who think we ain't got a bunch of gay players in all sports, they're just stupid."
Via @ESPNNBA