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[April Color @ColorApril]

🇺🇸 History will remember Donald Trump as the president who refused to bend, refused to back down, and put America first always.
Fearless. Relentless. A once-in-a-generation leader.
God bless President Trump.

[April Color @ColorApril]

@Loveof1776 Amelia Earhart was so much more than a pioneering aviator! Her determination, helped pave the way for generations of women!🌸🇺🇸

[April Color @ColorApril]

@Loveof1776 Hope you had a wonderful day, Victoria!

[𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓌 𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓈𝓎 @willow_wwhimsy]

Can believe this happened 😬💀

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac, one of France’s most wanted Resistance leaders. He was sentenced to death and his execution was only days away. At the same time his wife Lucie was six months pregnant with their second child. Most people in her position would have gone into hiding. Lucie decided to do something different.

She got forged identity papers, created a cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie. She looked him in the eye and convinced him to grant her a final visit with her condemned husband. While she was inside she was secretly memorizing the positions of the guards, counting the minutes between patrols, and mapping the exact route the prison truck would take.

On October 21, 1943, that prison truck rolled through the streets of Lyon. Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a team of Resistance fighters. When the truck reached the chosen spot her team struck. In the middle of the gunfire and chaos Raymond was pulled free. Lucie, visibly and unmistakably pregnant, had organized every detail of his liberation.

Right after the rescue the couple went into deep hiding. A few weeks later Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a secret safe house while German forces searched for them. They managed to evade capture until the war ended.

When liberation came Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life to help rebuild France. Lucie became a respected historian, pouring decades into making sure the women of the French Resistance were never forgotten. Together they raised three children and grew old side by side. Their marriage lasted 64 years.

Years later journalists asked Lucie what had compelled her to risk everything that October day. She did not hesitate. “He was my husband. What else would I do?”

[CeCe @cecegkh]

Before anybody starts listing my faults, check your spelling and your grammar. 😂

If you’re going to talk about me, at least get it right.

[Victoria 🇺🇸⏳🗽🚔 @Loveof1776]

Good morning Xtra grateful people! Start your day with a thankful Thursday.
🙏❤️✝️

[Suzee Q @SusieM414141]

I don’t know why this is so fascinating to watch but it is. I wonder how much they are paying that mattress per hour. 😂. I can smell that place from here.

[Victoria 🇺🇸⏳🗽🚔 @Loveof1776]

Focusing on her unsolved disappearance 84 years ago overlooks what propelled Earhart to celebrity status in her short lifetime: her sense of adventure, her determination, her confidence to break with the norms of the first three decades of the 1900s, and her commitment to promoting air travel and supporting women’s roles in aviation and the world.

Propped up in a window at the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas, is an illustration of 7-year-old Earhart and her little sister Muriel enjoying a roller coaster the girls built with a packing crate to ride in and a ramp of wood planks propped against a shed roof. Right outside the window is a replica of the contraption based on the sketch, which appears in the 1977 children’s book Amelia Earhart written by Muriel Earhart Morrissey.
Earhart’s first ride ended in a crash, but she felt the exhilaration more than the bruises.

December 1920 at a California air show, just four months after
women gained the right to vote with ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, she was 23 years old and said she knew immediately she wanted to learn to fly.
For lessons, she found Neta Snook at Kinner Field in the Los Angeles area. Just one year older than Earhart, Snook was the first woman to operate her own aviation business and was one of the first female graduates of the Curtiss School of Aviation in Newport News, Virginia. Snook gave Earhart her first lesson in a Curtiss JN–4 Canuck on January 3, 1921.
Because she didn’t drive, Earhart had to ride a bus and then walk four miles to the airfield. Snook taught Earhart to drive a car, too.

Among the many jobs she took to help raise $1,000 for those early flying lessons was driving a gravel truck. For personal transportation, though, she loved the speedsters. She bought a 1923 Kissel Speedster Model 6-45 “Gold Bug” to drive herself and her mother when moving from Los Angeles to Boston in 1924. The bright yellow car attracted attention on the six-week cross-country adventure, as did the fact that two women were driving 7,000 miles alone.

A few other cars Earhart owned or endorsed were the air-cooled Franklin Airman line in the late 1920s and early 1930s, a 1932 Hudson Essex-Terraplane Special Sedan, and a 1936 Cord 810 Phaeton.

According to Barbara H. Schultz’s book Endorsed by Earhart, the enterprising pilot endorsed much more than cars: airlines, luggage and trunks, chocolate bars, collector cards, and Lucky Strike cigarettes, though she was a nonsmoker.
Earhart also wrote a book detailing her experience the same year as the Friendship flight, and her speaking tour for 20 Hours and 40 Minutes sometimes included three appearances in one day. She used the money to finance her solo flights.

Earhart often wore hats, dresses, and flight suits she designed and sewed. In 1933, she launched a clothing line featuring designs for active women. She sold pieces in department stores as well as patterns to make the clothes at home. She is credited with popularizing selling separates instead of suits limited to the same size top and bottom.

She was days shy of her fortieth birthday when the twin-engine Lockheed 10–E Electra was last heard from on July 2, 1937. The last known remaining Model 10–E, which has been modified to look similar to Earhart’s and is on display in Kansas.

[Victoria 🇺🇸⏳🗽🚔 @Loveof1776]

Queen guitarist Brian May's woodland vision began in 2013 when he bought 157 acres of land near Bere Regis. And it has been just over 13 years since he planted the first tree on September 28, 2013.
Dr May, also an astrophysicist and wildlife campaigner, wished to establish new native woodland as part of the Save Me project.

The London-born star said he had had links with the Dorset area for years and even had ancient relatives who were dairy farmers in the county. 
He said: “This piece of land is one of a couple of areas I invested in about 12 or 13 years ago.
“I have no agenda here, I’m not trying to make money or get famous.

“This is not for profit gain or greed, just to make a better environment for all creatures on this planet.”

The 'We will Rock You' star initially presented his idea to residents at Drax Hall in Bere Regis to plant 100,000 trees on the site to the south of the village, between Bere Regis and Black Hill. The land was previously used for agriculture and is adjacent to a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Dr. May, who gained his Phd from Imperial College in astrophysics in 2007, said he wanted to create an environment where people and animals can exist together.

He said: “I come from a place of playing guitar and music but there’s always been a concern about animals.
“The basic philosophy is that this land used to be forest hundreds of years ago and it would make a wildlife corridor and link on with the wildlife meadow.

“We have a wonderful possibility to make an environment which our children and grandchildren will grow up and enjoy as human beings in harmony with animals around them.

 “I’m hoping what we will get is better than what you would have got with hundreds of houses being built."
Young and old joined in the community planting day and over the next 12 months more than 100,000 trees were planted in the area.

The Save Me project planned to reclaim the land that used to be forest years ago and create a wildlife haven that both animals and people
would be able to enjoy together. The Woodland was originally going to be called Save Me Woods, but it has become known by local residents as May’s Wood and the name stuck.
Dr. May opened the planting day with a speech about his vision for the wood and then children from Bere Regis First School sang a newly created woodland song.

He added he felt he was on a learning curve. He said: “I feel excited – I have never done anything like this in my life.
“This is completely new to me.
“It feels very rewarding already to see the first of the saplings.
"It's truly one of the most memorable and different days of my life - If those trees develop into healthy adults, I will feel that I've contributed in a small way something significant to the rescue of the British countryside."

And its first 10 years were declared a success - the star's website https://t.co/Wxg6hliTOL reports that 101,000 trees and shrubs, along with newly created large wildflower strips and clover rich rides, have matured and attracted many species of insects, birds, wildflowers and small mammals that were not present on the 157-acre site during many years when it was used to grow crops.

May's Wood is now considered to be a 'forever home' for wildlife with areas available to the public to visit for walking.

[Richie Rich @gofishh77]

Pretty busy at our local watering hole for lunch time with my lobster (nickname for my wife). The girls are dressed up for Halloween, it’s a fun vibe. Cheers! 🍻 Happy Thirsty Thursday!

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

The Nazi guards never heard the baby crying inside her toolbox. If they had, 2,500 children would have died.

In 1942, a 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked into the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a simple toolbox. She had a permit to check for typhus outbreaks. The guards waved her through. Hidden beneath the wrenches and rags was a six-month-old baby. She walked past armed soldiers and handed the child to a Polish family waiting outside the walls. The next morning she walked back in and did it again.

For three years Irena smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. She hid infants in toolboxes, sedated children and smuggled them in coffins, concealed them in ambulances under stretchers, and used sewer pipes. Every child received a new Polish name. Irena recorded everything—real names, new names, locations—on tissue paper sealed in glass jars and buried in a friend’s garden.

By October 1943 the Gestapo caught her. They tortured her, broke both her legs and both her feet, and beat her unconscious. She gave them nothing. After months they sentenced her to death. The night before her execution, the underground bribed a guard. He led her out and recorded her as “executed.”

She went immediately back to work and continued until the war ended. When the war ended she dug up the jars and spent months trying to reunite children with families. Most parents had died in the camps.

For decades almost no one knew about her. Then in 1999 four teenage girls in Kansas found a brief mention of a woman who had saved 2,500 children. They researched and wrote a play. At age 89 Irena Sendler became famous. She was honored by Pope John Paul II and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in 2008 at age 98.

One estimate suggests those 2,500 rescued children produced approximately 6,000 descendants. She was a social worker with a permit and a toolbox. She walked into hell every day for three years and walked out carrying children. The Nazis broke her legs. They couldn’t break her will.

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

Friends, this one landed hard today. 😔🇺🇸
Virginia State Senator Lillie Louise Lucas—an 82-year-old Democrat who has served for decades and currently serves as President Pro Tempore and Chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee—was indicted for allegedly leading what the Justice Department calls the “Lucas Enterprise.” ⚖️
According to the federal indictment, she and a close group that includes two of her daughters and her grandson allegedly ran a multi-year marijuana distribution operation, moving at least 100 kilograms, laundering the proceeds, and using her official position to shield the enterprise from scrutiny and shape legislation that benefited it. Estimates put the scheme around $4.5–5 million. She surrendered this morning. 🚔💰
An intercepted call quoted in reporting has her saying she had “gotten too old to not be greedy.” That line sticks with me. 💔
Public office is a sacred trust. The people of Portsmouth and Virginia didn’t send her there to build generational wealth for her own family through illegal means. When leaders treat power as a personal opportunity, it erodes the very system that is supposed to serve ordinary families—the ones who pay the taxes, raise the kids, and still show up to vote. 🙏❤️
I’m praying for truth to come fully into the light, for justice to be done fairly, and for every official who holds power right now to remember they will answer for how they steward it. “It is required of stewards that they be found faithful.” (1 Corinthians 4:2) 📖✨
What do you make of it, friends? 👇
#LouiseLucas #Virginia #Accountability #Stewardship #FaithAndFreedom #Politics #Justice #PublicTrust #BreakingNews

[Rick D @RickD_GK]

It took 2 years, and a lot of impatience on some of our end, especially mine.

But we ARE seeing it happen now in real time.
Indictments, investigations, which hopefully lead to arrests, exposure and shut down of these theifs and criminals in positions of power, which WE ELECTED them to work FOR US.

Philly DA Larry Krasner...

Virginia Senator Louise Lucas

And of course, Ilhan and her mess of lies/deception and theft.

A big thanks to @nickshirleyy for leading the ground game with Somalia-sota and the Learing center.

And to @FBIDirectorKash and his team @FBI for proving to the American people that we are being listened too, and that this fraud needs to not only stop, but people in power MUST be arrested and imprisoned as well as the minions doing the work for them.

Results. This is what we voted for. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Let's keep it going. Vote RED down the line November 3rd!

[fOx @fOx1257067]

In January 2020, a man searching a forest in Finland with his metal detector discovered a high school class ring buried about eight inches underground.

The ring had been missing for nearly 47 years, and its owner had died three years earlier.

Back in 1973, 16-year-old Debra was dating Shawn McKenna, a senior at Morse High School in Bath, Maine. Before leaving for college, Shawn gave her his class ring.

One afternoon, Debra was shopping at a department store in Portland when she removed the ring to wash her hands. It was a little too big for her finger, so she'd wrapped yarn around it to make it fit.

She accidentally left it behind in the restroom. When she returned, it was gone.

Debra was worried about telling Shawn, but his response was simple. "It's just a ring."

The couple married in 1977, raised three children, and spent 40 years together before Shawn passed away from cancer in 2017.

Nearly three years after his death, a Finnish man named Marko Saarinen found the ring while searching a wooded park in Kaarina, Finland.

The blue stone was still there, along with the words Morse High School, the year 1973, and Shawn's initials.

Marko contacted the school in Maine, and they helped track down Debra.

In February 2020, the ring she'd lost as a teenager was finally returned to her.

Debra believed its return might have been a little message from Shawn, letting her know he was still looking out for her.

And nobody has ever established how that ring traveled more than 3,800 miles from a department store restroom in Maine to a forest in Finland.

After nearly half a century, it had somehow found its way back to the woman Shawn gave it to.

How do you even begin to explain something like that?

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

In 1906, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl in Berlin picked up a novel and discovered something she had never realized she was searching for. The book was *Gösta Berling’s Saga* by Selma Lagerlöf. Nelly Sachs decided to write her a letter. She was only fifteen and had little reason to expect a reply. Lagerlöf answered.

What started as a fan letter grew into a correspondence that lasted thirty-five years. Lagerlöf encouraged Sachs and helped her develop as a writer. Sachs eventually published her first book and dedicated it to the woman she had never met in person.

By 1940, staying in Germany was no longer an option. Sachs received an order to report to a forced labor camp. She was forty-eight and her mother was in her seventies. She needed Lagerlöf’s help to escape. Lagerlöf was eighty-one and nearing the end of her life, but she still had her name and influence. She reached out to Prince Eugen of the Swedish royal family and helped secure the necessary visa and a flight from Berlin to Stockholm.

It was the last flight from Berlin to Stockholm. On March 16, 1940, Selma Lagerlöf died of a stroke. She never learned whether Sachs had reached safety. The plane had not yet landed when she passed away.

Nelly Sachs and her mother arrived in Stockholm. Sachs learned Swedish, supported herself through translation, and continued writing. In the years that followed she created the poems that would make her one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. Her poem *O the Chimneys* became one of the defining elegies of the twentieth century.

Sachs became a Swedish citizen in 1952. She never willingly returned to Germany. In 1966, at seventy-four, she received the Nobel Prize in Literature—the same prize Lagerlöf had received fifty-seven years earlier. The girl who had found comfort in the words of a Swedish author grew into a poet whose own words would ensure that the suffering of countless others would not be forgotten.

It all began when she was fifteen and opened a book.

[Richie Rich @gofishh77]

I wonder how much different the world could be if more parents taught their children to regulate. What is your opinion on this method?!

Watch this father calmly comforting his upset young child through co-regulation: he stays patient, speaks gently, and holds space for their feelings instead of reacting with frustration. This kind of responsive, attuned interaction helps children build long-term emotional regulation skills by letting them feel safe while they work through big emotions.

[NancyH @NancyH_60]

She was eight when the war reached Mogadishu. The compound her family knew emptied overnight, and the road out led first to a Kenyan refugee camp where the days stretched into years of waiting, ration lines, and stories told in the dark. In 1995 the family crossed into the United States. Minneapolis became the place that finished raising her. By the time she stood on a stage in Minnesota’s 5th district, the journey from that camp to the House floor was already the story she told most often.
In Congress she pushed free school meals, Medicare for All, and harder questions about U.S. foreign policy. The same record drew repeated criticism for remarks about Israel and lobbying that both parties called out as crossing into antisemitism, plus lingering questions about early marriage filings and campaign spending. Those debates never fully left the conversation around her.
In October 2026 the questions turned into a formal search. Federal agents entered her home looking into alleged immigration fraud connected to the paperwork that brought her here as a child. No charges have been filed. She has described the action as political intimidation timed before the midterms. Administration officials have called the investigation legitimate and ongoing. The distance between the Kenyan camp and the current headlines is measured in years and in the public record that still sits between them.
#IlhanOmar #MinnesotaPolitics #RefugeeToCongress

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

🎂 Christopher Lloyd turns 88 today!

You know him as Doc Brown, Reverend Jim, and Uncle Fester. But after decades of unforgettable performances, Christopher Lloyd still has a few surprises up his sleeve.

6 Wild Facts About Christopher Lloyd's Most Memorable Roles

1. The Jacket Found in a Bush — Taxi (1978)

When Lloyd auditioned to play Reverend Jim Ignatowski, he wore a battered old jacket that his neighbor had found in the bushes in Laurel Canyon. The jacket helped establish Jim's wonderfully disheveled appearance. Lloyd got the part—and kept wearing it on the show until someone stole it!

2. The Real Patients — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

For his film debut as Max Taber, Lloyd worked inside Oregon State Hospital, where the movie was filmed. The actors even attended real group-therapy sessions with psychiatric patients to better understand the environment they were portraying.

3. The Villain Who Never Blinked — Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Remember the terrifying Judge Doom? Lloyd made a deliberate decision not to blink while playing him. His reasoning? Cartoon characters don't need to blink! That unnaturally steady stare made Doom even more frightening.

4. The Conductor Behind Doc Brown — Back to the Future (1985)

Doc Brown's wild appearance wasn't entirely invented. Lloyd drew inspiration from Albert Einstein and famous orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski. That combination helped create one of cinema's most recognizable mad scientists.

5. The Death Scene He Couldn't Figure Out — Star Trek III (1984)

When Lloyd's Klingon commander Kruge met his fiery end, the filmmakers combined footage of Lloyd, a stunt performer, a dummy, and animation. The finished sequence was so convincing that Lloyd later admitted he couldn't tell exactly where his performance ended and the dummy took over!

6. The Eyebrows That Disappeared — 12 Monkeys (2017)

For his role as the mysterious Zalmon Shaw, Lloyd decided to shave off his eyebrows to make the character look more unsettling. But when producers brought him back the following season, he declined to shave them again. Talk about a continuity challenge! 😂

From a jacket found in the bushes to a villain who never blinked, Christopher Lloyd has spent more than five decades making even the strangest characters unforgettable.

Happy 88th birthday to one of the great character actors! ❤️🎂

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

A mother and her 3-year-old child were being held captive inside their own home by an armed man.

When a UPS driver arrived at the front door, the mother managed to slip him a desperate message without the man standing behind her realizing what she’d done.

It happened in Missouri. The woman had been trapped for nearly 15 hours, her phone taken away and her child locked in a bedroom. She had already tried to escape, but the man forced her back inside.

Then UPS driver Kenneth Belew arrived for a scheduled package pickup. With the armed man standing behind her, the mother handed Kenneth a cardboard box with two words secretly written on it: “Call 911.”

Kenneth didn’t react. He calmly took the package, returned to his truck and drove down the street before calling police.

When deputies arrived, the mother managed to escape, but her little child was still inside with the gunman. Officers began negotiating, and eventually the man surrendered. Both mother and child were safe.

Kenneth was simply doing his job that morning. But his calm response to one desperate message helped save two lives.

This is the kind of everyday hero who deserves to be remembered.