Nancy Marsh

[U.S. Interior Press @interiorpress47]

Fat Bear Week is BACK, and both the bears and the competition are THICK. 🐻🍑

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined.

Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels.

Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion.

Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times.

In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere:

“How many combines are available in Europe?”

“Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.”

“I’ll take them all.”

Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers.

He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him:

“Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.”

Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center.

“$14 million.”

“Okay. And what do you expect in return?”

“Nothing. Build it.”

Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients.

But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics.

It is food: 642 million meals.

And that is only part of it:
* 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks;
* 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories;
* Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding.

“I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says.

He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson.

Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world.

I simply want to thank him and wish him well.

Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine.

He simply chose to help.

Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Me all day: "I'm so tired, I can't wait to get to bed"

Also me, at 3am, finding out what my squirrel name is:

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer and transition into soup season

[Terrible Quality Memes @BadQualityMemes]

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[cow @cowincrisis]

never using Apple Maps again

[mariana Z @mariana057]

I don’t need a maid.

I just need someone to tell me once a week that they’re coming to visit and I’ll panic clean my entire house in less than an hour.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: "I'm going to take this opportunity to thank President Scheinbaum and the Mexican people for sending 200 firefighters to help us with our fires here. That's what friends do when you have crisis and fires."

[Logan Robison ⚡️ @LoganARobison]

I just had the craziest customer service experience at the airport

Last night we stayed at the Four Points hotel in Salt Lake City. We had an early morning flight and the hotel offers a free shuttle to the airport.

Traveling with 3 kids means your mind is scattered in a million pieces. So when the shuttle dropped us off at the airport at 4:15am, I realized I forgot my glasses

I’ve had glasses since 5th grade and I’m pretty much dependent on them for everything (driving, working, etc.). This is also my only pair because apparently I haven’t learned my lesson enough times

When I realized I forgot them, I immediately called the hotel and explained what happened. The front desk attendant asked for my room number and if I was still at the airport.

“No problem. I’ll find them and have the shuttle driver bring them over.”

Instant relief

15 minutes later I get a call saying the driver was on his way with my glasses and I should meet him outside

Sure enough, Allen, the shuttle driver for the Four Points by Sheraton was there with my glasses.

One of the best customer service experiences I’ve ever had. The hotel front desk attendant could have offered to ship them or even tell me I was out of luck. But instead she went to my room, found my glasses, and sent the driver to find me at the airport.

@sheratonhotels you’ve got a good crew working for you at the Four Points in SLC. Thank you!

[Jarett & Lilly @1JLVSTW]

I just want to thank Canada for trying to sage the evil out of the US.

[The Blue Torch @_TheBlueTorch]

Spotted in Philadelphia, powerful 💙

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Pro tip: it's spelled d-i-a-r-r-h-e-a.

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.

There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's @JRogalskiKHOU found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.

Renee Good all over again.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.

There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🐶 Hero Border Collie Tsunami saves nearly 100 lives after Venezuela earthquake

The 9-year-old rescue dog discovered dozens of survivors trapped under the rubble.

This will be his final mission — after this, Tsunami is retiring.

Once saved from starvation himself, he became one of the best search-and-rescue dogs, working at disaster sites in Venezuela, Turkey, and Syria.

Absolute legend. ❤️

[Nancy Marsh @dukediamond83]

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[Michael Schwab @michaelschwab13]

One of my favorite views of Houston

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.

And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.

I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

garlic is to cooking as vanilla extract is to baking in that the amount i add to my food is guided by reckless extravagance and utter disregard, verging on mild contempt, for the recipe as written

[Nancy Marsh @dukediamond83]

@StephenM Are you kidding me rn with that middle school style taunt? What type of behavior is that?

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend