Robert Maida

[Spencer Michaelis @smichaelis234]

Andrew Fischer homered

108 MPH EV

[Eric Cross @EricCrossMLB]

After starting the season with one HR in his first 15 games, Andrew Fischer has 32 HR in his last 71 games.
#ThisIsMyCrew

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Dr. Fauci is refusing to answer any questions, asserting his fifth amendment rights in response to all questions. Fauci belongs in prison for the rest of his life. A shameful & cowardly exit from public stage for one of the biggest liars in US history.

[Robert Maida @jerseybaseball]

@blakeburke_ STUD

[Milb Central @milb_central]

Andrew Fischer hit his THIRTY-FIRST home run of the season tonight 🤯

461 FT | 111 MPH 🚀

[Andrew Fischer @sirfischer3]

🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[MLB Pipeline @MLBPipeline]

Andrew Fischer retakes sole possession of the MiLB HR lead with his 32nd roundtripper of the year 💪

The @Brewers' No. 7 prospect has gone yard in three straight games for the Double-A @BiloxiShuckers.

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

Brandon Lowe made some major changes to his approach as a hitter coming out of college in order to raise his ceiling as a player.

The @Pirates 2B joined #MLBCentral in studio to talk about his process as a hitter and developing power throughout his career.

[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.

[Jersey Sports Zone @JSZ_Sports]

MLB's @jimcallisMLB reports the Chicago White Sox have signed St. Augustine's Alex Weingartner to a $1.4 million dollar signing bonus, nearly a million over his 6th round draft slot.

Weingartner was on JSZ's Beyond the Score MLB Draft podcast and talked about what he's bringing to the White Sox organization and the countless highlights he gave us and @HermitsBaseball

Check out the full pod at https://t.co/yilxjy5RgL

@weingartnera13 | @whitesox

[PJ Potter @PJ_Potter]

Alex Weingartner is officially a professional baseball player.

@weingartnera13, a 6th round pick, signed $1 million ABOVE slot value w/ the White Sox.

He was the 1st N.J. player drafted directly out of HS this year.

@HermitAthletics @HermitsBaseball

https://t.co/yK2SFrnZU5

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reviewed the documents just released by the Trump Admin on election integrity and finds CIA emails showing they were working against Donald Trump to aid China and the Democrats in the 2020 election

“I've been digging into the documents already and I found this November 2020 email, and it specifically states, it's a conversation among intelligence officials, it specifically states that they have, quote, deliberately massaged one of our pending PDBs. That's the president's daily brief. To avoid any direct links to the election”

“This was a massive effort, what they call a multi-domain operation. That means trade, it means diplomacy, it means open-source information, it means social media. So all the levers of power China had to influence the US election”

And our own CIA worked to make sure the r President wasn’t aware of any of this information, they literally removed it from his daily briefing

Literally treason

“In the summer of 2020, as we're heading into the election, in the intelligence community there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation. Influence operations means that you're trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate.
It's different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems. And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation, and then suddenly it all was suppressed”

“In some of their reports, there were in officials' own handwriting that they wanted everything out that could help President Trump in his reelection. So there was clear evidence of political and personal bias”

They wanted to remove EVERYTHING that could possibly help Trump win reelection

Again, literally treason

Also if you remember awhile back, a former CIA officer named Pedro Israel Orta who worked at the CIA during the Trump Administration said the CIA didn’t even recognize him as the President, they wouldn’t even put his picture up on the wall which was customary for all Presidents

They were actively working against him

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

A 100-year-old hero from Iwo Jima receives a standing ovation mid-flight.

[Patrick Jones @pjonesbaseball]

Summer ball is a grind.

Your kid just finished a full high school season.

Now they’re back on the field almost every weekend.

They probably don’t need another coach on the ride home.

What they need most is:

• A good meal.
• A little encouragement.
• A reminder that tomorrow is another opportunity.

Sometimes the best support isn’t baseball or softball advice.

It’s simply helping them show up ready to play again.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Requiring an ID and proof of citizenship to vote is common sense.

It’s time to pass the SAVE America Act. RT if you agree.

[Josh Moser @TheMozKnowz]

Erling Haaland the last Norwegian player to leave the stadium. Stayed behind until 9:30 PM local time to take photos with family and other fans. He became one of the most beloved players in the sport by Americans during this tournament. #worldcup2026

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Norway's youth sports model is super unique:

• No scorekeeping until age 13
• Participation trophies for everyone
• No travel teams or national championships
• No online publishing of scores or athlete rankings
• Parents typically spend less than $1,000 per child per year

The result?

A 93% participation rate — 40 points higher than the U.S. — and more Winter Olympic medals than any other country in history, despite Norway having a population comparable to the Philadelphia metro area (5.6 million).

And it's not just winter sports...

Norway now produces some of the world’s best summer sport athletes, including Erling Haaland (soccer), Casper Ruud (tennis), Viktor Hovland (golf), and Jakob Ingebrigtsen (track and field).

So if you want to learn more about how Norway's youth sports system actually works (and what other countries can learn from it), here's an essay I recently wrote during the Winter Olympics that breaks it all down.

READ: https://t.co/PeD07abUY3

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: An off-duty firefighter is being hailed as a hero after he rescued TWO CHILDREN FROM A TEXAS LAKE WITH NO PULSE...

...PERFORMED CPR ON THEM AND BROUGHT THEM BOTH BACK TO LIFE ON TOP OF THEIR CAPSIZED BOAT!!!!!

His name is Jason Horne.

He was on Alvarado Lake celebrating the 4th with his 12-year-old daughter Emilie when people started screaming and waving them down.

A boat carrying NINE people had flipped and THREE children were trapped underneath it.

Jason immediately dove in to rescue them.

Under that boat, he found a little boy, he saved him, and then dove back in.

He felt a foot, it was a little girl and Jason tore her loose and brought her back, but she did not have a pulse.

He dragged her ON TOP OF THE CAPSIZED BOAT and performed CPR until she began breathing again.

He and others then flipped the boat and found a little boy with anchor rope WRAPPED AROUND HIS BODY.

The boy also did not have a pulse, he performed CPR on the boy until he got a pulse.

Astonishingly, ALL THREE KIDS SURVIVED!!!!

Every single one went home to their families.

His department said it best: "When others needed help most, Jason did what firefighters do. He stepped up without hesitation."

A 12-year-old girl sat in that boat and watched her father dive into a lake and come back up carrying other people's children.

She will spend the rest of her life knowing EXACTLY what a hero looks like.

He looks like her dad.

GOD BLESS JASON HORNE!!!!!!!🇺🇸

[Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) @BauerOutage]

Shane Bieber never looked like an ace. 91-93 mph, no electric stuff. But he won a Cy Young. Here's why that makes sense.

Most people think you need to throw hard or have nasty stuff to make it to the big leagues. That's not the only path.

The real question is: what elite tool do you have?

For Bieber, it was command. He never walks anybody. That's not a small thing — that's an elite weapon. Pair that with good pitch shapes and you have a real pitcher, even without the velocity.

The honest projection on him coming up was probably a 3 or 4 ERA guy. A solid mid-rotation starter. Nobody was calling him a future ace.

But then something happened. He added velocity. He added more pitch shapes. He developed. And when you stack elite command on top of improved stuff, you get a Cy Young winner.

The lesson here isn't "just throw hard" or "just have good command." It's that you need at least ONE elite tool to have a path. And the fastest path to the big leagues should run through whatever that tool is.

If your one elite tool is velocity, stop trying to develop four average pitches. Throw 100 and get there.

If your one elite tool is command, build around that. The shapes matter more when you can actually locate them.

Bieber is proof that you don't need to look the part. You need to have a real tool and know how to use it.

[Q Minister Of Truth @QMinisterTruth]

🚨WOW! Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Charlie Kirk: “The more I learned about him, I thought this guy is a modern-day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knew what Jesus meant when he said, ‘The truth will set you free."