Laura Bardy

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

🚨 BREAKING: Xavier Becerra confirms he will KEEP the DMV, keep vehicle registration the highest in the country. Thanks for supporting my campaign @XavierBecerra! I guess he really is @DummyXavierB

My plan: Abolish the DMV, $73 vehicle registration

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ✊

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@JonathanTurley Wow! I am still capable of shock, even when I think I can't be.

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@NYCMayor FUCK YOU!!!!

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@HeyTammyBruce 💔💔💔💔

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Delta Flight 15 takes off from Frankfurt at dawn.

On board: 218 passengers. Families. Business travelers. A pregnant woman. Shirley Brooks-Jones, 65 years old, heading home to Columbus, Ohio.

Five hours into the flight, a note reaches the cockpit.

All U.S. airspace is closed. Land immediately.

The captain says nothing about why. He tells passengers it's a minor instrument problem. Privately, the crew already knows about the World Trade Center.

Gander International Airport. Newfoundland, Canada. Midday.

The plane touches down 400 miles off its route. Out the window, passengers count 38 other jumbo jets already parked on the tarmac.

By nightfall, 53 international flights sit grounded here. Nearly 6,600 people are stuck, with nowhere to go.

Nobody is allowed off.

For 28 hours, 218 people sit inside that plane. No real answers. No word on what's happening back home.

Here's what makes it worse: most of them don't yet know if their own families are safe.

Word finally spreads through the cabin. Two hijacked planes. The towers. The Pentagon. A field in Pennsylvania.

The plane goes silent.

Gander. Day two.

Passengers finally step off the aircraft. They're bused 45 kilometers to a town called Lewisporte.

Population: just over 3,300 people.

Lewisporte has no idea 218 strangers are about to double its guest capacity overnight. It doesn't matter.

The mayor puts out one call for bedding and food.

The whole town answers.

Schools close. Churches open. The Lions Club clears its hall and sets up cots by hand. High schoolers skip class to serve meals and translate for confused travelers.

The pregnant passenger is placed in a home across the street from urgent care.

Elderly passengers are welcomed into private houses, not shelters.

Phone lines are opened for free, unlimited, day and night.

When passengers try to pay shopkeepers back, the answer is always no.

Nobody in Lewisporte will take a dollar.

Local volunteers even bring out screech, the region's famous rum, and host a mock "screeching-in" ceremony to make the exhausted travelers laugh.

For three days, this town of fishermen and loggers cares for people it has never met and will likely never see again.

Brooks-Jones later calls it something simple.

She says: "the most beautiful experience I have ever had in my life."

Gander Airport. Three days later. Departure.

Flight 15 is finally cleared to fly home.

Before takeoff, Brooks-Jones asks the captain for one thing: permission to speak on the intercom.

He hands her the microphone.

She reminds everyone what Lewisporte just did for them. Then she asks for something back.

Pledge sheets start moving up the aisle.

Business travelers write checks. Strangers pass around pens. By the time wheels touch down in Atlanta, passengers have pledged $15,000.

Brooks-Jones doesn't stop there.

Back in Columbus, she calls the Columbus Foundation. An anonymous donor hears the story and matches it instantly, doubling it to $30,000.

In 2002, the fund gets a name: the Lewisporte Area Flight 15 Scholarship Fund.

It's built for one purpose. Send local kids to college.

More than two decades later.

The fund is still active.

It has sent more than 300 students from the Lewisporte area to college and trade school. Doctors. Nurses. Engineers. Teachers.

Some of them weren't born yet when Flight 15 landed.

Brooks-Jones has flown back to Newfoundland more than two dozen times since 2001. She still shows up for graduation ceremonies.

The friendships that started on cots in a high school gym are still going, more than 20 years on.

Most people who know this story didn't hear it from a history book.

They heard it from a Broadway stage. Lewisporte and Gander's kindness became a musical called "Come From Away." It has since played in cities across the world.

Few people watching that show realize the scholarship fund behind it is still cutting checks to real students, every single year.

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@NYCMayor FUCK YOU!!!!!

[9/11 Revisited @911Revisionist]

The 9/11 Memorial "Tear Drop" sit's directly across from NYC, in Bayonne New Jersey, just the other side of the Statue of Liberty, yet we hear nothing about it.

This beautiful, 100 ft tall monument was gifted to the people of the United States by the people of Russia in 2006, in memory of all those who lost their lives on that fateful day, September 11, 2001.

The breaking in the cracked façade forms the shape of the two towers.
The giant suspended tear drop signifies the tears of the entire world that day.

Maybe it's something that needs to be known, starting today.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

In 24 years of watching 9/11 memorials and the reading of the names of the dead, I have never heard applause.

This morning the crowd did — because one brave widow, @TerrySStrada, looked at the leaders in front of her and refused to let the day pass in silence.
She called out Saudi Arabia’s role, the broken promises, and a string of administrations that protected the Kingdom instead of helping to deliver justice for the families.

A stunning, must-watch minute. Stand with the families.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

While normal Americans cry, commie Mamdani and AOC laugh it up at the 9/11 memorial in New York.

They hate you. They hate your country. They enjoy your misery. We cannot allow these people to have power.

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@beth_mushin NEVER!

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@FoxNews "Appears"????? you suck!!! Clesrly they are laughing. We see who you are!

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@RepAOC FUCK YOU!!!!!

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@FDNY 💔❤️💔💔❤️

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@JaniceDean @FDNY ❤️💔💔❤️

[Overton @overton_news]

Well played.

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers just spent a full minute drawing one of the cleanest distinctions between himself and his radical Democrat opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.

And when he dropped the line about Palestine, the entire convention lit up.

That slogan was almost as effective as Trump’s legendary, “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.”

ROGERS: “He’s a con man. I’m a law man.”

“He wants to apologize for America. I want to defend America.”

“He wants to represent Palestine. I want to represent Michigan.”

[Crowd erupts into applause and cheers]

“And when the radical Islamic terrorists threaten Americans, we don’t need a Senator searching for excuses. We need a senator HUNTING them.”

“September 11th isn’t something that we deserved, no matter what Abdul’s buddies say, and thousands of courageous American men and women put on the uniform and went into harm’s way to make sure that could never happen again.”

“We owe them a country that knows that our values are worth preserving and that our way of life is worth defending.”

[J @JayTC53]

The RNC Just Dropped the Most POWERFUL Ad About How America Always Rises to the Occasion

"Your future is worth defending, America remembers, America protects, America RISES" 🔥

[Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao @SECNAV]

Never Forget.

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@Liz_Wheeler So smart!❤️💔❤️

[Laura Bardy @laura_bardy]

@FoxNews @marthamaccallum Wow, Martha, gotta say, I'm surprised on your position. Good on you!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

There is a massive American flag hanging over the exact spot Charlie Kirk was assassinated right now.

A man from Detroit drove all the way to Utah to bring a cross to the site.

They didn’t silence him, they made him a martyr.

📸: @MattFinnFNC