Laurie Garbarino

Fan of (almost) all things Boston. My job?- Proud mom (surrogate or real) to the BostInno, DC Inno, Chicago Inno and Austin Inno crew.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

These are the mothers, sisters fathers and brothers of protesters who have been killed and executed in Iran. They held up photos of their loved ones and called out their names, refusing to let the Islamic Republic erase their memory through threats and intimidation.

They say, they never give up and they cannot be silenced. We are all one family, united in carrying forward the path that Iran's heroes began. A path that ends in light and freedom.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Using social media in middle school predicts lower standardized test scores in high school.

10th graders who started social media before 9th grade are ~6 months behind their peers on math & reading. They're more distracted by their phones.

No child should have access to social media.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

5 August 1905 | A German Jewish woman, Martha Voss, was born in Loesnich. During the war she lived in The Hague.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

This is what baseball is all about ❤️

[Military Support @MilitaryCooI]

We mourn the passing of the last living Wakulla County WWII Navy veteran Joseph Williams. One of America's treasured heroes, devoted family man, and one of America's oldest members of the Greatest Generation, who has passed away at the age of 106, died on July 25, 2026.

Thank you, Joseph Williams, for your courage in war, your service in peace, and the example you set across 106 remarkable years. Your watch is over. May you now find eternal peace alongside your fellow shipmates and all who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Rest in peace, Joseph Williams. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

About 400 people get struck by lightening in the United States each year.

1,808 women ran against a male athlete in just one competition a few months ago. There have been over 600 instances of men in women's competitions this year.

Thousands of women have had to deal with this nonsense in just the past 8 months.

Get a clue.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Katherine Boyle just named Elon Musk's greatest contribution to America, and it isn't sitting on a launchpad.

Boyle, General Partner at a16z: "I think that Elon's most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers … on how to work with their hands again."

For a decade, America's sharpest technical minds optimized ad clicks and shipped messaging apps. Software consumed ambition.

The physical world became something you abstracted into an API, not something you touched. Building real things became what you did if you couldn't code.

Elon didn't reverse that with inspiration. He reversed it by building companies where you either understood manufacturing or you failed.

SpaceX and Tesla forced engineers to learn how metal fractures, how tolerances cascade, how one physical iteration costs months and millions. No hotfix. No rollback. Physics doesn't negotiate.

Boyle: "Training two generations of engineers."

The product was never the cars. It was the people.

Look at who's founding America's hard-tech companies now. The common thread isn't Stanford or MIT. It's time on a factory floor at SpaceX or Tesla.

They learned to weld. They learned that "impossible" means unsolved engineering, not violated physics. They learned that failure in the physical world compounds, because nothing reverts.

Elon didn't just build companies. He rebuilt industrial knowledge that had been decaying for thirty years while the country's best minds chased digital scale.

He made atoms matter again. Made manufacturing the hardest problem worth solving. Made physical engineering prestigious in a way it hadn't been since humans walked on the moon.

Boyle: "Work with their hands again."

Five words that sound quaint. They describe the moment America started building again.

The blueprints for the Saturn V still exist. No one can build one from them.

Knowledge that lives in hands doesn't survive on paper. It dies in a single generation of neglect, and no archive brings it back. That is how a civilization loses the ability to make things while still holding every document that explains how.

America was one generation from that. It got the generation back instead.

The best technical talent no longer asks which app to build. It asks what should exist that doesn't. From engagement metrics to launch cadence. From scaling users to scaling factories.

That shift outlives every vehicle and spacecraft he delivered. Products obsolesce. Engineers who know how to make things do not.

We stopped coding the future. We started machining it, welding it, breaking it until physics signs off.

Those engineers are training the next wave now. The School of Elon doesn't need Elon anymore. It's self-sustaining, spreading through a generation that learned the higher calling is building real things.

That isn't a business achievement. It's a civilization remembering how to make things.

You can copy a design. You can't copy a generation that knows how to build one.

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Marc Alan Lee.
FOREVER.
Killed in Action, August 2, 2006, Ramadi Iraq.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Today, Iranian regime hanged him in secret in Shahroud، no warning, no farewell. His family was told to come at 3am to collect his body.

Arvin Kheirkhah was 20 years old. This is his last words to his family:

"Don't let me be forgotten. Don't let the path we walked go silent."
💔

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

Noam kosher restaurant—a great place where I met with student leaders after lecturing in Montreal—has now been destroyed by arson.

When leaders relentlessly condemn Israel with a double standard while Jewish businesses burn, they send a signal.

@MarkJCarney, you need to stop.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Islamic Republic has just executed yet another innocent Iranian.

Zero outrage from the international community.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

The Iranian despotate are now on a killing spree executing a series of (truly) brave young people who protested against Khamenei in January.
They are hanged from cranes - craneocide being a special ritual of the Islamic Republic.

Surely this is impossible to ignore, impossible not to protest.

One of the moral tests of our time.

@UN
@andyburnham @Ed_Miliband

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Eden Alon Levy was only 19 years old when she was killed on October 7 while bravely fighting Hamas terrorists, defending the homeland, and saving the lives of the soldiers under her command.

Remember her.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Aida Heydary was supposed to turn 23 today

She was supposed to be a doctor

She was supposed to be a young woman with her whole life ahead of her

She was supposed to be free

The regime said no

They murdered her

Never forgive. Never forget.

Free Iran!

🇮🇷💔

[Remember The Fallen @44MagnumBlue1]

United States Army Corporal Carrie Lee French died on June 5, 2005 in Kirkuk, Iraq when an IED hit the front of her convoy vehicle and detonated. Carrie was 19 years old and from Caldwell, Idaho. U.S. Army National Guard, 145th Support Battalion, Boise, Idaho. Remember Carrie.🇺🇸🎖️

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

"Hello mom, please tell everyone the video on State TV was a lie. Tell them my confession was forced, and I didn’t kill anyone."

Those were the last words Amirhossein spoke to his mother before the Islamic Republic

Amirhossein had a physical disability in his hand. He was tortured. He was forced to confess on camera to a crime he denied committing until the very end.

His mother carries his last words now. We carry them too.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Christians are being massacred by Islamists in Nigeria.

Where is the outrage?

[Wolfahontas 🇮🇱 @Wolfahontas]

Palestinians brutally murdered him, his baby brother, his mother and his grandparents.

Generations wiped out.

October 7th was Genocide. The rest is war.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

They left him like he was nothing—just a few days old, abandoned and crying inside a dumpster.

But fate had a different plan for Freddie Figgers.

A passerby heard the cries and called the authorities. Police rushed the baby to the hospital.

Just 13 days later, Nathan and Betty Figgers, a humble couple from Quincy, Florida, saw the story on the news.

They already had a daughter, but when they saw that tiny boy… they knew they had to do something.

They brought him home.

His childhood wasn’t easy. Kids bullied him, calling him “trash baby.” The words cut deep.

Years later, he sought out his biological mother—only to learn she was battling serious addiction.

He never saw her again.

“The people who raised me are my real parents. They gave me love… and a new life.”

When Freddie was 9, his dad bought him a broken $25 Macintosh computer. Freddie took it apart, fixed it using pieces from a radio—and it worked.

That’s when his love for technology was born.

By 13, he was repairing computers for the local government.

At 15, he launched Figgers Computers.

He built his first systems in his parents’ living room.

He invented medical devices so doctors could remotely monitor patients.

At 19, he sold one invention for $2.2 million.

He even designed GPS shoes to help track his father, who had Alzheimer’s.

By 25, Freddie held five patents and had developed over 80 software programs.

But he never forgot where he came from.

Today, he runs a foundation that provides scholarships, emergency aid, and food for the homeless.

“I started it with my own money. You can be successful and lose your soul—I don’t want that.

I want to make a difference. What you give always comes back.

And there’s no greater reward than knowing you’re doing good.”

From being thrown away… to building a legacy with purpose.

Freddie Figgers’ story proves: Where you start doesn’t define how far you can go.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Almost hourly news of brave kids being executed for standing up to one of the most evil regimes the world has seen. There could scarcely be a more clear cut case of right Vs wrong, good Vs evil. It is black and white.
And yet these horrors are resolutely ignored by the frivolous celebrity class who air ‘opinions’ only when they think those opinions are safe.
All those teary speeches and videos… all so performative, plastic and devoid of genuine compassion