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[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

19 year old Isabella Gonzales. Killed in Donald Trump’s endless war.

[Maria Alicata @maria4158]

@mjfree He's such a doofus. Was so embarrassing seeing him just standing there like he was expecting an award of trophy of some kind.

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

Nico Williams es campeón del mundo. Y tras la premiación, va directo a la tribuna a entregarle la medalla a su madre. Ella, que en 1994 salió de Ghana y cruzó parte del Sahara para poder llegar a España en busca de nuevas oportunidades.

Una campeona más.

[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.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Amazing what can happen when you're honest, empathetic, do what you say you're going to do — and actually care deeply about your constituents.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Andrew Weissmann continues to be voice that the United States relies on for clarity on complex legal issues. The man is a national treasure. I learn so much from him.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Elias Law Group is doing absolute hero work in defending election integrity against this administration! 🫡🫡

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

No one should have to crowdfund their cancer treatment.

My team and I are in the Rio Grande Valley supporting Cindy Banda, a mother of six fighting cancer — and thousands in medical bills.

I’ll fight to lower healthcare costs for everyone — because healthcare is a human right.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

With the death of two US Servicemen and injuries to others, this is your reminder: Donald Trump once called our fallen troops "suckers" and "losers."

Oh, and he's golfing today. Be proud, MAGA.

[Kristy Greenberg @KGreenberg_]

I worked with Todd Blanche at SDNY. He shouldn’t be AG. Two years ago, I warned he’d become Trump’s Roy Cohn for a top job. Now Cohn’s playbook is DOJ practice: Deny facts. Defy courts. Target political enemies. Congress will confirm him. Defending the rule of law is up to us.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "We restore checks and balances by winning this election overwhelmingly"

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ex-wife of ICE officer who shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrera:

I was completely shocked by his job with ICE because I'm like, 'how do you keep getting into these jobs where you're around guns all the time?' He told me all I needed to know was that it was a justified shooting. He's like, 'I need you to lie about my character because this is what it comes down to. I don't want you talking about any of the abuse in our relationship.' I need to come out because a man lost his life. It was abuse to me and our daughter. I've dealt with harassing phone calls and threats of him wanting to kill me. I believe that this man was murdered.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Things conservatives told me when I was in my 20’s:

*Character counts
*Crony capitalism is bad
*Russia is our enemy
*Tariffs are taxes
*The Constitution is sacrosanct
*Government power should be limited, restrained, and checked by congress.

Guess they were just joking.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Tonight I heard a failed and desperate president who as war spirals and prices rise is as always focused on his grievances, his shame, and above all his fear of the accountability that will come with defeat.

I also heard a president signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020.

Our answer will be overwhelming.

Across Georgia a wave of defiance is building to rebuke him so decisively that no president ever again dares such brazen corruption and abuse.

The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

EX PARDON ATTORNEY CALLS BLANCHE A LIAR: “2 days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy A.G., he fired me. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump's friend and it cost me my job. He sent 🇺🇸 Marshals to my home to prevent me from speaking with Congress.”

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

To quote George W. Bush: “That was some weird shit.”

[Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence]

I watched the whole thing so you didn’t have to.

It was a 25 minute deranged pitch for one piece of legislation that has no chance of passing.

@TheLastWord 10pm

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

If Fetterman leaves the Democratic Party, how would we know?

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

This was another deranged dictator speech from Trump. No evidence was presented that votes were changed in 2020. The only election fraudster is Trump. He tried to overturn a free and fair election. My reaction to this dangerous speech: