Mark Bauer

Happily married to Debbie for 38 years. Braves, Heels, Canes, Fins fan. Animal lover.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@Jamesh17 Yeah. The home plate ump definitely jobbed him on Saturday & cost the Braves the game. In the video of him talking to the crew chief today he looked calm. He must have said some of the magic works that’ll get you ejected. The possibility of a Braves sweep was in their hands.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

He attacks mail‑in voting while voting by mail. He mocks vaccines while getting vaccinated. He pushes “Buy American” while selling foreign‑made merchandise. He demands action against undocumented workers while his own properties hired them. He rages about classified information while mishandling it. And now he’s falling asleep on the job after calling Joe Biden “Sleepy.” The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@SkylarSkye3 I do, but I wish Europeans were as friendly and accommodating as you found Americans.

[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.

[KoH @pinguforest]

Trump wandering about trying to get in the photo. Spanish captain won’t lift the cup until he’s pushed out the frame. But when he does … 💥

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@ATLChamps9521 In the words of the immortal Al Davis. “Just win, baby.”

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@OleTimeHardball Jim Rockford as a pirate.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Raphael Warnock: “Donald Trump lost Georgia in 2020. That’s not my opinion, it’s a fact. The votes were counted, recounted, audited, and litigated. He lost, he lost, he lost. He’s trying to sow doubt on the integrity of our elections in Georgia so he can create the pretext to interfere in 2026. This president is a liar, a cheater, and a fraud and he has shown us over and over again that staying in power matters more to him than anything else”

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@baldheaded1der Braves have been talking about him for years.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@680TheFan Nice that Chipper keeps working with him, but who did Chipper turn to when he went into a slump? It was dear old dad. Time for Riley to put in a call to Larry Jones Sr.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@JoelBar74385617 @ThrillaRilla369 Aks instead of ask has an interesting linguistic history. Aks is a metathesis, a transposition of sounds within a word. Goes all the way back to 13th century English. Chaucer used it. My favorite place it’s still used is on the N.C. Outer Banks in the Hoi Toider dialect.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@thatgapeach It’s hotter than a dancing bobcat.
It’s hotter than the hinges on the doors of hell.
It’s colder than a snowman’s balls.
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy.
That boy ain’t right.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@IngramRadio @BravesRadioNet Where can I buy one of those Braves radios?

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 2:00 PM: “Iran has agreed not to make a nuke. No president has done this.”

🇺🇸Obama at 3:00 PM— "We had a deal. Iran wouldn’t build nukes. Trump ripped it up. Iran ramped up its nuclear program.

Then He went to war. Burned billions. Wore out our military. People died.

And for what? We’re back at square one, but worse. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥

Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@FOX5Atlanta decided NOT to carry @FOXSports coverage of the Belgium-Senegal World Cup match today. Subtle racism in the Deep South because of the African team involved?

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@Tgregs_98 You’re a right c*nt. Two countries separated by a common language.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@elsathora So I was born in Malmo when my family lived there, speak Swedish and went to university in Stockholm, but I’m not Swedish? Huh.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@YOTHT_ATL @680TheFan @kingcfb They have all but ignored the World Cup.

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@680TheFan @kingcfb At first glance it looks like Chuck is “dropping off the kids at school.”

[Mark Bauer @markfbauer]

@RetailRudy @emilypitek It’s exactly like that at all Falcons’ and Atlanta United games.