Neill Kovrig

Random tweets and serial liker. My views are mine and not my employer's or anyone else's. Certified umpire/ref. #Niners #Buckeyes #GoPadres he|him 💚🤍🖤🌈🖖

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

Pride organizations and LGBTQ+ people are experiencing a rise in targeted hate. The Kiwanis Club of Hillcrest All-Inclusive has joined 150+ organizations, faith and community leaders to express our support for the LGBTQ+ community. 🏳️‍🌈
Full Statement: https://t.co/is6CEHwzCM

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

Celebrating 39 years of excellence at everything she does. Happy retirement, Mom 💙💛❤️ #wd40

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

As a classified professional, this really resonates ...

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

i think about this tweet a lot

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

Exhibit A: https://t.co/SKkJBOoio1

[They murdered Renée Good @Youtalkingtume]

Reporter: “Pete Hegseth says you want to see him in prison.”

Rep. Thomas Massie: “ There’s no way that I would go to visit him”

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

I may not agree with Rep. Massie on many things, but the man has a flair for calling things out and for having something resembling principles, esp as compared to the rest of the GOP.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@ellencarmichael @AmericanAir Not saying the couple in this instance wasn't kind and polite to the agent themselves, nor that the agent was right in their response at all - but sometimes we just need to give ONE ANOTHER the grace: employee, passenger, all of us. Asking "what comp do I get" might not be it.

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@ellencarmichael @AmericanAir Way back in 2010, I missed a connection at DFW due to a weather delay out of CMH - people were giving the gate agent a ration of BS. I treated the agent with some sympathy of my own and she put me in 1st class on the first flt out the next morning. 1/

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@johnHarry1018 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No.

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

Also THIS 😂

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

My literal favorite movie of all time 😂

[Mel Tormé 🧲💵 @Hedubardo]

Hoy en "Ya no hacen películas así"... 🎥🎬

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@ilivedb1tch Those dresses tell me everything I need to know, too 😬

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

😒

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@deehipockets I did not know that and it frightens me lol

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

Rules Neill is just making all sorts of friends at work today 🤪

Rules Neill has also been supplemented by Quasi-Accountant Neill, which is both frightening and hilarious when you consider my personal budgeting skills and my distrust of mathematics.

Yes, distrust.

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@DeptfordWife1 😕 ❤️

[Wynne @wynneflh]

In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again.
His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners.
Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest.
That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life.
He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight.
Pack nothing. Come now.
He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings.
This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage.
He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again.
One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property.
Nobody on that farm died.
In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive.
Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service.
He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one.
He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him.
Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942.
The historian mentioned her father by name.
She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before.
She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched.
“I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said.
Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it.
The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough.
Faiza answered with a line history should never forget:
“My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.”
Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night.
He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it.
The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.

[✧yani✧ @yaniversal]

Imagine talking to someone in November 2024.

"Yeah, the Democrats ended up flipping 9 seats."
"That's a pretty thin majority, but I guess 224 seats in the House isn't that bad."
"The House?"

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@AustinJEvans @ZachInMillioke

[Jove's Wise Thinker 🟢 @ironcrakka]

never really seen him in action before, holy shit what a talent

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@BethMyths For some of us, the relationships we build ARE friendships. I don't care if I ever have a "companion" or a "partner" - it's not how I'm wired, and it's not what I will ever actively look for. Once I understood that, my life has been happier and more fulfilling.

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@DeptfordWife1

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

Oh.

[Gerardo @gerdstz]

God save the Twunk.

[Neill Kovrig @nkovrig]

@bigbeepadres96 @pads_fan2344 @DodgersAndrew How the hell would you know!

Every hour can be orgy o'clock if you're enterprising enough.