paul campsen

Altruistic kidney donor. Retired Kaufman & Canoles lawyer.

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Retweet if you agree.

[A DOG~ @StillADog]

Guns don’t kill People….People kill People

[USA Swimming @USASwimming]

51.93?!

Kate Douglass just swam the fourth-fastest 100m free time in HISTORY during time trials at the Toyota Nationals Championships. 🤯

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Retweet if you agree.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Dr. Fauci!

[Rock 1 Kidney @Rock1Kidney]

When his identical twin needed a kidney transplant, Sean Cullinan didn't hesitate to offer one of his. "I’ve got a brother I get to go live life with,” he said. Rock on! https://t.co/0Zi2wu5jN4 #KidneyDonor

[🇮🇳Sapna n Sapna - Sapna Singhi🇮🇳 @Sapna_n_Sapna]

Similar to making a will, the Organ Donor Card is a means of expressing your intention to donate organs after your death
Be an ORGAN EYE TISSUE DONOR - अंगदान नेत्रदान रक्तदान है महादान🇮🇳
#DonateOrganSaveLife #donateblood #donateeyes

[Transplantation @TransplantJrnl]

🌍 A new global milestone: 173,727 solid organ transplants were performed in 2024—the highest number ever recorded. Growth was driven by increased deceased donation, particularly donation after circulatory death. #Transplantation #TXPforAll https://t.co/9ocpRCnvFi

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

[Daryl Hall @realdarylhall]

Hi everybody — I recently received a kidney transplant from a generous living donor, and I'm already feeling better. Back to normal in a few months, so get ready for more music and Daryl's House shows. You all take care! Love, D

[RedAlways @PATRIOT2117]

A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and shouts, “I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers! I’ll put down $500 to anyone who can drink 10 pints back-to-back!”

The entire pub goes silent.
Nobody moves.

Then one Irishman quietly stands up, and walks straight out the door.

About 30 minutes later, he returns, taps the Texan on the shoulder, and asks, “That bet still good?”

“Sure is!” the Texan says.

The bartender lines up ten pints — full glasses from one end of the bar to the other.

Without a blink, the Irishman downs all 10 pints in a row and slams the last one down like a champion.

The bar ERUPTS with cheers.
The Texan pays the $500 — totally stunned.

He asks, “If you don’t mind me askin’, where’d you run off to for that half hour?”

The Irishman grins, “Oh, I just popped down to the pub around the corner to see if I could do it first.”

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

One dead and at least 10 others wounded in Texas shooting https://t.co/CWTxWOraax

[Tyler Horka @tbhorka]

Happy 70th birthday to Notre Dame great Joe Montana.

📸: @MichaelClubb4

[Jackson Thompson @JackThompsonFOX]

Women's basketball legend Nancy Lieberman told me the WNBA players would not have gotten their new CBA and higher salaries without Caitlin Clark, and compared her impact on the sport to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

On this day in 1944 a little town in the Blue Ridge Mountains with about 3200 people would lose 20 sons, with 19 coming on Omaha Beach during the first wave.

The “Bedford Boys” were made up primarily from Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, and trained for two years in England before leading the charge for one of the greatest battles in history. Bedford would lose 23 sons in total, making it the highest per capita loss of life of any town, which led Congress in to designate Bedford as the site of the D-Day Memorial, dedicated in 2001.

[National Memorial Day Concert @MemorialDayPBS]

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Charles Durning was among the thousands of Americans who stormed the beaches of Normandy. Today, we honor his legacy by sharing the Purple Heart recipient’s powerful firsthand account from the 2004 National Memorial Day Concert.
#MemDayPBS #DDay #CharlesDurning #WWII

[UtahTransplantDoctor @JeffCampsenMD]

Park City friends: David Larason from Summit Park needs a living kidney donor after a rare disease since childhood. His mom’s gift gave him 24 amazing years of Utah adventures (skiing, biking & more). Now he and wife Taylar dream of starting a family.
Full story: https://t.co/dOMij6ZAzy
Healthy 18-69? Consider donating — University of Utah team is excellent (costs covered, great outcomes).
Info: https://t.co/RwsWCc2JVs or https://t.co/YV8gAHfXCL
Sharing helps! Let’s support our neighbor. 💪❤️ #LivingDonor #ParkCity #Utah

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

The more I look at photographs of the D-Day landings, the more humbling it becomes to grasp the sheer bravery of our Allied veterans.

I wonder if you feel the same?

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Do please post something today on your X page, in honour of our Allied heroes.

They deserve to be remembered on the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.