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[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@karenfthompson Immersive Van Gogh, shopping. Buying paints for when the littles come, new boots for the man, ' posh ' lunch at Gregg's (my old man's idea of a treat 😉🤣), then home to cold coffee and lemon cake.

[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.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE WORLD SAW ON SUNDAY 💯🤡

[Capitán General de los Tercios @capTercio]

La imagen de la vergüenza que ha dado la vuelta al mundo.
Argentina debe hacer una profunda reflexión sobre su comportamiento en este Mundial.

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@AntiTrumpCanada Hey don't bring Nottingham into this. We haven't got any time for him either.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE WHO IS THANKING DONALD TRUMP FOR MAKING THE WORLD CUP POSSIBLE THAT AMERICA GOT THE WORLD CUP UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA 🙄

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@history99917180 Well done!

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey you narcissistic Fuckmuppet, They’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you and your double jerkoff dance moves.

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@mmpadellan I am worried Trump will prevent their extradition

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@karenfthompson Hope you get it sorted soon.❤️

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

I don’t think people realize how absurd this is. Scottish runner Josh Kerr just broke the mile world record in 3:42.66, an average speed of 16.2 mph. Most people couldn’t even briefly reach that speed, let alone sustain it for an entire mile.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Very sad to hear about the arrest of Andrew Tate. He has been charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm. I once described him as "an important voice for young men", which tells you all you need to know about my moral compass.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is so disgusting.

Spain is having an official victory photo taken. Trump runs in so that he can be in the photo. The president of FIFA runs over to try and pull him away, but he fails.

This is after Trump has verbally attacked the nation of Spain nonstop for the last two months.

What a petty child.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

It's funny. Trump is out here bragging about how he was the only one who could bring a World Cup to America. But, the selection was made when Obama was the president in 2016. This was not the first World Cup America has hosted (1994).

Trump lies because no one ever checks him on his lies. He loves to take credit for the successes of others.

He has to be the most pathetic president we've ever witnessed.

[Chris Webb @Chris_Webb1]

Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, let’s remember they oversaw:

- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.

- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.

- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.

- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.

- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final

- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Not only was Trump golfing while these two Americans made the ultimate sacrifice for his illegal war of choice, he’s now going to a soccer game instead of consoling the families who lost their loved ones.

That is who Donald Trump is.

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

#worldcupfinal the best team won.

[sally-pixie @Sallypixie]

@mjfree #worldcupfinal we can all see what dirty players you are, Argentina.

[Crane 📯☮️🇺🇦 @Crane_1]

@mjfree The whole Football world is with you!
... by the way, cancel the fucking halftime show!
We are not at "your" Super Bowl, it's the World Cup Final and it's only about FOOTBALL!

[Covie @covie_93]

FIFA half time show, meanwhile the FIFA Peace Prize recipient is bombing everybody.