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Retired independent voter.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Holy smokes. That is quite the campaign ad. Steve Hilton on fire.

[Americaforever @onetexgal9]

"My name's Harvey. I'm 68. I work the night shift at TravelCenter truck stop on I-40. Pump diesel, ring up snacks, clean showers. Same blue vest for thirteen years. Truckers fuel up, grab coffee, hit the road. Most are gone in fifteen minutes.

🤩🤩But I see who stays parked.
Like the trucker who'd been sitting in his rig for three days. Engine off. Never came inside except for bathroom. No food, no shower, just sitting.

🤩Fourth morning, I knocked on his cab. "You okay, buddy?"
He rolled down the window. Looked exhausted. "Broke down. Waiting on parts. Can't afford to eat and fix the truck both. Truck wins."
"When'd you eat last?"
"Tuesday."
It was Friday.

🌭☕️🍟I went inside, made him a hot dog, brought chips and coffee. "Store policy. Can't sell day-old stuff."
It wasn't day-old. But he was starving.

😭😞He cried eating that hot dog.
Started noticing others. The female trucker sleeping in her cab because shower credits cost too much. The rookie driver rationing gas station food because rookie pay barely covers fuel. Truckers choosing between eating and making deliveries on time.

💖✅I began keeping food. "Expired" items still perfectly good. When truckers looked desperate, I'd "find" extras they could have.
Word spread on the CB radio. "Harvey at the I-40 TravelCenter helps drivers."

❤️Then something unexpected. A trucker I'd fed years ago made it big, started his own company. Came back, left $1,000. "For drivers who are where I was."

👆Now our TravelCenter has a "Trucker Relief Fund." Other truck stops copied it. Fifty-three stops across nine states.

I'm 68. I scan Slim Jims and pump diesel fuel at a highway truck stop.

😕😓But I learned, truckers deliver everything we need to survive. And they're often starving, broke, sleeping in their cabs because one breakdown destroys them financially.

😢💔Watch your lot. Someone's been parked three days without moving. Someone's choosing between fuel and food.
Find the expired snacks. Offer the shower credit. Sometimes a $4 hot dog is what keeps a trucker from giving up on a road that already gave up on them."

🥰Let this story reach more hearts....

By Mary Nelson

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: The House has just PASSED a bill to BAN members of Congress and their spouses from trading individual stocks, 232-198

There's also a national voter ID requirement attached to the bill 👀

This is LONG overdue! Sorry Pelosi!

[Andrew C ™️ @Sheckyi]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And so the battle begins….

[Tim Hamilton @TSHamiltonAstro]

Okay, that’s pretty funny.

[Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter @JoshuaLisec]

The people have spoken. I have listened.

It's all coming out.

📕🇭🇹

https://t.co/q11dOPCdk2

[Wojciech Pawelczyk @WojPawelczyk]

I've just found this TV commercial featuring William Shatner and it is cosmically wonderful.

I love people who are able to make fun of themselves.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

BREAKING 🚨: Tons of Trump flags spotted in LA today🔥

People want massive political changes after watching Democrat incompetence burn their city down

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Firefighters and college football players showed up to a Tennessee senior home...to pull grandmas and grandpas down a MASSIVE slip 'n slide!!!

Seniors with dementia and Parkinson's laughed like little kids again.

This is the annual "Ride 'n Slide" at Adams Place in Murfreesboro, Tennessee where a giant tarp is stretched across the lawn and the Murfreesboro Fire Department keeps it soaked and lifts residents safely on and off.

The Middle Tennessee State football team spent their day pulling grandmas across the water on inner tubes and cheering them on every single ride.

One resident, Mike Mitchell, an Army veteran and a retired minister who preached for SIXTY YEARS, talked himself into it right there on the lawn.

One grandma went down FOUR times and came up smiling saying, "Well that was fast!"

Organizers say the residents with dementia and Parkinson's light up brightest of all.

For one afternoon, no diagnoses, no age, just water, laughter, and people cheering your name.

That's so amazing...

GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE!!!! 🇺🇸

[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.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🔥 BREAKING: SCOTT PRESLER just announced an impending PRIMARY CHALLENGE to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) after she doubled down on blocking the SAVE America Act, claiming it will disenfranchise people

FAFO — PEACEFULLY!

“It’s completely disingenuous to say you don’t have the time to implement the SAVE America Act when you could have passed it last year.”

“It’s equally as bad to say that you support photo ID & proof of citizenship when you won’t even offer suggestions for how to earn your support on this legislation.”

“Looks like I’ll have to travel to Alaska to ask the voters themselves.” @ScottPresler

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

🚨ENDORSEMENT🚨

State Senate President Warren Petersen has helped to deliver the SAVE America Act in Arizona.

Warren Petersen has delivered wins for election integrity

& I have full faith he will make an exceptional Attorney General.

@votewarren by 🗓️ Tuesday, July 21st

[Baby News Network @BabyNetworkNews]

He TARRIFED the Canadian Wildfires 🤣

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

1970, when your bicycle license plate came in a cereal box. With real sugar and 1 of 50 states. Collect them all…

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

Just in case you need some extra motivation to be a proud American today.

We live in the GREATEST country there ever was or will be!

Do you feel blessed today?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL footage has emerged of over 100 Amish men and women singing hymns in the caves of Chimney Rock NC after a day of rebuilding homes and businesses.

They are STILL HERE rebuilding, nearly TWO YEARS after Hurricane Helene.

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!!!!

[Steve Hilton For Governor @TeamSteveHilton]

For years, California politicians have used sneaky loopholes — parcel taxes, special assessments, and shady local tax hikes — to bypass Prop 13 and gouge taxpayers. Many of these taxes are literally against the law under the original protections voters approved in 1978.

The Save Prop 13 initiative on the November ballot is our chance to finally close those loopholes, restore the 2/3 voter approval requirement for special taxes, and protect homeowners (especially seniors) from runaway tax increases.

Enough is enough. Time to fight back and make California affordable again.
Vote YES on Save Prop 13!

[Mark knoller @Gmz2t]

🚨 WOW! Scott Presler is officially planning to PRIMARY CHALLENGE Senate Leader John Thune if the SAVE America Act does not take effect for the 2026 midterms

“I promise to lead the charge to primary & defeat him in 2028.”

Scott is PLAYING HARDBALL!

FOLLOW ME.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

BURN BAGS: According to President Trump, the burn bags were supposed to be destroyed.

Burns bags discovered at FBI HQ contained sensitive and, in some cases, never before records: Russia Collusion probes, Mar-a-Lago, CIA referral to FBI on 2016 Hillary Clinton election activities (previously thought to be missing.)

RETALIATION: AGAINST the whistleblower who exposed the suppression of the 2020 China intelligence was severe and pervasive.

Time to make things right for the whistleblower.

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

🚨Mike Johnson has as small a margin in the House as Thune does in the Senate, but he's getting s'hit passed

He got the Save America Act thru the House (3) times, and just got reconciliation sent over to the Senate

Dear @SenateGOP

Remove John Thune and put Mike Lee in there