Trump just hit Canada with 50% Tariffs.
Can I get a retweet from everyone who supports Canada.
Calling all Canadians to tell Trump to fuck off! 🇨🇦
Keep buying #Canadian! Stop traveling to America.
Dr. Oz and RFK Jr. say America is “underbabied” and facing a fertility crisis.
No. America isn’t suffering from a baby shortage.
We’re underpaid.
We’re underhoused.
We’re underfed.
We’re underinsured.
We’re underrepresented.
We’re underheard.
We’re underprotected.
Fix the conditions people are living in, and stop pretending the problem is that Americans aren’t having enough babies.
Michael Fanone — the officer nearly beaten to death defending the Capitol on January 6 — isn’t mincing words anymore. He calls Trump’s movement what it is: an authoritarian, fascist takeover. After shedding blood for democracy, Fanone says he’s done pretending this is anything less. That’s coming from a cop who lived the violence firsthand.
The FBI will no longer investigate ICE agents for crimes they commit while enforcing immigration law.
Don’t ever tell me again that this isn’t the Gestapo.
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.
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’
It’s our duty to know.
In the end, Joseph Goebbels - Hitler’s propaganda monster - died cowering in a bunker. He murdered his own children, then swallowed a cyanide capsule rather than face the consequences. History remembers this vermin exactly as he deserved.
Tonight, the country watched an old man ramble about an election he lost.
Democracy IS under threat. But the danger isn’t just from abroad. It’s from within.
Don’t give in to cynicism. Don’t stay silent. And above all, don’t stop voting.
That’s exactly what Trump and MAGA want.
You are the antidote to Trump’s madness.
Accountability is coming — and the American people will deliver it.
BREAKING: Cindy McCain, the wife of John McCain, just endorsed and announced she is raising money for Democrat Katie Hobbs for Governor in Arizona. This is huge.
Epstein survivor on Todd Blanche “Blanche spent 9 hours meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. He did not even spend 9 minutes meeting with the survivors.”
Horrifying.
Lindsey Graham died Friday & his sister has already been sworn in. Remember when Mike Johnson refused to seat Adelita Grijalva for 50 days after she was elected? That is what we are fighting for in the midterms, a return to democracy & fairness and to remove fascist Republicans.
E. Jean Carroll on Trump:
"I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”
I’ll make it easy for you: If you want ICE shooting & killing hardworking immigrants who’ve been in this country for 35 years, raising children, paying taxes, starting businesses, and becoming involved members of their community, then vote Republican in November.
If you don’t want ICE shooting & killing these hardworking immigrants, then vote Democrat this November.
The choice is that easy.