vintage 9431

Wife, mom, grandma, friend, sister... longtime union supporter & Democrat.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Rosie O’Donnell has lived rent-free in Trump’s head for nearly 20 years. She knows how to shatter his ego psychologically better than anyone on Earth.

​Whatever you do, definitely do NOT retweet this video. He would absolutely lose his mind. 😂👇

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

Monumentally dumb. Why would you not want to hear from the warriors on the cutting edge of this new tech who are willing to share their hard-fought lessons? This is like getting into a new jet and not reading the historical notes and warnings that were written in blood.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A koala at the zoo approaches its beloved zookeeper to be petted and held.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Trump himself has not seen the cartoon yet. I wouldn't be surprised if he called it “Biden propaganda made by very bad people.”

[Traeyz ♠️ @TraeyzX]

Jay Leno says a widow tried to sell him a Ferrari for $350,000, so he helped her turn it into $3,750,000 instead.

​“I get enough free stuff like that, that’s right, that’s very nice. You don’t need to start screwing people over.”

​“I said, ‘If I can get you close to 4 million for that car, will you bake me some cookies?’ And she said, ‘Why? It’s not worth that much.’ I go, ‘It’s worth that much.’”

​“I don’t like it when I hear people tell me a story how they screwed some old guy out of a car. I hate those kind of stories. I like these kind of stories.”

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

On September 12, 2001, the day after the towers fell, a man in worn firefighter gear shows up at Ground Zero and starts walking.

Smoke still filled the air. Dust covered everything.

He walked through the ruins for hours, passing exhausted rescue crews, searching for one place.

His old firehouse.

The man was Steve Buscemi.

Most people knew him as the unforgettable character actor who played crooks, gangsters, and unsettling outsiders.

Long before Hollywood, he wore a different uniform.

At just eighteen, he took the New York City firefighter exam. In 1980, he joined FDNY Engine Company 55 in Manhattan's Little Italy, spending four years running into burning buildings before leaving to pursue acting.

He never forgot where he came from.

When the Twin Towers were attacked, Buscemi tried calling his old firehouse.

Nobody answered.

He knew exactly why.

Soon came the devastating news. Five firefighters from Engine 55 were missing, including a close friend he had once served beside.

He didn't stay home.

He found his old gear, made his way to Ground Zero, and searched until he found his former company.

At first, they looked at him with surprise.

Then they recognised one of their own.

For five days, Buscemi worked twelve-hour shifts beside them, digging through twisted steel and shattered concrete, searching for survivors and helping recover those who never came home.

It was exhausting.

Heartbreaking.

Necessary.

He refused interviews. He avoided cameras and kept his face covered, wanting the mask to hide more than the dust.

He wasn't there for headlines.

He was there for his brothers.

The public learned what he had done only because a photographer captured a single image, and fellow firefighters later told the story he never intended to share.

The experience stayed with him.

Buscemi has spoken about the post-traumatic stress that followed, admitting the hardest part came after he returned home.

He never called what he did heroic.

"It was a privilege to be able to do it."

On screen, Steve Buscemi often plays the man nobody trusts.

When his city needed him most, he became the man his brothers could.

[Олег Володарський @volodarskijo]

«Повертаємося з Дніпра, де я опізнала останки свого сина. Де російські… не можуть перемогти в чесному бою, вони випалюють і знищують нас ракетами. Мій єдиний син прийняв на с��бе страшну мученицьку смерть у 24 роки.

За час війни він підготував понад 2 тис. солдатів до штурму та контрнаступу. Він падав від утоми з ніг. Його сильну, але сприйнятливу душу поранили смерті товаришів. Кожного дня та кожної години. Але він завжди казав мені: я сам можу врятувати сотні людей. І підтвердженням цих слів залишилися прапори з написами подяки за його роботу – від генералів до солдатів.

У 15 років син відклав престижне навчання за кордоном, бо переймався за долю країни. Після визнання переможцем всеукраїнського конкурсу «Інноваційний прори��-2013» він долучився до групи вчених, конструкторів та програмістів, що займалися розробками інноваційних проєктів для оборонної промисловості.
Борис почав розробляти прилад, здатний зменшити людські втрати під час наступів.

Одного разу, коли Боря їхав на курси китайської мови, він побачив, як підлітки сміються з незрячої людини, яка не могла зайти до тролейбуса. Його це збентежило, він допоміг чоловікові. Після цього випадку син замислився, як полегшити життя людям з порушеннями зору і створив прилад iHelp, який допомагав незрячим безперешкодно пересуватис�� містом.

Вже потім закінчив Київський університет ім. Тараса Шевченка, інститут міжнародних відносин з від��накою, підтвердив свою кваліфікацію в одному із закордонних університетів. Стажувався в берлінському університеті ім. Гумбольдта, написав наукову роботу в дюссельдорфському університеті ім. Генріка Гессе, був учасником Європейського Форуму в Брюсселі.

Він був талановитим, йому не було потрібно, як середньостатистичному юристу, щодня приходити в офіс Він міг, наприклад, перекласти чи скласти угоду постачання товарів з Британії в Таїланд і отримати за це хороші гроші. При цьому він міг пів заробітку чи повністю взяти і роздати. Міг все до останньої копійки віддати незнайомій людині. Зняти з себе куртку та віддати тому, хто замерзає взимку. Нагодувати когось, навіть якщо в нього самого залишалася мінімальна сума на дорогу до університету чи на обід. Він не цурався знедолених, намагався максимально допомогти тим, від кого відмовилися інші, кого всі обійдуть стороною.

Мій син був людиною з великою душею та великим серцем.
Мій син …
Моя надія …
Моя гордість…
На ЩИТІ…»
Тетяна Чубіна

БОРИС ЧУБІН, воїн 59-ї окремої мотопіхотної бригади імені Якова Гандзюка.
Загинув 30 серпня 2023 року під час виконання бойового завдання на Авдіївському напрямку.
Пам’ятаймо

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: The Getty journalist who captured the moment Trump did NOTHING as his guest fainted at the White House just won an award for the image.

Trump looks completely flustered. This has to be one of the most humiliating nights of his presidency.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of Pete Hegseth refusing to promote qualified women of color?

AOC: He’s an unqualified man in his role, so of course he’s threatened by women who are twice as good as he is.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[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.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Netanyahu ispanya'yı
açıkça tehdit ediyor:

"Bunun bedelini ödemek üzeresiniz. İspanya İsrail’e karşı durduktan hemen sonra yaşanan elektrik kesintilerini ve gizemli tren kazalarını asla unutmayın.”

Ne diyor bu?
İspanya içinde terör saldırıları yapacaklarını söylüyor.
Dünya bunu böyle not etmeli.

Ve İspanya'nın cevabı:
"Sizi karalamıyoruz, tanımlıyoruz: Siz soykırımcı ve suçlu bir rejimsiniz. Hepiniz Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi'nin ��nüne çıkacaksınız."

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

BREAKING: French Senator Claude Malhuret TORCHES Trump and his alcoholic, drug-addicted administration on the floor of the Luxembourg Palace: "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!"

This might be the greatest MAGA takedown of all time. Nobody was spared...

"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he said, referring to RFK Jr.

Malhuret's comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It's said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump's case, he's building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames.

"A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces," Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security," Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar.

"A Turkish proverb says 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus," said Malhuret. "His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term."

"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction," he continued. "Bomb more to win more."

This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein.

"There isn't a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar," he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar "gifted" to Trump. "Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from."

"Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused an immediate procedure of impeachment here," Malhuret. "But we are not here. We are in MAGA's America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests."

Rarely have we heard such an exhaustive yet succinct distillation of the Trump administration's rampant criminality and incompetence. By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them uniquely unfit for office and then expanding the aperture to the broader patterns of corruption and malignancy, Malhuret delivered a master class in political messaging.

Every mainstream outlet in the U.S. should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of our leaders.

Since they won't, please make sure to like and share to spread this far and wide!

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow?

ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Democrat James Talarico, running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, raised $30 million in Q2, beating his own Q1 record of $27 million.

His Republican opponent, Ken Paxton, raised only $9 million.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

With great sadness, we received information about the passing of Dr. Eva V. Ebin, a Hungarian-Jewish Auschwitz Survivor.

Born on 31 October 1926, in Budapest, Dr. Eva V. Ebin, née Eva Szegel, grew up in Munkács, a Jewish community where only about 15 percent survived the Holocaust.

Eva was deported from Munkács to Auschwitz in May 1944 at age 17. Her mother and much of her extended family were murdered upon arrival. In November 1944, she was transferred from Auschwitz to Lenzing, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria, where she was liberated in early May 1945.

After the war, she raced to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a doctor. She completed medical school in Vienna, immigrated to the United States, married, and became Dr. Eva V. Ebin, a board-certified pediatrician and psychiatrist in New York.

She died on July 6, 2026, at 99 years old, and is remembered by three of her four children, 22 grandchildren, 58 great-grandchildren, and friends for her elegance, discipline, high standards, and love.

[vintage 9431 @V9431]

@JoJoFromJerz Sorry, who's left for us?? Any clean guy out there?

[vintage 9431 @V9431]

@JoJoFromJerz Who's left ??