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I just learned that he has no mother or father to speak up for him. And now the Islamic Republic wants to hang him.
His name is Ilya Ben Rashid.
He is a young Iranian protester He has a younger sister. Now he is facing a death sentence.
He was arrested during the January 2026 protests in Iran. A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to death on charges of “waging war against God” for allegedly damaging public property.
He is being held in Dastgerd Prison. Reports say he was denied a lawyer of his choice.
Imagine facing execution for demanding freedom.
We must become his voice. We must stop his execution.
Say his name. Save Ilya Ben Rashid.
#StopExecutionsInIran
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“As a Jew living under Seleucid occupation, I urge you to support Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Jewish safety depends on a strong, multiracial Hellenistic democracy, and Antiochus is the one fighting to protect it.”
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One of the greatest teachers of LIFE via the game that our sport has ever seen! The impact he has had on me is difficult to express.
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Small etiquette tip:
Taking a lady out to dinner?
You asked, so you pay. Settle the bill discreetly, don't mention it afterwards, and don't expect anything in return.
She can relax and enjoy the evening, knowing she's with a man who has it in hand.
If she offers to split, thank her and say it's your pleasure.
And don't keep score. A date isn't a purchase.
Carry on, Gentlemen 🫡
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💔 Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman (23) and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem (20) were killed in today’s shooting attack near Hebron.
May their memories forever be a blessing🕯️
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Charles Durning was stabbed eight times by a German soldier at point-blank range. He killed him with a rock, bare-handed, because surrender meant death. Born in Highland Falls, New York in 1923, Durning enlisted in the Army after his father—a World War I amputee—died when Charles was just twelve.
On June 6, 1944, he landed in the first wave at Omaha Beach. A sergeant beside him said it was good to be scared. Moments later, that same sergeant was obliterated by an explosion that nearly took Durning with him. He watched men die around him all day. Bodies in the water, he said later, looked like driftwood. By multiple accounts, he was the sole survivor of his unit.
Six months in a London hospital relearning how to walk. Then he pleaded to rejoin his unit. They let him. Months later in Belgium, a German soldier came at him with a bayonet. Durning was stabbed repeatedly in hand-to-hand combat before he killed the man with a rock. His company was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. He survived brutal captivity that finished most of the men around him. By war's end, he'd earned a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.
He came home and didn't talk about any of it. Not for decades. He built a film career instead—over 200 films. "The Sting." "Dog Day Afternoon." "Tootsie." Audiences knew him as a reliable character actor. Almost none of them knew what he'd survived to get there.
In 1994, at a 50th anniversary memorial for D-Day, his voice breaking, he finally spoke publicly: "I don't know what they went through. They don't know what I went through. Each person fights his own war." Charles Durning died in 2012 at 89, buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A man spent most of his life quietly making sure nobody found out what he'd actually lived through.
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A 2027 catcher is back out there after being committed for ten months
Go watch Abi this fall with Santa Fe Inferno, you’ll be glad you did
The new Coaching staff at FIU has decided to go in a different direction so I am looking for a new home as a class of 2027 commit! Thank you @MikeMeyersFIU and @CoachBee9 for believing in me. I will make you proud wherever I land.
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The NBA is selling ABA gear but ABA stats don’t count in NBA records, and no share of merchandise $$ has been publicly committed to former ABA players.
Honor the legacy, not just the logos
Reshare if you agree and support the Dropping Dimes Foundation: droppingdimes.org
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A 16-Year-Old Belgian Genius Chooses Israel!
Laurent Simons is an extraordinary young man who has already achieved what takes many people decades to accomplish.
At just 8 years old, he finished school. At 11, he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics. At 12, he completed his master’s degree, and by the age of 15, he had earned his PhD in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp.
And now, at just 16, Laurent has chosen Israel to continue his scientific journey. In the coming months, he plans to join the research laboratories at Bar-Ilan University.
But what makes his story even more fascinating is his vision for the future.
Laurent is currently working toward a second doctorate, focusing on medicine, artificial intelligence, and advanced technologies. His dream is to extend human life and develop artificial organs that could one day save millions of people.
So why did he choose Israel? 🇮🇱
Because Israel is a leader in many of the scientific fields that interest him. But there is also something more personal behind his decision.
According to Israel’s ambassador to Belgium, David Saranga, Laurent has long admired Israel and feels a genuine connection to the country.
And here’s what makes this story even more interesting: neither Laurent nor his family is Jewish.
You know what I love most about this story?
At a time when Israel faces constant criticism, calls for boycotts, and attempts at international isolation, one of the world’s brightest young scientific minds is choosing to pursue his ambitions in Israel.
Not because he has to. Not because of religion or family background. But because he sees Israel as a place where great ideas can become reality.
To me, this is another reminder that Israel continues to attract extraordinary talent from around the world.
And who knows? Perhaps this young genius will one day make a groundbreaking discovery in an Israeli laboratory that changes millions of lives.
🇮🇱 Proud of Israeli science, and wishing Laurent tremendous success on his incredible journey! ❤️
Source: Ynet, October 19, 2026.
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The Bucs are headed to Florida for the Ray Seymour Invitational this weekend! 🥎☀️
Drop your schedules below! ⬇️
#Bucs330 | #BucStrong
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The new Coaching staff at FIU has decided to go in a different direction so I am looking for a new home as a class of 2027 commit! Thank you @MikeMeyersFIU and @CoachBee9 for believing in me. I will make you proud wherever I land.
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Netanyahu responds to Obama:
The other day, I heard a regrettable statement. It talked about Israel stealing land, Israel losing the moral high ground. Well, let me respond to that.
The Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in the land of our forefathers. Our history is not a colonial enterprise. Our land is not stolen land. This is our homeland. It's called Judea.
We're not the Dutch in Indonesia. We're not the Belgians in the Congo. We're Jews in Judea.
Obama on Israel:
"The fact is that the Jewish people, for millennia, were oppressed, discriminated against, killed. Europe was responsible for much of it. They understandably sought a refuge.
That is undeniable. What is also undeniable is that they took land off people, and they were excessive.
And those people understandably said, 'This is injustice, and I want my land back.'"
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One man spent 37 years fitting stones together in an abandoned New York quarry. The result covers 6.5 acres. No mortar.
This was Opus 40.
Harvey Fite bought the property in Saugerties in 1938 for its bluestone. That same year, he helped restore Maya ruins at Copán in Honduras. Back home, he began adapting the masonry he had observed there to the broken stone beneath his feet.
He stacked flat stones and worked larger pieces across the walls to tie them together. Water could drain through the gaps, reducing damage from winter freezing. When a section failed, he pulled it apart and tried again.
The ramps, terraces, passages and pools followed the quarry’s contours. He was building a place to display his carved figures, while also teaching at Bard College. This went on for decades.
The centerpiece took another kind of patience. Fite had spotted a fourteen-foot, nine-ton stone in a nearby streambed. It took roughly ten years to secure it.
In 1964, he and his neighbor Bert Wrolsen worked out how to raise it. They moved it on log rollers, pulled it upright with a truck-mounted winch, then hoisted it with a timber A-frame while its pedestal was built underneath.
Fite intended to carve it. Once it was standing, he left it largely as it was.
He moved the other statues into the surrounding grounds. The quarry had grown into the sculpture.
He called it Opus 40 because he expected the work to take forty years. He died in 1976, after 37 years of building, in a tractor-mower accident at the site.
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My name is Shoshana Karsenty, and I was an 85-year-old Jewish Israeli grandmother when Hamas terrorists murdered me in my homeland of Israel.
I had 11 grandchildren that will never see me again.
I was a victim of anti-Jewish terrorism.
Will you pray for peace in Israel?
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Wake Up to Guitar Greatness
Terry Kath – "I’m A Man" (Live, Chicago Transit Authority, ’69)
A Spencer Davis Group cover, written by Steve Winwood and Jimmy Miller. Jimi Hendrix called Chicago's Terry Kath one of his favorite guitarists.
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If Milwaukee and Cleveland meet in the World Series, it would be the first time in history that the World Series features two cities where the Edmund Fitzgerald once docked.
In case you were wondering.
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The Beatles - 'Two Of Us' from the final day of the 'Get Back' session January 31 1969.
#Beatles #TheBeatles
