Mercy Salinas
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@ChaiLife613 Yes, the Nazis were as bad as the Zionists. They're the ones who taught the future Israelis how to use dogs to rape people.
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In Auschwitz, my mother taught me three rules.
Not stories. Not prayers. Rules. The kind that kept you alive.
Rule one: Never make eye contact with a guard.
Rule two: Never show that you are sick.
Rule three: Never, ever, lose your bowl.
I was five years old. I memorized them the way other children memorize nursery rhymes.
The bowl was a small tin thing. Dented. Scratched. It held whatever thin soup they gave us once a day. If you lost your bowl, you had no bowl. If you had no bowl, you had no ration. If you had no ration, you understand.
I guarded that bowl with everything I had. I slept with it. I held it against my chest during roll call. I knew where it was every second of every day.
Then one morning, I fell into the latrine.
There is no delicate way to say this. The latrines in Auschwitz were wooden boards with holes cut into them over a pit. The holes were large. I was very small. I was in a hurry. I slipped.
I went in up to my neck.
The smell. The cold. The rats. I do not need to describe it. Your mind already knows.
My mother tried to pull me out. She could not. I was slippery and she had no strength. None of us had strength. We had not eaten properly in months. She called out. Other women came. Together they pulled me free. Someone found a hose. They sprayed me down in the cold air while I stood there shaking.
I did not cry. Rule number one in Auschwitz was the same rule everywhere, do not attract attention.
But I got sick. Very sick. The kind of sick that comes from rats and filth and cold water and a body that has nothing left to fight with.
And I remembered Rule Two, never show that you are sick.
I hid it from everyone. From the guards. From the other children. Even from my mother, because I knew if she knew, she would do something. And doing something in Auschwitz got you killed.
But someone saw. I do not know who. I do not know why they helped me instead of reporting me. I never knew.
They took me to a room, a makeshift hospital. I lay in a bed, a real bed, not a wooden bunk, for the first time since we had arrived.
I do not remember much of what happened next. The fever blurred everything. Days passed like smoke.
When I came out, I still had my bowl.
I had held it even in the latrine. Even in the fever. Even in the dark when I did not know where I was or what day it was.
My mother looked at me when I came back. She looked at the bowl. She did not say anything. She just nodded, the way she nodded when something had gone the way it needed to go.
People ask me what survival looks like.
I tell them, sometimes it looks like a five year old girl climbing out of a latrine in a death camp, covered in filth, shaking with cold, still holding her tin bowl.
Because she knew that the bowl was the difference between eating and not eating. Between living and not.
Because her mother had told her. And she had listened.
I am Tova Friedman. I fell into a latrine in Auschwitz at five years old.
I came out still holding my bowl.
Tova.
#NeverForget #Survival #DaughterOfAuschwitz #ShesStillHere #TheirNamesLiveOn

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@Fox_and_Goat @dubsndoo Barack Obama actually did the bailout. For the banks.
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@dubsndoo Boomers got bailed out by their children in 2008 when they bought homes they couldn't afford.
Gtfo.
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Boomers didn’t buy RVs that they couldn’t afford, we tented it.
Boomers didn’t buy new cars, we bought used ones.
Boomers didn’t spend six bucks for a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Boomers could hang all their clothes in a four foot closet.
Boomers didn’t cry how tough their lives were, we fought through the tough times.
Boomers have everything they have because they managed their money, didn’t squander it on frivolous things, and invested it in proven technologies and long term successful businesses.
Boomers have zero fucks to give for whiners, fools, and couch potatoes.
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I came really close to buying this BBQ restaurant for $650k in 2021.
It was doing $235k in annual profit. The food was terrible, if i'm being honest. But the reviews were somehow 4.6 stars from 1,100 people.
The location was in a 110,000 person suburb outside Dallas. Prime spot. 9/10 location
It was the only non chain BBQ place in the entire town. Every other option was Dickey's or Rudy's.
The place stayed packed despite serving pretty bad BBQ. That's how solid that location was
My friend and I are Franklin disciples. We were going to bring his flavor profile to this spot. Better brisket, better sides, better everything.
But then I started thinking. Some people prefer crappy BBQ. The reviews proved it.
We might've pushed out the blue collar crowd and brought in the millennial crowd instead. Risky.
The deal fell apart anyway. The landlord was crazy and wouldn't play ball. Probably saved me from myself.
One day I'm buying or starting a BBQ restaurant no matter how many people tell me it's a terrible idea. I just have to check that box.

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@marklevinshow Thomas Massie’s campaign thanks you for this act of sabotage against Ed Gallrein. 😂🤣
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A musket from 1776 can fire a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet per second.
Imagine what that can do to a human body. Yet under federal and most state laws, it’s exempt from gun regulations. Many antique or replica guns aren’t considered firearms and even convicted felons can own them.
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@HadyAmr Thank you for courageously denouncing an anonymous X account that nobody ever heard of which has 300 whole followers.
Can't think of many worse things in the world beyond this miniscule faceless X account and Barak Ravid's immense victimhood.
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This is disgusting. Yes--strongly criticize Netanyahu, his racist government and their inhumane attacks on Gaza/South Lebanon, and the Trump/Israel awful war on Iran. But resurrecting ancient tropes to attack an award-winning journalist for reporting the news is just plain wrong.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
It was just a matter of time until the Antisemites come out of their filthy holes and join the campaign of lies against me. The classic tropes: Mossad, controlling the world, trying to make money. Decent people here should come out publicly against this kind of hate
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Mercy Salinas retweetledi

Connor McDavid in the playoffs:
2017: Lost to Ducks in Round 2
2020: Lost to Blackhawks in qualifying round
2021: Swept by Jets in Round 1
2022: Swept by Avalanche in WCF
2023: Lost to Golden Knights in Round 2
2024: Lost to Panthers in Stanley Cup Final Game 7
2025: Lost to Panthers in Stanley Cup Final
2026: Lost to Ducks in Round 1
At what point do we have to have a serious conversation?

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@ECreates88 That's a nice venue, but parking is a B. Watch Janet Jackson and Nelly there, they were good.
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@Kingstorian @LAKings @dewyy8 @AnzeKopitar @DustinBrown23 @tannerjpearson @JonathanQuick32 I remember watching Game 4 at a bar. At the end of the game, I told a proud Shark fan with his jersey on "TAKE THAT" 😂 GKG
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On April 30, 2014, the @LAKings became the fourth team in NHL history to win a Best-of-7 series after facing a 3-0 series deficit. Jonathan Quick made 39 saves, and Anze Kopitar scored the game-winning goal in a 5-1 win in Game 7 versus the San Jose Sharks.
#LAKings #GoKingsGo
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