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Name something innocuous you remember from your past that is taken for granted now. I'll start, I remember when blue M&Ms became a thing.

September 17, 1939, the Soviets invaded Poland after signing the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August of that year. An agreement with the Nazis to split Poland, as well as permission to annex the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), Finland, and parts of Romania after the war. The Soviets became part of the Allies only after Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941. But sure, make fun of the 'ignorant American' for 'not knowing history.'

Do you now know what that word prohibited means? Unless you are admitting that gun laws don't work. In which case, it wouldn't matter if SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors are removed from the NFA or not.

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It is with sadness I relay to you the news of the passing of a larger than life figure, a humble and hardworking guy who had become somewhat infamous here on Twitter from his selfies that myself and others had used as meme templates. The Big Dog, Uncle Kevin, has died. A🧵 1/

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While filming Matilda in 1995, eight-year-old Mara Wilson was going through a difficult time at home. Her mother, Suzie, had been diagnosed with bre@st cancer and needed to spend time in the hospital. During filming, Mara’s co-stars Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman played her parents in the movie. They also became a source of comfort for Mara in real life. Whenever Mara’s parents needed to be at the hospital, DeVito and Perlman looked after her. They invited Mara into their home and helped keep her mind away from the difficult situation. Years later, Wilson wrote in her memoir that she was only eight and that the experience was very hard, but DeVito and Perlman were very kind to her. She said she felt that they were like family. Suzie sadly passed away on April 26, 1996, just months before Matilda was released. For many years, Mara believed that her mother had never been able to see the finished movie. Later, however, Mara learned something very special. Shortly before Suzie died, Danny DeVito had quietly visited her in the hospital. He brought a rough version of Matilda so that Suzie could watch her daughter acting in the film. This meant Suzie had been able to see Mara bring Matilda to life before she passed away. The movie was later dedicated to Suzie’s memory, making *Matilda* an even more meaningful part of Mara Wilson’s life. Hidden side of Hollywood

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This Humble Elevator Technician Ran Two Miles Into The World Trade Center To Save Hundreds Trapped In Stalled Elevators. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 46-year-old elevator mechanic Charles "Chuck" Costello Jr. was working at a hotel in SoHo, twenty blocks north of the World Trade Center. It was a rare day for the New Jersey father of four to be working in Manhattan, but as a Boeing 767 slammed into the North Tower and hundreds of thousands of people began fleeing Lower Manhattan in terror, Costello did the unthinkable: he jumped out of his work site and ran over two miles straight toward the burning towers. When his coworker desperately urged him to stay back, the humble Navy veteran and devout Christian simply replied, "I'll be fine. Just keep your cellphone on," before disappearing into the thick smoke. Inside the burning complex, stalled elevators had become horrific death traps, locking hundreds of panicked occupants inside pitch-black shafts filled with jet fuel smoke. While official contractors withdrew their crews from the chaos, Costello voluntarily charged into 1 World Trade Center to offer his technical expertise. Working alongside firefighters and police officers, who quickly came to know him as "the elevator man", he used his specialized tools and knowledge to override controls and manually force open jammed doors, freeing trapped workers line after line. After extricating countless people from the North Tower, he refused to seek safety for himself and instead ran directly into 2 World Trade Center to perform the exact same life-saving operation. Costello’s tireless efforts saved hundreds of lives before the towers collapsed, but his refusal to abandon those trapped inside came at the ultimate price. On January 5, 2002, search and rescue crews finally recovered his remains deep beneath the rubble in a South Tower elevator shaft, resting side-by-side with a firefighter and a police officer. In his pocket were his driver’s license, union card, and rosary. Today, his son carries on his legacy as both an elevator mechanic and a volunteer firefighter. While the world remembers the overwhelming tragedy of that morning, Chuck Costello’s quiet, self-sacrificing courage stands as a testament to the highest order of human love, serving as a poignant reminder of how easily extraordinary human stories can be overlooked.

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Charlie Kirk was assassinated but the whiny little bitch @mehdirhasan was the most affected by his death.

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Except that one time when they went to Judea just to kill Jesus, right?

Most people who know the Battle of Mogadishu remember two names: Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart, the Delta Force operators who made their last stand at the crash site. The movie Black Hawk Down made them household names. Almost no one talks about the third Delta Force sniper who was on that same helo. His name is Brad Halling. On October 3, 1993 he was flying sniper cover over Mogadishu in the Black Hawk Super 62. When Super 64 went down, Gordon and Shughart asked three times to be inserted. Halling was ready to go with them. Then the crew chief took a round through the hands and the minigun went silent. Halling treated him, handed over his rifle, and stayed on the gun. He watched his teammates fast-rope out. He never thought it would be the last time he saw them. While they were covering Gordon and Shughart on the ground, an RPG came up through the floor of Super 62, through Halling’s left leg, and into the engine. He used a belt and a screwdriver as a tourniquet and kept working the gun. When they got back, doctors told him the leg would probably have to come off above the knee. At the time, that usually meant the end of an Army career. Halling refused to accept that. He fought the medical board all the way to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who personally intervened. Halling became the first above the knee amputee to remain on active duty through a full career. He retired in 2000 as a Sergeant Major. He didn’t disappear. He earned a graduate certificate in prosthetics at the University of Connecticut and was working in a clinic on Long Island when the towers fell on 9/11. He went back to Fort Bragg as a civilian instructor and spent years training the next generation of special operators. He still runs on October 3rd. He has said it plainly: he runs because those guys didn’t come home. They can’t run. In 2019 he and his wife founded BHAWK, Brad Halling American Whiskey Company, in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The name is a nod to the Black Hawks of that day. The first gratitude batch is dedicated to the pilots and crew of Super 62. Respect.

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