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[R.C. 🇺🇲 @Cooper__211]

Hey @rickygervais
#afterlife

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

God bless the firefighters and first responders who ran towards the danger and did not shy away from it.

We Remember 🙏♥️🇺🇸

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A Hero That Trusted His Intuition.

The problem wasn’t that Morgan Stanley didn’t believe him.

Rick Rescorla had already been right once. After the 1993 basement bombing of the World Trade Center, the firm’s security chief walked the towers, studied the site, and reached a conclusion most people preferred not to hear: the World Trade Center was still a target. Next time, he said, it would not be a truck. It would be an airplane.

An airplane. In a 1993 report.

Executives listened. Then they looked at the lease.

Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the complex—twenty-two floors of the South Tower, thousands of brokers, and a trading infrastructure that could not be packed into boxes and wheeled across the Hudson.

They literally made it a trading center.

The contract with the Port Authority ran until 2006. Walking away from premium Manhattan space of that scale would have meant penalties measured in the hundreds of millions, plus the operational chaos of relocating an entire downtown machine. So the company stayed.

Rescorla adjusted. If they could not leave the building, they would learn to escape it.

He built a protocol and treated it like doctrine. Unannounced drills. No exemptions. Brokers who billed by the minute were pulled off their desks and sent into the stairwells two by two, starting from the top floors, leaving a lane for firefighters coming the other way.

People complained. He did not care. Practice, he believed, was the only thing that would beat panic.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower. From the 44th floor of the South Tower, Rescorla could see the fire. Then the Port Authority came over the speakers: the South Tower was secure. Stay at your desks.

Rescorla grabbed a bullhorn and ignored them.

He started the drill his people already knew by heart. Floor by floor, two by two, down the stairs. He sang as he moved—Cornish songs from childhood, then “God Bless America”—keeping the line moving, refusing to let the stairwell become a stampede. Seventeen minutes later, the second plane struck the South Tower.

By then, most of Morgan Stanley was already on the way out.

Of the 2,687 employees in the building that morning, all but 13 survived.

It was stunning.

Rescorla could have been outside with them. He went back up instead. Colleagues told him to leave. He said he would, as soon as he was sure no one was left behind.

He was last seen around the 10th floor, heading higher.

The South Tower fell at 9:59 a.m. They never found him.

He was one of the 13.

He was a hero in every sense of the word.

Remember Rick Rescorla, he remembered for us.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

How beautiful is this. A mother and her baby being saved in Nepal.❤️

Video credit @Paralaks_Tr

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Back in 2022, Martha’s Vineyard gave America one hell of a lesson in liberal hypocrisy.

The Left spent years preaching about sanctuary cities, open arms, compassion, and welcoming migrants into American communities.

Then about 50 migrants showed up on the doorstep of one of the wealthiest liberal enclaves in the country, and suddenly the crying started, the emergency response kicked in, and they were relocated within days.

They love the policy right up until they have to live with it.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The way Kenny Rogers’ whole face lights up the moment he hears Dolly Parton’s voice coming from offstage.

I have always loved this performance so much.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The Most Destructive Intellectual Project of the Twentieth Century.

The Frankfurt School. You should know what it was, what it built, and why you are still living inside it.

1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. The civilization they had decided to dismantle gave them refuge when another tried to kill them. They spent the next five decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for that dismantling. Western civilization itself was the problem: reason, the Enlightenment, the family, tradition, authority. Not reformed. Dismantled.

2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program. Everything is to be criticized; nothing is to be built. In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Adorno and Horkheimer argued that Western reason — the reason that produced Newton and the rule of law — contained the seeds of Auschwitz. Not that reason had been misused, but that reason itself, taken to its conclusion, produces the death camp. This was not a critique of institutions. It was an indictment of the civilization itself.

3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon. The Authoritarian Personality (1950) classified conservatism, religious faith, patriotism, and the traditional family not as political positions but as symptoms of a proto-fascist personality. If you believe in the nation or the father’s authority, you are pre-fascist. The opponent was no longer wrong – he was sick. You don’t argue with a pathology. You treat it.
This made dialogue impossible. You don’t persuade someone who is wrong; you diagnose someone who is sick. Politics becomes therapy, and disagreement becomes pathology.

4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon. Repressive Tolerance (1965) argued that tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance therefore requires suppressing intolerant ideas. The left decides which ideas are intolerant. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance, but "in its name." Censorship dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.

5. The generation that read Marcuse at Columbia, Berkeley, and Yale went on to run universities, media, foundations, NGOs, content moderation departments, and the EU regulatory apparatus. They implemented the argument sincerely because they had been taught it as philosophy. This was the Frankfurt School’s greatest achievement: it produced true believers.

6. French Theory picked up the tools and made them aesthetic. Foucault made the critique of power literary. Derrida made the critique of meaning philosophical. Deleuze made the critique of identity elegant. A political program became a cultural sensibility. You can argue with a program. A sensibility is in the air you breathe. By the time these ideas reached the American campus through the French conduit, they were no longer ideology. They were the water. The fish did not know they were wet.

7. A civilization stands on three pillars: truth exists and is accessible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting. The Frankfurt School attacked all three – systematically and with considerable intellectual sophistication. It produced a generation that knows how to deconstruct and has forgotten how to build. That sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.
The ultimate achievement was to make destruction feel like progress. Every inherited institution became suspect; every constraint became oppression; every act of preservation became reactionary. Deconstruction became the default, while construction became something that needed to justify itself.

The answer is not another theory.
It is the thing the Frankfurt School most feared: the builder who simply builds, the scientist who follows the evidence, the father who transmits what was transmitted to him.

The deconstruction machine runs on the assumption that nothing is worth building.

Prove it wrong.
Tell the truth, have courage, and build.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

This is CNN ten minutes ago. They have moved onto the new next lie

[Michael Peters @PetersMich28437]

The fastest female, 100-meter sprinter in recorded history is American legend Florence Griffith Joyner. She set the world record of 10.49 seconds on July 16, 1988.

In 2026, there were over 1000 high school boys that beat this record! You read that correctly. In this year alone, there were over 1000 high school boys that beat the record of fastest woman in the world ever!

If just one of those boys, or a meager 1/10 of 1%, decided to compete as a woman, he would crush the women’s world record!

I’m not talking about a high school record or a college record or even an Olympic or professional record. I’m talking about the women’s world record that has held since 1988!

Remind me again, why you’re not supportive of women’s rights.

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

Now that election fraud is in the spotlight, this video is arguably the most concrete evidence that the Dems use illegals to cheat.

Flashback to 11/04/2016: Then President Obama openly encouraged illegals to vote in the 2016 election, and assured them that ICE and Federal law enforcement will NOT seek them out or deport them if they vote.

Just four days before the 2016 election, Obama told illegals to vote, and that he would not arrest them for it. Plain as day.

This is exactly why we need US MIL/ICE at polling stations in deep blue counties, because we need the illegals to be afraid to vote. We need the exact opposite of what Obama did in 2016. We need the illegals to know that if they try to cheat in our elections, they will be arrested.

Whenever someone on the Left says the Dems don’t cheat in elections, or that illegals don’t vote, show them this video. Obama openly told the illegals they were safe to vote.

TREASON!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Rich actor living in a $12M Greenwich Village brownstone is confused about socialism. Shocker.

These are not socialist programs. These are public services in a mixed economy. Every bit of equipment the fire department uses is from private industry. FedEx and UPS are better than USPS, and index funds outperform social security by like 5x.

This is how the commies try lure you in. They either lie about what socialism is, or they're just too dumb to understand it themselves. Either way, it's easy for a rich actor to wax poetic about "sharing the wealth". He just goes back to his secured luxury real estate. Being insufferably dumb is a prerequisite for being a socialist, clearly.

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

This Military Dog Cleared a TSA Barrier and Tackled His Marine Before the Belt Was Back On 😭

[R.C. 🇺🇲 @Cooper__211]

Team USA goalie

[R.C. 🇺🇲 @Cooper__211]

@PolitiBrawlNews @mattmiller757 The Boomer in the Red shirt is 100% what's wrong with America..

[R.C. 🇺🇲 @Cooper__211]

@TheBritLad In What Country is displaying your Country's flag an issue.. 🤔

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

[R.C. 🇺🇲 @Cooper__211]

I think the refs watched all the videos of the Knicks fans after game 3 and are administering justice.. #SASvsNYK

[Vive con Propósito. @PropositoyVida]

Una señora mayor celebrando el cumpleaños de su perro. El perro ni siquiera miró la comida; todos sus ojos estaban puestos en ella 🥹

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

That kid doesn’t know it now but someday he’s gonna be all grown up, facing life and look back and realize that’s the happiest he ever was ❤️

[R.C. 🇺🇲 @Cooper__211]

@SmylieKaufman10

[David Hookstead @dhookstead]

There are two kinds of people in the world today:

American patriots supporting USA hockey punching a ticket to the gold medal game……and dirty soulless communists.

Choose wisely.