Dom Crafa

Cheese please

[Dom Crafa @DomCrafa]

The best part about growing up is being "allowed" to drink at family events so you don't remember them

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

The Ascension of Christ, by Adriaen van der Werff, 1710, 📸 by Issac Baldizon

[ESPN @espn]

SECOND-MOST POINTS IN NBA HISTORY FOR BAM ADEBAYO 😳

He passes Kobe and trails only Wilt's 100-point game.

[Brady Hawk @BradyHawk305]

Most points scored in a game in NBA history:

Wilt Chamberlain - 100
Bam Adebayo - 83

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

BAM BREAKS KOBE'S 81-POINT RECORD AND SCORES 83!

THE SECOND-MOST IN NBA HISTORY AFTER WILT 🤯

[Miami HEAT @MiamiHEAT]

Bam Adebayo officially owns the 2nd highest scoring game in NBA History

[LeBron James @KingJames]

BAM BAM BAM 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

NBA's ALL-TIME record for points in a single game:

1. Wilt Chamberlain: 100 points
2. Bam Adebayo, 83 points
3. Kobe Bryant, 81 points

[Dom Crafa @DomCrafa]

Lemme get a margarita

[metaphor man @shitbiscuit]

Nearing the anniversary of my coworker working a 14 hour shift and then blowing his head smoove off with a 12 gauge in front of his wife

[Larry Nance @Larrydn22]

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

[Silas P. Silas @KennyHistoric]

The people cheering this on wanted you to cry over a racist podcaster getting smoked by someone who didn’t work for the government btw

[Sabrina Carpenter @SabrinaAnnLynn]

@WhiteHouse this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging with Hands and Feet Tied: Attorney — Newsweek

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

@_anupa this shit took me forever

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

The total USAID budget was $35 billion by the way

[Anarc-y princess @SatireAP]

What you guys need to realize is that those leaked texts are not from college kids. They are from 30 year old incels.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Very bad.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Congratulations to the United States for making the Human Rights Watch list for the 1st time in 249 years under the leadership of Donald Trump, just in time for his administration to mark the occasion by proposing to break federal law and slap his face on a 250th anniversary coin