Julie

HE makes His sun rise on the evil & on the good & sends rain on the just & on the unjust..For as in the days of Noah were,so is the coming of the Son of man

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

After September 11, more than a million tons of the World Trade Center was loaded onto barges and shipped to a garbage dump on Staten Island.

Then hundreds of men and women stood at conveyor belts for ten months and picked through every ounce of it by hand.

They were looking for people.

The place is called Fresh Kills. For fifty years it was the largest landfill in the world. It took its last barge of household trash on March 22, 2001, and shut down for good. New York was finally done with it.

Five and a half months later, at two o'clock in the morning on September 12, the landfill's director got a phone call at home. He had just walked in the door.

Two trucks were at the gate. They were carrying pieces of the World Trade Center.

He drove back.

The man who ran the dump would later say, without any drama, that if Fresh Kills had not been closed, this could never have happened. There would have been no room. The garbage would have been in the way.

The site was empty. So that is where the towers went.

Here is how it worked.

At Ground Zero, cranes and grapplers lifted the debris into dump trucks. The trucks drove to a pier on the Hudson. There, the load went onto barges, six hundred tons at a time. The barges were towed down the harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, to Staten Island. More than fifteen hundred barges made the trip.

At Fresh Kills, sanitation workers unloaded them onto a hill.

And then the sorting began.

The debris was mechanically screened into three sizes. Chunks bigger than eight inches. Two to eight inches. A quarter inch to two inches. Anything smaller than a quarter of an inch, the size of a fingernail, fell through the last sieve.

Everything above that size went onto a conveyor belt.

And along the belts stood the detectives.

NYPD. FBI. Port Authority police. Medical examiners. Dressed head to toe in white Tyvek suits, in masks, in gloves, on a hill that stank of jet fuel and pulverized concrete and things nobody wanted to name. Looking down at the belt, hour after hour, as the towers rolled past them a fist-sized chunk at a time.

When they saw something, they reached in and took it, and placed it in a white bucket at their feet.

A wedding ring. A photo ID. A set of keys. A shoe.

A piece of a person.

The white buckets went to a tent that served as a morgue.

The volume was beyond comprehension. In mid-September the operation was processing 1,750 tons of debris a day. By mid-October, 17,500 tons a day. Ten times more. Round the clock. The 200-acre hill was declared a federal crime scene and stayed one for ten months.

A retired NYPD detective later wrote down what a shift looked like, because almost nobody outside knew it existed.

You wake at 3 a.m. You get a giant coffee. You drive two hours in the dark from Orange County, through New Jersey, to Staten Island. You park at the bottom of a hill that looks like the end of the world. You put on the white suit. You go to your belt. You stand there. You look.

Then you drive two hours home and do it again tomorrow.

Sanitation workers pulled sixteen-hour shifts, seven days a week. One of them, a supervisor named Barry Asnes, said afterward what kept him there. We were attacked on our own soil, in the city where I was born. This was personal.

The operation did not stop for weather. It did not stop for Christmas. It ran until July 2002. Ten months.

By the end, the men and women on that hill had recovered thousands of human remains. Tens of thousands of personal effects. Wallets, badges, wedding bands, photographs, all cleaned and catalogued and returned to families who had nothing else to bury.

When they were finished, the remaining material was placed in a 48-acre section of the landfill, a mound two hundred and twenty-five feet high, and covered.

It is a park now.

Many of the men and women who stood on that hill have lung disease. Asthma. Cancer. PTSD. The air they were breathing, eight and ten and sixteen hours a day, was full of the towers. Some of them have died of it.

Almost nobody knows their names. Almost nobody knows the place.

Mention Fresh Kills and 9/11 in the same sentence, the retired detective wrote, and most people will have no idea what you are talking about.

Here is what you should know.

Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people were murdered in those towers. Only about six in ten have ever been identified.

Every one of those identifications came out of a white bucket.

Every wedding ring returned to a widow. Every badge returned to a firehouse. Every fragment of bone matched to a name and buried with a headstone instead of a question mark.

Somebody in a white suit, standing at a belt on a garbage dump at four in the morning, reached into the World Trade Center as it rolled past, and picked that person up, and put them in a bucket, and sent them home.

They did that for ten months.

Nobody applauded on the hill. There was nobody to watch.

They did it anyway. 🇺🇸

[Sam Kille @SamKille]

At a loss for words on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Then I watched nearly 200 @FordhamNYC students, many born years later, climb 2,200 stadium steps in honor of the ascent FDNY firefighters undertook that day. They showed up. They remembered. I have hope for this generation.

[Erica Knight @_EricaKnight]

What. An. Ad.

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

I stopped posting about politics back on February 19th, when things just stopped making sense to me.

Canceled Fox News because every day the story was NANCY GUTHRIE MISSING.

Stopped watching political pundits on YouTube because I couldn't believe anything anymore.

Pam Bondi didn’t arrest any of the Democrats they told us were criminals from 2020 - 2024.

Bondi got replaced by Todd Blanche - still no Democrat indictments or arrests.

Patel became head of the FBI - still didn’t arrest any Democrats.

They told us Biden ran the country on an Autopen - nothing happened.

They promised the Epstein List - nothing happened to anybody who was on it.

At some point I realized I was spending my time watching people on television tell me what was ABOUT TO HAPPEN...

...and then watching NOTHING HAPPEN.

So I dropped out.

Not because I stopped caring about America.

Because I started caring about my OWN SANITY.

And I honestly DON’T REGRET IT.

Because whenever I accidentally see something political, it's always the same story.

DEMOCRATS are ACTING UP.

REPUBLICANS are FAILING DOWN.

Who needs 24/7/365 of that garbage?

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Islam—a worldview that allows men to murder their children.

Feminism—a worldview that allows women to murder their children.

Can I interest you in Christianity—a worldview in which parents protect and nurture their children instead?

[Cryptid Politics @CryptidPolitics]

Ron DeSantis needs to have a Florida town or lake named after him to commemorate his legendary governorship.

[Paulo Spitzbarth 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱 @PauloSpitzbarth]

🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”

Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”

CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”

Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”

CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”

Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”

CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”

Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”

CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”

Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”

CNN: “Você está polarizando.”

Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

We’ve designated CAIR, named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror financing trial in history, as a foreign terrorist organization. All states should follow suit.

We’ve also removed Soros-backed DAs who refuse to honor their oaths to enforce the law.

Let’s go!

[Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸 @ReOpenChris]

@RonDeSantis @Cuderman Why did Byron Donalds think he could spit in the voters faces and skip debates but now demands our support.

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

This is so disappointing that Goodwill
would not let go of one pair of donated
shoes for a homeless woman when asked by a police officer.

We have donated many goods to
Goodwill over the years, and may have
to re think who we donate to.

I have tagged @GoodwillIntl here.

[Julie @JTDMRR]

@CitrusSourTruth @scafanz_ @RonDeSantis Yeah you misunderstand, I’m saying trade school is vital, better in many cases then “college” !!I’m saying Haitians who flunked college test can/could get an easy nurse aid certificate,in the nursing home many are horrible at their jobs. So void of them would be the same… bad

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

6 AM - Call to action

If you have a colleague here on a visa who clearly cannot do their job, you can report it anonymously.

They are here on the promise that the employer could not find qualified Americans. Part of that qualification is the ability to communicate effectively and perform the work at the required level.

If that standard is not being met, the company’s bottom line, and the wage floor for everyone else, is at risk.This is not about nationality.

It is about competence.If someone cannot do the job they were sponsored for, they should not be in that role.

Report it safely and anonymously:

• USCIS tip form
https://t.co/r1mNp1Gxhl

• Department of Labor - Foreign Labor Certification
https://t.co/XGhIGurvc6

• DOL Wage and Hour Division

1-866-4-USWAGE
(1-866-487-9243)

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Dual citizenship in Congress isn't diversity. It's a conflict of interest.

[Julie @JTDMRR]

@John61926629 @DominFla @RonDeSantis JohnFL…. LOL !!
If you mean they contribute billions via western union fees, somehow buying brand new vehicles, paying residential and commercial rents, drive up cost to virtually everything bc we have to have Spanish instruction,direction options,extra everything to accommodate

[Julie @JTDMRR]

@DrAustinColeman @RonDeSantis Probably, Rick Scott was a supporter of who ever lined his pockets, definitely was happy his time as Governor was up!!

[Julie @JTDMRR]

@CitrusSourTruth @scafanz_ @RonDeSantis CitrusSour, here you are defending the “dumb sh*t “illegal” who can’t pass a test and just go to a trade school” (like US citizens) just look at the hospitals and especially nursing homes, Publix deli’s, all the varieties of outdoor trades, full of foreign “dumb sh*t’s”as you say

[Julie @JTDMRR]

@CitrusSourTruth @SkredTheRogue @RonDeSantis CitrusSour, Where do you draw the line then?

As long as you yourself does not want what an illegal alien does they can have it?

Another big question, have you personally visited another Country?

[Denise 🇺🇸 @NoDMsPerfavore]

Here it is...100% Undeniable Proof…You can be completely devoted to your religion, wear beards, dress modestly and reject modern society without strapping explosive vests to children.

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

This is going to sound insane...but its already been said more than once.

Maybe the reason so many illegals never apply for citizenship after years of living here is simple.

Their situation works better while they remain illegal.

They get work opportunities that Americans are locked out of. They receive benefits paid for by sanctuary states. They take cash for the jobs they do. And they can return home whenever it suits them.

Citizenship would bring taxes, rules, and permanent commitment. Illegal status keeps the door open both ways. They know they have jobs because they are not citizens and so do the folks that employ them.

High-trust countries assume people want to join the system. Low-trust operators treat the system as a temporary resource to extract from.

That incentive structure explains a lot more than we are usually allowed to say.

Please hit the 🔔!

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

HOME SWEET HAITI.

On the latest deportation flight back to Haiti, we DEPORTED these dangerous criminals including pedophiles, gang members, drug traffickers, and violent assailants: