Tom Kunsak Jr

Lifelong martial arts practitioner , funeral director and conservative thinker.

[Scarlett Grace @ScarlettGrace92]

I was surprised by how many people had never seen the footage I posted of firefighters inside the North Tower on 9/11 yesterday. Here is the remarkable story behind that footage, and how we came to have such an intimate record of the firefighters and their response that day:

The footage is from French filmmaking brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet. Months before September 11, they had begun making a documentary about New York City firefighters, specifically following a young rookie, or “probie,” named Tony Benetatos. They started filming in the summer of 2001.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Jules went out with Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer and firefighters to investigate something utterly routine: a report of a gas leak/odor at Church and Lispenard Streets.

While Jules was filming the firefighters investigating the suspected leak at about 8:46 a.m., they suddenly heard the enormous roar of a jet overhead.

The firefighters looked up.

Jules instinctively pointed his camera toward the sound.

That is the footage you're seeing.

He caught American Airlines Flight 11 flying into the North Tower. It became one of the extremely few recordings of the first impact.

Jules kept filming.

He accompanied Chief Pfeifer and the firefighters directly to the World Trade Center and went inside the North Tower with them. His camera recorded the FDNY command operation in the lobby as chiefs tried to understand what had happened and began sending firefighters upstairs.

Meanwhile, Gédéon was filming separately. Once he realized what was happening, he headed toward the World Trade Center looking for Jules. For part of the morning, each brother believed the other might have been killed. They eventually reunited roughly two and a half hours later.

They weren't there to document 9/11 at all. Their cameras were already embedded with precisely the firefighters who would become some of the first people responding to the attack.

The brothers, along with firefighter/filmmaker James Hanlon, ultimately turned the material into the documentary 9/11.

Before 9/11, they had actually been frustrated because their rookie firefighter wasn't getting enough real fires for their documentary. They had spent much of the summer filming ordinary firehouse life without capturing the major call they felt their film needed.

If you've never watched the full Naudet brothers' 9/11 documentary, you simply must. In fact, it should be compulsory to view in American schools (Canadian too, if you as me).

[Sidney Powell News ⭐ @American1940]

Who else agrees with James Woods?

Because I do! 🙋‍♂️

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

THIS SHOULD BE FRONT-PAGE NEWS.

The White House says the Trump administration has rescued more than 60,000 migrant children from sex trafficking and child labor.

Sixty. Thousand. Children.

Forget the political noise for a minute. If tens of thousands of kids were pulled out of exploitation and given a chance at a normal life, THAT deserves national attention.

Some victories are bigger than politics.

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

Carney wants the memes to stop 🤣🤣🤣

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

“We are not at war with Canada. How are going to be at war? Are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton mall and attack us?”

-Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessent

[Saltyandy 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @BialkoAndrew68]

🤔🤣😂🤣😂

[Le Crapaud @Le_Crapaud47]

Un super-héros d'un nouveau genre vient en aide à une femme voilée en détresse

[René Remsik @aitrendz_xyz]

Knowing they're married in real life makes this way funnier 😂

[HUMOR CANALLA @jcarlos2001]

Como hacer que tú chica no te lleve de compras.

[Tom Kunsak Jr @KunsakTom]

@oidonhagouda I guarantee the culprits are not native Japanese

[Skyler Finite @skyler_fs]

If you want to take a FAT red pill, do jury duty.

Do what it takes to get selected so you can observe the process.

Your life will change forever. A “jury of your peers” will hit harder than a third world invasion.

If you’re smart enough to intentionally get through the jury selection process you will likely end up becoming the foreman of the group. Unless you lack aura and charisma.

Through the trial deliberations you will find yourself among the most impressionable and malleable people you’ve ever met. Usually decent people but NPCmaxxed with fluoride stares.

It’s staggering once you realize you could potentially steer the whole jury to a decision.

This is why it’s important for good and competent people to do jury duty and to use their powers (mildly above average IQ) wisely to effect justice in our retarded world.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

They printed $9 trillion, gave you $1400 in stimmy checks, sent the rest to their NGOs and campaign donors and left you with the inflation.

[Special Ops Magazine @specialopsmag]

There's another half of the DusitD2 terrorist attack story that almost never gets told. Everyone remembers SAS operator Christian Craighead, but fewer people know he wasn’t quite alone by the time he crossed into the complex. Even fewer know the name Dan Prastalo.

Prastalo, a Slovenian security specialist attached to the Diplomatic Protective Services Tactical Response Unit, was eating lunch nearby when the attack started on January 15, 2019. He grabbed his kit and drove straight there. Emergency services still hadn’t arrived, and the scene was chaos.

Prastalo found an off-duty police officer standing around with no idea what to do and pulled him in. Then he heard it: a British voice cutting through the noise. “Eagle, eagle, security forces.” And there he was, a fully kitted operator who looked like he already knew exactly how the next hours were going to go. The man introduced himself with one question: "Can you clear and hold?" Before Prastalo had finished answering, the operator said, “Let’s go.” That was the briefing.

An SAS operator and a Slovenian contractor who had never met spent the next several hours moving together through the office block and car park, calling out to people still hiding in the wreckage, and hunting the remaining attackers through a building that was still very much a live fight.

Prastalo has talked since about what the day taught him: that when the moment finally arrives, you have to be ready to do the job again and again and again. He has carried the memory into his own work in crisis response, still recounting the afternoon two strangers linked up in the middle of a massacre and simply decided to go in.

Christian Craighead got the fame and the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. Dan Prastalo was beside him the whole time. Respect to both.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

In case you forgot

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Democrat Rep. Dave Min: "My parents were here in America on student visas when I was born... If Donald Trump and Brandon Gill had their way, maybe my parents would have been deported, and maybe my citizenship would have been denied."

Exactly! Now he gets it.

[Erik Thorvaldsson @erik_thorvalds]

Nine Thoughts this Alberta Day:

1. Alberta was not summoned into being by a committee in Ottawa. It was dragged out of forest, muskeg, rocky soil, foothill and mountain by people who buried children in frozen ground and went back to work the next morning. That is the founding fact. Everything else is paperwork.

2. In 1905 Canada made Alberta a province. It did not make Albertans. The people who broke this land did not cross an ocean, a border, or a winter to become a western department of Ontario. They came to own something, raise families on it, and leave it better than they found it. That was the vision. It still is.

3. Penniless, starving and destitute Germans, Scandinavians, and Slavs came and built Alberta. British and French settlers, along American ranchers also carried the frontier north and west. They did not come to be managed. They came to stay. Fences, churches, ⛪️ le schools, grain elevators and graveyards are not decorations. They are proof of a people who meant it.

4. Ontario’s political culture was built in counting houses, legislatures and universities. Alberta’s was built in yards where the wind never stops and a bad year can take the farm. One culture administers. The other endures. That is not a branding difference. It is a civilizational one.

5. The pioneer bet was simple and serious: suffer now, and your descendants will belong here. They put their bodies into that bet. A country that treats their sacrifice as a quaint preface to a new demographic experiment is not honouring them. It is spending their inheritance.

6. Confederation taught Alberta a recurring lesson. When the land produces, the centre discovers a national purpose for the proceeds. When the land suffers, the centre discovers a lecture. The National Energy Program was only the clearest example. The habit is older than that, and it has not retired.

7. This is why “Canadian identity” never quite took here the way it did along the St. Lawrence. Ontario can mistake the federal state for a homeland because the state was built around it. Alberta’s homeland is the ground underfoot. Ottawa is a distant government. It is not the ancestor.

8. So the live question on Alberta Day is not whether we remember the pioneers with a plaque. It is whether their descendants still have the right to remain a people on the land they paid for in frost, debt, labour and graves. If that right is negotiable, then the founding vision was a lie told to the dead.

9. It was not a lie. We have the land they broke. We have the energy under it. We have the food that comes off it. We have the dead in the soil and the children who will stand on it next.

Canada can keep the story of how it drew the map.

Alberta is the people who stayed.

Happy Alberta Day.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

One of the most Gothically creepy battles of all time was the Wilderness, 1864, and it's tragic that a movie hasn't been made about it.

First, off, it took place in the exactly same area that the battle of Chancellorsville was the previous year, so the soldiers saw skeletons in rotten uniforms and rusty muskets laying around.

Second, THE FOREST CAUGHT FIRE. The men literally fought in the forest fire. The soldiers could hear wounded men screaming as they burned to death.

30,000 casualties. For comparison, the battle of Bakhmut in Russia-Ukraine had around 70,000 casualties but this was over 10 months. The Wilderness was 2 days!

Fun fact: I was a Civil War re-enactor for the Wilderness. We were marching through a fairly open woodland (historically accurate), and knew that ahead of us were the Confederates. We couldn't see them. We kept walking and walking and got more and more nervous, because we couldn't see them. Then ALL OF A SUDDEN, a wall of gray uniforms and ugly red flags appeared just a few yards away, and the Rebs shrieked their awful yell, fired, and charged. I've rarely been so terrified. Really let me know how it could have been. I became a "casualty" and lay there while the Rebs charged over me.

What's a horrifying historical event that deserves a film?

[Mel Gibson @Mel_Gibson04]

🚨 THIS is the speech that should terrify every American.
Senator Tim Sheehy just dropped the most brutal, unfiltered truth about Iran you’ll ever hear.
For 47 years the Iranian regime has been hunting us — vaporizing Marines, skinning Americans alive on camera, cutting our troops in half with EFPs, and celebrating every death.
They don’t care who you voted for.
They don’t care where you live.
They want every single one of us raped, burned, and cut into pieces.
This isn’t politics.
This is a death cult that has been at war with America since 1979… and we’ve been pretending otherwise.
Watch the full speech.
Every. Single. Second.
Then share it.
Because the regime that did this to our brothers is still standing.
Iran has never paid the real price.
It’s time they do.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

The House passed another short term spending bill that will keep the government funded through December.

The last time Congress passed a full annual budget for the coming fiscal year was 1996. Congress is a dysfunctional mess filled with clowns.