Risa

Jewish Republican. Opinionated to a fault. Grandma to 9. patient WASP 2nd hubby. Bad speller

[Risa @RisaE2026]

@CJNitkowski i am going with my son to the braves- philly game next Friday night can I bring it then?

[Risa @RisaE2026]

@CJNitkowski

I live in Buckhead and listen to the Loud Outs podcast every night. I make the best challah and babka ( challah infused with chocolate) every week. But my 20th time trying to make sourdough starter has failed again.
Any interest in me bringing you at Truist a challah and a babka in exchange for a little starter??

[Risa @RisaE2026]

@CJNitkowski Let me know which game would work I live 15 minutes from Truist.

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@YisraelOfficial tikum olam

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@nut_history Verlander, Clay Bucholtz pitch a no hitter Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettite in the play-offs, Tom Terrific and the Rocket.

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@ofendidito__ one better

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[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.

[Risa @RisaE2026]

@miles_commodore none walked home for lunch.

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@supersean415 love it. Always support your team. I love baseball. That ump is an idiot. He is not the fashion police

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Mamdani Draws Outrage by Signing 9/11 Order — Then Giving Pen to Worst Possible Person https://t.co/4x4co4hSxi

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@EricMil01645051 @CJNitkowski that would be great!

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@MayorOfLA Mosab is the Man!!! he knows more than you sweetie.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

If you are not already boycotting Chobani Sharia Yogurt start TODAY!

Hamdi Ulukaya the Jihadi CEO of Chobani, has teamed up with Soros & 60 plus LIBERAL companies on his new project Tent Foundation (https://t.co/Wvh1G7AGs7), a group dedicated to flooding USA with "refugees"!

[Risa @RisaE2026]

@GrowingUpRetro the hose

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@miles_commodore and to all those crazy parents ---imagine that--- he isn't on a travel team. He is from Venezuela

[Risa @RisaE2026]

@AstrosShoulda Yes last nites game was too painful to watch. you left out Teng

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@bekahj and sex

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@OliLondonTV Imagine if he had used the N word.

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@Mish_K_ yes the jeans and white shirts to dress it up