Shane McCormack

[Daniella Greenbaum Davis @DGreenbaum]

Israel was the first middle eastern country to give Muslim women the right to vote. They’re exercising it today and will likely sway the election. Israel is extraordinarily bad at apartheid and genocide.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

Congress Must Investigate Trump’s Aid and Comfort to Putin https://t.co/zo3ntPFBBU

[Charles Arthur @charlesarthur]

When they tell you sports gambling is harmless: no it isn't. Nicole Noren on why she left ESPN.

[greg @greg16676935420]

Imagine being a horse and finding out you have 6 months to learn code

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

ICE needs to get out of NYC. Mamdani says you don’t have permission to be here and anyone who doesn’t have permission to be in a place must leave that place immediately.

[Matt Lewis @mattklewis]

"If you’re a conservative, it’s just really hard to come up with a credible reason why returning Trump’s enablers to Congress this November will help accomplish anything resembling conservative policies or values. All it will do is ensure Trump has zero accountability as he drives America into a financial ditch with one hand and crumples the Constitution with the other."

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Marco Rubio: "For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)

[Anastasia Volkova @thedutchessil]

100 Israeli passengers vs One Muslim Pilot. What a completely disproportionate response from israel.

[Ian Haworth @ighaworth]

I don’t hate the Irish. I just don’t think Ireland should exist.

[Mister Lee @MisterLeeHODL]

The claude folks should just own this 🤣

[Alex Imas @alexolegimas]

It is important to remember when people say “this is what they took from you”, that it’s this.

This is what they took from you:

[Patches O’Houlihan @sondraa]

Someone doesn't know what the first rule of fight club is

[leah @kmewisfc]

no dad, owning a successful lesbian covid conscious bar in western mass was YOUR dream. I’M going to clown school

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Six children with Down syndrome have been invited to serve Pope Leo XIV at the altar during Mass during his visit to France.

In the Catholic Church, everyone has a place, and every person is valued and loved.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I’m glad @JeffMightBWrong finally asked the question on everyone’s mind https://t.co/HtRPZW4PmX

[Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87]

This administration is speed-running the whole book of socialist cliches

[Itai Sher @itaisher]

The challenge to debate is fine — and I would watch — but betting on whether you would “win” a debate, moreover by measuring audience opinion, I think reveals a fundamental difference between academic and rationalist values.

[Avogadro’s House of Moles @schumoo]

My neighbor is acting creepy again with inappropriate questions like "hey how's it going" and "when can I get my lawnmower back"

[mariana Z @mariana057]

Would it be bad if I asked someone with an eye patch "Was it all fun and games up to that point?"

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, ten men carried a quadriplegic coworker down sixty nine flights of stairs and got him out of the North Tower minutes before it fell.

John Abruzzo was an associate accountant for the Port Authority. He was quadriplegic and got around in a heavy powered wheelchair, and every workday he rode up to the 69th floor of One World Trade Center and did his job.

He had already been through this once.

In February 1993, when the truck bomb went off in the basement and the towers filled with smoke, the power went out and the elevators stopped. His coworkers carried him down out of that building in his electric wheelchair, in the dark, a few floors at a time, and it took hours. Hundreds of pounds of chair and man, on a staircase, with no lights.

What happened next is the part that matters. After 1993 the Port Authority went out and bought lightweight evacuation chairs and staged them on the floors, specifically so that nobody would ever have to do that again. It was a boring administrative decision made by people whose names nobody knows, eight years before it mattered.

On September 11, 2001, Flight 11 hit the North Tower twenty floors above John Abruzzo's office. The building shook hard enough to move his wheelchair. The power went. The stairwells filled with smoke.

His coworkers got the evacuation chair, lifted him out of his wheelchair and strapped him into it. Mike Fabiano, one of the floor's fire wardens, and roughly ten other Port Authority employees took hold of it and started down.

Sixty nine floors. They rotated. Men took the handles, carried until their arms gave out, swapped with someone else, and kept going. The stairwell was packed and hot and full of smoke, and they were moving slower than everyone else in it, and everyone in that stairwell knew the building had an airplane in it.

Firefighters coming up the stairs told them they could leave him. Put him in a safe area, keep going, we will come back for him.

They said no.

They carried him all the way to the bottom, out across the debris in the lobby, and lifted him through a broken window onto the sidewalk, where firefighters took him and moved him away from the building.

The North Tower came down shortly after.

He went to the hospital for smoke inhalation and was told to rest for a few weeks. The next morning, September 12, the men who had carried him showed up for work at the Port Authority's emergency headquarters in New Jersey.

There is a hard thing inside this story that should be said. Other people in wheelchairs in those buildings that morning did not make it out, and some of them died with friends who would not leave them. The difference was not courage, because there was no shortage of that anywhere in those towers. The difference was a chair on the wall and ten sets of arms that happened to be on the right floor.

John Abruzzo is alive because in 1993 somebody in a purchasing office decided to spend money on a problem that had already almost killed him once, and because on September 11 a group of accountants and office workers picked him up and refused every single opportunity to put him down.