Jason Smith

Dad. Historian. Genealogist. Former Evangelical Christian.

[Historic Aerials @historicaerials]

The World Trade Center Site: Five Aerial Views, 1954-2022

1954: The future WTC footprint was a dense, low-rise electronics district called Radio Row, crowded with radio and surplus-parts shops on Lower
Manhattan's waterfront. David Rockefeller began pushing a trade center in the late 1950s as an anchor for downtown renewal. In December 1961, the Port Authority settled on the Radio Row site.

1966: Property acquisition started in March 1965 over merchants' objections; courts sided with the Port Authority. Demolition began March 21, 1966, and by year's end thirteen square blocks were leveled — a cleared, empty footprint on the Hudson waterfront of buildings that had stood since the Civil War.

1980: The towers stand complete, and to the west, a raw stretch of landfill sits where the Hudson used to be, dredged from the WTC excavation itself, not yet Battery Park City.

2002: By the time this frame was captured, recovery work was still visible in the pit. Some debris and demolition not yet fully cleared from the site can be seen.

2022: Two square voids mark the original tower footprints, now reflecting pools set into a plaza of trees. One World Trade Center rises alongside them.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

@Christo21700560 @LoomerUnleashed Maybe we're just all being conditioned to hate each other and it's working. I'm a family man. I've never committed a crime. I believe in the goodness of people, and applying the Golden rule to my life. I'm not a criminal psychopath because I vote democrat.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

@ShirleyBarbaree @LoomerUnleashed Hey Shirley, I'm a good person. I have a full-time job, pay my taxes. One son in the Marines and two sons in college. I volunteer, help my neighbors. Most of my friends and extended family are the same. But we vote democrat. That doesn't make us evil.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

Because you have nothing to offer but false hope.

[The Christian Post @ChristianPost]

Your church is unhealthy for one simple reason https://t.co/xAIP2uuaKL

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

Which Christian is finally going to make the other Christians realize that they've been co-opted by a political party that was co-opted by by the ultra-rich?

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

Oh my God, @CocaCola, your Coke mini can add is so f****** annoying. I will absolutely make sure that I never ever buy it!

[David @ahzoov]

If you state that Elon Musk holds more wealth than 95% of Americans, and yet 14 million children go to sleep hungry, 30% of the country will tell you the kid deserves it and that the parents should work harder. I think they call themselves Christians.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

@JakeHoffmanAZ We’ve now reached the point where a partisan political commentator is being described as a “global civil rights leader.” If everything is the civil rights movement, then nothing is.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

Calling student protests “indoctrination” isn’t an educational finding — it’s a political framing.

Students exercising free expression ≠ schools programming beliefs.
Conflating the two is how legitimate dissent gets rebranded as misconduct.

https://t.co/stSGifLEj4

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

The continued kidnapping of innocence. There is no good to be found in this madness. https://t.co/YRkauJYNLG

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

@DualityXrp The Irony: Even your fake numbers show Obama (a Democrat) was over 4x more 'efficient' at deporting people than Trump. Are you trying to roast Trump or endorse Obama? Because right now, you're doing both badly.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

@DualityXrp The 'Riots': Please name one of these '200+ riots' caused by deportations. A few people holding signs in a park is a protest, not a riot. Unless you’re counting every time someone dropped a taco as a civil uprising, this number is completely made up.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions: https://t.co/xZG4IIdHmN

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

Calling evidence-based history “radical revisionism” isn’t a defense of the past; it’s a defense of a curated myth. Updating our understanding as records and perspectives expand isn’t anti-American. It’s how history actually works.

#Epstein https://t.co/ih26BF0XlM

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

It's imperative that Democrats execute an aggressive response to this and then work to eliminate partisan gerrymandering by any party. This will require winning the next congressional and presidential elections, and getting legislation signed into law. https://t.co/ktzR62DbvZ

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

I hate that the em dash has become a red flag for AI-generated content. I've always loved using it — it's the only character for which I've memorized the keyboard shortcut.

[Jason Smith @jason__smith]

"Speaking as a Christian: if we have to force people to put up a poster [of the Ten Commandments], to me that means that we have a dead religion. A religion that no longer moves people. A religion that no longer speaks to people's hearts." -James Talarico, TX State House Rep. (D)