Robert A. George

Citizens Union, previous stops: Bloomberg, Daily News, New York Post; standup, pun-dit, Trini-Dad jokes, etc.

[Robert A. George @RobGeorge]

Lindsey Graham’s passing sparked conversation and controversy on *how* to talk about the departed in public. I had some thoughts that may spark some…disagreement.
https://t.co/jGUjAGWyzn

@KenGardner11 @QuinHillyer @JohnDalyBooks @brian_mistrot @EricMGarcia @BlueBoxDave

[Robert A. George @RobGeorge]

@ian693 Is 0-0 considered a winning record?

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

Blame the travel if you want, I have no clue if that’s why The Rams looked the way they did…but…

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Absolute disaster class for the New England Patriots and their fans since the Super Bowl.

Super Bowl loss.

Vrabel-Russini scandal.

Trade for AJ Brown for the Super Bowl rematch and a run at the title again.

AJ Brown gets hurt in the 1st game.

Drake Maye with chance to send game to overtime throws an int.

Drake Maye throws 3 ints for the 1st time in his NFL career.

Not much to cheer for right now for Patriots fans.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, documents show. https://t.co/O2a2TRrSHd

[Nicole @nicolegelinas]

Yes. Lutnick is a public figure here in a public capacity, and his brother was horrifically killed. He is here smiling. Other times he was not smiling. Same with vast majority of family members / friends who attended the ceremony who are not public figures. There is nothing wrong with that. People are human beings. They naturally talk, smile and laugh together, including at a respectful ceremony.

[Robert A. George @RobGeorge]

Ahem.

[Jordan @ituajiv]

Karl Urban, as a true professional, studied DeForest Kelly's performances intently, trying to truly understand both the mannerisms and the character, then building on the original. So really, we have had it backwards all along:

DeForestation leads to Urbanization

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

Tonight's ceremonial first pitches will be thrown by Brielle Saracini and her husband, Sean McGuire, who both were just 10 years old when they lost their fathers on 9/11 and found each other through Camp Better Days.

Saracini’s father, Victor, was the captain of United Flight 175, which was directed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, where McGuire’s father, Patrick, was working on the 84th floor.

Brielle’s connection to the Yankees began just days after the tragedy, when she wrote a letter to Derek Jeter detailing her family’s deeply personal loss, explaining that her dad would want her to realize her dream of meeting him.

Jeter invited Brielle and her family to a game, beginning a lasting friendship and connection with the Yankees organization 💙

[uSTADIUM @uSTADIUM]

This little guy read some the names of those we lost on 9/11 today, including his grandfather, Andrew Ira Rosenblum, a vice president at Cantor Fitzgerald who was working on the upper floors of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

He thanked Grandpa for finally blessing New York City with a Knicks championship but said he’s still waiting for him to lift the Jets curse.

[John A. Daly @JohnDalyBooks]

No, actual conservatives largely respect Jonah. It's the MAGA populists, and their spineless appeasers and media-sellouts, who don't.

[Josh Dawsey @jdawsey1]

Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure https://t.co/74ymTpHvgP via @NYTimes

[Knicks Fan TV 🏀🎥📺🏁 @KnicksFanTv]

During the 9/11 ceremony in Lower Manhattan, a young boy honored his grandfather, who was killed in the attacks, by thanking him for blessing the Knicks with a championship 🙏

[via @NY1]

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

When the North Tower collapsed on September 11, 2001, Genelle Guzman-McMillan was still inside.

She had been working on the 64th floor of the World Trade Center when the first plane struck. Genelle and her coworkers began the long descent down the emergency stairs. Floor after floor, they kept moving. By the time they reached the lower levels, they had been walking for nearly an hour.

Then the building began to come down.

Genelle remembered holding hands with a coworker. There was a deafening roar, the floor seemed to disappear, and everything went black.

When she regained consciousness, she could not move. Concrete and twisted steel surrounded her. Her leg was pinned. Her head was trapped between pieces of debris. Somewhere above her was the enormous wreckage of a 110-story skyscraper.

Hours passed.

She called out, but no one answered. Fires burned in the ruins. Rescue workers searched an unstable mountain of steel while Genelle remained buried beneath it, unable to know whether anyone was coming.

Night fell. Then morning came.

Genelle prayed. She thought about her daughter. She promised God that if she survived, she would change her life.

Then, after roughly 27 hours beneath the rubble, she heard something.

Rescuers had found her.

On September 12, Genelle was carried from Ground Zero alive. Of the thousands trapped when the towers collapsed, only a small number were pulled alive from the debris.

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last.

For nearly 27 hours, the ruins had hidden one more survivor. And beneath all that steel, dust and devastation, she had kept breathing.

#archaeohistories

[Robert A. George @RobGeorge]

This week, @Searchlight_NY ran several reflections on 9/11 and its meaning 25 years later: John Schiumo was a reporter for @NY1 that day. His thoughts on that day and weeks following is especially bracing.
https://t.co/MTB7kdP2d5
@CitizensUnionNY

[Luke Epplin @LukeEpplin]

I repeat this every year: This long-form article by Tom Junod about the so-called Falling Man is the greatest magazine piece published so far this century. It's an extraordinary bit of writing. Read it if you haven't.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Twenty-five years ago today, we lost 2,977 souls and in the years since, thousands more to illnesses caused by the attack on our country.

This morning, Jill and I hold close the families who carry that loss every day. We honor the heroes of September 11th: the firefighters and police officers who rushed into the towers and the Pentagon, the passengers who fought back over Shanksville, and the generation that stepped up to serve in the aftermath.

Even now, we remember the greatest lesson of one of our nation's darkest days: at our most vulnerable, unity is our most powerful strength.

We will never forget.

[Spectrum News NY1 @NY1]

Patricia Smith was only a toddler when her mother, NYPD Officer Moira Smith, was killed helping guide people out of the south tower on 9/11. Officer Smith was the only female NYPD officer to die on that day. Years later, Patricia stumbled on the final transmission her mom sent out, calling for help after the south tower collapsed on her. Although Patricia says it's traumatic, she believes it's important for the public to hear.

[thomas ladder @okaywhatno]

@PatrickHeizer you must read this: https://t.co/nptGw3s7yC

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

I had never heard this name before and I don't even know what to say.

[Robert A. George @RobGeorge]

@dora_birk @JimmyVielkind That would be child abuse.

[Spectrum News NY1 @NY1]

As loved ones read the names of those lost on 9/11 during Friday’s ceremony in Lower Manhattan, a boy whose grandfather died in the attacks thanked him for blessing the city with a Knicks championship.