A simple cheat code for life is to just be easy to work with.
Respond quickly. Do what you said you'd do. Be pleasant.
An alarming number of people suck at all of this.
Canine heroes from NJ of 9/11
New Jersey’s four-legged heroes of 9/11 include Willow, a yellow Labrador from Williamstown whose handler Bobbie Snyder deployed with Pennsylvania Task Force 1 to search Ground Zero rubble in 12-hour shifts, and Max, a German Shepherd bomb-detection dog from Lake Hopatcong who worked the site with Port Authority officer Brian Fitzpatrick
Guide dogs Roselle and Salty also have New Jersey ties; they calmly led their blind owners down dozens of flights of stairs from the North Tower before it collapsed. A bronze Search and Rescue Dog Statue at Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange now honors the roughly 350 canines who searched the wreckage at Ground Zero and the Pentagon
These dogs found remains, comforted exhausted responders, and never quit even when live finds became impossible. Never forget them
25 years ago today, our world changed forever. May we never forget the heinous attacks on our way of life, the innocent lives lost, the unity we felt, and the heroes who emerged.
God bless America. 🇺🇸
9/11 is hitting me harder than usual this year
It's not because I ever forgot, because I certainly didn't
I think it's because I'm acutely aware of how much things have changed since then
He was 32 years old, on a business trip, with a pregnant wife and two little boys waiting for him at home.
On September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer boarded United Flight 93, headed from Newark to San Francisco. He was supposed to come home to his family. Instead, he became part of a group of ordinary Americans who made an extraordinary decision.
After hijackers took control of the plane, Todd reached a telephone operator on the ground. He told her what was happening, asked her to pray with him, and learned that other planes had already struck the World Trade Center.
The passengers understood that their plane was likely being used as another weapon. They had a choice: remain in their seats and hope for the best, or fight back.
They chose to fight.
Todd and the other passengers and crew members organized an effort to retake the cockpit. At the end of his call, the operator heard him say:
“Are you guys ready? Okay. Let’s roll.”
Minutes later, Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All 40 passengers and crew members were killed, but the hijackers never reached their intended target.
Todd Beamer never made it home. Neither did the other 39 innocent people aboard that plane. But their courage helped prevent another attack on American soil.
They were not soldiers. They were people going to work, visiting family, and living ordinary lives.
And when the moment came, they fought back.
(An update on the family Todd left behind is in the comments) 🐝
Student loans were supposed to be a pathway to the American Dream, but instead they’ve become a lifetime subscription to interest payments.
Congress should CAP federal student loan interest rates at 2%.
Americans should be able to pay back what they borrowed without paying for it twice.
2018: Murphy signs automatic voter registration
2019: Murphy signs undocumented immigrant driver's licenses
2023-24: 6,600 non-citizens illegally registered to vote
2026: Up to 400 cast ballots
2026: Sherrill discloses it — years later
2026: Sherrill blocks cooperation with DHS
2026: Sherrill launches $20M legal defense fund for non-citizens
2026: Sherrill calls SAVE Act "voter suppression"
Every step of the way: Democrat policy.