📖 🇺🇸 🕯 The force of the debris cloud squeezed itself into lower manhattan’s grid system, creating a force so violent it physically picked and through people around.

At the 22 second mark, that’s fellow cameraman Jack Taliercio telling him to look behind him. Jack ended up filming some of the most well documented footage on 9/11.

📎 TheOlChippy

✝️ 🇺🇸 🕯 9/11: Irish American priest Fr. Mychael Judge prays inside the Twin Towers as tragedy unfolds

He was later named the first official casualty of September 11th

📎 Catholic Arena

✝️ 🇺🇸 🕯 The demographics of 9-11 victims

RACE:

⬜️White: 76%

🟫Hispanic: 9%

⬛️Black: 8%

🟨Asian: 6%

(Of firefighters & policemen who died over 95% were white)

ETHNICITY (estimates):

🇮🇹Italian: 10-15%

🇮🇪Irish: 10-15%

🇮🇱Jewish: 10%

🇵🇷Hispanic: 9%

⬛️Black: 8%

🇨🇳 Asian: 6%

🇷🇺/🇵🇱 Eastern European: 3-6%

🇩🇪 German: 2-5%

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿English: 2-4%

🇳🇴 Scandinavian: 1-2%

🇬🇷 Greek: 1-2%

Other/Unknown: 15-20%

RELIGION (estimates):

🇻🇦Catholic: 50-60%

✝️Protestant: 10-15%

✡️Jewish: 10%

☦️Eastern Orthodox: 1-3%

☪️Muslim: 1%

None/Other/Unknown: 15-20%

(Of firefighters & policemen who died 80-90% were Catholic)

📎 Al Carbo

🇮🇱 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 Itamar Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power is now the top party among first-time voters in Israel, pulling 18%—more than any other party. (Channel 12)

📎 Faytuks Network

🇺🇸⚡️ — The White House is considering using the Defense Production Act to expand U.S. oil-refining capacity as the war with Iran exposes vulnerabilities to global supply disruptions and rising crude and fuel prices, according to Reuters.

Officials are considering federal support to expand or upgrade existing refineries rather than construct new facilities, which would take years and be significantly more expensive.

U.S. refineries are already operating at roughly 98% of capacity.

🎗️ 🇺🇸 🕯 New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on camera smiling and laughing during the 9/11 memorial name reading.

The shot cut to them right after a man was shown weeping as the names of the dead were read.

Some people show up to remember. Some people show up to be seen remembering.

📎 Mario Nawfal