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On September 11, 2001, a 27-year-old woman called her stepmother from a hijacked plane and said 8 words that have stayed with her family for over 20 years: "This is going to be so much harder for you than it is for me." Two days before that phone call, Honor Elizabeth Wainio had been in Paris. She had traveled through Europe for a friend’s wedding in Florence, then spent time wandering the streets of Paris with another friend, eating lunch along the Champs-Elysees and lighting a candle in a church for her grandmother. She once told her mother that if she ever got to see Paris, she could die happy. Back home in New Jersey, she sounded full of life. She talked about craving her mother’s spaghetti, catching up on work emails, and preparing for a business trip to San Francisco. Everyone called her Lizz. At twenty-seven, she was already one of the youngest district managers at Discovery Channel Stores. Bright. Warm. Driven. On the morning of September 11, she boarded United Airlines Flight 93 at Newark International Airport. The sky was clear. The world still felt ordinary. Then, at approximately 9:28 a.m., four hijackers stormed the cockpit. Passengers were forced toward the back of the plane as panic spread through the cabin. But unlike the people on the earlier hijacked flights, those aboard Flight 93 learned the truth in time. The Twin Towers had already been hit. The Pentagon too. This was not a negotiation. The plane itself was the weapon. The passengers understood. And somewhere inside that terror, a woman sitting near Lizz handed her a phone and told her to call someone she loved. Lizz called her stepmother, Esther Heymann. What Esther heard in those final minutes never left her. Lizz’s voice was calm, impossibly steady for someone who knew she was going to die. She did not spend the call talking about her own fear. Instead, she worried about theirs. “It just hurts me most,” she said softly, “that this is going to be so much harder for you than it is for me.” For several minutes, they stayed on the line together, breathing and talking quietly across unimaginable distance. Then Lizz said something else. “I’m gonna be with Grandma.” Her grandmother had once lived near rural Pennsylvania, close to where the plane would eventually crash. At 9:57 a.m., the passengers fought back. Todd Beamer prayed before saying the words that would echo across America: “Let’s roll.” Others rushed toward the cockpit together. Just before the assault began, Lizz spoke one last time. “They’re getting ready to break into the cockpit. I have to go. I love you. Good-bye.” Minutes later, Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The hijackers never reached Washington. But what people remember most about Lizz is not how she died. It is how she loved. In the final moments of her life, her instinct was still kindness. Still comfort. Still concern for the people she was leaving behind. That is a kind of courage the world never forgets.

@mahmoudkhalel You hate our country, you do nothing but put it down. GFYS! Buh bye...

This is the due process the administration is offering me, corrupt and unprecedented: "Internal board documents obtained by The New York Times show that the case was considered high priority even before the board officially received it. “Please process as quickly as possible,” said another note, from October. Another document shows that the court’s chair — its highest ranking member — oversaw the case from early on." This story proves that the Trump administration's treatment of my case has always been corrupt and retaliatory. They put me through a sham immigration process while guaranteeing the outcome in advance. nytimes.com/2026/05/08/nyr…

The Iraqi Air Force is down to their last guy.🤣

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines eight years ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG insurance seven years ago, you would have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers eleven years ago, you would have nothing today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Northern Rock nine years ago, you would have nothing today But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco's, drunk all the beer, then taken the aluminum cans to the scrap metal dealer, you would have received $214.00. Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. A recent study found that the average person walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that we drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, we get about 41 miles to the gallon! Makes you proud to be a piss head.🍻😂

“I made it.” - Spencer Jones #RepBX

It’s a shtick. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He is a total fraud. I bet he HATES the video on the left. Let’s make it go viral!!!!

@Stephhewitt1 @luxemiaa This is Ttumps fault too? Severe TDS.

I was on a flight sitting in my assigned seat when a couple walked up and immediately told me I was in their seat. I checked my boarding pass again even though I already knew I was right. Same row, same seat number. Everything matched. I politely told them this was my assigned seat. The husband looked unsure, but the wife became fully committed to the argument within seconds. She kept insisting I needed to move because apparently she wanted my window seat. I showed her my boarding pass. She barely looked at it and kept arguing anyway. Then she started getting louder and making comments about how difficult I was being. At one point she straight up called me a bitch because I refused to move from the seat I literally paid for. So now the flight attendant gets involved. She checks my ticket, checks theirs, and immediately tells the wife she was........

CV. Completely ruined a major 126 year old political party in less than 2 years. Became the most hated UK Prime Minister in history. Unilaterally gave away billions of £'s of taxpayers money with no accountability required from the recipients. Wrecked the economy. Failed to control mass immigration, both legal and illegal. Failed to address the problem of muslim rape gangs. Increased welfare payments to a point where benefits now cost more than the entire income tax take. Allowed weekly pro-Palestinian hate marches on our streets. Consistently referred to people with concerns about the proliferation of migrant violence as "Far Right". Promoted one of his friends to high office despite knowing he was a buddy of one of the most prolific paedophiles on the planet. Consistently worked to reverse the result of the biggest democratic vote in British history by stealth. Placed tax dodgers, fraudsters and CV fantasists in Ministerial posts. Invited a known islamist terrorist to No.10 while simultaneously banning foreign commentators from the UK for merely reporting on the border fiasco. Took two weeks to find a Royal Navy ship that actually worked. Introduced legislation that will destroy the private rental market and create hundreds of thousands of homeless families. Promised to build 1.5 million homes in five years despite everyone telling him it would be impossible. Failed to help motorists and hauliers after the rise in the price of fuel caused by the war in Iran. Continues to allow Ed Milliband to wreck the UK's energy industry with his insane Net Zero policies. Raised the minimum wage and employers National Insurance contributions leading to thousands of job losses and businesses folding. Introduced VAT to private school fees leading to many excellent seats of learning closing their doors. Consistently refused to answer questions during the session in the parliamentary week set aside for this specific purpose. Consistently failed to accept responsibility for any wrong doing, preferring to sack others instead. Alienated "working people" while claiming to be on their side. And the lies. The constant lies. Failure. Failure. And more Failure. Time to go.

@Keir_Starmer Resign.

These are tough results for Labour. There’s no sugarcoating it. We’ve lost brilliant Labour representatives who’ve stood up for their communities. People are still frustrated. Their lives aren’t changing fast enough. We haven’t offered enough hope or optimism for the future. I was elected to change this country - tough days like this don’t weaken my determination to do that. They strengthen it.

Good afternoon, @NassauExec Bruce Blakeman. I agree with most of your points and policies, but you are not getting elected governor unless you make serious inroads in NYC. You need roughly one-third of NYC voters — and that means spending real time in the Bronx, Harlem, and other communities Republicans have ignored for years. This is why only 5 of 51 NYC Council members are Republicans. Your party has ceded New York City to the Democratic machine, then acts surprised when it can’t win statewide. Ignore Black, Latino, and working-class voters in NYC, and you can kiss the governor’s race goodbye.

@claireforny Youre delusional.

Holding the line…against the thing a majority of New Yorkers want.

@gothburz Awesome. Thank you!

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

@Super70sSports We are the last generation that will know this as fact. We fucked up...

Cars might be better today but they’re not works of art anymore. We prioritized profit and efficiency and the price was America’s soul. You can see the decay everywhere. They told us it was progress. They lied.

4 days left for the DOJ to indict Anthony Fauci. He lied to Congress about NIH funding dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan and engaged in the worst cover-up in modern medical history. The American people want Fauci behind bars.

🚨 WTF?! Minnesota Democrats have voted UNANIMOUSLY to BLOCK a requirement to remove DEAD PEOPLE from the voter rolls, per @GrageDustin How much more obvious can they make it??! These people are rigging elections right in front of our faces Scumbags.

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I have paid over $10B in taxes in a single year, more than anyone in history. If I exercise and sell stock options, the combined federal and state income tax is ~45% (I still pay California taxes for every day I spend there). Then there is another 40% tax paid on my estate when I die. Overall, I will probably end up paying trillions in taxes.

David Morens, Dr. Fauci's top adviser, was indicted, but Fauci himself still walks free. The DOJ has 5 days to indict Fauci before the statute of limitations runs out. The clock is ticking. Justice cannot wait.

@OleTimeHardball John Sterling

Who is your all-time favorite MLB announcer? 1. Vin Scully 2. Ernie Harrell 3. Mel Allen 4. Harry Caray 5. Jack Buck 6. Harry Kalas 7. Joe Garagiola 8. Marty Brennaman 9. Jon Miller 10. Bob Uecker

5 days from now, on May 11th, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic.