Jane Coaston

Kash I swear to god just shut up and stop posting to people you know don’t know the difference between a “subject” and a “suspect”

RIP Robert Redford, everyone should watch The Sting

Paul Newman and Robert Redford taught me it was okay to be an incredibly hot lib

JOHN BROWN'S BODY IS A-BLOCKING THE FIELD GOAL

bin Laden didn't want the US to overreact, he wanted the US to pull out of the Middle East entirely (and also stop being gay and letting Jewish people... do... anything? web.archive.org/web/20231014...).

he did 17 hours of straight coverage. no teleprompter. just producers handing him notes. that man had to explain to millions of people what was happening when no one knew what was happening.

My parents never watched the news (my mom loathed commercial television) except for the week after 9/11, when my dad leaned on Peter Jennings to an extent I had never seen before or since. I think now that was the first time I realized my dad was terrified of something.

someone said this reminded them of Charles Manson's "Helter Skelter" plot and man you think you know how dumb that whole thing was and yet it was somehow even stupider than you think.

so many of the stories of that day were just normal people faced with something totally abnormal.

a bunch of totally normal people who were taking what was a totally normal flight found themselves in an impossible situation and said: we're going to do something about it.

a thing I did not know about Flight 93 was that because the flight was delayed and because the hijackers waited more than 40 minutes before trying to take the plane, the people aboard knew about the other planes.

absolutely.