“The air was never safe.” Rob Serra on 25 years of 9/11 lies. The Stuyvesant kids. The documents. What America still won’t teach.
Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the documents finally surfaced — and they confirm what first responders knew grabbing chunks of air that morning: the air was never safe, and the people in charge knew it. FDNY firefighter Rob Serra returns to the show to cut through the political theater around the release, the Giuliani-Mamdani sideshow, and Trump’s newest lie about being pulled from the rubble. This is a no-BS conversation about who lied, who paid, and why America still refuses to teach its own kids what actually happened.
Twenty-five years on, the story of 9/11 is being hijacked again — by politicians running for cover, by a president inventing himself into…
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→ Four things from today’s episodeRob Serra on why the newly released 9/11 documents matter. and why civilians, not just first responders, got the “royal deal”
Stuyvesant High School students eating lunch in what had bee. Stuyvesant High School students eating lunch in what had been a morgue three days earlier, covered in dust
Why there is still no formal 9/11 curriculum in New York schools 25 years later. and what kids are learning from TikTok instead
The 13-year-old in a hockey locker room shouting “nobody died on 9/11”. and the burden of being the keeper of the flame
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