New York City has released more than 170,000 pages of previously undisclosed records about air quality following the September 11, 2001, attacks, showing city officials at the time knew conditions around Ground Zero were unsafe to breathe despite repeated assurances to the public.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release at a news conference Tuesday.

“As the years pass and the human toll grows, we reckon with the cost of September 11th whenever another New Yorker is stolen from us too soon,” Mamdani said. “Now, close to 25 years later, more people have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on the day itself.”

At least 140,000 people from all 50 states have enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program, and 49,000 have been diagnosed with certified WTC-related cancers, according to the 9/11 Memorial. Mamdani said Tuesday that more people are eligible for assistance than are currently enrolled, including residents who lived near the site but have not received outreach and those who live outside of New York.

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      Yes.

      If we’ve learned anything from Trump, it’s that a president doesn’t need to fit a specific mould. He’s a billionaire from NYC, yet look at his core supporters. If a wealthy orange pedo from NYC can get the rural Alabama vote, Mamdani could get any vote

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      Hillary and Kamala both ran dogshit campaigns. They didn’t lose because Americans are sexist (not that that helped). They lost because they wasted their money on tv adds and had fuck all ground game, they had a shitty platform that appealed to no one, and because the DNC sabotaged better candidates.

      So yes, I do think an immigrant with charisma and a platform and a modern campaign strategy would win.

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        They also lost because they are corporate Democrats and people are seeing the game.

        No real punishments issued to any Republicans from Democrats

        No “fight” in them, they always lose on some technicality

        Kamala will laugh and joke and touch elbows with the lowest of pedophile protectors when she thinks she is not on camera.

        Every chance they get to fight MAGA with the progressive left, they choose to attack the LEFT

        Hakeem Jeffries just had a secret meeting with Jared Kushner to discuss, in Hakeem’s “view”, affordability.

        Biden appointed a pedophile party member to “punish” the alpha pedophile for a COUP, AND THEY WOULDNT DO IT

        HOW MANY SPECIAL PROSECUTORS HAVE WE HAD THAT LED TO NOTHING?

        HOW MANY CORPORATE DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY JUST PAID FOREIGN AGENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT THAT IS OCCUPYING US?

        THIS MAKES THEM PEDOPHILE PROTECTONG TRAITORS AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO PEDOPHILIC TRAITORS

        NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE WITH THE ISRAELIS AND CORPORATIONS IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING.