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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    “There was poison in the air, and on the ground, and in the window sills, and in your air conditioners and covering your pets and your clothes, and it stayed there for months. Everyone knew. Now it’s very clear that the city knew as well,” Stewart said.

    Wait wait wait… no… so it ain’t so Jon. Rudy Gulliani, Americas Mayor… is a lying piece of shit?!?

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    It makes me so incredibly happy that he released this info, but I can totally understand why every single administration before him continued the coverup on this. The legal shitstorm that this will unleash…

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    My dad’s best friend just died of 9/11-related COPD. He worked in an office building around the corner from the WTC and was told to keep coming to work. He suffered greatly for many years.

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    You know, it was a really horrible day, but in the end it was what it was. The air was poison, and I don’t think the first responders would have not gone in, they’re heros. But the fact that so many of them had some form of cancer or some varient after that, you couldn’t even not lie so they can get free medical treatment they more than deserve is fucking garbage.

    They need to jail every single person who touched that report. Period.

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      The fact that Jon Stewart of all people has been the one to advocate for first responders on 9/11 to get the care they need is an absolute abomination to whoever was in charge during the events.

      A TV personality should not be standing in front of Congress to tell them to help firefighters who assisted during 9/11 that they should get healthcare.

      People think the USA is a joke because of Trump. It’s been a fucking clown show for well over two decades. If not more. Your country is an international embarrassment on unprecedented levels.

      Superpower my ass.

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    I’d like to vote for amending the Constitution so that non-US-born citizens can become president so he can run for office.

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      I get it, but i honestly think that a big reason the establishment didn’t come at him harder was that he wasn’t a threat to most establishment careers.

      If he’d have been US-born, i think they’d have put more effort into coming for his reputation.

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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.

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    That’s what you get for posturing like a jackass about not inviting a Muslim city official to 9-11 remembrance events. Good for NYC they finally have someone with balls.

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    Speaking of NYC and releasing files, Epstein lived there, they should release the NYC Epstein files and dare the feds to charge them with a crime for it.

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    A friend broke this story to me saying “Mamdani just revealed a 25 year old 9/11 government conspiracy!” which is wildly misleading, lol.

    But I’m happy there’s finally a mayor willing to tackle this; I’ve been aware of Jon Stewart’s work on this issue regarding first responders for decades because of his show, but it’s nice that with acknowledgement, there might be some help for the families suffering.

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    Considering that Rudy Giuliani was the mayor at the time, this does not surprise me at all.