On most of the anniversaries of 9/11 over the last ten years, I’ve linked to a short report I filed for Salon.com within a couple hours of the attack from the streets in my then-neighborhood in Washington, DC. You can read it here, search for the word “bizarre.” It’s a page of numerous dispatches from different locations on that morning ten years ago.

I generally do not have much to say on these anniversaries. For me what seems most fitting is just silence. I have nothing more than the obvious to add to the discussion. I did read one piece that was disturbing and deeply affecting, a report that brought me back to that morning in a way I’d never been there before. You can read it here. It’s about the people who jumped/fell that morning from the Towers. Don’t read it unless you’re ready. It’s not easy. Read More

TPM’s Benjy Sarlin was in high school, a few blocks from the World Trade Center, on Sept. 11, 2001. He writes about two of his classmates and the paths they took after 9/11, for The Atlantic.

For all the problems President Obama has now — and they’re getting hard to count — he still runs even or just ahead of his main potential opponents in virtually every poll. What continues to surprise me is that he does about the same in North Carolina. Whatever else is happening in our politics, North Carolina — once reliably Republican in presidential politics — seems to have clearly moved into the swing state category.

Yesterday NASA launched two lunar satellites on a mission to produce an extremely detailed gravitational map of the moon.