Saturday, February 22, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
A Bit Odd Given How Frequently Members of Congress Fly
Guessing here, but I'd bet a majority of them board a plane more than 50 times per year! "Conservative guess!
Late last week, just as Presidents’ Day weekend was starting, Donald Trump and Elon Musk purged hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees — including multiple lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit, knowledgeable sources tell Rolling Stone.
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While air traffic controllers were supposedly immune from the purge, some air traffic control support workers were terminated, the FAA worker says. Rolling Stone separately spoke with a fired FAA employee whose job involved ensuring flight paths account for hazards like cranes and new buildings, as well as another terminated FAA staffer who ensured that pilots are medically able and cleared to fly. No one wants their plane to cross paths with a crane, of course, but the latter role is important, too, given the nation’s ongoing pilot shortage.
Deadbeat
Elon had many obvious frauds that the press willingly did free PR for, including "free speech champion."
Somebody at twitter was suppressing all her posts in various ways.
Ah, Well, Nevertheless
Not only will Hochul not remove Adams, she's using it as an excuse for the state to do a power grab from the city, a tool of abuse for future governors!
It was a good 16 hours, Kathy.
It was a good 16 hours, Kathy.
Real One
If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net
— Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The New Bond
Bond will face the new organization W.O.K.E., headed by a supervillain played by Laverne Cox, as it conspires to infect the world with a virus.
The James Bond film franchise will no longer be controlled by the Broccoli dynasty, after long-serving masterminds Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson announced they are stepping down.
The Bond films were launched by Albert "Cubby" Broccoli in 1962, before his daughter and stepson took over.
The pair will now give creative control to Amazon MGM Studios, which was formed when Amazon bought Bond's parent studio in 2022.
Seems Bad
As hysterical pro-abortion activists pointed out for years, abortion IS health care, and you can't have women's health care without it.
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.Once you override the judgment of patient and doctor, this what you get. Imagined centrist "compromises" always envisioned making things illegal without ever prosecuting anyone. How does that work?
The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.
Who Knew The Civil Service Was Filled With Veterans
Everybody knew, Jesse, everybody knew.
Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the Trump administration be “less callous” when implementing when laying off federal employees after a military veteran friend was “DOGE’d” in Elon Musk’s Pentagon cuts.They're bad people because they mostly don't care about the consequences of smashing things, but there's something wrong with them otherwise in that they are unable to even conceive of those consequences. And, just to be clear, Mr. President King, Sir, my friend is white.
The host added: “He texted me and said: ‘Jesse, this is not good. I’m really sad. I’m upset.’ This guy is not a DEI consultant. He is not a climate consultant. This guy is a veteran. So when you’re talking about DOGE-ing people, veterans should get priority. Because if you’re going to go out there and kill enemies, put your life on the line, you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI.”
Sounds Bad
But racism is only counts when its done by imaginary left wing college students.
Dallas ICE prosecutor:
Since GlomarResponder was first created in 2012, the account has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist content. “America is a White nation, founded by Whites. … Our country should favor us,” GlomarResponder wrote last month. “All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb fuck,” the account posted in September of last year. “Freedom of association hasn’t existed in this country since 1964 at the absolute latest,” GlomarResponder wrote four months prior, further clarifying the post was referring to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a reply to a comment. “I’m not a commie, I’m a fascist,” GlomarResponder posted a couple weeks later. “Fascists solve communist problems. Get your insults right, retard.”
Moral Clarity
Remember when warbloggers and other Iraq war supporters loved that term?
Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested Tuesday on a charge of disturbing an assembly in Huntington Beach, California, per the city's arrest log. The incident occurred at a city council meeting.Had forgotten Kluwe was a good one.
Kluwe, 43, was protesting the city's approval of a public library plaque that was designed to use words to spell out "MAGA," the acronym for President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan, as an acrostic.
A video from the council meeting shows the former Minnesota Vikings punter beginning his protest by reading a prepared statement that called MAGA "explicitly a Nazi movement." Kluwe continued by saying he would engage in "peaceful civil disobedience," whereupon he left his spot at the lectern and approached the city council members' bench.
Kathy Hochul, Welcome To The Resistance
Good stuff, in response to Trump attempting to cancel NYC's congestion pricing.
More:Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...
— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) February 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Governor Hochul: “At 1:01 p.m. today, The U.S. Department of Transportation emailed us a letter from Secretary Duffy, announcing their attempt to end the congestion pricing program in the State of New York… I don't care if you love congestion pricing or hate it. This is an attack on our sovereign identity, our independence from Washington. And we are a nation of states. This is what we fought for. This is what people like Alexander Hamilton and others fought for: To set up a system where we are not subservient to a king or anyone else out of Washington.”Even my least favorite Dem politicians can get my forgiveness pretty easily!
Hochul: “In the streets of this city, where battles were fought; we stood up to a king. And we won then. And in case you don't know New Yorkers, when we're in a fight, we do not back down. Not now, not ever. Because, who are we fighting for here? We're fighting for our residents, our commuters, our riders, our drivers, our emergency personnel.”
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