Delays expected at airports as government shutdown drags on
— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) October 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Airports are experiencing massive staffing shortages because of the Trump shutdown.
House Republicans remain on vacation.
Get back to work so we can reopen the government!
#RepublicanHealthCareCrisis— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Look, it’s not as though Trump — or any of his inner circle of donors & minions — are going to be inconvenienced in the least by air traffic delays. Our Very Serious Media Pundits, however, mostly still fly commercial!
Funny how the media turns on the GOP riiiigghhhtt about the time they detonate safe flights.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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As do most legislators, especially (I’m guessing) House members, who have to fly a lot!
The airports are beginning to shut down due to lack of staffing. Some VIP will be inconvenienced and this will end.
— Micheline Maynard (@mickimaynard.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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UNREAL there were no air traffic controllers at Burbank Airport amid the government shutdown.
Republicans would rather protect child predators & deny you healthcare than staff our airports 🥴— Casey (@mamasissiesays.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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If ‘a slight uptick’ in the number of workers calling in sick can shut down a dozen airports, Secretary Duffy, maybe you’re not doing your job.
A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.
— NPR (@npr.org) October 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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“.. flights are being delayed this evening at Nashville International Airport due to “staffing,” with average arrival delays of 126 minutes as of 5:30 p.m.”
@politico.com #shutdown
www.politico.com/news/2025/10…— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Speaker Mike, scurrying for cover…
The walk back, it is real
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The cartoon plane was prescient:
Yeah, SCOTUS has kind of made their bed here. There's no reason for the democrats to give up anything while SCOTUS allows impoundments and recissions.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
One of the most important parts of RW online brain is the idea that only they have agency and everyone else is just NPCs. You see this in the Trump admin with their inability to think through consequences.
Such as: do you want planes to work? You’re going to have problems soon.
Remember each of the last shutdowns have basically ended as soon as it became clear air traffic control was about to buckle.
Cut off money through targets and recessions. Okay. If the blue states cease transferring money all at once, the federal government collapses.
There are a very small group of people who actually do complicated horse trading in their brains about politics: beltway types, political reporters, actual people in congress (some), and the sickos.jpeg that inhabit this website.
Everyone else? Not at all. The long and short of this is that democrats should -always- pick shut down fights, because they’ll always win them in the public opinion sphere.
Republicans are the party of anti-governance, democrats are the technocrats, they literally can’t lose here.
Within a week, you’re going to see stories from R’s saying things like “I wanted them to cut fraud, waste, and abuse, not
” The GOP literally cannot win a shutdown fight being what it is. The only people who have convinced themselves they can is the beltway. If you find yourself thinking “but R’s said this, and D’s said this, and it’s not clear that the media will side with-” stop, just stop.
You’re already forty steps ahead of the normal person. All they’ll think is “huh, the government is shut down, wonder why the republicans did that”
Dedicated Baseball Thread – National League Baseball Post Season Oct 8
Jeffro
Remember each of the last shutdowns have basically ended as soon as it became clear air traffic control was about to buckle.
this, this, a thousand times this
keep at it, Dems!
“with Democrats, you get healthcare…with MAGA, you get plane crashes…any questions?”
Betty
Robert Reich said at the beginning of the shutdown that the air traffic controllers would end it. He seems to have had a good point.
Baud
Republicans fear waking up middle class white normies.
rikyrah
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Acyn
@Acyn
McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let’s have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.
x.com/Acyn/status/1975990479612432832
rikyrah
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
Charlotte Clymer![]()
(@cmclymer) posted at 9:20 PM on Tue, Oct 07, 2025:
“So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It’s literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system.”
This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good. t.co/yQRiksIjTu
(https://x.com/cmclymer/status/1975748211521343669?t=iuH77xFbauCiXJzDwQChwA&s=03)
MattF
But, but… it’s all waste, fraud, and abuse. And my saying that over and over proves it. QED!
Princess
This is going to annoy at least some of his base.
Westyny
Yeesh, we fly into Nashville on Saturday and out of Nashville on Wednesday. Welp. : / thanks, Republicans!
Princess
I don’t know where people get the idea that blue states can stop transferring money to DC. Your blue state doesn’t transfer your withheld tax money; your employer does.
Yutsano
Remember all those air traffic controllers who were dismissed because of “woke hiring practices”? I knew this was going to come back & bite them. I just didn’t expect it to happen like this.
I also wonder if TSA is back to their IDGAF mode like the last shutdown.
mali muso
Grr, I fly out of Dulles on Saturday headed to Spain for a quick work trip. Hope that my flight is not delayed and even more hoping that whoever is on duty for air traffic control when I’m in the air is competent and awake. blech
Geminid
I like the facial expressions of the man and woman on either side of Mike Johnson. They don’t look very happy to be there.
SiubhanDuinne
Herschel Walker is an Ambassador. Oy.
Professor Bigfoot
I don’t know if this has come up, maybe in one of the earlier threads but here’s another example of Chuck Schumer doing it wrong.
WTFGhost
Hey, folks. I’m writing up some stuff. I need “toothbrush tasks without a whipping.”
Why? I have a list of nice things. I could use new nice things, things other people think of.
Please note, the point of the essay is “my life sucks, because it’s hard to find a pleasant time to do an unpleasant chore like brushing my teeth, when all I need is roughly the energy you need to do X.” But it hits harder, the more powerful the “this could be lost,” moment is.
(Essay begins)
When do I brush my teeth? When I don’t have to “or else” my inner child with a whipping. When I have the energy for a short task, without a self-imposed threat forcing me, in other words.
I do it when you might stop to chat with a coworker about nothing important.
I do it when you might pet a cat or dog.
I do it when you might stop by your spouse or partner, and say “I love you” in word or gesture.
I do it when you might comfort your little scared mew-mew kitty, without irritation, because there’s always time to comfort a scared mew-mew kitty. (Do other people sometimes get irritated with constant mew-mew demands?)
I’d do it when you might pre-prep for a fine meal you’d like to cook.
I’d do it when you might start the cooking for that fine meal.
I’d do it when you might check on, or work on, that fine meal, because nothing else is more important.
I do it when you might have time to realize you’ll need to go to the bathroom soon, but without actual physical urgency, because you were relaxed enough to pay attention to the signals.
I do it when you you might give your child an especially warm hug, or if they’re young, blow a raspberry on their belly, and they’d go “DAD!” or “MOM!” and you’d adore their embarrassment at your affection.
I do it when you might tell a lover to slip off for a quick round of kissing and petting-promises of more tonight.
I do it in lieu of trying to make a connection with another person… that will be another “toothbrush task” I must worry about!
And if it’s hard to find a time, for a toothbrushing task, without a whipping, then it’s that much harder to find the time for all of these things.
beckya57
I agree with most of this post, and definitely with the Dems’ strategy, making deals with Trump/GOP is insane, given the impoundments. There is a problem with Doucette’s post, though: there’s no mechanism for blue states to withhold tax money, people pay taxes individually. This is a lib fantasy and we really need to stop spreading it.
trollhattan
General aviation field less than 2 miles from the house and nobody’s in the tower. Eyeballing the planes going overhead a LOT more closely these days. Everything from baby Cessnas to twin-engine corporate jets.
trollhattan
Gav’s holding Donny’s slippery feet to the fire. Burbank is the de facto airport for Hollywood and the studios.
bsky.app/profile/governor.ca.gov/post/3m2korikw4c2x
JaySinWA
They may have private jets to fly in but they don’t have private Air Traffic Controllers. This paragraph doesn’t make sense considering the rest of the post.
I suppose they may delude themselves into thinking that their private aircraft makes them invulnerable. But reality is going to intrude
ETA maybe the paragraph was intended sarcastically and my S meter is broken.
Peke Daddy
@beckya57: Other mechanisms for blue states to raise money exist.
pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/
Lobo
One Definition of Ally:
I am an ally, advocate, and accomplice to all those marginalized out there. Hell, my brown skin now counts as reasonable suspicion in Kavanough stops. As our Canadian friends remind me, Ice is for hockey.
With everything happening, who knows what will happen?
NutmegAgain
Ready to drive or take a bus to Montreal and fly in and out of there.
Baud
Anonymous At Work
So, give your ATC respect, give them a fist-bump or a cheer, but also cough on them, just in case?
Ksmiami
@Princess: they can impound the withholding as a cost of doing business in the state.
NutmegAgain
@JaySinWA: “They may have private jets to fly in but they don’t have private Air Traffic Controllers.” Yet. (I know in reality this wouldn’t work.) Now they have concierge medical care, why not special air traffic for the rich?
Deputinize America
Don’t worry – some tech billionaire with Trump’s ear will suggest that the ATCs working without pay can just be forced to work without pay, maybe under some sort of incarceration with work release.
Remember – working stiffs should be willing to work for free for a while so that deci and centibillionaires can enjoy tax-free lives of luxury, because that’s how they’re motivated to keep billionairing.
Have I ever mentioned how wise it was at the time for the Ural Soviet to make the hard call on the ENTIRE family of the Tsar?
JaySinWA
The Red Green motto (and hockey expression) “keep your stick on the ice” may take on new meaning.
Scout211
It’s Axios, but I like this shift in reporting.
Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown
More at the link
Baud
@Deputinize America:
Anonymous At Work
@JaySinWA: They aren’t going anywhere in “Fly Over Country” that’s not Jackson Hole or Telluride. They’ll winter in Miami and summer in the Hamptons. The number flying into Memphis or DFW or OHare is small. Their voters, though. And being stuck in an airport is a fate comparable to death.
PS: South Park got there first: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_(South_Park)
Anonymous At Work
@Baud: ha! Every single tech billionaire with a travel AI is either caught up in $500 billion in lawsuits OR is too smart to use their AI for traveling with real people yet.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Kiggans is a tool. Pay the military but nobody else is classic (R) dodging bullshit when it comes to the realities of a gubmint shutdown.
Maybe she has studied history (highly unlikely) and remembers how we dodged a similar bullet in 1783:
mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/newburgh-conspiracy
When a similarly feckless legislative body wasn’t gonna pay the military. Washington’s shining career moment was during that threat. I digress.
She’s all for “paying our troops” but nobody else. Fuck her sideways with a rusty chainsaw.
trollhattan
@NutmegAgain:
Surely, Elon can invent something. By next Tuesday, thanks Elon.
Deputinize America
@Baud:
They can just repurpose the AI servers that feed me phantom case law and nonexistent statutes to air traffic control.
Its a win all around!
”TWA Flight 142 heavy is inbound to Runway 226 and has declared an emergency, all other inbounds and outbounds hold at the Outer Marker for Eastern Flight 247….”
trollhattan
@Scout211: He’s even lost Marge Green, which is really saying something.
p.a.
OK, now their yarbles are in a vice, what should be Dems’ demands above & beyond ACA funding?
Deputinize America
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Yeah, I’m kind of in “fuck the troops” mode myself.
They need to feel this, too.
Professor Bigfoot
@p.a.: RFJK’s head.
He’s the next greatest danger to American healthcare in and of himself.
Deputinize America
@p.a.:
Fire Noem and Miller.
Deputinize America
@Professor Bigfoot:
He’s the Trumps’ Rasputin, along with Yarvin.
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Go, Chuck!
And when have I ever written that before?
p.a.
I think demand ICE reorganization into AEF/Ukraine. Mine clearing.
Jeffro
oh yeah they do – great point
Fair Economist
@trollhattan: MTG’s position on the shutdown makes me suspect the stupid is just an act for her. Caving is the best way out for the Republicans and it’s telling that a “burn Obamacare down” activist suddenly wants to save it.
dm
I seem to recall some Air Traffic Controllers deciding that private jets were a low priority and could just circle the airport for a few hours. Maybe I was dreaming? Maybe it was during the last Trump shutdown? Maybe it was just Elon’s jet after DOGE turned its attention to the FAA?
Deputinize America
@p.a.:
Like rats at the ends of poles.
Professor Bigfoot
@Deputinize America: Yarvin.
There’s a head that needs to be taken.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@p.a.: ICE defunding. Gotta cut spending somewhere.
Geminid
@trollhattan: Rep. Greene has been been getting some separation for a while now. She may be looking beyond Mike Johnson, and maybe beyond Trump too.
bbleh
@Professor Bigfoot: I disagree. A-list influencer or AOC it ain’t, but for the audience it will reach, I think it’s pretty good!
@rikyrah: @trollhattan: yeah I’m here. And I’ve sent him a couple attaboy messages.
Scout211
Hmmmm. Another “routine yearly check-up” at Walter Reed?
Jeffro
@Scout211: ‘robust’ doing ALL the work in the world, there
Baud
@bbleh:
Pretty sure the Professor was being sarcastic.
brendancalling
@Baud: I love that!!
Let the Pedo-Protector squirm like the tapeworm he is.
Jeffro
OT but – and I know this is weird – is Jennifer Rubin on vacation or did something happen or…?
I feel like I was seeing her on every left-leaning podcast and Substack forever and a day, and now, not so much.
Professor Bigfoot
@bbleh: I shoulda included the /s ;^D
Yeah, it’s really good stuff, and good on Big Chuck!
Baud
@Scout211:
I don’t mind changing the calendar to speed up the end of his term.
Professor Bigfoot
@Baud: Sarcastic AF. Big Chuck’s kickin’ it right there.
bbleh
@Baud: @Professor Bigfoot: lol ok oops!
What does it say about the times when it becomes harder and harder to distinguish sarcasm from the real thing? Five pages for next class.
Scout211
@Jeffro:
Jennifer Rubin The Contrarian.
Her most recent column was 11 hours ago.
bbleh
@p.a.: (1) as watertight a ban as possible on “recissions,” “pocket recissions,” “reprogramming,” and all the other word-salad usurpations of Congress’s power of the purse. (Pretty hard to argue against in Congress with a straight face too.)
(2) (maybe) restrictions on DHS funding, including but not limited to ICE, including mandatory reporting on conditions at detention facilities.
Jeffro
@Scout211: my bad, thanks! I hadn’t seen any of her stuff pop up on social media (and I’m in and out a lot) so I was wondering
Geminid
@Scout211: That Middle East trip could be Sunday. Trump just announced that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on “the first phase” of his peace plan.
Negotiations have been going on at Sharm El-Sheikh since Monday, and Egyptian President el-Sisi reportedly invited Trump to a signing ceremony if negotiations were successful.
Pennsylvanian
@beckya57: I’m not so sure. It would be not difficult for a Governor to instruct a state treasurer to open a new escrow account and make businesses licensed in the state submit their state and federal tax collection payments for batching. It’s an update of the routing and account numbers for ADP and Paychex at the state level. Not insurmountable for a determined group of governors who have grown weary of their states being punching bags.
This is Calvinball.
Scout211
@Scout211: Just checking Google for air travel requiring doctor approval:
1. Possible
2. Probably not
3.
PossibleProbable4. Probable
5. Definitely
6. Definitely
ETA: So we’ll see if he can fly to the Middle East or if the doctors say no. But his appointment at Walter Reed is definitely not a routine check-up.
Geoduck
I don’t know if it has anything to do with medical visits, but the Shaitgibbon had a particularly bad go-around with the latest press conference, he evidently didn’t even recognize the word “antifa”.
Bill Arnold
@p.a.:
Oaths, signed with their own blood, from POTUS, V-POTUS (POTUS isn’t looking healthy), Russ Vought, and the House leadership, that there will be no more rescissions, pocket rescissions, impoundments.
Oath-breaking punished by accelerated delivery to hell. No appeals or pardons.
(Cranky today.)
Lyrebird
What subject do you teach if it’s ok to ask? That’s a terrific metaphor. Been looking for a good one that captures Johnson’s full sliminess and potential to do harm.
MagdaInBlack
@Scout211: As if we did not already know his “excellent health” reports were bs, there we have it. Because, jeezuz, we’re not fukn blind, we can see what a mess he is
eta: i’m kind of curious what cocktail of drugs they use to prop him up.
cmorenc
@SiubhanDuinne: Hershall Walker must have appropriately been appointed US Ambassador to Palookaville.
Bill Arnold
@Geoduck:
We must presume that Mr. Trump did not read his own executive order: DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION (Executive Orders, September 22, 2025)
That he literally is functionally illiterate, and signs anything put in front of him after maybe reading the title.
trollhattan
Love child of Barbarella and Vinnie Barbarino?
prostratedragon
ICEd Cloudgate
Another Scott
@Scout211: Devil’s Advocate:
47 was on a pretty high dose of statins – 40 mg of rosuvastatin in 2019. I am too. My doc wants blood work every 6 months, so she sees me every 6 months. (They apparently won’t say what dosage he’s on for the two cholesterol drugs he’s taking now.)
April + 6 months = October.
it might be as simple as that.
Of course, since they lie about just about everything, it’s impossible to know what’s going on now.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
FWIW.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
Subtweet without malice but in response to something that happens a lot:When people point out that something is illegal or full on unconstitutional, it’s not because this admin cares, it’s because you should be aware.*
*This is the whole thing. It is not visible to people who are not signed in to BlueSky.
Scout211
@prostratedragon: Wow. That is good. The Bean is sad today.
Jackie
@Baud: Good for Gallegos!!! Every democrat needs to say that to Johnson’s face when they see him in the halls.
Ask him where in his bible does it say protect pedophiles?
Harrison Wesley
@Scout211: That’s going to be a downer for the Big Beautiful Venezuela Invasion.
Jackie
@Scout211: FFOTUS has reached the bi-yearly physicals stage of life. Especially if he’s on new meds for his cankles.
Geminid
@cmorenc: Wikipedia tells me that Herschel Walker is Ambassador-designate to the Bahamas.
Ed. I think the Bahamas were where the British kept the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.
Harrison Wesley
@Bill Arnold: I thought that was one of the wars he ended. You know,the hostilities between Antifa and Antilles. Or some shit like that.
Harrison Wesley
@Geminid: Sounds like a sweet gig.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … Light Against the Void!! (0:15)
Is that Jesus??
That’s another bit of pop culture that I apparently missed. Or maybe it’s some weird meta thing. Or maybe it’s just a crazy new AI hallucination from Ari K.
[ rofl ]
Best wishes,
Scott.
Professor Bigfoot
@bbleh: You mean “start doing your Congressional duty under the Consttution, you toads!,” right?
Geminid
@Jackie: Senator Gallego is a very blunt-spoken man.
bbleh
@Professor Bigfoot: actually more as something to use against the WH when cases come to the SC. I think the WH have demonstrated pretty clearly they don’t feel bound by law except when they see a political advantage in appearing to be. I think it’s certain that they will usurp more and more fiscal control, until appropriations are seen as merely advisory.
MagdaInBlack
Listening to Cosplay Kristi lie her face off on Jesse Waters. There are professional terrorists threatening her people. Death threats, even.
Sorry, Kristi, I saw the goofy costumes. Was it Barney, or the unicorn that scared your people?
HinTN
@Baud: So says Lemon Suk.
Captain C
@Deputinize America:
I’m so old I’ve flown both of those airlines.
Captain C
@Fair Economist: If it’s true about her family members’ premiums getting jacked up she may also not want to face the holidays with a bunch of angry friends and family in her face about why her congresswoman ass can’t get them their lower premiums back seeing as how she knows Dear Leader personally.
Professor Bigfoot
@bbleh: I see what you’re saying and I like it.
I still just want to scream at the wretched omadhauns.
The fact that they’re willing to ignore the plain language of the Constitution itself just grinds my gears.
Geminid
@MagdaInBlack: I saw a wild story about Jesse Watters. He has interviewed a masked man claiming to.be an antifa militant, and another one claiming to be a Hamas fighter. But it turns out they’re the same guy– a former Navy SEAL who often appears on Watters’ program under his own name.
Captain C
@Scout211:
We’re in Brezhnev/Andropov/Chernenko territory here.
WTFGhost
@MagdaInBlack: Do you have any *idea* how many virgins are in ICE?
Omnes Omnibus
@WTFGhost: Why would that matter?
lowtechcyclist
@trollhattan:
“Beautiful downtown Burbank” for those of us who remember Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
WTFGhost
@Omnes Omnibus: Fear of unicorns, silly!
prostratedragon
Preminger night on TCM. Laura now, Anatomy of a Murder late evening.
MagdaInBlack
@Geminid: Jeezuz, these people are just…repulsive. I really struggled for a word there, but that works
And the people who watch it religiously and believe are credulous idiots.
Omnes Omnibus
@WTFGhost:
Virgin can capture unicorns because unicorns will lay their head in the lap of a virgin. Get it right.
Lyrebird
@Geminid: Ugh! And thanks for the summary! I saw a link to that but couldn’t stand to hear Watters
Glad some of his race-baiting fraud was shown for what it was.
MagdaInBlack
@WTFGhost: Ha! Thank you, I really did laugh out loud at that. And I needed it 😊
@Omnes Omnibus: Damn it. I didn’t want to have to think about it that much.
Suzanne
@rikyrah:
I am plenty critical when I think it’s warranted…. but that means I also need to give credit when it’s due. More of this: simple, emotional, and strong.
They Call Me Blue
The list of things that Johnson “didn’t see” or hasn’t “looked into” or wasn’t “aware of” is impressive. What exactly does he actually do?
danielx
@Scout211:
I believe I read some bullshit that Trump was rated at 6’3 and 240 pounds at a physical earlier this year. 6’3 and 240 would be pretty good stats for an NFL power back or big quarterback. The shadow of Trump’s ass would weigh 15 pounds by itself.
lowtechcyclist
@Professor Bigfoot:
Yeah, he’s at the top of my list, even ahead of Stephen Miller, which is saying a lot.
Betty
@Bill Arnold: When a reporter asked if he wanted to suspend habeas corpus, he asked, “Who?” Yes, he is clueless.
MagdaInBlack
@They Call Me Blue: Tap-dance. Poorly.
Sister Golden Bear
I’m sure threatening to not provide retroactive paychecks—in defiance of black letter law—for air traffic controllers and TSA agents who currently aren’t getting paid will provide them extra incentive to show up to work. /s
WTFGhost
@Omnes Omnibus: Would you trust a horny male creature, expecting to find a pretty girl, who finds another horny male creature instead? Too many guys in that situation go all “it’s got a hole, I’ll plug it,” but with the unicorn, it’s not just being hung like a literal stallion… there’s the horn!
I didn’t say the fear, or the ICE agents, were rational.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@rikyrah: maybe all the criticism has gotten to him. Or maybe he’s just afraid of living in a town run by Mamdani.
@Baud: I’m certain someone has already tried having AI handle air traffic control, but, as with AL writing legal papers, the test cases haven’t gone well.
@Deputinize America: and I see Deputinize has beaten me to that idea.
MagdaInBlack
@WTFGhost: Nor did I wish to think about it that much. Oy.
Suzanne
I just got a news alert indicating that Israel and Hamas have a deal of a hostage and prisoner release, and that Israel will pull back troops out of Gaza . God willing. The hostages need to be freed, and the people of Gaza need peace and aid urgently.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: YES!
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
Haha! Barney the BOO!asaurus! Where is today’s white supremacy, fascist shitshow happening?
Geminid
@Suzanne: It is good news. The ceasefire might not be implemented until the weekend, but for Gazans and Israelis it will be good when they get it. The IDF halted its offensive against Gaza City last weekend, but there is still fighting going on.
Eyeroller
@Baud: Terrifyingly, Muskrat and probably other techbros (but Muskrat was the one trying to cancel pre-existing FAA contracts to replace them with Starlink), actually seems to believe this.
bbleh
@Baud: @Deputinize America: @Chacal Charles Calthrop: oh please, don’t tell me AI can’t handle it! Look at how well it handles, say, driverless taxis in a well-controlled, low-speed environment like downtown San Francisco!
AI stocks account for roughly EIGHTY PERCENT of the current stock market index runup. I see no problem there either!
[crawls back into subbasement and cranks concrete block across entry]
Craig
@Geminid: propagandist gonna propaganda
Anyway
Exactly. How come the TV hairdos give him such a pass on this? He’s been speaker for years — I didn’t see/ hear should be an unacceptable response.
Craig
@prostratedragon: Anatomy of a Murder is so good.
WTFGhost
@MagdaInBlack: Sometimes we heroes are forced to see that, which you should not see; and to do that, which you should not be forced to do. I tried not to go into the surprisingly gory details….
Craig
@They Call Me Blue: lie
trollhattan
@Suzanne: Donny announced it so I’m leery as a leery thing.
Not out of the question they rushed to an agreement to avoid him traveling there.
Hope it’s true. Gaza war has been a gaping wound on the entire world for two years. Enough.
p.a.
Any word on our crack South Carolina and/or federal investigative forces and the fire at a circuit-court judge’s home while her family was there? Especially considering she was the subject of death threats after issuing a ruling against the tRump admin?
trollhattan
@Craig:
Ymoptana fo a Redrum reboot by that Aussie director underrated.
bbleh
@They Call Me Blue: @Anyway: my understanding is that he’s a total placeholder, selected for the position in substantial part precisely BECAUSE he has no real strength. Hence it doesn’t matter much what he knows or doesn’t, what he wants or doesn’t. He uses the power of the Speaker’s office — which in the House is pretty much supreme, since the days of Gingrich — to do the MAGA thing and mouth the MAGA noises, and the multi headed MAGA beast does as the Orange Oracle commands.
I agree it might be instructive for Teh Mediaz to take him to task publicly, but I think they know the score and see no value to their careers or their employers’ interests in doing so.
trollhattan
@p.a.:
The were on it until a rumor of a girl getting an abortion pulled everybody off the case.
Professor Bigfoot
@p.a.: Been wondering that myself.
Professor Bigfoot
@trollhattan: LOL <sob!>
Chief Oshkosh
@rikyrah: yep. When you’re right, you’re right. Schumer is doing well here.
Jackie
@p.a.:
Apparently it was a tragic accident – no foul play indicated as of yet. That’s why it hasn’t been in the news lately.
eta: apnews.com/article/judge-house-fire-diane-goodstein-south-carolina-0ca7558e66215dc5ec23683dc861b8ae?…
bbleh
@p.a.: They’ve probably already got the story in the can and they’re just waiting for the details.
— Alienated young male 4chan / Discord / name-yer-poison denizen latches on to rightwing screeching about judge, decides to do something Really Big to get himself Noticed.
— Facts of investigation are subsumed in national political debate, which in turn subtly distorts both investigation and prosecution.
— Media spectacle erupts when suspect arrested and again at key points in indictment and trial.
— Following conviction, Trump or SC Governor issues pardon.
Of course, it might have been an accident. But ooh boy what a coincidence …
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Trivia.
Preminger had offices in Hollywood and in Manhattan. Identical furniture, carpeting and layout in each.
Suzanne
@trollhattan: Yeah, we’ll see. This has been excruciating to witness from an ocean and a continent away. The suffering is unspeakable.
Jeffro
c’monnnnnnnnnnnn actuarial tables!
Chief Oshkosh
@Captain C: and Braniff? World’s largest disorganized airline. 😜
p.a.
@Chief Oshkosh: Mohawk/Nohawk/Slowhawk Airline
RaflW
Late to this, but do you all know about FlightAware’s “Misery Map”? It’s a graphical portrayal of how well or poorly the US flight system is going, in real time, at the top ~30 US airports.
One way to add a little pressure to useless toadstool (and generally stupid person) Sean Duffy would be as the map turns redder and redder at busy and f’ed up times, post screenshots to your favorite media apps. With some choice words about how Duffy, Johnson and Thune messed this up for you.
Also if you personally are delayed or cancelled by this crap, say so on BookaFaces or where ever else your crabby MAGA-adjacent relatives might hang out.
Professor Bigfoot
@bbleh: TBH, my first thought was, “how would the mwovu deliver the incendiary device when the entire family including grandkids were at home?”
They are rare, but coincidence DOES happen.
(of course if one were sufficiently conspiratorially minded, one might ask “just exactly who is conducting this “investigation,” anyway?”)
Jackie
Heh!
Nettoyeur
@Princess: Er, no. There are substantial state fee cfees to Feds. They can be delayed, you know, staff shortages blah blah
Harrison Wesley
@Betty: “Habeas? Great guy, big, strong guy. He came up to me and said ‘Sir’ – he had tears in his eyes
No. I can’t.
Scout211
Our ballots arrived today. Yes on 50! Let’s do it California.
mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon: Oh yes. Good on ya, YouTubeTV trial.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Chief Oshkosh: Laker
[ETA I admit it, I’m old]
Prometheus Shrugged
@Scout211: Same here! LFG, as the kids say….
Mr. Bemused Senior
He has a cold.
Omnes Omnibus
@Captain C: Time for Swan Lake?
mrmoshpotato
@Captain C: ROBUST!
Geminid
@Jeffro: Someone said Trump already had his annual checkup in April.
I saw this on Twitter, so I know it must be true.
mrmoshpotato
@Geminid: Was it Melon Husk saying that?
Scout211
@Geminid: Reported by NBC, too. Posted at my #52.
It most likely is a visit to the doctors who treat his veinous insufficiency to get approval to take the long flight to the Middle East this weekend.
Prometheus Shrugged
@MagdaInBlack: Can’t find it now, but there is a funny faux war correspondent video, where the team is taking cover from the guy in the chicken suit who has been parading outside the Portland ICE facility.
PatrickG
@WTFGhost: Balloon Juice After Dark is really diving into what it means to be horny tonight.
Martin
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: Musk wanted to use AI for air traffic control. You’re shocked. I can tell.
Emily B.
@Scout211: For two months I haven’t received any emails from several Substacks that I subscribe to—that I PAY for—including the Contrarian, Dan Rather’s Steady, and Paul Krugman. Not sure what’s going on. Still getting emails from other Substacks.
Ruviana
@Emily B.: I don’t pay for Krugmana but I get it faithfully every day.
Emily B.
@Captain C: Today Timothy Snyder draws some parallels between Stephen Miller and Stalin, who took advantage of Lenin’s failing health to gain influence and then consolidated power with false claims of vast anti-Soviet conspiracies. As though Miller isn’t creepy enough already.
No One You Know
@Professor Bigfoot: I’m not understanding your point. I am no fan of Chuck Schumer, but how is he doing this wrong? What did you think “doing it right” would look like?
rikyrah
LarryO’s opening segment tonight about Comey’s arraignment is hilarious. LarryO is blistering.
Geminid
@trollhattan: I think Hamas and the mediators would just as soon have Trump there for the signing, but this is moving to fast. Reports now are that the live hostages will be released Saturday. That’s when the Israelis will begin releasing the 250 “security prisoners” they are are trading for them, plus almost 2,000 other detainees.
Now Trump’s talking about flying over to address Israel’s Knesset. He might stop in Cairo too. It was Egyptian President al-Sisi who really pushed this agreement through.
Nettoyeur
@Geminid: Flying long distances s not a good idea for someone with veinous problems
Geminid
@No One You Know: I think Professor B. was being ironic, and throwing shade at the Schumer critics.
Layer8Problem
@No One You Know: See @Baud at 54 and @Professor Bigfoot himself at 59 and then readjust your snarkmeter.
mrmoshpotato
@Nettoyeur:
What if you have
bone spurskankles, and are a fat, orange, fascist manbaby?Geminid
@Nettoyeur: Hey, I’m all for it. Let Trump fly over there to blather away at the Knesset, and hop over to El Alamein to have a grip and grin with al-Sisi. Then he can die on the way back to DC for all I care.
Lyrebird
@Geminid:
Thanks for the updates. Hard to hope, but will definitely pray that this goes through…
KithKanan
@Nettoyeur: I always thought the air travel DVT risk was being stuck sitting in one position for a long time, which unfortunately is not such a risk on a VIP’s own executive jet, be it private or air force.
No One You Know
@No One You Know: Nvmnd. I get to things late.
Layer8Problem
@No One You Know: We’ve all been there.
Geminid
@KithKanan: The lower air pressure on passenger planes is also a risk factor, I think.
me
Mike Johnson knows best what the kids like.
anotherlurker
@Scout211: Mine is in the mail! Yes on 50!
Melancholy Jaques
@p.a.:
I propose they pick a cabinet member and demand resignation. Noem, RFK Jr, Bondi are the top three picks.
Melancholy Jaques
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
I think it’s mostly designed to see if she can get any Ds to vote against it.
Melancholy Jaques
@Scout211:
Mine arrived in today’s mail, going back tomorrow
The anti-50 ads have changed. They’ve gone from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s anti politicians ad to “Gavin Newsom wants to be president we need to stop him!”
Jackie
@rikyrah:
I love his show.
Chris T.
@Scout211:
Yeah, you know, the routine weekly annual checkup we all get.
Jay
As usual, ICE lies.
And the FTMSM repeats it as “truth”.
Case #2, Independent Media doing Journalism.
Most of us know of the event, but,………….
There is much, much more to the story which South Side Chicago is digging into.
Suspicions are that the mass raid and deliberate destruction was not just a “staged event” for ICE to create terror, but also as a means for Wells Fargo to make a mass illegal eviction.
southsideweekly.com/federal-agents-storm-south-shore-building-detaining-families-and-children/
wj
They’ve also stopped claiming that Prop 50 will abolish the non-partisan Redistricting Commission. Perhaps because “temporary” occurs so prominently, even in the summary — which is all most people read.