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Cock Sparrer - Riot Squad
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When we were at school i thought he had it sussed
Fighting the law with the rest of us
Smoking, drinking, acting cool
'til they started treating him like a fool
Then he stayed on his own
For most of the time
Dreaming dreams of a life of crime
In and out of trouble
He cheated and lied
But who'd have thought he'd join the other side

He's in the riot squad
The wanna fight squad
The shoot-on-sight squad
For law and right

What caused the FAA ground stop? Officials point to router failure during update
www.scrippsnews.com

...Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that a faulty router might have caused the communications outage that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a nationwide ground stop Friday, disrupting thousands of flights and stranding travelers.

Investigators have not yet determined the exact cause of the router failure, including whether it stemmed from human error, an installation mistake or a problem with the equipment itself.

Duffy said the outage occurred during routine FAA telecommunications maintenance at a remote facility, where aging copper communications lines were being replaced with fiber-optic service. The work was being performed by L3Harris, the FAA's longtime telecommunications contractor, as part of a broader modernization effort.

"At least one of our remote FAA locations, a contractor was doing routine maintenance to switch telecommunication lines from old copper wire, and they were bringing it over to fiber," Duffy said. "What we're working to determine was whether we had incompetence, meaning was it user error or installer error from L3 Harris, or did they install a faulty router." ...


Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted "optics" weren't good
arstechnica.com

... Trump Jr. may still have a financial interest in Kalshi, which has benefited from the Trump administration's legal and regulatory support for prediction markets. Trump Jr. "was handed about $300,000 worth of equity in Kalshi after joining the prediction market platform as a strategic adviser in early 2025," the Financial Times reported in June.

"Kalshi's donation of shares to the US president's eldest son granted him a stake in the private company when it was valued at under $2 billion, less than a tenth of its $22 billion valuation in a funding round last month," the Financial Times article said. Kalshi is reportedly in talks for a new funding round that would value it at $65 billion. ...

The Trump administration has helped prediction markets grow with a permissive regulatory approach taken by the Commodity Futures Exchange Commission (CFTC). The CFTC has also sued 11 states in attempts to block state regulation of prediction markets, and filed briefs supporting Kalshi in its own cases against individual states. Attorneys general in many states accuse Kalshi of running an illegal gambling operation. ...


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this is the deleted post, but the vid no play

I don't believe they made up the 'refusing to move' situation, and find it sus that no one has the receipts any more

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