TSA: You Can Leave Your Shoes on at Security Starting Sunday

Wednesday, July 09, 2025

An unexpected memo went out to TSA officers across the country last week stating the new policy will allow all passengers to keep their shoes on in all screening lanes at many airports across the country, starting Sunday.

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For the first time in nearly 20 years, the TSA is letting people keep their shoes on at the airport. https://trib.al/PJXkCcf

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Jul 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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This ought to speed up security lines

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-07-08 03:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The War on Terror has been won! Huzzah!

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-07-08 03:43 AM | Reply

Of course, the Trumpf junta enacts this after 72m Americans flew during the 4th of July long weekend. newsroom.aaa.com

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-08 04:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hmmmmm.
~ Richard Reid
(Formerly of Bromley, currently ADX Florence)

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-08 06:29 AM | Reply

TSA: You Can Leave Your Shoes On At Security Starting Sunday

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-08 09:47 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Meh. Global Entry.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-08 10:46 AM | Reply

Meh. Global Entry.
#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Must every conversation end with a discussion of your --------?

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-08 11:04 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm not the one cheering the deaths of Palestinians, chucklefuq.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-08 02:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm not the one cheering the deaths of Palestinians, chucklefuq.
#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Well, I assure you they would be cheering yours.

Palestinians celebrate at Damascus Gate on September 11, 2001
www.youtube.com

But don't let your dreams be dreams! If you really put your back into it, you could probably muster a tenth of the glee they would feel at your untimely demise.

#9 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-08 09:29 PM | Reply

---- genocide by Jews.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-08 10:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Aww ain't they so nice to us cattle?

And the lady's can leave their hats on!

Baby, take off your coat, real slow
Baby, take off your shoes, yeah, I'll take your shoes
Baby, take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
Go on over there and turn on the light
No, all the lights
Come back here and stand on this chat, that's right
Raise your arms up in to the air, and shake 'em
You give me a reason to live
You give me a reason to live
You give me a reason to live
You give me a reason to live

You Can Leave Your Hat On
Song by Randy Newman 1972

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-07-09 12:50 PM | Reply

TSA Pre-Check. I haven't taken off my shoes in more than a decade.

#12 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-07-09 02:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

TSA: Thousands Standing Around. Each missed the cut to be greeters at Wal-Mart.

A few months ago, while flying out of OKC I observed a guy bypass the two TSA agents who were checking ID by walking between the two active stations, and he proceeded to the conveyor belt. When I alerted the TSA people on duty, one nearest to me thought it was a joke and started chuckling. I persisted, so they pulled the guy aside. Turns out he was an airline employee (or so he said) and produced a badge. He was traveling out of uniform, so was like the rest of us traveling stiffs and had to be screened. The event made me further lower my expectations of TSA agents...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-09 02:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"---- genocide by Jews."

Yeah. It should be the Jews being genocided.

And not the histrionic 'genocide' being promoted by the pro-Pals, but real, good old-fashioned 'wipe them from the face of the earth kind' of genocide. 'From the river to the sea' kind of genocide.

The good genocide.

#14 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-07-09 02:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

And Global Entry gets you nothing when going through security. It only allows you to expedite going through passport control when entering the US. For a lucky few, we can also use it at automated EU passport control stations, but that's not very common.

#15 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-07-09 02:38 PM | Reply

Cool. Now when are airlines going to end the "fuel surcharge" they "had to create" when gas was expensive?

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-07-09 02:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Boaz may quit his side-hustle as the Entry Foot Inspector at the Charlotte Douglas Int airport.

#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-09 02:52 PM | Reply

---- genocide by Jews.
#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Yes, it's the Jews who are pro-genocide past, present and future...

#18 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-09 03:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Yes, it's the Jews who are pro-genocide past, present and future..."

They learned a lot during the Babylonian Captivity. And the Holocaust.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 03:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"They learned a lot during the Babylonian Captivity."

Yes. I'm sure that's etched into their collective memory.

#20 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-07-09 03:57 PM | Reply

Just shut down the TSA.

It's been almost 25 years since this idiotic security theatre started. The ONLY thing that was actually needed was locking the cockpit door.

EVERYTHING else is beyond stupid.

#21 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-07-09 04:17 PM | Reply

It's been almost 25 years since this idiotic security theatre started. The ONLY thing that was actually needed was locking the cockpit door. EVERYTHING else is beyond stupid.
#21 | Posted by DarkVader

Well there was this guy (who, shockingly to the pro-Hamasers) was not Jewish. And probably never should have made it past the ticket counter on looks alone. And that's why we take off our shoes.

A locked cockpit door would have been of little help if all went according to his plan.

#22 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-09 04:33 PM | Reply

"They learned a lot during the Babylonian Captivity."
Yes. I'm sure that's etched into their collective memory.
#20 | Posted by madbomber

Wow, you got one right!
It is in their collective memory.
And that memory is driving current events.

The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were forcibly relocated to Babylonia by the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
en.wikipedia.org

Israeli ultranationalist lawmakers work on plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza
www.npr.org

AP report: U.S. and Israel look to Africa for permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza
www.pbs.org

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 07:09 PM | Reply

Also, look up how many loaded guns and other weapons TSA collects every year.

#24 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-09 07:32 PM | Reply

#24: How many times were you caught? www.tsa.gov

#25 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-09 07:42 PM | Reply

#23: Auslander, raus!

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-09 08:15 PM | Reply

The no-shoes ban was a prime US example of closing the barn door after the horse got out.

#27 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-09 10:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"The no-shoes ban was a prime US example of closing the barn door after the horse got out."

And the lock on the cockpit doors, a requirement added by the US, gave rise to the situation where the suicidal GermanWings pilot augured in with an Airbus full of tourists. He wouldn't have been able to do that if the other pilot wasn't locked out of the cockpit, and unable restrain him.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-10 11:58 AM | Reply