"Construction workers started to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday following threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding" ... read more
Trump has:
- Paused hiring and training of incoming controllers through a federal hiring freeze, without clear guidance on specific exemptions.
- Terminated air traffic control support staff,
- Gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
- Forced out the head of the Transportation Security Administration, and
- Most recently fired 400 Federal Aviation Administration personnel tasked with ensuring safety through radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance.
Ukraine unleashed its largest drone attack since 2022, striking multiple Russian regions, with 337 drones intercepted overnight. Authorities confirmed two deaths and multiple injuries, with significant damage to infrastructure. read more
Ed Martin who is acting US Att't General for DC sent a letter to Georgetown Law demanding the school end all DEI efforts or risk a hiring freeze from his office. This is the US Government telling a private Jesuit institute what they are allowed to teach.
"People are sort of looking around thinking, Wow, well maybe I can get a chicken in my backyard,' and it's awesome," [Agriculture Secretary Brooke] Rollins told Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens," read more
Thank you for that link, Coriolanus!
And to drive that home, and to remember Lt. Col. Rogers, I'm posting this:
Lt. Col. Rogers
There are three main phases or categories of confederate monuments;
- Phase I: Actual monuments to the dead: 1860-1880's. Usually obelisks, arches, and fountains. Things you would expect.
- Phase II: 1890-1930: Jim Crow white supremacist monuments, celebratory, featuring symbols of power - a confederate general on a horse is an example, and these were placed strategically to affirm the "Lost Cause" as a "moral victory" and to remove any doubt where the power still resides. With White people.
- Phase III: 1954 onward, coinciding with the Brown vx Board of Education decision. This was an act of defiance and resistance. This is when the Confederate battle flag was adopted and flown over state capitol buildins in South Carolina, and incorporated into other flags flow in the old Confederacy. This also was the time Stone Mountain in GA was purchased specifically to serve as a unifying point for the pro-segregationists.
The Atlanta History Center does an outstanding job of laying out the chronology of the above summary in detail in their Historical Introduction: Confederate Monuments page and the associated Confederate Monument Interpretation Guide.
BTW - it's not just "illegal" border crossings that are down...
Canadian travel to US drops over 20% in February.
UAL has adjusted capacity of their routes downward as a result.
Canadians come here more than any other nation, and they spend 3 times more than domestic travelers.
That's gonna hurt some folks.
www.cbc.ca
www.reuters.com
March is going to be even worse, no doubt, because that's when Trump really went off the rails.
But what about all those other nations? It appears we're going to have about a 5% decline instead of the prior-to-trump madness projected increase of 9%. So a net different of -14%.
www.washingtonpost.com
Yay America.
MAGA idiots.
It is more likely due to a convergence of 3 main things:
1) Climate change, the warmer the more expansive the range and the more prolific the fungi.
2) Agriculture where anti-fungals are used extensively, is leading to resistant strains.
3) Massive urbanization and humans encroaching on the environment filled with the new resistant strains.
Throw all that on top of a system of hospitals that was broken under the strain of COVID and this is what to expect.
Citation: www.bu.edu's%20a%20scenario%20that%20may,of%20new%20antibiotics%20and%20vaccines.
Unfortunately the US is likely not going to do anything about it under Trump/Brainworm Kennedy...
#20 - that POS Marco Rubio reXhitted that "Oopsie... too late" tweet.
Marco's a traitor to our nation.