"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
We're screwed. We are becoming massively vulnerable.
Threats from Russia quadrupled 2022-2023, then tripled 2023-2024. Trump's shut off the working groups whose purpose was to protect the US from those attacks. This includes attempts to get bombs on planes heading to the United States. Europe and the US have worked together to preempt these attempts and have been successful so far. Trump think he and Putin are besties, so it's no longer a problem.
We have an idiot running this nation surrounded by a confederacy of dunces.
gravyamazed in the waiting room to hell