"They call it Know Your Rights.' I call it how to escape arrest,'" -Tom Homan

I think that quote will probably sum up the 2nd Trump administration quite well when it's all said and done.

Someone must have explained how discovery works to him.

Too little too late, as usual.

More: A preliminary report on Wednesday night's plane and helicopter collision near Washington, D.C. contradicts Donald Trump's favorite DEI scapegoat.

An internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration found that in reality, the tower's staffing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to The New York Times. There was only one air traffic controller to handle both helicopters and planes in the airport's vicinity, a job usually assigned to two people.

Having to handle both types of air traffic can be complicated, the Times report states, because air traffic controllers can use different radio frequencies for helicopter and airplane pilots. In such cases, while the controller is communicating with pilots of both kinds of aircraft, the pilots may not be able to talk to one another.

Staffing levels at the airport's control tower have been below adequate levels for years, like many of the U.S.'s other airports. DCA's tower only had 19 fully certified controllers as of September 2023, according to congressional reports. This is well below the FAA and air traffic controller union's preferred number of 30, and is due to employee turnover and budget cuts, according to the Times.

As a result, many air controllers at the airport work up to 10 hours a day and six days a week. Those levels probably have not been helped by Donald Trump's federal hiring freeze, his gutting of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and the FAA chief's resignation at Elon Musk's behest. As much as Trump and the right might try to blame DEI or something else ludicrous, perhaps they should look in the mirror.

NPR and PBS?! JFC

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) suggested Thursday that a fatal crash could have been caused partly by DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion in government hiring.

"I think you have to look at this with eyes wide open, see what happened," Ogles said on Fox Business. "Human error. Was it some sort of equipment failure? Did DEI play a role in this type of thing?"

Just take a look at the badges on Gen Milley's uniform. He can handle his own.

But after 43 years of dedicated service to our country he shouldn't have to.

I hope they sue over the blatant constitutional rights violation.

More: Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday saying that the department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees as part of a "commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security."

The aviation security committee, which was mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, will technically continue to exist but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports. Before Tuesday, the group included representatives of all the key groups in the industry " including the airlines and major unions " as well as members of a group associated with the victims of the PanAm 103 bombing. The vast majority of the group's recommendations were adopted over the years.

It wasn't immediately clear how many other committees were effectively eliminated Tuesday or whether other departments will take similar actions.

This will be a hellish camp and people are guaranteed to die there unnecessarily.

Like I said yesterday, they are trying to trick people that they can't legally fire out of their jobs.

#105,

Don't give me that tired old line. Do the police wait for weeks or months to go find a killer after a murder? No they immediately start pointing fingers and assigning blame.

Call a spade a spade. This is on the new administration and the chaos they have purposely created.

This will almost certainly be attributed to the games the new administration is playing with the federal workforce when it's all said and done.

They have figured out they can't legally fire everyone so they're trying to trick them out of their jobs. The sad thing is it'll probably work and our government agencies will lose a lot of decent people who do good work.

100% deliberate.

----------- never passes up a chance to say something racist.

#11,

Do they claim that? Most I know are very open about their racism.

Each Iron Dome system can defend an area of roughly 150 square miles. According to security experts, the US would need to deploy more than 24,700 $100 million Iron Dome batteries, costing a total of $2.5 trillion, to defend the 3.8 million square miles of the continental United States, which excludes Hawaii.

Upgrade your tech while it's still remotely affordable.

So far, just from articles I've read here, we've had this one who pulled a gun on the cops and died, another who solicited murder and yet another arrested on gun charges. How many other dangerous criminals that Trump happily released upon society are already back in custody or dead? I hope someone is keeping a proper list.

All US citizens BTW, not those scary immigrants Trumpists are so terrified of.

More: But the scores of executive orders Trump has signed since Inauguration Day only briefly touch on food, Warren, D-Mass., said in the letter, which was co-written by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and signed by a total of 20 Democrats.

"Your sole action on costs was an executive order that contained only the barest mention of food prices, and not a single specific policy to reduce them," they wrote, citing a Trump administration memo that commits to helping with Americans' cost of living by eliminating "harmful, coercive climate' policies driving up the costs of food and fuel."

Nothing of value was lost.

#4,

Of course not but that doesn't mean they won't try over and over again.

Why do you guys feed the right wing trolls? They thrive on your replies. Plonk and ignore them and they might just leave.

You will never convince them of anything. You'd have a better chance of talking a wall into painting itself.

Egg prices, by the way, are now at an all time high. So much for that promise.