I’ve had to tell so many parents that their sons & daughters were dead, had been murdered. Their screams, their silences, their faces, their collapses, cling to me like cobwebs I can’t ever shake.
Our leaders, so callous with death as games or memes or brags, know nothing of grief, only of greed.
Same for me.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Agreed!
I understand, but remain, in defiance of current events, an optimist. And I remain dedicated to the ideal of who those we elect should strive to be.
Maybe it's because I've written about so many plane crashes, so much loss. I can't stand to see someone be weak & calculated when lives are at stake.
When Doctor Who was great, it was really great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...
I am reminded of Florida's costly and ridiculous "Ditch of Dreams". (Which was finally stopped by President Richard Nixon.) www.news4jax.com/news/local/2...
If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.
🇦🇪 The UAE airline suspends all flights from Dubai
They are going to advise her to a significant loss if they don't change what they are doing.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is issuing a new mandatory “Operations Specification” (OpSpec) requiring all commercial airlines to formally commit to merit-based hiring for pilots. While the FAA has raised performance standards, dismantled DEI offices and contracts, and revised absurd Biden-Buttigieg era directives that wasted time renaming cockpits to flight decks, allegations of airlines hiring based on race and sex remain. Under this new mandate, all U.S. carriers will be required to certify that this practice is terminated. Failure to do so will subject airlines to federal investigation. “When families board their aircraft, they should fly with confidence knowing the pilot behind the controls is the best of the best. The American people don’t care what their pilot looks like or their gender—they just care that they are most qualified man or woman for the job,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “Safety drives everything we do, and this commonsense measure will increase transparency between passengers and airlines.” This action is in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity and his Presidential Action on Keeping Americans Safe in Aviation. “At the FAA, the safety of passengers is our number one priority,” said FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. “It is a bare minimum expectation for airlines to hire the most qualified individual when making someone responsible for hundreds of lives at a time. Someone’s race, sex, or creed, has nothing to do with their ability to fly and land aircraft safely.”
In the midst of everything else that is going on, I missed this Feb 13th press release from the FAA. With the long documented history of commercial operators barring pilots due to sex and race, to read this statement today is infuriating.
www.faa.gov/newsroom/tru...
Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.
Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.
To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.
But that's not the point.
She still has to have a position. If she can not muster a position on a war, then I fail to see how she can be expected to muster a position on anything.
As for threading the needle, Murkowski (love her or hate her) has effectively done that for years. It can be done.
My big concern is that if Peltola can not give an opinion on a war then she is an empty vessel candidate - someone who will merely do what she is told (on any issue) by the stronger voices in the room.
Just imagine who those stronger voices could be.
She needs to get serious or drop out. Now.
"We hosted that Iranian ship. They disarmed for our naval exercise. Then America attacked."
India's ex-FM just exposed the setup.
The UK stays silent when our "allies" pull stunts like this.
Dear National Dems - you better get some new advisers up to Mary Peltola stat.
Terrible.
Dear National Dems - you better get some new advisers up to Mary Peltola stat.
I have many issues with Senator Dan Sullivan but if you are running for US Senate then you must - you absolutely must - have an opinion when the US goes to war.
Taking "No comment" on this topic is appalling.
"Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola hasn’t made any public statements about the Iran war, and her campaign social media accounts have been silent on the subject.
When contacted Thursday, her campaign spokesperson said she had no comment."
Thank you, @alaska.bsky.social for asking.
Interior Alaska river valley from Alaska Airlines flight 87.
Enjoyed a gorgeous flight back from Deadhorse earlier this week. Also: Alaska is very very big.
I really did not think you could run for US Senate without being asked about your opinion of the US currently being involved in a war and yet....in Alaska you can.
No one has asked Mary Peltola how she feels about the war with Iran. And, as far as I can see, she hasn't said a word about it either.
As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:
Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.
Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.
Writing music.
Working on an angle about the El Paso-area airspace incidents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMK5...
You must not be Alaskan if you are wondering about Peltola’s position in this race or how the state’s RCV system works.
This race is between Peltola and Sullivan.
Wow!!!!
This is interesting: Indigo's experimenting with a niche nonfiction mass-market thing. Is there a world where MMPs become, like, prestige items? Maybe. Am I envious of the authors whose titles got tapped for this? Absolutely.
It's truly startling.
VERY cool!
I learned to body surf by catching waves on my father's back when I was 5 years old.
