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Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

You could even say it was a primary factor in globalization and the exchange of ideas and values across cultures. If you really wanted to go for broke, like real tinfoil hat stuff, you could even say that rendering air travel unsafe, both literally and by public perception, might be the point.

The value of this massive human achievement is not just flight itself of course but the systems that made it accessible, efficient, and safe to get where you wanted to go in this world.

Of all of the things I least anticipated being politicized and made hazardous from its governance being cut off at the knees, safe air travel is probably the farthest down the list. Mostly because of the vast value it has for capitalism.

The famous “Pale Blue Dot” photo taken by Voyager 1. An optical effect causes multi-colored “sunbeams” that cut across a dark background at a slight diagonal from top to bottom. The Earth appears as a single, small dot in an orange beam.

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan

Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🌍

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

We read smut because it’s nice to live in a world at least for a little while where the men actually like us.

Omg little sister loved to do this sweet kitty

35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority.
(via @schatz.bsky.social)

Strongly rec following Colorado Rapid Response Network and volunteering. They are currently live streaming on FB and multiple volunteers are standing witness and yelling in Spanish and English what rights the people targeted have. This is both ICE & FBI (based on visual ID in livestream) #copolitics

If you're protesting tomorrow:

"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present."

MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.

That’s you, dude

Screengrab: Tuesday 2/4 Trans teens sue administration Elon’s goons have write access to Treasury code, not just read Treasury mobilization; Frost and Crockett Trump advocates for ethnic cleansing for all of Gaza before Netanhayu meeting El Salvador announces it will take deportees INCLUDING US citizens in prisons Trump says the above will be “in exchange for a small fee” OPM preparing mass purge FBI class action against retaliatory purge Trump floats EO to dismantle the DOE (with demand for Congressional approval) Kennedy and Gabbard voted out of committee and to a floor vote First flights to Guantanamo start CFPB stops operating Elon says there’s anti-white racism in South Africa EPA announces plans to demote or fire lifetime workers J6 defendant argues his pardon should extend to his threats to kill FBI agents who investigated him Junior referred to Italian law enforcement for killing an endangered duck NY moves to protect doctors who have prescribed abortion pills out of state Trump announces EO to ban trans women in sports (only 10 out of 500,000 NCAA athletes) Trump announces EO withdrawing from UN Human Rights Council and ending funding to UNRWA

Update: I am keeping a very rough list of daily events for my Substack series, Fridays in Trumpland.

If today feels intense, well, that's because it is. And it's not over yet.

When I need a little pick me up I go watch the video of Elon Musk crying about Buzz Aldrin not saying he's a good boy

We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn **Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

I had such a weird moment of dissonance last week. Zoom call where we found ourselves litigating periods vs. underscores in SaaS versioning convention while in another tab watching a coup unfold in the US government. I love building products, but man, sometimes this pretense is unbearable.

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

January 29, 2025 M-25-14 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13 OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:

I do wonder if part of the long game w/ freezing federal payments is to look like a hero when "he" fixes the problem he created, and make people happy to swallow what little they get.

The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

Is someone already keeping a list of companies that are standing by their DEI commitments?

You know what’s funny? Engineers and product both think they are always the scapegoats of the other.

Are we really inaugurating on MLK day instead of doing what we would do if it was a Sunday (shift to the next day)? Nothing surprises me anymore of course but what an insult

I believe TSA is security theater designed to create an environment of anxiety and humiliation. I will absolutely wait longer to keep my shoes on and not be digitally strip searched or manhandled

Never underestimate how much people are grossed out to take their shoes off in a public place