Dan D.

Not the kind of behavior one would expect from the world’s first FIFA Peace Prize winner

He thinks it is named after the state www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It was the first known domestic use of the weapon by federal officials outside of a controlled environment, according to two people with knowledge of the technology, and it was done without the F.A.A.'s approval, in a possible violation of the law. At 5:16 p.m. that same day, hours after the laser system had been used, Mr. Ditlevson responded to the F.A.A. lawyer that the Pentagon was not changing its position on its use. "While I can appreciate your concerns, we feel we have met the statutory requirement to coordinate with your organization," he wrote to Mr. McKenna, copying senior Pentagon officials as well as staff members from the National Security Council. He noted that he "looked forward" to an upcoming meeting to discuss the lasers. Officials at the F.A.A. were furious, according to multiple people familiar with the fallout.

DoD: I know you’re afraid of us “crashing a plane” with this laser, but we checked the Notify FAA box so what are you all worked up about

Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"

The El Paso TFR issued by the FAA even grounds medivac flights. NO EXCEPTIONS. Any flight operating in the area may be deemed hostile and “the United States government may use deadly force against the airborne aircraft.”

Anyone needing a lifeline flight to a hospital or outside El Paso will die.

A sudden 10 day closure of airspace in a major US city like El Paso should be THE STORY, with nothing else getting any air time until at minimum someone within the US government says what’s happening and why.

It barely even registers on CNN’s site. It’s literally the last item before the page ends.

A massive scandal.

Kash Patel and Pam Bondi refusing to investigate the murders of American citizens to cover up Trump administration culpability.

Can't wait for the hundreds of regional jets to be grounded. And the A220s?? I'm sure United, Delta, and America are super excited for this.

More likely they'll apply it only to bizav if they bother to follow through. But what an ass.

#avgeek

I didn’t have the Harry Potter “happiness” quote coming up in Dave Stensrud’s remarks. Well done! #AMS2026

Come learn about @accuweather.com at the #AMS2026 Career fair!

View from a frigid Lake Michigan. -10F air temp. Looking forward to *slightly* less chill in Houston for #AMS2026!

At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale.

It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment.

Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Indiana is so much fun to watch. Love the intensity and aggressiveness combined with spot on execution.

Fun fact: the closest frozen tundra to Chicago, IL, is Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks of New York (700 miles away).

That’s one of the best football games I’ve ever watched. Beautiful.

A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas and stun grenades around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night. Shawn Jackson and his wife, Destiny, both 26, said they were driving home from a son’s basketball game when the family found themselves caught in a clash between protesters and federal agents in North Minneapolis. The couple sensed the encounter could quickly spiral out of control, they said, but when they tried to turn their car around to exit the blocked-off street, they were surrounded by federal agents. “From the side, the front and from behind me, it was nothing but ICE,” Mr. Jackson said in an interview on Thursday. One agent told the couple that they needed to get out of the area. Ms. Jackson said she and her husband responded that they were trying to do exactly that, but their path was blocked by agents coming up the street. Then, agents let loose on the crowd, the couple said. The crowd-control grenades went off around them and one tear gas canister rolled beneath the car, Ms. Jackson said. A concussive blast — from the tear gas canister or another device, she wasn’t sure — rocked the vehicle, she said, setting off the airbags and trapping the family as acrid smoke billowed around.

"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night."

They were driving home from a son’s basketball game.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

You see an inverted pyramid, I see a wedge.

We're getting within range of an Indiana team ... the Hoosiers, of Bloomington's Indiana University, to be clear ... putting themselves into the Best College Football Team Ever debate. Indiana, mind you. Regulation American football, to be clear

A big thanks to every pundit who dismissed as hysterical the many people sounding the alarm bells in 2015

A wintry sunrise on #UA786 from ICT - ORD.

Takeaways from Congress’ latest spending package Lawmakers are moving to cut funding but rejecting severe reductions sought by the White House to energy and environment programs.

The battle to save NCAR has faded from the headlines, but it is not over.
www.eenews.net/articles/tak...
Call your Congressional reps and ask them to add language explicitly protecting NCAR to the spending package:
5calls.org/issue/ncar-n...

I always appreciate the way Graff puts perspective on our current moment. This particular post is one of the best he’s written. It summarizes so much of what I and millions of others are feeling. Thanks for your continued clear-eyed journalism.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Minnesota should move to arrest the ICE officers or CBP agents involved and prosecute, just as Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge.

Sun-dappled

Blue horizon at sunrise above the clouds on #UA4522 from SCE - ORD.

Getting blown out by a team that didn't even make the ACC title game? Just really sad to see a spot wasted on a mid-major like Ohio State. Imagine what a winner like Iowa could've accomplished

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.