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747-400 Captain (Ret), salt water sailor, trader, cancer survivor-fine now, dad to 2, grandad to 4, dog dad to 3, former Airline Pilots Association board member & labor contract negotiator. SoCal liberal Democrat. I Follow Back.

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This is Rennie's wife. He passed away recently and I know he had a number of friends here and I wanted to let everyone know. He was a great guy and I very much miss him.

27.04.2025 01:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They defunded schools at the same time they rolled back child labor lawsโ€ฆ

05.04.2025 03:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6002    ๐Ÿ” 1714    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 297    ๐Ÿ“Œ 106
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The trouble with tarrifs

05.04.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5674    ๐Ÿ” 2488    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 163    ๐Ÿ“Œ 107
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SpaceX gets up to $5.9 billion in new DOD launch contracts...more than it's competitors, United Launch alliance and Blue Origin.

04.04.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 606    ๐Ÿ” 281    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 71
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JD Vance claims that 40% of the people calling the Social Security system are โ€œactually committing fraud.โ€

This is a preposterous and baseless lie.

05.04.2025 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1154    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 246    ๐Ÿ“Œ 56
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THIS IS TERRIFYINGโ€ผ๏ธ

Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last dayโ€”forced to resign or be fired because he wouldnโ€™t lie about vaccines.

He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfareโ€”because the response team has been gutted.

05.04.2025 02:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24896    ๐Ÿ” 10591    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 703    ๐Ÿ“Œ 620

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculousโ€”they just canโ€™t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last yearโ€™s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

05.04.2025 02:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21578    ๐Ÿ” 9891    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 452    ๐Ÿ“Œ 397

I went table to table in a Vero Beach Waffle House asking retirees how the market crash has impacted them. Most laughed with satisfaction, explaining that theyโ€™d long ago sold their stocks to invest in $TRUMP coin, $MELANIA coin, and limited edition MyPillows.

05.04.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 930    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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There are 32m small businesses in the USA

05.04.2025 01:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29420    ๐Ÿ” 8118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1172    ๐Ÿ“Œ 444
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April 3, 2025
Dr. Joseph Rezek
Dear NEH Grantee,
This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement.
Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant
Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFRยง200.340.
For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

Full text April 3, 2025 Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFRยง200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.

โ€œYour grantโ€™s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal governmentโ€

They are so afraid of us.

04.04.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3648    ๐Ÿ” 1142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 277    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78
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PUT THIS ON BLAST:

Trumpโ€™s tariffs just pushed the risk of a U.S. and global recession this year up to 60%โ€”up from 40%, according to J.P. Morgan.

THATS NOT ALL:

The White House made up the numbersโ€”Trump Math ๐Ÿคก

04.04.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3829    ๐Ÿ” 1784    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 178    ๐Ÿ“Œ 124
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These greedy individuals went for wool and came out shorn. Karma works in strange ways...

04.04.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6019    ๐Ÿ” 1459    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 762    ๐Ÿ“Œ 215
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Kamala Harris warned us many times that we would have a recession by the middle of the yearโ€ฆ

04.04.2025 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3951    ๐Ÿ” 838    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 111    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48

Trump circumvented Congress on tariffs by declaring a Fentanyl emergency. A handful of Republicans in Congress can stop the tariffs by joining with Democrats. Call your electeds and tell them.

04.04.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5351    ๐Ÿ” 1537    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 159    ๐Ÿ“Œ 50
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Trump Extends TikTok Deadline by 75 Days: Live Updates (Gift Article)

โ€œA federal judge gave the Trump administration until the end of Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported to El Salvador last month despite a court order allowing him stay in the country.โ€ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

04.04.2025 19:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1255    ๐Ÿ” 273    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

Trump says heโ€™ll use revenue from tariffs to โ€œoffsetโ€ more big tax cuts.

Those tax cuts will disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans and big corporations.

But revenue raised from tariffs will be coming disproportionately from average working people.

See how this works?

04.04.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4033    ๐Ÿ” 1206    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 209    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58

Stay away from whatever this man is taking

04.04.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3352    ๐Ÿ” 549    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 472    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47
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Newsom: The world weโ€™ve come to knowโ€”and some of us revere and love. The country. All of that is now at risk because of the recklessnessโ€”and thereโ€™s no other way to describe itโ€”of one individual: the President of the United States.

04.04.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4985    ๐Ÿ” 989    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 393    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54
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U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history in wake of Trumpโ€™s tariffs Stocks erased a combined $6.6 trillion in value on Thursday and Friday.

U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day
www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-st...

04.04.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.

04.04.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1503    ๐Ÿ” 337    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 26
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BILL BURR: โ€œYou journalists need to get your balls back.โ€

@wutangforchildren.bsky.social

04.04.2025 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2878    ๐Ÿ” 731    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 108    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
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#TrumpCrash hit a historic mark.

It is only the fourth time in history that the DOW has lost 2,000 points in a single day - and that follows a huge drop yesterday, too.

The DOW is down nearly 4,000 since the #TrumpTariffs were announced on Weds night. #Trumponomics

04.04.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1941    ๐Ÿ” 563    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana " ALT: a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana "

This was supposed to be a joke.

04.04.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 979    ๐Ÿ” 80    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Dive into These YA Books on the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment Here are some new and classic books on Japanese American incarceration during WWII for young adult readers.

While doing some research, I stumbled across this great listing of YA books on Japanese internment in WWII, which feels like good reading for today's kids, so, I'm sharing. densho.org/catalyst/you...

04.04.2025 14:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1602    ๐Ÿ” 466    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
Screenshot of CNBC showing the Dow down 2265 points. The ticket says the 4th largest drop un Dow history

Screenshot of CNBC showing the Dow down 2265 points. The ticket says the 4th largest drop un Dow history

HOLY SHIT.

DOW CLOSES WITH 4TH WORST DAY IN ITS HISTORY.

4000 PTS DROP IN TWO DAYS.

$6 TRILLION GONE IN 48 HOURS

04.04.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 649    ๐Ÿ” 246    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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Texas measles outbreak update today, up 14% since Tuesday (actual cases likely 4-5X reported)
And further spreading in New Mexico and multiple other states throughout the US.

04.04.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1451    ๐Ÿ” 588    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 87    ๐Ÿ“Œ 76

* NASDAQ 100 SET TO ENTER BEAR MARKET AFTER FALLING 20% FROM PEAK

@reuters.com

04.04.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 525    ๐Ÿ” 137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
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The Insurrection Act Can Trump shut down protests using the military under the Insurrection Act? What would it take? The answer is complicated, but as more and more protests take place, understanding that legal terrain ha...

The Insurrection Act gives the president an exception to the prohibtion against using the military to enforce laws (& arrest protesting citizens). Learn more here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-insurr...

04.04.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 735    ๐Ÿ” 273    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 77    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.

Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle โ€œa fight for the very soul of democracy.โ€

From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

04.04.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1370    ๐Ÿ” 478    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41

They are a bunch of cowards who will probably leave the room praising him and cutting another check in tribute.

04.04.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3631    ๐Ÿ” 680    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 196    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

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