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Trump Is Insatiable Click on the map for the article

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Why did JD Vance kill Pope Francis?

All of the US airline suck compared to carriers like Emirates, Swiss, Lufthansa, etc. Even ITA and TAP (that used to have mediocre reputations) provide a better service than United, Delta or American, and don't get me started about Frontier or Spirit's level if dysfunction!

I had a similar experience a few years ago on JetBlue, and a similar experience on Delta as well.

Crap like this is why we rarely travel inside the US anymore, and why I avoid ever flying any of the US flagged airlines. (cont'd)

And to add insult to injury, once you click the button to modify the flight, your old reservation is GONE, and there's no way to say "oh, never mind, I will keep the crappy 5:30am departure".
This is an obviously intentional gotcha.

Greedy money-grubbing schmucks. (cont'd...)

United offered a one-time "free itinerary modification".
What that means is that there's no fee to modify the reservation to a different flight — but it doesn't mean that they aren't charging me $200 more for the new flight! 😮 (cont'd...)

United Airlines sucks.
They just told me that the 9:25am nonstop 1st-class flight to KC that I booked months ago for DI Global Finals is cancelled, and that they "helpfully" moved me to a flight that leaves Newark at 5:30am, has a 5 hour layover in Houston, and lands in KC too late (cont'd...)

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

Is everyone feeling safer?
I'm not...

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

We are only at week 3 of 208, and the damage done so far is already immense 😢

To recap, Trump:

-Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence
-Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers
-Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee
-Blamed the DCA crash on DEI

This is disastrous leadership.

We used to all hold our breath hoping a shooter wasn’t a Muslim or a trans person.

Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!

Do you see how far they have moved the window?

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

If you think wild fires are caused by a Jewish Space Laser, natural disasters are caused by wokeness, and Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets, DEI causes plane crashes sounds like a logical conclusion.

It's not "as bad as" I thought it would be.
It's SO MUCH WORSE THAN I thought it would be.

And it's only been a week.

Kill the Lawyers Click on the map for the article

This is precisely how the rule of law is destroyed and democracy dismantled:

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Is Elon Musk Trump's Goebbels?

The bullies, jocks, haters and thugs run the country now.

It is clear that the rule of law is dead in the USA. A twice convicted felon is in the White House, and he's pardoned all of his co-conspirators and adherent thugs.

YouTube video by James Brown - Topic People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul (Remix)

Raise up, get yourself together /
And drive that funky soul!

We, the scientists, sceptics, and critical thinkers, MUST stand fast against the rising dark-age of non-fact-based nonsense, fake science, fake logic, alternative facts, and self-serving prevarication.

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"[T]he prophets of what we might now call the New Obscurantism offer exactly those things: magical solutions, an aura of spirituality, superstition, and the cultivation of fear."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

One of America’s Founding Principles at Risk: Freedom of Religion AND Freedom from Religion We now have a U.S. Supreme Court that is hypocritical. On one hand, it claims to interpret cases in alignment with the original language of the Constitution and the original intent of the authors o…

"If America doesn’t remain true to the constitutional rule established by Our Founding Fathers that our government must be separated from all religion by a solid wall, bloody conflict will ultimately follow…"

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.

Yeah, and I'm the king of Sweden.
And I've got this bridge I can sell you, cheap!
Yeah, that's the ticket!

Alito's a corrupt liar.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

Melania's life isn't that exciting. She was a girl with dreams of modeling who ended up moonlighting in prostitution and got shopped to a john, married for his money, had his baby while he was cheating on her with a porn star, blah blah blah.

It's not worth a movie.

...and hydrological engineers!

OP has been deleted, but I concur:
Many men are pigs.

Uh, actually - that's insulting pigs...

60 degrees out on a December Sunday but no outdoor dining anywhere right now because it might hurt some cars’ feelings.

Thelonious Monk

Felonious Trump

Left: Thelonious Monk
Right: Felonious Trump

(h/t @willbunch.bsky.social)

And yet, Trump (a billionaire) and his (billionaire) cronies managed to get the votes of many of that bottom half.

That what happens when public education is underfunded and attacked for 45 years.