Jim Swift

Beef prices in Feb 2026 are Joe Biden’s fault. Maybe Hunter Biden too. And Michelle Obama. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Thank you. Can you conjure up group DM's next? Either you're an influencer or a good luck charm.

Hi y’all. El Paso City Councilmember here but also fellow avgeek. Not a usual sub for me, but here we are. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued. What I know so far (as of midnight zero six local Wednesday): • It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written. • Nobody local got advance notice. And I mean nobody — neither civilian nor military leadership. • Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army is fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else. • Albuquerque Center did not get advance notice.

Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits

Moar tariffs!!!

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

The FAA has issued a separate security NOTAM for Santa Teresa, New Mexico, banning all flight operations in the affected area for the same time window and altitude limits as the El Paso airspace closure, citing “special security reasons.”

A Day, and a Nation, at the Kennedy Center From Tchaikovsky to redneck humor: the arts in Trump’s America.

@sonnybunch.bsky.social spent a day at the Kennedy Center before the bad orange man shuttered it. Great read.

In case it doesn’t go without saying; a TFR applied like this is incredibly unusual.

Huh

Started with printers, ends with computers.

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

It didn’t matter to Lutnick that Epstein was a known sex offender.

Lutnick still lunched with Epstein, brought his wife and kids around Epstein, and went into business with Epstein.

That’s the reality.

Abuse of women, girls, kids has not been a dealbreaker in media, banking, or politics.

💯

Sen. Van Hollen: “Did you in fact make the visit to Jeffrey Epstein's private island?”

Lutnick: “I did have lunch with him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation…We had lunch on the island, that is true.”

“The idea that a huge swath of the United States populace wants and needs the right wing’s unreality – their alternative reality – is a giant farce, a big, fake, neon, festering artifice constructed and maintained by people who need it to be real for financial and political and cultural purposes.”

YouTube video by US National Archives Don't Be a Sucker

In 1947 the US War Department released “Don’t Be a Sucker,” now archived by the National Archives. It shows how fascism grows through fear lies and scapegoating. This should not be history. It is a reminder our government once wanted remembered.

Narrator: it appears she had not.

With Susan Collins announcing a re-election bid, is the platform: CONCERN, FOR SIX MORE YEARS?

Zijn Nederlandse verloofde, zeg je?!

a panican implies the existence of a panican't

Indeed they do!

QAnon but from the White House asking people to Trust the Plan

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.

Good patina on that!!

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

‘Together, We Are America’ Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Well, if anyone can do it, it’s not Elon