I’m not snitch tagging, but I need @aoc.bsky.social to implore other democrats to push this action to the fore so people are reminded of the critical functions their tax dollars fund.
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.
What I don’t get: to successfully run a fascist security state, doesn’t something have to run *well*?
Don’t the general aviation using oligarchs depend on solid air traffic control and well run commercial flights, to keep hoi polloi from running into them?
🟥 BREAKING NEWS!! AN AMERICAN AIRLINES REGIONAL JET COLLIDED MID AIR WITH A BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER OVER THE POTOMAC RIVER IN WASHINGTON DC...!! BOTH AIRCRAFT ARE IN THE FROZEN POTOMAC RIVER!! IT WAS AMERICAN FLIGHT 5342 WICHITA, KS to DC. PIC OF TV SHOWING A SECURITY CAMERA THAT CAUGHT THE INCIDENT!
Pg 2... The American Airlines plane was coming in on approach to land at Reagan Nat'l airport...THE AIRPORT IS NOW CLOSED!! In the pic (prior post)...The bright orange light a bit right of center...IS THE ACTUAL COLLISION CAUGHT BY THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA!!
For no particular reason I'm flashing back to two weeks ago when a Republican congressman smugly mocked the director of FEMA for saying that helicopter flights over L.A. needed to be coordinated so they didn't crash into each other
The air routes into Berlin during the airlift were represented with yarn over a scale model of the airfield in order to keep separation between approaching and exiting aircraft
Come on, now. He's got to purge the one woman in the agency with a BS from Harvard and an advanced degree from Yale with 20 years experience to appease the incels who work at Buccees who voted him in...
I don't understand how firing senior officials or a hiring freeze led to this. It's not as if hired ATCs are available for shift duty on the first day of work.
Yes, these people are needed and firing them decreases safety in the long run, but don't make up blame. There's plenty to go around.
Just talked to a friend who knows a lot about aviation, he says ATC understaffing has led to a lot of near misses. House Republicans are largely to blame for the understaffing and it will get worse under Elon. I think it's fair game.
Hang it on Trump regardless. You know Republicans would have pinned any airline disaster on Biden irrespective of the facts. Hell, they'll probably try and pin this on Biden anyway.
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.
if was a Democratic administration conservative media would already been screaming about how DEI caused this and how we shouldn't make cable news hosts cabinet secretaries
Arguably the most dangerous thing Trump has done was to convince a majority of our country that running the government only required a tough guy who could brashly say "you're fired" rather than being a thankless, boring task of delicately managing an extremely complex & fragile large organization.
A report just came out that all the New Jersey drones were sanctioned flights but then recreational drones added to the kerfuffle.
If they were all sanctioned: WHY DID IT TAKE TWO WEEKS TO VERIFY?
Biden said it wasn’t anything alarming but responses from the Pentagon and US House Intelligence committee were still investigating … as if NONE of them considered calling the FAA.
This response is too late.
Don’t believe what the White House Down reports.
Yeah looking at it now I could have phrased my initial tweet to make that much more clear; I can see now how people would get the implication that I didn't care.
Serves me right for tweeting with people back in the states at 4 am...
I know exactly what you mean. None of us are minimizing the huge harms Trump is causing globally. But the "average American" may not care that 93 million women & children in 25 countries are suddenly w/o healthcare, but they will pay attention to a plane crash video. At least for a few minutes.
This! I feel like the poisons of our age is thinking genius is transferable. What works in tech may get people killed in public health…
Everyone understands that the Center can’t be a quarterback but the idea that the rocket man may not be the public policy guy is beyond the ken of many
I feel like people who think this way have very few experiences with smart and talented people IRL. Anyone who knows a genius knows they are also an idiot.
Can we finally put to rest the idea that Elon Musk was ever a "genius?" It's well known his employees manage him & show him cool looking stuff so he thinks they're coding bcos he doesn't know how. They keep him away from major decisions to avoid more Cybertrucks. He's not a genius. He's just rich.
Yes, and apparently the MSM's reply is "WTF?" Trump never gave the MSM the chance to "No could predict..." the inevitable disaster from Trump's policies.
And a USDA official escorted out by security after she called her firing unlawful.
"Her office played a key role in monitoring avian influenza outbreaks, including recent cases in cattle and poultry that led to the first reported human fatality in Louisiana."
You are acting as though he cares about the loss of life… That's where you're thinking goes wrong, he doesn't. Probably doesn't even feel sad about this.
If he had any kind of a brain in his head or heart in his chest, he would learn a lesson from this - it’s better not to mess around with ANY federal functions. American’s LIVES are on the line. But we know he doesn’t have the cognitive ability to learn lessons & does not possess a heart or a soul.
I know, I just like to see how creative he tries to get. Will he sharpie out the chopper in a photo of the crash and draw a UFO ? Will he blame Obama? The fake news? Will he try to convince us there was no crash? Will he blame Canada?
I hope someone is keeping track of all the people who die and all the people who become unemployed due to DT's (Dictator Tyrant) firing and dismantling of oversight of everything.
My heart breaks for those who will pay with their lives.
Let's be clear, this is Musk's doing, not Trump. Musk is running his own shadow Executive Branch and doing all of this without letting any of Trump's crew know beforehand.
We are completely different from the George W. Bush administration. That’s why we’re rounding up people without trial and shipping them off to Guantanamo Bay and threatening to invade random countries.
Exactly. These are critical areas that affect national security and public safety. Playing political games with vital functions like TSA and aviation safety puts everyone at risk. It’s time to prioritize competence over ideology. #ProtectOurSafety #LeadershipMatters
These people are unqualified to be making these decisions and it is immediately killing people. He is a threat to the American people. He is a threat to democracy and an illegitimate president who is clearly staging a coupe. Our senators should be sharpening their teeth, not lying flat.
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Why would you get rid of the Head of the TSA?
Look what the fuck you just did?
Don’t the general aviation using oligarchs depend on solid air traffic control and well run commercial flights, to keep hoi polloi from running into them?
https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-government-clown-show-opinion-1408136
Then look what occurs apprx 9:45 PM...!!
“Stop taking my words out of context!”
“These are just sounds I’m making with my mouth. They don’t mean anything!”
“Stop making me hit you!”
/sarcasm
https://democrats-transportation.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-members-larsen-cohen-statements-on-trumps-dangerous-freeze-of-air-traffic-control-hiring
Yes, these people are needed and firing them decreases safety in the long run, but don't make up blame. There's plenty to go around.
https://bsky.app/profile/mattdpearce.com/post/3lgwmrybnr222
Not so much the case with public transportation.
It's all "How deep should that cavity search go in the TSA line" safety.
Telling people to take their shoes off in the security line had no effect on this crash.
ASAC dealt with the former.
If they were all sanctioned: WHY DID IT TAKE TWO WEEKS TO VERIFY?
This response is too late.
Don’t believe what the White House Down reports.
https://www.wyff4.com/article/wildfire-old-fort-evacuations-fire-danger/63605693
What the hell was a fucking military helicopter DOING in the approach path to National (Fuck Reagan) Airport
wtf wtf wtf
Serves me right for tweeting with people back in the states at 4 am...
Everyone understands that the Center can’t be a quarterback but the idea that the rocket man may not be the public policy guy is beyond the ken of many
Oh wait.... he fired them too.
maga is at war with public safety, because the public's safety is too woke for fascists to abide
"Her office played a key role in monitoring avian influenza outbreaks, including recent cases in cattle and poultry that led to the first reported human fatality in Louisiana."
😬
https://www.newsweek.com/former-usda-inspector-general-defies-trump-order-escorted-her-office-2023069
And not to get all conspiracy theory, but who was on the plane and helicopter?
Dems need to call for Congressional hearings.
by Peter Baker
https://apnews.com/article/ronald-reagan-national-airport-crash-cebb142d24859ba0c4e0e4fd6c33773f
My heart breaks for those who will pay with their lives.
No fucking way. Too tidy. Too easy. Too neat. The God that shoved us into this timeline wouldn’t give us that.
It was a military helicopter.
by Donald Trump
“Disaster on the Potomac, Biden’s Fault?”