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philipcollier.bsky.social
Former airline nomad. Advocate for better ways of thinking & doing. Lover of cats and catbirds. No justice - no peace. Medium: https://medium.com/@philipcollier Substack: https://philipcollier.substack.com
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Heh, I just checked the news and found the former CEO of one of my old jobs, who might become the next FAA administrator. Bryan Bedford was CEO at Business Express ("Bizex") when I was a Saab capt, 30 yrs ago. He had Chicago Express 10 yrs later, when I was at ATA Airlines. He knows the industry.

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Protesters' Rights. Handling police interactions. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

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People Over Papers: Crowdsourced ICE Watch Map Live ICE tracking. thedemlabs.org/2025/01/31/p...

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Remember those who are fatigued, as though fatigued with them.

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Citizen-created ICE Watch platforms. Once you see, you cannot unsee. This tech is here to stay.

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"We continue to hold the beliefs of Puritans and we get manipulated because of it." -- Jane Borden youtube.com/watch?v=Rf-P...

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Inspiration starts like wingtip vortices from a butterfly. You are grappling with an idea, when you get a faint hint of something different. You sense something that has been there since the Big Bang, waiting for you to pull out of the muck. Something real, waiting to be found.

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Already, more private security guards than police. Already, a shadow econony.

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Claiming that “white supremacists are infiltrating law enforcement” misunderstands both white supremacy and law enforcement. Water doesn’t “infiltrate” a stream.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Pulling funding from Dem-lead states was always going to happen. And it's still illegal and unconstitutional.

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Defeating the Nazis was an act of LIBERATION. D Day wasn't the end of the war, but it was a step toward toward it. The Nazis had to be decimated before they would consider surrender.

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This situation exists because institutions failed to do what they were supposed to do. Cowardly fucks head the voices saying "somebody needs to do it," and they replied with "somebody else can do it."

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

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Thick, phat, bodacious mammatus. Beware, though, as they are indicators of at least moderate turbulence, and probably worse above.

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There are some witty comments out there re the Ukrainian special operation: Zelensky = a man without a suit. Trump = a suit without a man. Trump: "You're not holding any cards!" Zelensky: "I'm not playing cards."

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Ukraine planned that attack for a year and a half. They destroyed strategic bombers, aerial refuelers, airborne warning and control planes, and a nuclear submarine, fuel farms, and radars. Their deterrent triad is fucked up. Karma. Escalation works. youtube.com/watch?v=10dn...

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The Republican Party has chosen to fight poverty by killing off all the poor people.

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Asymmetric warfare at its best. Ukraine is blasting Russia's straregic bomber fleet all to hell, using cheap and plentiful drones moved in shipping containers.

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Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

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You can call the MAGA / Trump regime a gangster state or you can call it a cult. There isn't much difference. You are being offered a deadly cup of poisoned Kool-Aid. What shall be about it? All things end in reckoning.

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Let's take a dive into the MAGA end times agenda. I have found no better expert coverage than that by Andra Watkins @andrawatkins.bsky.social : youtube.com/watch?v=2d4f...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

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A long duration eruption reaching the M8+ level is currently in progress around AR 4100 near center disk. This event is likely going to produce a coronal mass ejection. Stay tuned. SolarHam.com

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That all white paint job has been used at least as far back as the late 1970s. Remember Southern Air Transport, which participated in Ronald Reagan's "Arms for Hostages" deal. Today, we can monitor ADS-B, which most flights are required to have running. Paint doesn't matter.

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