Colleen Mondor
@chasingray.bsky.social
Aviation journalist, especially on Alaska. Never met a federal database I didn't love. "Probable Cause" newsletter is here: https://colleenmondor.substack.com/
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#40: Guardian Flight, the FAA & Three Fatality Crashes
Guardian Flight crashed in 2019, 2022 & 2023; eleven people died.
colleenmondor.substack.com
My latest focuses on three fatality accidents by Guardian Flight in a ~4 year period. There are striking similarities in all three - especially the ones in NV and HI. But mostly, this is about how the FAA participates in NTSB investigations. /1 colleenmondor.substack.com/p/40-guardia...
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"The OPB on your coffee mug, or on your window sticker, might not be the exact place you think it is."
This week, we're telling you why we started the @thewesternedge.bsky.social. Today read @ryanjhaas.bsky.social's devastating essay about local media:
www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...
This week, we're telling you why we started the @thewesternedge.bsky.social. Today read @ryanjhaas.bsky.social's devastating essay about local media:
www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...
I Had a Dream Journalism Job. Here's Why I Quit.
The rot that hollowed out trust in corporate media finally reached OPB. I had to go.
www.thewesternedge.media
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
"The OPB on your coffee mug, or on your window sticker, might not be the exact place you think it is."
This week, we're telling you why we started the @thewesternedge.bsky.social. Today read @ryanjhaas.bsky.social's devastating essay about local media:
www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...
This week, we're telling you why we started the @thewesternedge.bsky.social. Today read @ryanjhaas.bsky.social's devastating essay about local media:
www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...
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Historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who has been an advisor to Bad Bunny, is on Bluesky. He wrote about the half-time show, in advance of the Super Bowl, for the L.A. Times.
Follow: @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
Follow: @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
Check out my opinion piece at De Los from the Los Angeles Times on Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show as a history lesson.
Essay: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages
Historian Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo hopes Bad Bunny's halftime show will combat "acute ignorance" about Puerto Rico and its ongoing entanglement with the United States.
www.latimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Historian Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, who has been an advisor to Bad Bunny, is on Bluesky. He wrote about the half-time show, in advance of the Super Bowl, for the L.A. Times.
Follow: @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
Follow: @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social
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More people need to be talking about what happened to this fully legal Irishman, married to an American, who is still being held by DHS.
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
More people need to be talking about what happened to this fully legal Irishman, married to an American, who is still being held by DHS.
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"Although the judge noted numerous irregularities on Ice’s court documents, she ultimately sided with the agency."
Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.
Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM
"Although the judge noted numerous irregularities on Ice’s court documents, she ultimately sided with the agency."
Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.
Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.
More people need to be talking about what happened to this fully legal Irishman, married to an American, who is still being held by DHS.
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
More people need to be talking about what happened to this fully legal Irishman, married to an American, who is still being held by DHS.
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The Government of Cuba has officially warned international airlines that the country will exhaust its supply of aviation fuel beginning this Monday, attributing the shortage to United States economic pressure.
February 9, 2026 at 6:21 AM
The Government of Cuba has officially warned international airlines that the country will exhaust its supply of aviation fuel beginning this Monday, attributing the shortage to United States economic pressure.
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Your periodic reminder that almost 9 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still doesn't have a functioning power grid.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Puerto Rico faced a massive power outage. Why does this keep happening?
Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Your periodic reminder that almost 9 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still doesn't have a functioning power grid.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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The New England Patriots suffered a disastrous 29-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX. Follow live updates from the postgame.
Patriots offense goes silent in disastrous Super Bowl loss to Seahawks. Follow live updates from postgame. - The Boston Globe
The Seahawks won their second Super Bowl, becoming the 17th franchise with multiple Super Bowl wins.
trib.al
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 AM
The New England Patriots suffered a disastrous 29-13 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX. Follow live updates from the postgame.
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Currently in western Washington where boat horns and fireworks are going off with abandon.
This is going to be a long night.
This is going to be a long night.
February 9, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Currently in western Washington where boat horns and fireworks are going off with abandon.
This is going to be a long night.
This is going to be a long night.
Very happy with how this game turned out.
Also, may Ricky Martin visit all of our dreams tonight. 😊
Also, may Ricky Martin visit all of our dreams tonight. 😊
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Very happy with how this game turned out.
Also, may Ricky Martin visit all of our dreams tonight. 😊
Also, may Ricky Martin visit all of our dreams tonight. 😊
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Feel like I'm going to need one of those YouTube videos where a scholar talks about all of the references I missed.
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Feel like I'm going to need one of those YouTube videos where a scholar talks about all of the references I missed.
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?
What Roc Nation has done for the Super Bowl halftime show can not be overstated. Instead of bands on a stage, (which is fine), they put on a SHOW.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
What Roc Nation has done for the Super Bowl halftime show can not be overstated. Instead of bands on a stage, (which is fine), they put on a SHOW.
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This is a good moment to note that Daniel Immerwahr's "How to Hide an Empire" is fast read and does a good job of contextualizing the last 128 years of U.S. rule over Puerto Rico.
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
This is a good moment to note that Daniel Immerwahr's "How to Hide an Empire" is fast read and does a good job of contextualizing the last 128 years of U.S. rule over Puerto Rico.
They posted this a couple of days ago and it is proving to be more true than even they could have predicted. bsky.app/profile/neor...
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
They posted this a couple of days ago and it is proving to be more true than even they could have predicted. bsky.app/profile/neor...
If you think this wasn't staged for the camera then I can't help you.
If your tug breaks, then you borrow the one from the folks next door. Or you use the forklift. Or you use a tow bar and a pickup truck.
You don't do this for anything other than photo.
If your tug breaks, then you borrow the one from the folks next door. Or you use the forklift. Or you use a tow bar and a pickup truck.
You don't do this for anything other than photo.
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 AM
If you think this wasn't staged for the camera then I can't help you.
If your tug breaks, then you borrow the one from the folks next door. Or you use the forklift. Or you use a tow bar and a pickup truck.
You don't do this for anything other than photo.
If your tug breaks, then you borrow the one from the folks next door. Or you use the forklift. Or you use a tow bar and a pickup truck.
You don't do this for anything other than photo.
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There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD.
I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this.
I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.
I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this.
I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
There it is. The very last BOOK WORLD.
I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this.
I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.
I’m still in shock that Jeff Bezos, the man who is everything he is today because of selling books, would abandon readers like this.
I grieve for The Washington Post and everything that has been stripped from it.
I've been reading a SF/romance series from Nalini Singh for years. It's over 20 books now & the world-building (futuristic but recognizable Earth) is stunning. Recurring characters, big thrilling plots + sexy romance. There's a reason why she has me for each book; Singh's a damn good writer.
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I've been reading a SF/romance series from Nalini Singh for years. It's over 20 books now & the world-building (futuristic but recognizable Earth) is stunning. Recurring characters, big thrilling plots + sexy romance. There's a reason why she has me for each book; Singh's a damn good writer.
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There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...
The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io
February 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...
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America at its Best.
February 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
America at its Best.
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Editorial: Battle boils down to crucial wetlands vs. greedy developers as one #Florida county tries to protect its Everglades sprawl boundary from being breached by builders. www.miamiherald.com/opinion/edit... via @miamiherald.com
Wetlands vs. development: Miami-Dade’s battle for environmental integrity continues | Opinion
Levine Cava says she has a responsibility to protect wetlands and the fragile South Florida environment. She does. So do the commissioners. | Opinion
www.miamiherald.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Editorial: Battle boils down to crucial wetlands vs. greedy developers as one #Florida county tries to protect its Everglades sprawl boundary from being breached by builders. www.miamiherald.com/opinion/edit... via @miamiherald.com
This thread is a lot of fun!
OK, now let's play
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
If I may begin:
• Kim Novak
• Natalie Wood
• Moonstruck
• Richard Strauss
• Barbara Stanwyck
OK, you're up.
PEOPLE OR THINGS IT TOOK YOU FAR TOO LONG TO APPRECIATE
If I may begin:
• Kim Novak
• Natalie Wood
• Moonstruck
• Richard Strauss
• Barbara Stanwyck
OK, you're up.
February 8, 2026 at 11:21 PM
This thread is a lot of fun!