Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions.

They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.

It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe.

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.

PSA to Democrats: if Biden’s SecDef was a notorious drunk and the Army had crashed a helicopter into a civilian airliner killing dozens, GOP congressmen would be calling for a full investigation on cable tv 24/7 for days.

Don’t Americans deserve to know if he’s blacked out drunk right now?

I told bluesky I like books and now I can’t avoid “don’t talk to me unless you talk books” type tweets

Stop hating Selena. Have you all forgotten Love you Like a love song???

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

#xodus let’s goooooo

There is nothing stopping the Biden Administration from doing background checks on all Trump cabinet nominees and presenting the information to the Senate without the nominees cooperation.

If Republicans cared about women or girls’ safety; they would be up in arms protesting a Gaetz nomination for *anything* let alone leading DOJ.