Charlie Saroff
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Charlie Saroff
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(11/10) Additional note: Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) have introduced an amendment to strike this section of the bill. The worry is that the Senate will turn it down in order to avoid a drawn-out amendment process. This must not be allowed to happen.
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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(10/10) If this bill passes as written, will you fly into DCA? Personally, I will have second thoughts.
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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(9/10) I’m posting about this to raise awareness of the fact that the US Department of Defense, over bipartisan opposition, appears to be attempting to stop or reverse any effort that has been made to rectify the dangerous situation that existed before the tragic collision.
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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(8/10) NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy gave a press conference yesterday urging lawmakers to strike the provision from the bill, and prominent lawmakers from both parties have voiced opposition to the provision. However, we still don’t know who inserted it, and the bill passed the House unchanged.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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(7/10) While the right to waive ADS-B doesn’t mean the right to waive the requirement for a traffic collision avoidance system, TCAS is partially inhibited below 900 feet and fully inhibited below 400 feet, where the Jan. 29 collision occurred. ADS-B is not.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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(6/10) Passing the bill with this provision intact will allow military aircraft to fly right through the DCA approach areas without appearing on airliners’ traffic displays.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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(5/10) The provision doesn’t require that this risk assessment be undertaken by an expert on commercial aviation, nor does the assessment have to involve input from the FAA or commercial operators using the airspace. So it’s completely toothless.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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(4/10) They may grant such permission if the mission is “in the national security interests of the United States,” which is meaningless because any mission can be deemed as such. Furthermore, it requires a “commercial aviation compatibility risk assessment,” a term that isn’t defined anywhere.
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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(3/10) This provision allows the secretary of a military department, or a delegated general or flag officer, to permit military aircraft to fly training missions through heavily trafficked DCA airspace without ADS-B anti-collision technology.
December 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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(2/10) Basically, the current draft of the National Defense Authorization Act making its way through Congress contains a provision to roll back the safety improvements made after the DCA mid-air and make the situation as bad as it was on Jan. 29.
December 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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So, if you're someone who follows the bureaucratic side of aviation safety, you probably already know about this, but if you aren't, you might not. This is something that I feel the need to raise awareness about. (1/10)
December 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Thank you, Ahmed al Ahmed.
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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There is a well coordinated national campaign targeting a single trans professor at Oklahoma University to get her fired. It's part of a broader campaign to push trans people out of public life entirely. It was never about sports.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Jeremy Ben-Ami’s new column is a defense of showing up – even in uncomfortable spaces. Boycotts harden divides, while engagement is how change is made.

📖 “Why I Disagree with Peter Beinart’s Apology for Speaking at Tel Aviv University”:
jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/why-i-disa...
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated."

Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us."

Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."
The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism."

I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Some people on the left think just repeating “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” frees them from the work of thinking critically about what is and is not antisemitic. And a whole lot of people on the right think being a strong Zionist functions as a “get out of antisemitism free card.”
September 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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it’s not lost on me that trump and his lackeys have been even more aggressive towards reporters in the past week than usual
September 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
September 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Charlie Kirk is the Reichstag oh my God
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
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September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM