Kris Pierson
@krispierson.com
Captain and Check Pilot for a major US airline.
Author: https://asa2fly.com/pilots-in-command-your-best-trip-every-trip-third-edition/
Newsletter: https://crewbriefing.substack.com
Website: https://krispierson.com
New Market, Minnesota
Author: https://asa2fly.com/pilots-in-command-your-best-trip-every-trip-third-edition/
Newsletter: https://crewbriefing.substack.com
Website: https://krispierson.com
New Market, Minnesota
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"Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better." - Warren Buffett, today in his farewell letter as he leaves the CEO post at Berkshire.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) hopped on his Harley to get in on the performative game MAGA is playing with forced airline cancellations and threats against ATC professionals. Nevermind that he resides within a 2-hour road trip of three airports that would get him to DC just fine.
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) hopped on his Harley to get in on the performative game MAGA is playing with forced airline cancellations and threats against ATC professionals. Nevermind that he resides within a 2-hour road trip of three airports that would get him to DC just fine.
NO WAY!? Not to mention it hasn't received either a price tag or a funding request, for which Congress would have to then approve.
Secretary Duffy confirms earlier @theaircurrent.com reporting that a common automation platform for the “brand new” ATC system will most likely take longer than the 3 year timeline he has set for the rest of the modernization project. theaircurrent.com/air-traffic-...
The ‘brand new’ ATC system might not be as new as you think
FAA Administrator anticipates final solicitation for an ATC modernization integrator will go live at the end of August
theaircurrent.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NO WAY!? Not to mention it hasn't received either a price tag or a funding request, for which Congress would have to then approve.
Pritzker FTW.
Gov. Pritzker: “All I can say is that whether it was the loss in the elections a week ago that's led to Donald Trump deciding to pull CBP out or the fact that Greg Bovino is a snowflake…Whatever it is, the people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Pritzker FTW.
Reposted by Kris Pierson
Oh no. Who gave SCOTUS the wrong numbers? Will that person be fired?
Also: If entering into a tariff regime that would have to be litigated created the possibility of America not being "sustainable" then maybe they were unwise?
Also: If entering into a tariff regime that would have to be litigated created the possibility of America not being "sustainable" then maybe they were unwise?
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh no. Who gave SCOTUS the wrong numbers? Will that person be fired?
Also: If entering into a tariff regime that would have to be litigated created the possibility of America not being "sustainable" then maybe they were unwise?
Also: If entering into a tariff regime that would have to be litigated created the possibility of America not being "sustainable" then maybe they were unwise?
@jfallows.bsky.social I didn’t know you were a T. D. Mischke fan!
On the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I always think of T. D. Mischke's '90s radio interview with a historian, who Mischke surprises by *singing every question* to the Lightfoot tune. The historian gamely gives straight answers! (at 8:00) www.mischkemadness.com/audiofiles/t...
For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
@jfallows.bsky.social I didn’t know you were a T. D. Mischke fan!
JFC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
JFC.
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
Do we want safe skies or do we want to support professionals who need to take care of themselves and their families? DJT could not care less about the health or wellbeing of our air traffic controllers. Notably: shutdown is NOT over, controllers have yet to get paid, FAA still forcing cancellations.
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Do we want safe skies or do we want to support professionals who need to take care of themselves and their families? DJT could not care less about the health or wellbeing of our air traffic controllers. Notably: shutdown is NOT over, controllers have yet to get paid, FAA still forcing cancellations.
"Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better." - Warren Buffett, today in his farewell letter as he leaves the CEO post at Berkshire.
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better." - Warren Buffett, today in his farewell letter as he leaves the CEO post at Berkshire.
More facts:
Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice.
Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.
Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
More facts:
Facts.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Facts.
Correct. They aren’t certified. In fact they use similar but different systems, procedures, and more. Hegseth and Duffy are showing their true colors…Fox News hosts who don’t know a damn thing about what they have been placed in charge of, let alone what they are even talking about.
Sean Duffy: "The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, 'I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I'm gonna offer them to you.' I don't know that I can, Jake, because they're not certified in the airspaces that we need them. But if I can, I'm going to use them."
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Correct. They aren’t certified. In fact they use similar but different systems, procedures, and more. Hegseth and Duffy are showing their true colors…Fox News hosts who don’t know a damn thing about what they have been placed in charge of, let alone what they are even talking about.
Amazing read. First in a series @faineg.bsky.social is writing about how humanity came up with drones.
How the inventor of the printing press made souvenir mirrors that could "store" the holy essence of relics!
Magical Persian goblets of yore!
The Aztec god Tezcatlipoca "Smoking Mirror" and his connection to Elizabeth I's personal sorcerer!
These all relate to drones, really - read my latest:
Magical Persian goblets of yore!
The Aztec god Tezcatlipoca "Smoking Mirror" and his connection to Elizabeth I's personal sorcerer!
These all relate to drones, really - read my latest:
The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: Pondering Orbs, Black Mirrors, and World-Viewing Cups
Staring into the mysterious depths of a sacred water-filled cup. Lighting a match in front of a mirror round' midnight. Pondering an orb at the top of a sweet-looking tower. These atmospheric activiti...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Amazing read. First in a series @faineg.bsky.social is writing about how humanity came up with drones.
Absolutely irresponsible by @axios.com to say that Kimberly-Clark's acquisition of Kenvue (who makes Tylenol) is "a gamble" due to comments by Trump and RFK Jr. First off, any $40B M&A deal is a "gamble". Second, the MSM (including Axios) needs to STOP PLATFORMING MAGA/MAHA bullshit!
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Absolutely irresponsible by @axios.com to say that Kimberly-Clark's acquisition of Kenvue (who makes Tylenol) is "a gamble" due to comments by Trump and RFK Jr. First off, any $40B M&A deal is a "gamble". Second, the MSM (including Axios) needs to STOP PLATFORMING MAGA/MAHA bullshit!
This asshole wants a Nobel Peace Prize.
JUST IN: Trump says he has instructed the Department of Defense to start testing our nuclear weapons
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This asshole wants a Nobel Peace Prize.
I mean who are we kidding? Didn’t we expect this? Minnesota sports fans are banned from having nice things.
Twins are hiring Derek Shelton as the new manager.
Shelton served as the Twins' bench coach under both Paul Molitor and Rocco Baldelli before leaving after the 2019 season to become the Pirates' manager.
Shelton had a 306-440 (.410) record during six seasons in Pittsburgh and was fired in mid-May.
Shelton served as the Twins' bench coach under both Paul Molitor and Rocco Baldelli before leaving after the 2019 season to become the Pirates' manager.
Shelton had a 306-440 (.410) record during six seasons in Pittsburgh and was fired in mid-May.
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I mean who are we kidding? Didn’t we expect this? Minnesota sports fans are banned from having nice things.
Gross negligence on behalf of Coach KOC and Viking’s training staff, IMO. The poor guy was WINCING IN UTTER PAIN after every play on Thursday. Best wishes for healing for Wentz and better management by staff. #skol
Carson Wentz’s injury was a shoulder dislocation that tore his labrum and fractured the socket, source confirms. Surgery was inevitable to repair it so he could continue his career.
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gross negligence on behalf of Coach KOC and Viking’s training staff, IMO. The poor guy was WINCING IN UTTER PAIN after every play on Thursday. Best wishes for healing for Wentz and better management by staff. #skol
#Ontario hitting again with the Reagan anti #tariff advert at the #WorldSeries game 2 stretch. Huge investment in the global #freetrade, #antifascist, and #antimaga movement by a Canadian province. 🫡🇨🇦
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
#Ontario hitting again with the Reagan anti #tariff advert at the #WorldSeries game 2 stretch. Huge investment in the global #freetrade, #antifascist, and #antimaga movement by a Canadian province. 🫡🇨🇦
Chef’s kiss to #Ontario Premier Doug Ford for buying the ad time during the 7th inning stretch of #WorldSeries game 1 to run the anti-tariff ad that features Reagan’s words from 1987. 🇨🇦
October 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Chef’s kiss to #Ontario Premier Doug Ford for buying the ad time during the 7th inning stretch of #WorldSeries game 1 to run the anti-tariff ad that features Reagan’s words from 1987. 🇨🇦
It's a good day to remember the 1987 Ron Howard film "Gung Ho" starring Michael Keaton. The script was inspired by US anti-Japanese trade sentiment of the time and underpinned by "comedic" xenophobic and racist tropes. But, facts: Reagan still didn't support tariffs. #TACO #Ontario 🇨🇦
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM