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nickknudsenus.bsky.social
Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.
September 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
marywood0507.bsky.social
I love Heather Cox Richardson’s historical summaries - I learn so much!
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March 15, 2025
March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
This absolutely will make flying less safe. Maybe not today. But inevitably.

Conceivably *this* will finally get public attention? About the danger of just blowing up structures built with care over decades?

Maybe some GOP Sen/Rep will think: "I'd rather not be on the wrong side of this one"?
louishenwood.bsky.social Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · Feb 16
Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee

Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires

It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role
Dear Senator I am writing as a constituent, former FAA air traffic controller (26 years) and current Airline Transport rated commercial pilot. On Friday, hundreds of FAA technicians and engineers were terminated. These technicians and engineers maintain every piece of equipment that keeps flying safe, from the radars to the ILS, to ATC automation. They were identified as "probationary" and there is a reasonable speculation that Al was used to "find" probationary employees, assuming that meant that they were new hires. That is not an accurate assumption. A newly hired federal employee is probationary and may be subject to at will termination, but the term "probationary" is also applied to promotions, to describe not that you are a probationary employee, but if the promotion or transfer is not successful, the employee would return to the pre-promotion position. That allows the government to retain needed expertise. However, even that is not the case in these positions as workers were indeed succeeding in their new roles.
February 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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andrewjweinstein.com
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
January 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM