Gonpachiro Kamaboko

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

The Milwaukee Bucks are waiving Cam Thomas just weeks after signing him, sources tell ESPN.

My unemployment era has come To an END 😭😭😭😭😭😭

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

The Supreme Court has refused to hear a man on death row's appeal for a DNA test on a murder weapon. Rodney Reed was convicted for the murder of Stacey Stites, but he says the belt that was used to strangle her was never tested for DNA and he accuses her fiance (former police officer Jimmy Fennell) of the murder. Fennell was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman in his custody while he was a cop. During his time in prison, several of his fellow inmates claimed that Fennell confessed to killing Stacey Stites. Stites was white and Reed is Black. Inmates said Fennell was angry about an interracial affair between the 2 and bragged about the murder. Unless he's granted clemency or a pardon, the state of Texas will execute Rodney Reed without the world ever knowing whether it was his or Fennell's DNA on the murder weapon. This is so messed up.

New York Jews also have their own Hatzolah ambulances. In 1991, race riots erupted after a 7 yr old black boy was hit by a car escorting a ‘grand rabbi’ that ran a red light. The Hatzolah ambulance loaded the Jewish car driver but left the child behind to die in the street. Grim.

🚨Ghana 🇬🇭 and Colombia 🇨🇴 have signed a landmark agreement to link the Port of Tema with the Port of Cartagena, creating direct maritime trade between West Africa and Latin America. The deal, signed in Bogotá, is expected to boost trade and strengthen economic ties.

You people think a gateman entering the house by sneaking in with your key is only dropping the drinks in the fridge and heading out. He didn’t scan the house,he doesn’t enter kitchen once in a while or his bedroom if unlocked. You people don’t know the audacity of these workers

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6 months later, back rolls are gone 🙈 it is not 💯% gone but the process is definitely eating 🤏👌

This is my mum during our last check up at the hospital. She was almost fully recovering until I ran out of savings. I couldn't continue with doctor's biweekly check-up cos I simply had no money left to buy her drugs, transport her to and fro, and buy her the recommended food.

Abuja, wake up!! Jabi park has been split in half. Someone claims half of the park is now “private” property. Whoever sold the land in FCDA needs to lose their job. Jabi park today, millennium park tomorrow! We all need to go to the park and prevent them from building.

Big Foe, BIGGER win 🔥 @FTiafoe saves 2 MPs and converts his seventh to knock out defending champion Mensik 7-6 4-6 7-6. #MiamiOpen

Mboko d. Andreeva 7-6(4) 4-6 6-0 Vicky has now beaten Mirra in their last 2 meetings She’s also won 4 of her last 5 meetings against top 10 players Into her 1st Miami Quarterfinal ✅6th top 10 win ✅4th WTA 1000 QF ✅1st Miami QF The toughest teen in tennis right now 🇨🇦❤️

A federal judge is allowing the release of deposition videos of two former DOGE staffers, ruling that the risk of "embarrassment and reputational harm" is not enough to overcome the public interest in the videos. abcnews.link/P1xYZ26

So you want to tell me this one is better than Odumeje because he can speak English and does not do music with Flavour.

Re: ICE mobilized to US airports I’ve been discussing (since 2021) how the US will eventually close borders “from the inside” and restrict people from leaving this country. Allowing ICE to patrol borders (international airports are borders) is a step towards that goal. 1/5

you will think baba ijesha just left big brother naija house, because the media tour is insane. we are not ready as a society oo

Isis Sio, the 19-year-old flyweight who was knocked out Saturday and put into a medically induced coma, has awoken and is speaking.

White Americans love describing Nazis as the worst, but Nazis were inspired by America’s persecution of Indigenous and Black people