Amanda Kohut

@Bart_Craenmehr @Lap68Man @LucyGoBag If you are informing passengers of another passenger’s medical issues without any ability to obscure which specific passenger, they would be breaching privacy.

@AmandaKohut @Lap68Man @LucyGoBag The person will be revealed so may as well clarify what it means. Privacy would be revealing something ...

This is so hard on Mason but Airport Duty Manager for BA is in tricky position here and handles it well. This also tells us something very interesting about the way society perceives what is an incredibly high risk activity that relies on “total safety”

@Caza25866229 @TheGriftReport Would someone who didn’t have Tourette’s be allowed to fly if they said what he said?

@TheGriftReport Absolutely wrong by BA, shameful infact, there is a disability act for a reason. They don't get to discriminate between disabilities. They could have checked his bag and explained to other passengers, once he was calm and less stressed he would probably have been ok

13-year-old Mason Entwistle with Tourette’s was left in tears and refused boarding on a British Airways flight after an involuntary tic caused him to shout “bomb”. The family from Harwich, Essex, had pre-notified BA weeks in advance, supplied a doctor’s letter confirming the condition, and Mason was wearing a visible disability lanyard. They sailed through security without any issues. But at the jet bridge the BA duty manager blocked them, telling the father: “We are not refusing him because he’s got a disability. We are refusing him because there’s been a threat made that he has a bomb in his bag.” Armed police then escorted the devastated family back through the terminal. Mason was left sobbing on the floor repeatedly apologising to everyone around him. The family missed the first two days of their £4,000 Spain holiday and had to rebook with another airline. Were BA right?

@Bart_Craenmehr @Lap68Man @LucyGoBag This is where privacy becomes a problem. In the case of an allergy, you don’t know who may have it. In this case, it will be pretty clear who it is in short order. So do we choose privacy or efficiency here? We can’t have both.

maybe an option would be that you'd announce it, like you announce that NO ONE CAN EAT NUTS when you have someone with a severe nut allergy onboard. You would announce that some you passenger onboard has Tourettes and you ask the passengers to ignore anything that may come across as offensive or threatening and speak to a member of the crew if they have questions or feel uncomfortable.

@The_AngloSaxon @LucyGoBag The problem is that they can’t. Their hands are tied by regulatory conflicts. This is the inevitable outcome when people are unwilling to make a definitive decision. This is why we have a proliferation of fake service dogs also.

@AmandaKohut @LucyGoBag Well it's certainly something airlines need to plan for in the future to avoid this happening again. He'd already made his way all the way through security no issue.

@Lap68Man @LucyGoBag On too of that, it’s not as though BA would even be able to explain the situation to passengers because of privacy. So they would be stuck in a tube for hours with anxious passengers asking why they aren’t reacting to a threat.

@LucyGoBag So many bad takes here. BA, for the safety of passengers and crew, can’t allow a boy on the plane that is going to be shouting “bomb!” every five minutes. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t have a bomb. There are two hundred people on the flight and many won’t understand

@The_AngloSaxon @LucyGoBag You can’t hold the flight indefinitely for one passenger. Investigation takes time. Airlines get fined for late departure. If BA put them on the next flight following an investigation, then that is the best outcome anyone could hope for under the circumstances.

@LucyGoBag I don't think she handles it well. If she believed what she was saying to actually be true, the family would have been searched / arrested, not just allowed to wander back into the airport.

@JackDiven @breccastoll @realDailyWire Clarence Thomas has been waiting his whole career for this lawsuit.

@breccastoll @realDailyWire Is this actually going to happen? I mean, does he actually have the authority to do that?

NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits. “For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”

@MdnightCboy1956 @KarenBassLA

You can drop off your ballot at voting centers and drop boxes throughout the city. Voting early is easy, even Babies for Bass agree!

@TheRegencyCook You reached me in NYC. I love historical food!

I’m hoping that my posts about historic food will reach you through all the outrage on Twitter/X. Do you think too that there should be a place for comfort posts about things that unite & don’t divide? Like buns for example?

@queens_parents I’m waiting for the one in the middle of 71st and Austin to open up. It’s dipping more and more.

Potholes are turning into sinkholes in NYC 😭

@japan_nobunaga This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it!

This Memorial Day, I want to tell you about a Japanese general most Americans have never heard of. His name was Tadamichi Kuribayashi. In 1927, he lived in America. He studied at Harvard. He drove across your country and wrote letters home about how kind Americans were. Eighteen years later, he commanded the Japanese forces at Iwo Jima. He knew he would lose. He knew he would die. He fought anyway, to buy his homeland time. For 36 days, 6,800 of your Marines died on that black sand. So did 21,000 of his men. Including him. He never saw his three children again. Today, American and Japanese veterans return to that same island together. They lay wreaths side by side. The fallen of both nations rest in one place now. On the memorial stone there, his widow's words are carved in stone: Once enemies. Now friends. Never again.

@STARRSmission One day, I hope we can see this certificate in the Smithsonian. It’s that iconic.

SECNAV Hung Cao, USNA 1996, wrote this on the commission certificate of his USNA 2026 son who graduated today:

@trippytrinyc @SwiftySanders @StreetsblogNYC Omg I have never seen this before. This video alone is grounds to eliminate open streets. Unacceptable that firefighters have to waste critical time on this.

@SwiftySanders @StreetsblogNYC Whose lying? x.com/serpenttoes/st…

Rogue firefighters are attempting to kill a protected bike lane in Astoria, even though the Fire Department, the Department of Transportation and the mayor himself have approved the life-saving and long-overdue redesign of the deadly corridor. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/22/fir…

@hoshizorarock We got drenched here in NYC. Cars are floating in the streets!

アメリカ人よ🇺🇸 応答せよ！！応答せよ！！ こちらはすごい雨だ☔️ そっちの様子はどうだ？ 応答せよ！！応答せよ！！

@tuuu28283 They do. But yup is very casual. You wouldn't say it to certain people or in certain settings.

アメリカの兄弟達 日本人なんであんまりわかってないんだけど 英語のyesとyupは意味ってほとんど一緒？？

“I heard he’s a big MAGA person.”

@dokonikitai @vonstepsister In fairness, I think today’s episode show that they aren’t going to be following the book closely. This one was a huge departure from the text.

@vonstepsister Yes I read the book first and it’s really the main storyline them discovering they’re sisters I really don’t understand if the production team made that choice

No guys please 😭 If she’s not actually her daughter, then the production team really fumbled this one! #TheTestaments

@testamentshulu I still have faith in Garth. Those Eyes looked an awful lot like Aunts.

🚨 SPOILERS AHEAD 🚨 This is your official episode 9 debrief thread – Drop your reactions below. #TheTestaments

For the first time ever, my Congresswoman, Grace Meng, sent out a robo invite for a town hall. I’m listening in now. I think Democrat incumbents are worried about the midterms, judging by the tone of this call.