Marc Shaw

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Marc Shaw

Marc Shaw

@MarcShaw16

husband. dad. son. brother. dog wrangler. behavioral health architect/planner. grey haired runner. other things over time. i vent here. typos definitely mine.

Arlington, VA Katılım Haziran 2016
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Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦
There will be no effective way to convince future generations that this cultish veneration of a morally decrepit carcass of soulless humanity actually took place. I’m living through it, and I still can’t believe this is real life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar

Trump turns to Patel after Stephen Miller praises him for five minutes and says, "So Kash, see if you can top that. That's a tough one, Kash." "That is tough," Patel replies, and then he starts praising him too

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The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project@ProjectLincoln·
GOP Senator Kennedy admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown: "He said said 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said 'No deal.'"
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RandomWhiteGuy
RandomWhiteGuy@TheReelRandom·
I taught American Government for decades. Separation of church and state is about as basic as you get. It’s not just the 1st Amendment that makes this clear. Article VI, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits any religious test as a qualification for federal office or public trust. That’s also a clear separation between religious belief and your right to serve in elected office. My high school juniors understood this, but a sitting Senator doesn’t?
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Mykhailo Rohoza
Mykhailo Rohoza@MykhailoRohoza·
More than 340 retired U.S. generals, admirals, and national security experts have issued a public warning: Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy. The criticism has also been joined by prominent figures from his own administration — John Kelly and Mark Milley. The latter directly called Trump “the most dangerous person for the country.” Particular concern is being raised about his strategy toward Iran. Military experts consider it unjustifiably risky and poorly planned. Instead of clear objectives — contradictory statements; instead of dialogue with opponents — personal attacks and threats. Veterans warn that such an approach risks repeating the mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan, but on an even more dangerous scale.
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Marc Shaw@MarcShaw16·
@aakashgupta Look all the way back to Reagan busting the airtraffic controllers union when the wanted...wait for it....increased staffing to address dangerous conditions and increase safety.
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Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
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.
BNO News@BNONews

WATCH: New video shows Air Canada flight crashing into rescue truck at New York airport

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David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈
Just an Ice agent being paid to stand behind a TSA agent who's doing all the work but not getting paid at all
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Brad
Brad@BraddrofliT·
Here’s the part no one is saying: The next president won’t get a real first term. They’ll inherit a repair job. Rebuilding alliances. Restoring credibility. Undoing damage. An entire presidency spent fixing what Trump broke.
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Gunther Eagleman™
Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman·
🚨 BREAKING: Supreme Court hearing could OVERTURN mail-in ballot grace periods in up to 29 STATES! I say END mail in ballots completely. (Except military and disabled)
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Marc Shaw@MarcShaw16·
@GuntherEagleman A solution in search of a problem to solve, unless the problem is, "How can Republivans suppress voting?"
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Marc Shaw@MarcShaw16·
@mishtal @JenniferSD42001 Move those goalposts! Move those goalposts! Rah! Rah! Rah! It was "Iran is days from nuclear missles". Now it's, "Iran has medium range ballistic missiles with conventional warheads (that were only fired in response to an attack on Iran but dont say that part out loud)."
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David Collier
David Collier@mishtal·
Iran just fired missiles at Diego Garcia - 2,361 miles from Tehran. They were not supposed to have this range. Surprise, surprise, Iran lied! Tehran to London 2750 miles Tehran to Paris 2610 miles Tehran to Berlin 2200 miles So yeah, tell me again how Iran is not a threat
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Canada Hates Trump
Canada Hates Trump@AntiTrumpCanada·
The world was never under any threat by a “nuclear Iran” because Iran was never close to producing a nuclear weapon. However, the world is under the real threat of a nuclear Israel and nuclear USA, led by two leaders who are fucking criminally insane.
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The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸
@ChristnNitemare The “holy war” rhetoric justifying America’s attack on Iran is shocking, but the Reagan administration was already using Crusades imagery in military recruiting ads—as a dog whistle to Christian white nationalists—back in the 1980s. America didn’t become a theocracy overnight.
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸@adamross

@isaiah_bb This U.S. Marine recruiting ad with the knight and the sword from the Reagan era was designed to be Christofascist “Crusade porn”. Many of us warned at the time where going down that road would lead America, and 40 years later our democracy has reached its final destination.

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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
Steve Bannon: “We can use this, ICE helping at airports, as a test run, a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms. Mike Davis: “I think we should have ICE agents at the polling places” Saying the quiet part out loud.
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