Robert W. Mann, Jr.

So long as BNATCS fails to address root-cause drivers of the need for ATC intervention/infrastructure/staffing, no amount of money will ‘improve’ ATC, reduce congestion/delays, operators’/customers’ costs, or adverse impacts to investors/employees/economy. meritalk.com/articles/faa-m…

@HedgieMarkets Poor choice

🦔 NV Energy is cutting off power to Lake Tahoe's Liberty Utilities by May 2027, leaving 49,000 customers without 75% of their electricity supply. NV Energy said it can't continue the contract because of its "own resource needs." At a business event last September, an NV Energy executive said data centers have driven requests to triple the company's peak capacity, calling it "unprecedented times" and adding that they're "excited to serve this load" but "cannot impact our existing customer base." Liberty Utilities now has about a year to find replacement power, likely from sources outside California since it's not physically connected to California's energy market. My Take A utility is telling 49,000 residential customers to find electricity elsewhere because data centers need the capacity. That's the tradeoff being made explicit. NV Energy didn't frame it that way, but when your executive says data center requests would triple peak capacity and then you cut off a decades-long customer to meet your "own resource needs," the math is obvious. This is happening while AI companies burn through electricity at rates that would have seemed absurd five years ago. Jensen wants engineers using $250,000 in tokens per year. OpenAI is building data centers that need their own power plants. And now a ski town is being told to find power somewhere else because the grid can't serve both them and the machines. The NV Energy executive said they can't impact their existing customer base, but Liberty's customers are their existing customer base. They just decided which customers matter more. Hedgie🤗

@FurkanGozukara Diverting attention from a rush to war …

When Joe Wilson exposed the fake uranium intelligence, Dick Cheney's office literally leaked the identity of Wilson's wife, a covert CIA agent, to the press as revenge. They committed treason just to silence a whistleblower.

@davidshepardson @krisvancleave Then comes ‘mission creep’

Confirming @krisvancleave: Atlanta mayor says he expects ICE/HSI at ATL tomorrow and says deployment “not intended to conduct immigration enforcement activities”

@unusual_whales Right. ‘AI’ Arguably Inaccurate

Anthropic CEO: “AI will wipe out 50% of lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals within the next 12 months”

@micyoung75 Dissembling Mike Lee

Three things in this post deserve a direct answer. “Senate Democrats are still blocking DHS funding.” Democrats blocked the Republican bill that bundled TSA pay with full ICE and CBP funding — including no reforms after two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. They offered a split six times. Republicans blocked it six times. Cruz proposed the same split yesterday. The workers without paychecks are in agencies that have nothing to do with the immigration fight. “They’re still using lies.” Which ones. Name them. The documented record includes Trump’s own statement that the SAVE Act guarantees Republicans never lose for fifty years. Murkowski’s on-record warning that the push pre-positions a stolen election narrative. Those are not Democratic talking points. They are Republican senators speaking on the record. “We won’t stop until both of these problems are fixed.” Bundling TSA paychecks with a voting bill is the choice that created one of these problems. The families going without pay are not collateral damage of Democratic obstruction. They are collateral damage of a legislative strategy that treats their paychecks as leverage.

@SpencerHakimian ‘Retired’

🚨BREAKING: DEMOCRATS DEMAND JOHN FETTERMAN BE PRIMARIED

Engineered dysfunction, pretext for dismembering the ‘dysfunction’, replacing it with autocracy. A coup.

@princess_kim_k Fraud

And we all fell for this shit hook, line and sinker- What a fraud- We should do a class action lawsuit for misrepresenting himself to his voters

@Scaramucci Distraction and diversion from career-ending files and Kompromat is Job One.

Let me tell you exactly how Trump thinks. He operates unilaterally. He thinks he’s smarter than everybody. When his advisors told him Iran might close the Strait or attack our allies he said — they're not going to do that. And then he had to admit to the press that he did not expect Iran to launch missiles at a 9 to 1 ratio against our allies versus Israel. Let's be honest about what actually happened. He went in unilaterally. Didn't sell it to the American people. Didn't consult our NATO allies. We have 25 years of evidence that we’re not good at regime change. We went from the Taliban to the Taliban. We spent 20 years and trillions of dollars and came full circle. We went from Khomeini to Khomeini in less than a Scaramucci. The biggest brain in the room couldn't see that coming.

@mcsquared34 Own-goal

Impressive. This guy ended his entire political career in only one term. 🤡

So Trump wants Obama’s deal back, except with his name on it. Got it.

@FurkanGozukara He broke it, he can pay for it.

Netanyahu is panicking. He admits on camera that he and Trump are desperately trying to drag Europe and the rest of the world into their disastrous war. He is begging the international community for help because the US and Israel cannot win this alone.

@Scaramucci @NotHoodlum And then he turns on each and every one…

Let me explain the sinister nature of what Trump actually does to people. He asks: are you loyal to me? Yes. Good. No forever wars. Are you with me? Yes. No forever wars. Then he starts the wars. And now he needs you to be with him on the wars too. And then the Epstein files come out. Allegations involving children. And he needs you to look the other way on that too. That’s the mechanism. That’s how it works. He moves the goalposts incrementally. Each ask is slightly more compromising than the last. And by the time you realize how far you’ve traveled from your own principles you are so deep in that you can’t find your way back. Loyalty to Trump doesn’t mean loyalty to an idea or a policy or a vision for the country. It means asymmetric, unconditional, no-questions-asked loyalty to whatever he decides is true today. You have to understand the sinister nature of that to understand what is really happening in Washington right now. This isn’t politics. This is a loyalty trap.

@kenklippenstein With a ‘friend’ like that, who needs enemies?

"I consider Markwayne Mullin a friend." x.com/kenklippenstei…

No, Lindsey, “we” didn’t do Iwo Jima. Almost 7,000 Americans who died and 19,000 who were wounded did Iwo Jima. And they did it to fight for our freedom—with the support of Congress and the American people.

@harryjsisson @atrupar Actual Presidential comments:

This is insane. Scott Bessent just defended Donald Trump’s comments on the death of Robert Mueller. Absolutely pathetic.