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JUST IN: Fire, smoke seen at Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas amid reports of explosion.

i can’t say i have any desire to support a guy that backs orban (clearly a guy that’s compromised)

The CIA discussing how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (it was completely open 3 weeks ago)

BREAKING: Iran says the war will continue until all sanctions are lifted and war damages are paid by the United States

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.

IRAN THREATENS TO CUT HORMUZ INTERNET CABLES WHICH HANDLE ~18% OF GLOBAL TRAFFIC

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“Trump’s people are suddenly making visits and deals in places like Hungary and Belarus with autocratic leaders where the US has little or no interests, but that are of high importance to Putin. This is not a coincidenc." - Garry Kasparov

honestly this is the rational response - better to de-escalate than to strike power plants and risk regional water

@adamscochran @barnes_law iran would likely respond with terminal strikes on the region’s desalination facilities aiming to create a crisis and sharpening inequality

Striking civilian electrical infrastructure is a war crime. The President is threatening war crimes because of an oil price. Congress must impeach, or the cabinet must invoke the 25th amendment. This is unacceptable and outside of the authority of the President.

🥒 cucumber?! translation is broken

@YIMBYLAND that’s not expensive

I just paid $4.50 for gas. In Texas.

An email will never find him

@CRUDEOIL231 government issued trash bags? why?

I’m currently in SK Seoul, and here, you have to throw out your trash in government-issued prepaid bags. That’s the rule. Two days ago, news broke that the Korean Ministry of Environment had launched an investigation into nationwide inventory after reports showed that bag manufacturers only had a month’s worth of raw materials left. With the Strait of Hormuz facing a potential blockade, the supply of naphtha has tightened, leading to growing concerns over production hiccups for the polyethylene bags made from it. My wife nagged me to go out and buy some in advance, so I just got back from the convenience store. I was curious, so i slipped the clerk a few bucks and asked some questions. "How much has the volume of sales increased compared to usual?" "At least several times over." "Is there enough stock here?" "I’m not sure. The owner told me not to sell more than two bags per person from now on." "Does it seem like ppl are panic-buying after seeing the news?" "Yeah i think so. Just in case i even told my boss and set a few aside for myself." This is happening in a country with the world’s fourth-largest ethylene production capacity. Right now it’s just a minor anecdote tucked away in a corner. But in two weeks, this will be felt everywhere on the planet. By then there won’t be any "nothing’s going to happen" talk or pointless questions. The clock is ticking at this very moment. #oott #iran

this is what the irgc is trying to do to israel over the next few years

fertilizer and helium supplies are the biggest concerns right now oil and bonds secondary

five words. 20 years. unfinished.

"We are not at war," Johnson said. "We have no intention of being at war." Excuse me, this is war. Even those in favor of it will admit that much. Changing the real meaning of words does not relieve Congress of its Constitutional duty to authorize War. newsweek.com/thomas-massie-…

Havoc Harbinger took her maiden full-power voyage, a 40-foot semi-submersible surrogate autonomous low-profile vessel (ALPV) designed for contested logistics and autonomous resupply. Designed, built, integrated and on the water in under 30 days. The hull was printed and delivered in 9 days, after which integration took less than a week. Harbinger is a subscale platform—roughly 50 to 60 percent of intended size—built to test and operate the behaviors necessary for today's battlespace. The past two week's exercise put those behaviors to work: Harbinger operated alongside a fleet of autonomous systems, testing coordinated logistics where operators task vehicles to move, resupply, unload, and return autonomously and undetected. Low-profile, low-draft, and fully autonomous, Harbinger performs at the pace the mission demands. A big thanks to Haddy whose large-format additive manufacturing made it possible to produce and deliver the vessel at speed, and to @ceadgroup, whose printers have the capacity to deliver a hull at this scale.

🎖 Zelensky awarded the Order "For Courage" of the 2nd degree to the crew of "Predators of the Heights", who shot down an enemy Ka-52 with a drone 🔹Soldier Yuriy Andrusenko 🔹Soldier David Nechypasa 🔹Junior Sergeant Serhiy Slepko 🔹Junior Sergeant Vadym Shapoval