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@mlalex43 @iMajorWish Race-predominant districts get strict scrutiny and are often illegal. Partisan ones based on voting patterns are not. High correlation in the South just makes them look similar.

@bama_flyer @iMajorWish And how do the results of using these two data sets differ from that which would result from using raw census data?

Census data doesn’t track political party. So when Republicans say these gerrymandered maps are “partisan, not racial,” they are admitting somebody looked at where Black people live in the South, and made deliberate choices about who gets power and who doesn’t. Jim Crow just upgraded from literacy tests to algorithms.

@alchemy_sc35895 @DefiantLs And there are exactly zero men that can.

@DefiantLs There are millions of biological females who cannot get pregnant.

This was painful to watch. I don't know if she genuinely believes it or just trying to tip toe around the fragility of that ideology.

@sugarandsorrow @WajahatAli The courts didn’t overturn an election. The Virginia constitution did. Because it was an unconstitutional election. The courts only affirmed that fact.

@WajahatAli He can courts overturn the vote of the people? This is insane to me.

Thanks, Supreme Court. You're waking up the majority and radicalizing us. You're becoming more illegitimate by the day. Bring it.

@BillKristol You can’t be pro Constitution and a Democrat.

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

@GovernorVA The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to uphold Virginia’s state constitution. That’s what you meant.

The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election and the votes of more than three million Virginians. These Virginians made their voices heard — casting their ballots in good faith to push back against a President who said he’s “entitled” to more seats in Congress before voters go to the polls. As Governor, I will make sure voters know when and how to cast their votes this year. Because our votes are how we choose the representation we deserve.

HAPPENING NOW: Democrat Florida State Rep Angie Nixon is staging a sit-in by herself in Governor DeSantis’ office, and threatening she will not leave until he meets with her I was informed by Democrats that this is an insurrection! She should be arrested and throw in prison

@AlexLanfran @ChristinaPushaw

@DemzDeliver Don’t mess with preemptive pardons!

🚨 NEW: Congressman Jamie Raskin introduces legislation to ban presidents from selling pardons.

@GavinNewsom @brotherjones_

MAGA Tennessee Republicans want to erase the only Black-majority district in the state. @brotherjones_ stood up and FOUGHT. Then he was stripped of his committee assignments. Let's call this what it is: VOTER SUPPRESSION. Voting rights are civil rights. History will remember who stood where.

@hissgoescobra @BadLegalTakes Here’s another one.

This is completely illegal. You can’t deny an entire state Medicaid reimbursement. There are specific procedures when there’s an issue with an individual person’s claim. This will get shot down in court immediately. JD Vance is a dictator wanna-be without the charisma.

@Daveytrentennis @charlescwcooke @RobGeorge It’s the Senate’s job to advise and consent nominations. The Senate advised the White House to choose another nominee, as Garland’s hearing would be a waste of time. That’s not changing the size of the court.

@charlescwcooke @RobGeorge Charles, republicans changed the size of the court for a year in 2016

I have a great deal of respect for Gregg, but debating the size of the court isn’t a threat to the Constitutional order. Court size falls under congressional purview. In fact the Republicans changed court size twice in reaction to the Andrew Johnson administration. Prior to that, the court size changed due to country (and district) expansion — a legitimate recommendation Khanna is floating. That said, limiting specific terms likely requires a constitutional amendment which is unlikely.

South Carolina, where the first shot of the civil war was fired, where 40 percent of those enslaved came through the Charleston port, is today engaged in an ugly recidivism to draw maps that will deny a Black person the chance to serve in Congress. The stakes could not be higher. Our political fight is not on a playground, but a moral battleground. We must stand for Black representation across the South.

@TheTNHoller @CSexton25 Maybe those Dems should act like adults.

So not only did TN Republicans strip Memphis of representation, Speaker @CSexton25 is also stripping Dems of committees for protesting it. Watch fascism work. wsmv.com/2026/05/12/mul…

Mayorkas: Biden administration should have ramped up border controls sooner dlvr.it/TSVkF0

@MCCCANM @mikejz My 2 cents: Whenever we saw oil fumes in the C-130, it was almost always AC pack oil seeping in the system.

@mikejz I’ve seen this becoming a thing, mostly on Airbus jets. I don’t really know what to think. The 787 has a very different air design not connected to the engines the same way & it sounds smart.

I find myself frequently explaining the air systems of an airplane in replies, so let’s do a post to try & answer questions. I’ll base everything on the 737, but most jets are similar. At the gate as you board, air comes from one of two sources: Ground Air (called PCA, or Pre-Conditioned Air) which is basically a big air conditioner mounted on the jet bridge, or the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) which is a small turbine engine in the tail, providing both electrics & pneumatics to the jet when the engines are off. I usually find the PCA gets too warm in the summer. It pumps out good air, but for whatever reason the jet gets warm. It might be because it travels to the jet via a big yellow hose that attaches to the belly & that hose is out in the sun. I don’t know. In any event, the APU pumps out a little more air than the PCA, and I can control the temperature better. At my airline, they don’t let us run both APU air & PCA at the same time, as they fear over pressuring the ducts, but I hear other airlines do. I have done it in the past & watched a duct shut itself off…thankfully it came back on when I shut off APU air. Anyway, when you disconnect PCA at the gate, you switch to APU. They also remove ground electrics at that time, which the APU takes over for as well. (The APU air path is not included in the diagram below, but it’s the best I can find) Then we push back from the gate. During engine start, there is a brief period that we divert APU air to the engine. This spins the engine, which allows us to introduce fuel & ignition. Once the first engine is started (the right one, number 2), we take air from it to supply the cabin. Pay attention here: even though the APU is not supplying air to the cabin during this moment, you’ll notice some air is coming out of the vents, albeit at a lower pressure. We’ll talk about that in a second. For simplicity’s sake, just understand the engines supply cabin air the rest of the way. We can use the APU, but we shut it down as soon as the engines are running. No need to waste fuel. All of these air sources go through a process of cooling via a heat exchanger (I’m simplifying), except the PCA…because, as it says in the name, the PCA is pre-conditioned. Anyway, once brought down to temperature, it goes into the “Mix Manifold”. The Mix Manifold is where the outside air meets the recycled air, taken from the cabin. Remember how there is still air coming from the vents when the APU air is diverted to start the engines? That’s because the “Cabin Recirculation” fans (there are two) are always on & pulling air from the cabin to go into the Mix Manifold. The “Recirc Fans” are just left on at all times, unless we have smoke in the cabin & need to stop circulating it. They also turn off automatically when we shut the battery off on the last flight of the day. They can turn themselves off under some conditions of the engines, but that’s not meaningful to your understanding. Just remember that those switches are left in “on” & we don’t touch them unless an emergency checklist tells us to. So, the Recirc Fans are constantly pulling air from the cabin through a big HEPA filter. They push that air into the Mix Manifold, where it mixes with PCA, APU or engine air & gets distributed to the cabin. On landing, we start the APU back up. It will take over air & electrical duty from the engines so we can park at the gate, then reconnect PCA & ground power. Once they are connected, the APU is shut down. You may wonder what the term “PACK” means in the diagram. This refers to the air-conditioning “packs” for each engine. We just call them packs, but it’s where the heat exchangers I referred to earlier are (it’s more complicated than that, but it won’t help your understanding). Now, it’s possible to have the engines off, no PCA & no APU at the gate. That’s not the norm, but even in this scenario the recirc fans are still pushing air. It just doesn’t get cooled, so the jet gets hot. Hope that helps!

@MCCCANM Speaking of AC… I know you’ve seen this (it’s a USAF classic), but sharing for your followers. 😝 youtu.be/B4VCV_z52GU?si…

@MCCCANM @DJSnM I need this installed on my Citabria.

@DJSnM Now that is cool!

So I just found this in a hangar and the owner let me take it off his hands. Would love to make this simulator work again.

@ewarren You might be shocked to learn this, but all SC justices were hand picked by a president.

Let’s be clear about what this means: Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court is silencing Black voters. This is the Republican plan to try and hold onto power. We must fight back.