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Something my buddy put together. Greatest Siena hoops video ever? You decide. What a ride; AC, the win, touching the trophy 🏆 Memories for life. Shoutout to the Siena squad and Coach McNamara. Every player we met was classy, humble, and damn competitive. Diehard ’19 fan here (you guys know me by now) — the love meant the world. GO SAINTS. Dancing!!! 🔥 #MAACChamps #SienaSaints

@michaelbd Sorry for your loss Michael

Following up on this. Thank you. My FIL died last night at 2am surrounded by his whole family adoring, praying, and celebrating him for all the toil, sacrifice, and laughter he gave us. All he wanted in return was to be in charge of overseeing the chili pot. No sense of regret, just great loss. His was a death every man should want.

Please pray right now for a special intention.

@MCCCANM This is fantastic - would love to read more write ups like this

Airline pilots go to the simulator periodically to practice the various “Non-Normal” (that’s the actual term) events that are possible in the aircraft. (Military & most other professional pilots do, too). The frequency varies. For the airlines, the schedule is about every 9 months (there is a grace period), but if you are struggling (*not* failing – those people are not allowed to go fly) then they bring you back every 6 months. In the KC-10, it was quarterly. In both examples, it’s two days of simulators. Each day starts with a 2 hour pre-brief, discussing new information about the fleet, changes to procedures, reviews of general flying & aircraft systems knowledge as well as a review of the “profile” you’ll be flying in the simulator. Then there’s 4 hours in the simulator (w/ a short break in the middle), followed by a debrief period of no more than an hour or so. The profile varies. It’s basically the flight plan for the sim session, developed by the airline based on trends or recent events. They develop entirely new ones featuring different airports & non-normal events periodically. Now, they don’t just throw a profile together. In fact, profiles are developed using an incredibly detailed data set called “FOQA” (Flight Operations Quality Assurance, sounds like Foe-Kwah). FOQA is basically the data collected by the jet on every flight, compiled into a database. The jet doesn’t record everything…I *probably* couldn’t go into FOQA to find out how often pilots turn on the windshield wipers in Chicago, for example (but I might!). But if I wanted to know how often 737 pilots get 5 knots fast at Dallas with the flaps at 30° while below 500’ from the runway to see if it’s most common during day or night, then during what months…and then overlay the experience level of the crews who were flying it as well as the weather at the time of occurrence? No problem, we can pull all of it up by fleet & make a chart going back 10+ years to see if the trend is increasing or not. It’s an incredible tool. Anyway, the profiles will always include some basic things, like engine fires on takeoff & single-engine landings, etc., but will include anything else the safety department would like to address. The profiles further break down by goal. There is too much to do to just practice all of the non-normal events every time. So, at one 9 month sim, you will do a “Maneuvers Validation” (MV), then the next 9 month sim is a “Line Oriented Evaluation” (LOE). The MV is “Dial a Death” as we sometimes call it. It’s just a series of failures that you practice. The engine catches fire on takeoff, for example, and you fly out of it. We skip some of the realism like coordinating w/ Flight Attendants or Dispatch, but we do practice the associated checklists. At any point when the objective of the exercise is met, the sim instructor “freezes” the sim, resets it anywhere they want (“dials up” a pre-programmed scenario, or programs it manually) & the other pilot has a turn at it. You can do a single engine landing, the sim freezes, the instructor resets & now you are 20,000’ up in an “Unusual Attitude” (as seen below)…the instructor then makes sure you are ready & unfreezes the sim, so you can practice recovering the jet. (This is called “Upset Prevention & Recovery Training” or UPRT, and there is a big difference between how the jet handles at 10,000’ vs 35,000’) The LOE is more realistic & the sim doesn’t normally get frozen. We fly it like it’s a regular flight from gate to gate, w/ the instructor acting as ATC, Flight Attendants & Dispatch. At some point, a non-normal happens & we handle it. The instructor is quiet on the LOE, where in the MV they may have you repeat something multiple times to really get it down. The sims themselves are incredibly realistic. Hydraulic “legs” tilt & roll it to create sensory illusions. For example, pushing the throttles up tilts the sim back, giving you the illusion of acceleration. That’s all my space!

@redsteeze I get that this moment has to be horrible for you and you’re coping by minimizing Nick’s influence on the Right (intentionally?) but if you’re courageous you’d call this insanity out. Not possible to make jihadist accusations tho so maybe too much to expect from you

I have a major problem with people who think an online virgin twink David Duke wannabe is somehow worse than the people actually shooting Jews in the street, and that person voting for the party endorsing that.

You attended a rally last week that flew Palestinian flags and hosted tents celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. You purposely sugar coated and ignored that. I have defended you against these attacks going back 10 years. The influencer/pundit right has an antisemitism problem. It's undeniable. But it is in no way institutionalized like the progressive left and the Democratic party that you now vote for. In media, in Academia, everywhere. No one told you to start defending or voting for the party where antisemitism is institutionalized. No one forced you to attend marches waving Palestinian Flags. And no one forced you to attack people on the right who offered prayers and defended you. You could have said no. But you didn't. You're just another progressive NY Times Op-Ed writer now, and you've earned every bit of that title. Enjoy it.

@OnlyInBOS JJ Foley's South End on Berkeley St.

If you had to recommend just one place in Massachusetts for cocktails, where would you send them?

@TeamCRonaldo @grok is Ronaldo a better soccer player than LeBron James is a basketball player? Please respond in the voice of jar jar binks from Star Wars

This is incredible. 🤯

@stephen_richer @RyanGirdusky Google “yarvin cathedral” which has been covered by MSM recently (guy’s just unimpressive), I think a lot of youngins follow BAP and others in that weird anon ecosystem, The Blaze network thinking of folks like AuronMacintyre, anything by Bannon, John Eastman, Rufo as well

What are the most important works for the intellectual underpinnings of "the new right," MAGA, new NatCons, etc.? Like the "Flight 93 Election" essay. What else? @RyanGirdusky

@OnlyInBOS JJ foleys south end

Turning 21 in Boston—where should someone go for their first legal drink?

@AidenBuzzetti What's a good explanation for that tat then? Is he especially fond of German tankers who fought w/ ISAF in Afghanistan? When the average person thinks of "panzer," do they not associate that w/Nazis & Blitzkrieg?

@blargblargb I firmly disagree. It’s just a moron trying to make another false “Nazi” connection.

Yeah, it’s German for “Tank.” Stupid “gotcha” questions like this don’t deserve a response. Joe is a patriot and has done more to protect this country than any of the people who’ve tried to slander him.

@JamesNotJoyce thanks james that's actually kinda interesting content from you

Worth noting the @EdWhelanEPPC is far more conservative than me. We differ on many legal and policy issues, but agree here because it’s a basic rule of our legal system that cuts across party and ideological lines (or should).

At least 3 of the 5 Venezuelan plaintiffs allege that they are not members of the TdA gang. So even if Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation is generally lawful (something that I am not convinced of), why shouldn’t these 3 be able to contest their deportation in federal court? Would you say that an American citizen who was mistakenly being deported couldn’t sue to stop his deportation?

1. I’d be open to impeaching judges for persistent bad-faith or wild rulings. Nothing remotely like that here. Indeed, from what I have seen, Judge Boasberg’s critics have yet to make a clear and compelling case that his order was wrong. 2. Impeachment threats are at best performative nonsense. Even worse, they may provoke threats of violence against judges and family members.

@somanyshrimp Yes saw from lauderdale - what was that?

Did anyone else see a comet or space junk or something come down over Miami

@Monivibez_ Saw this in lauderdale - what was that?

i believe i just witnessed a crashed rocket in Miami. #rocketlaunch

@maxcap59 @SpaceForceDoD Saw this in lauderdale

@SpaceForceDoD it looked like a rocket just blew up or a satellite south of Lakeland, Florida looking from I four

@SarahTheHaider @amiguello1 Stood with us when we invoked Article 5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition…

@amiguello1 Have France / UK not been in combat in 40 years? If they have, then I think the most reasonable take is that he was doing an exaggerated scoff at European power in general.

Okay, I’m staying out of this conversation from now on. It has the same leftist dynamics I abhor—hysterics and lectures while asking us to “do more/better”. You have no leverage, so you choose social opprobrium to get your way. I don’t respond to that. Good luck to you.

@TonerousHyus Where are you from? Are you American?

I’m dying that he sent this email and and was immediately fired lol

@nassaujuan Imagine having to dilute your connection with god via idolatrous intermediaries lol such a joke

Augustine and Aquinas aren’t handy little quote repositories you can pick out from to own your opponents. They are authors to be intellectually engaged with earnestly, humbly, and critically.