@LibertyLydia Imagine setting something up for developing minds (16-18) and indoctrinating them that any form of cohesive, blended, mixed societal values are..... Worse than just hanging around with other black girls
Wow
I live in London, in an area where white British people are now a minority — just 26%. (Likely even lower in 2026.)
I’ve just seen a fully funded Saturday school launched exclusively for Black girls in the area because they’re “ethnic minorities.”
Fine, give it to them.
But since we’re an ethnic minority here too, will native white girls get the same?
Or is “empowerment” reserved for everyone except us?
Maybe we should set something up ourselves? 🤔
@RobertMSterling@naomirwolf And this is exactly what most of us want.
Honesty. Transparency. An understanding of the reason our day just got significantly more complicated.
Hiding behind the gate staff or the cabin crew is never a good look. This captain did what they should all do.
I just had the craziest experience at the airport.
We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.
Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”
Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.
The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”
He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”
Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…
Start clapping.
I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.
All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.
It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.
@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.
Bill Maher: “Let’s get r*tarded—let’s get started.”
will-i-am: *Laughs*
Bill Maher: “I’m not trying to say the word r*tarded. I’m not like reveling in that we can say it again. It’s not that big of a deal. If you don’t want to hear it I’m sorry.”
“It’s just shows what a different place we were in 20 years ago.”
will-i-am: “If you’re in the studio… and the producer or conductor says ‘okay, on bar 24 we’re going to retard on bar 24.’ That’s a musical term.”
Bill Maher: “Good luck explaining that to Greta Thunberg because she’s going to f*cking kill your a$$.”
A conclusion that stunned audiences and immediately established this film as a classic..
Audiences in 1968 were stunned by the ending of Planet of the Apes, which revealed that astronaut George Taylor had been on a post-apocalyptic Earth all along, catching viewers completely off guard. With spoiler culture and twist-driven marketing still largely absent at the time, most audiences experienced the final reveal with no advance hint of what was coming.
The ending went on to become one of the most iconic moments in film history, helping cement the movie’s reputation as a sci-fi classic while also reflecting the era’s anxieties about nuclear war during the 1960s.
Members of the UK’s elite hunter killer unit Task Force Black, photographed under the Hands of Victory in Baghdad, 2007. Less than 150 men. Five years of work. A body count that helped break Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The composition was the magic. 22 SAS shooters, the Special Forces Support Group, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, 18 Signal Regiment, and a tightly woven net of intelligence operators. From 2004 to 2009, this small force took down more than 3,500 terrorists and dismantled AQI’s leadership pipeline night after night.
By the time they were disbanded in May 2009, the mission was finished. The enemy they were built to hunt had been reduced to a fraction of itself.
One of the most successful and least publicized special operations campaigns of the Iraq War.
🚨🎙️Joe Hart on Kai Havertz escaping a red card against Burnley, insists they’re doing to help Arsenal win the league:
“Listen, I’ve been in this game a long time as a player, now watching it closely and that challenge from Kai Havertz on the Burnley lad today is a stone-cold red card. Straight out of the IFAB Law 12 playbook: serious foul play.
You’re lunging in, studs showing high, minimal contact with the ball, endangering an opponent’s safety with excessive force. It’s reckless at best, dangerous and brutal at worst. The law is clear, ‘a tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent… must be sanctioned as serious foul play.’ VAR had a look and still bottled it. Yellow card? Come on.
If that was a Burnley player sliding into Saka or Ødegaard like that in the title run-in? Red card before he even hits the ground, three-game ban, headlines for days. But Arsenal? Nah, just a booking and carry on.
They’re doing everything, everything to help Arsenal win this league. Refs, VAR, the whole system. It’s not even subtle anymore. Big club protection on another level while teams like Burnley are fighting for their lives. How are we supposed to trust the integrity of the competition when decisions like this keep swinging one way?
Fans are fed up. Proper fans see it. This isn’t football anymore, it’s a scripted title charge. If Arsenal win it, a lot of people will have serious questions. Absolute shambles.”
@Boyzeee7@AFC_Monty_@SkySports as usual
Not even referring to Xavi "incident"
With Viera on and Carragher
It's why I don't pay you lot a penalty
CALL OUT THIS BULLSHIT DECISIONS YOU UTTER FUCKING PUSSIES
Havertz wasn’t sent off because there was no force in the tackle. Studs were high and he is very lucky. Couldn’t have complained if he was sent off.
No way near as bad as these 2. Which directly lost us a league title.
@xAviation Considering they were pretty much at V1, using all the options at hand to stop the plane before the end of the runway, which who knows what does it have, this was a great move to save countless lives.
Great pilot move!
@CaptRmm@xAviation I saw the same, but I think it might have seen a startle effect thing cause they seem to be in low speed regime watching how the airplane bounces very gently when it veers off the rwy. Difficult to see though.
@xAviation Why didn't the ground spoilers deploy on the left wing? Did they reject after V1, it looked like he was rotating, during loss of thrust the pilot let the nose come up and then lost directional control. Lots of questions, was it an overspeed?
@Trevorlloyd92 💯
Anything is going their way
ANYTHING
they'll still find a way to send of Romero and give Di Zerbi a red card for being out of his technical area
I'd be telling the Spurs players tomorrow not to give the ref or VAR am excuse to give any advantage to Chelsea. No silly fouls or anything in the box.
WATCH: A passenger onboard Croatia Airlines A220-300 captured the moment the aircraft veered off the runway during its takeoff roll at Split Airport.
📹: Neven Brnjas
@gantry_the1991@Turbinetraveler Could be pilot error or maybe a wheel/tyre issue. Some are speculating that the left engine may have suffered an issue and loss of thrust causing the plane to veer off the runway at that point but investigators haven’t commented publicly yet. Just glad no one was hurt!