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interestingly, I had a conversation with a Lyft driver the other day that might shed some light as to why the firing of 3,000 air traffic controllers is more dangerous than you think

A few years ago - around 2020/2021, a lot of air traffic controllers aged out. The job has an early retirement age, but also is six days a week. It *also* has a maximum hiring age of about 29 or 30.

So, mass turnover has been pretty recent and the industry is still recovering. And you can bet that an already lowered population being reduced by 3,000 people is going to fuck over a lot of airports, and the general safety of aircraft, in addition to all of the shady shit Boeing has been up to in the past few years.

There were multiple systematic failures that caused this crash that were only exacerbated more by Trump's election into office.

”there has been a dire shortage of trained air traffic controllers for years”

“the FAA director resigned on inauguration day because Elon Musk demanded he quit”

“trump’s hiring freeze means no new air traffic controllers are being hired”

“Musk’s ‘resign or get fired’ email went to every ATC too”

First deadly commercial air crash in the US since 2009 occurs

“It’s because of DEI!”

holy shit fuck off

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Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

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Reposting this from a friend bc I think it is VERY important to know of this, and for immigrants, and other possible victims of the ICE Raids happening right now

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/

So, the facts are, most universities in the US are kept in business by grants. Professors and researchers apply for grants, grants pay their salaries, their equipment, their space, their travel, and their students. This includes Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Project Assistants etc. this is true across pretty much all academic disciplines. Often what this means is, the professor does their thing, their TA teaches the bulk of classes, students get taught, all while the university makes a profit.

If you kill grants, you kill all of this. This will give universities the excuse to cut tenured faculty, because the university can't afford them directly. This will cut grad students, because this is the only way grad students are paid for. With no grad students, many classes will suddenly not have teachers. Classes will be cut, teachers fired, and the universities will likely have to increase tuition to make up the difference. Knowing universities, they will not cut the number of incoming students coming in (that's their money!) so now classrooms will be packed to the gills with professors that are both underworked and underpaid.

This is just one segment of the people being impacted by this week of horseshit, but believe me, colleges will be permanently altered.

But isn't this just temporary, you ask? Possibly. Much of this is likely to be permanent, definitely in my field. This is coming from the executive order that includes

So anything that can be argued as "woke", "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies" will not be funded. You can tell those words are squishy to the point of meaningless, but that's the point. Anything can be squished into those categories. Certainly my ecology work is toast.

Anyway if you see a scientist or an academic or a doctor or what have you, please be kind to us. This is... unprecedentedly bad

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To reiterate:

Trump's transphobic Executive Orders regarding healthcare and Federal documents are currently unenforceable and are not current actionable policy of the Federal government.

Do not despair.

Do not panic.

And most importantly: do not comply in advance.

Staying alive is a radical act as a trans person in Trump's America.

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It's an open notes test and some dense motherfuckers still can't figure out the answers.

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The threat was loud and clear: Report your so-called “DEI” employees or else. What exactly “DEIA or similar ideologies” means is up in the air, but the message was out there. And so was the email address of the DEIA snitching hotline. Fake emails quickly started to roll in. ‘I don’t care, fuck these McCarthyite bastards,” one BlueSky user said, with an screenshot attached of an email to the hotline where he ironically reported Donald Trump and JD Vance for being “put in their positions solely because of their race and/or gender despite the fact that they are wholly unqualified for their jobs and, in some cases, have criminal records.” “Anyone have a script to fire off a billion e-mails an hour??” another user asked in the replies. “Anyone can email anything of any size even if it crashes the site,” one X user noted. The scope and effectiveness of this latest phase of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade remains to be seen.

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I love you, George Takei.

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Never Again Is Now

Never again is now—

When their hands rise, stained with deceit,

Acting like we’re blind, like we can’t see

The blood still fresh from before.

Never again is now—

When they gag our voices,

Shoving silence down our throats,

As if we’ll swallow their lies again.

Never again is now—

When they twist reality,

Force-feeding us their sick illusions,

Like we’ve forgotten their games of control.

Never again is now—

When they target the powerless,

Pointing fingers at the innocent,

Daring us to watch in silence.

You don’t have to love us—

But if you have a soul, fight.

Fight for justice, fight for truth.

Stand with us now,

Because never again is right now.

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Rewrote my earlier poem since I am getting angrier by everything happening. Feel free to share.

Nie wieder ist jetzt - Never again is now

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musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn't belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

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HE WOULD JUMP OUT A WINDOW TO AVOID AN ARGUMENT

HEAR ME OUT

Nai’o x PC Cinderella AU. Nai’o as Prince Charming. Sweet, loyal, will jump out a window. God, I love him.

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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I've seen Cabaret, Newsies, Hadestown, and Les Miserables are trending now bc how relevant these songs are

This is your gentle reminder that theater is political

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