Billy Bahru

Husband, father, veteran, coach

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@EricLDaugh That’s dastardly!

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@LCLChicago1966 @Osinttechnical 100% valid

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@mnwild This is why it’s not advisable to brag about performance partway into a game.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@DanielsRho2328 @ArmandKleinX Simplistic virtue signaling that has zero relevance in dealing with the issue. Our ancestors were settlers, not immigrants. Immigrants come into a country that has established borders, culture, identity. Settlers arrive to a land that has not yet been developed into a country.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@Underrated_Dom @Coinvo @luarlord2 Hmm. Worried that you and your pedophile friends are under the gun?

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@aakashgupta Spot on. When accidents like this occur, is all too easy to focus on the performance error of one individual vs assessing the organizational shortfalls that put that individual in a bad position to continually operate under.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@LeaderJohnThune You have the majority in the Senate. You can’t point fingers and shift blame. Either get it done or step aside and let someone who has a spine lead the Senate.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@CuriosityonX Stop, drop, and roll.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@SenatorHassan Showing an ID is not disenfranchising. Having an election swayed by illegal voting is. The American people want secure elections first and foremost. Your unwillingness to support this speaks volumes regarding the tactics the Democratic Party intends to employ.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@LeaderJohnThune Stop trying to turn this into a logical argument. Democrats want to be able to cheat on elections, so they don’t care what makes sense. They only care about cementing power with a one party system. You can’t reason with them. Nuke the filibuster.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@LeaderJohnThune I’m sorry, do the Republicans have the majority right now in the Senate? Are you more beholden to arcane Senate procedures than the integrity of our elections? There’s nothing in the Constitution protecting the filibuster.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@usanewshq I thought that was the look they gave when they can’t move any muscles in their face.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@LeaderJohnThune Stop being such a pussy and make it happen. I’m starting to think the Dems have enough dirt on you that you don’t do anything without their permission.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@IanJaeger29 Some of these scumbag politicians would actually rather be in the minority party. Much easier to sit back in the cheap seats and criticize the other party than be responsible for fixing issues in our country, and easier to remain on the gravy train.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@JonnyRoot_ Especially given Gudas’ history. This is bad for the game. People come to watch players like Crosby and Matthews, not knuckle draggers like Gudas. If I wanted that, I’d save $150 per ticket and watch an FPHL game.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@LeaderJohnThune How about removing “Leader” from your title. A true leader would get the necessary votes from his majority party to push through legislation that the people want. You are more concerned with maintaining the status quo in order to enrich yourself.

[Teri @tbackfield]

Congress is broken and no longer works for the people. COS project is working to fix it. Only 14 more states needed to call a convention. @COSProject COSAction

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

John Thune … “we don’t have the votes to remove the filibuster.”

A real leader would be able to get the votes.

Nancy Pelosi always got the votes because she would remove you from all committees and give you $0.00 for your reelection.

John Thune is no leader. He’s a pathetic sellout coward.

[Billy Bahru @BahruBilly]

@streetmgkgva @lporiginalg Yeah, this kind of stuff didn’t help.