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NEW: The FAA tells me it's rolling out its AI flight-routing tool nationwide. The goal? Fewer delays and shorter flight times. I got a look at how it works—including one flight the FAA says saved 42 minutes. But there are concerns about safety and oversight.
NEW: The FAA tells me it's rolling out its AI flight-routing tool nationwide. The goal? Fewer delays and shorter flight times. I got a look at how it works—including one flight the FAA says saved 42 minutes. But there are concerns about safety and oversight.
Basically every airport in the United States is frozen tonight, because at 3:54 p.m. Eastern on Friday the FAA’s command center put out an advisory titled “National Ground Stop,” ordering that departing flights stay on the ground until further notice “for reasons of safety,” and to understand how we got here you have to go back about 45 minutes earlier, when Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway suddenly got ground stops for what the FAA called an “equipment outage,” and air traffic control audio out of Chicago reportedly had controllers saying they were close to “ATC zero,” which is the term for when controllers literally cannot talk to or manage the planes, and Delta dispatch was apparently warning crews about frequency outages across the country, and then it spread, until Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that the problem was hitting ALL of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which are the 22 big regional facilities that handle planes once they’re up above 18,000 feet cruising between cities, so the part of the system that talks to planes mid-flight basically went quiet, and the FAA’s official explanation right now is a “temporary telecommunications outage,” and they say every flight in the air has been accounted for, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says there’s no sign yet of anything “nefarious” but that they aren’t ruling anything out, and CNN reports law enforcement officials preliminarily say it wasn’t a cyberattack, but here’s the part that should bother everyone, this is only the THIRD nationwide ground stop in American history, the first was 9/11, and the second was January 2023, when one corrupted file took down the pilot alert system and it turned out the backup had the EXACT SAME bad file, and three years later we’re back here again with an aging system that Washington let rot through administration after administration while spending money on just about everything else, and yes, some people are already rushing to blame the FAA’s new AI congestion tool, but nobody has shown any connection, so maybe we wait for actual facts this time, and meanwhile the stop has reportedly been pushed out to 11:30 p.m. Eastern, FlightAware is showing thousands of delays, and travelers are stuck at gates on a Friday night with no idea when they’re leaving, so basically you have a Chicago glitch, 22 centers losing comms, a nationwide ground stop with no clear end, and a system everyone has been warning about for decades, which is roughly where American air travel is tonight.
You're tellin me in 24 hrs, the NVidia CEO steps down in a spy scandal, all of Microsoft & Outlook goes down globally, a building collapses in NYC, a Tanker sinks a River cruise ship in New Orleans and now the FAA has grounded ALL flights across the country?! WTF is going on??
Decade-long smears from @adamfeuerstein vs. $NWBO achievements as of Q3 2026:
1) CEO Linda Powers loaned company $1M
2) US DCVax-L manufacturing 100% ready
3) UK GMP ready ahead of MHRA decision
4) Dr. Kalinski’s aDC1 goes live US Q4 2026
@NorthwestBio IP @ SNO with receipts!
Have a great weekend and holiday season.
Rock legend Steven Van Zandt is worried about the Jews: "There is that pre-Holocaust vibe. They spread lies around year after year after year, and if you say something often enough, people start to believe it."
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If you walk in Berlin's middle section you will suddenly notice a window in the floor with shelves that can holds 20,000 books located beneath your feet.
This is known as the Bebelplatz.
It is the place German Naz|s burned more than 20,000 books belonging to Jews and other people they disliked back in 1933.
The memorial was designed by Israeli artist Micha Ullman.
Guess who burned these books?
It was professors, and universities students who were deeply infatuated with Naz|sm and Antisemitism.
Remember this next time you wonder why academia is so silent and even complacent about the shocking rise of Antisemitism.
📷 Louis Alvaz
While retail chases an overleveraged AI bubble, Northwest Biotherapeutics $NWBO just filed a Q3 10-Q that quietly checks off every major operational box across the US, the UK, and the courtroom:
I. US GMP Manufacturing Is Online for DCVax-L & Going Live for aDC1 in Q4
Instead of waiting on delayed university cleanroom leases, NWBO completed full tech transfer, engineering runs, and validation for DCVax-L with a contracted US manufacturer. They also transferred Dr. Pawel Kalinski aDC1 technology to the exact same US facility while training is complete, engineering runs are underway, and US aDC1 production will be fully operational this quarter (Q4).
II. Taking Direct Control of Clinical Trials + Harvard-Affiliated License
To bypass slow academic grant cycles and university personnel shifts, NWBO built and trained its own internal clinical operations team, completed SOPs and regulatory filings, and officially selected the target indication for its first Company-sponsored trial across its in-licensed portfolio which is now confirmed to include Roswell Park, Pittsburgh, and a Harvard-affiliated hospital.
III. US Compassionate Use & Commercial Rollout
Alongside active UK MHRA engagement and July's BNOS individual-patient analysis confirming substantially greater Phase III GBM survival extension, NWBO is partnering with NHSBT (Leeds and Oxford) and a private hospital chain to expand leukapheresis and cell processing, advancing its Saudi pharmaceutical MOU toward a definitive agreement, and actively arranging with several US hospitals to bring Compassionate Use to the United States.
IV. Blood in the Water in the Market-Maker Lawsuit
Fact discovery closed August 28. One lesser market-maker defendant has already agreed to a confidential settlement (funds in escrow while NWBO negotiates settlements with other lesser defendants). Meanwhile, the remaining defendants, including Citadel Securities and Virtu, are fighting in court over the order requiring them to hand over their proprietary trading algorithms.
V. Tighter Financial Discipline
Owning Advent Bioservices cut Q3 R&D expenses by 44% ($4.2M vs. $7.5M) and 9-month operating costs by $12.5M ($34.6M vs. $47.1M), while 9-month common stock issuance dropped 83% YoY ($3.0M vs. $17.3M), backed by a $2.25M Delaware settlement gain and a $1.0M interest-free loan from CEO Linda Powers.
Manufacturing validated in the US and UK, aDC1 scaling up, market makers settling, and SNO 2026 podium data dropping this weekend.
Let's go NWBO!
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Germany's Merkel on Israel:
If you try to put yourself in the position of an Israeli prime minister, it is an incredibly difficult task.
If there is a bunker beneath every kindergarten and every hospital, and Hamas is sitting there, knowing that I can only destroy its position if I also attack what is above it, then the task becomes at least somewhat more complicated.
An Israeli prime minister must do everything to promise his citizens security, just as our citizens in Germany expect from those who govern them.
@MHRAgovuk Perhaps you should follow Dr. Caravello @andrewcaravello so you could learn a thing or two! 27,000 daily deaths from solid tumors. 1,059 days since submission of #DCVax MAA. That's 28,593,000 deaths while you have been "reviewing"! Where's the urgency!! $NWBO @DrOzCMS
"This is my grandson. He's your new boss."
The new manager shook her hand, smiling.
He said, "Grandad's talked about you every Saturday of my life."
He said, "When I applied for a store, I asked for this one. He made me promise to look after you."
Dot laughed. Then cried a bit. Then scanned the bananas.
Mr. Ellis paid. $14.20. Like always.
Then he picked up the flowers and held them out to her.
He said, "I've bought these every week for 54 years. I never had the nerve to give them to you."
Dot took Saturday off for the first time ever last week.
She and Mr. Ellis went for lunch.
A family discovered a bald eagle trapped in a tree on their property, still alive but unable to get free. To them, the eagle is a sacred animal, and finding it at this particular point in their lives felt like more than just a coincidence.
They knew they couldn't leave it there, so they did everything they could to get the eagle the help it needed and ensure it received proper care. ❤️🦅
WATCH: Gal Gadot's remarks at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Awards gala regarding the rise of antisemitism.
"If people continue to see hatred and look away, where does it end?" 💔
BREAKING: Whistleblowers have told House Democrats that the Interior Department is destroying records tied to Trump’s construction projects ahead of expected investigations, per CNN.
Several whistleblowers told staff on the House Natural Resources Committee in recent weeks that Interior is getting rid of records in anticipation of scrutiny, and that key documents may already be gone. Some also alleged that officials have used disappearing messages on apps like Signal, in ways that may violate federal records law.
$NWBO NOV 14th SNO Presentation by Robert Prins.
CTIM-19 3:45-3:52pm
PD-1 blockade following DC vaccination, compared with before vaccination, enhances T cell responses and extends survival in patients with recurrent GBM
Dr. Sonya Sloan: We have to say her name: Stacey Abrams.
This woman—I mean, kudos, standing ovation, hugs, kisses, everything that we can throw at her right now.
She spent more than a decade organizing Georgia. This didn't just happen by chance. She was registering voters. She was rebuilding the trust of the community politicians used to skip, right?
So this win stands on her work, on her shoulders.
And so now Georgia voters elected eight Black women to statewide offices, and all Democrats.
I’m not even a Schumer guy (feel free to do a search on my past tweets about him lol) so I can’t believe I’m the one laying this all out, but everyone seems to have memory holed this period, so here goes nothing.
From 2021-2022, when Democrats held 50 seats in the Senate (with VP Harris as a tiebreaker) — so they had zero votes to spare — Schumer got 97 federal judges confirmed to the bench (including Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court) and shepherded the following bills through to passage on their way to becoming law.
You can argue that these didn’t go far enough, he had the wrong priorities, that Build Back Better was a flop, etc. But it is objectively damn impressive that he was able to get all of these through with literally no room for error:
American Rescue Plan ($1.9T)
Huge economic stimulus package in the midst of the pandemic — provided $1,400 stimulus checks to eligible Americans; expanded unemployment & child tax benefits; funded schools, hospitals, small businesses, local governments, and COVID-19 vaccinations and testing.
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($1.2T)
Repaired roads and bridges, invested in public transportation and passenger rail, expanded broadband internet access, funded improvements to airports and ports, invested in electrical vehicle charging stations & upgraded drinking water systems.
CHIPS and Science Act
Provided over $50B in incentives to build more computer chip factories in the U.S. and research funding for semiconductor manufacturing to reduce our dependence on Chinese chips.
Inflation Reduction Act
Allowed Medicare to negotiate prices for certain prescription drugs, capped Medicare beneficiaries' insulin costs at $35 per month, extended Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies, offered tax incentives for electric vehiclesand clean energy, created a 15% minimum tax on certain large corporations, increased IRS funding to improve tax enforcementand collections.
PACT Act
Expanded healthcare coverage for veterans exposed to burn pits and toxic chemicals, made it easier for veterans to qualify for disability benefits, and added more VA healthcare facilities and resources.
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
Expanded background checks for gun buyers under 21, provided federal funding for state crisis intervention programs, invested in school security and mental health services.
Respect for Marriage Act
Protected federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages and required states to recognize valid marriages performed in other states.