Damon Young

I write. Many times, it's scary. Occasionally, it's funny. Sometimes, it's both. But I hope that, every time, it's something you didn't expect.

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

So, it's out. My latest (and definitely not last) THE TAKERS
Have you read it? I know some of you have
If so, I would LOVE you to post your review. I cannot overstate how big of a help that would be to help it reach a broader audience

So please review!
https://t.co/tKrktsutsx

[Julie Carmen @JulieCarmen3]

Deeply saddened to read about the passing of Sam Neill, my John Trent, who lived life to the fullest, with grace and gusto, who I had the privilege of delving into the great beyond with. What a profound loss for the world. https://t.co/JPjIQJCrZ0

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

You never know when a title shot might just fall out of the sky....

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

I’m calling it now.

#summerslam @WWERollins vs @WWERomanReigns

Turnabout is fair play

#SummerOfPunk

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

How amazingly poetic

[The Doors @TheDoors]

Long before music videos became standard, Jac Holzman had an idea: create a film to help introduce The Doors’ debut album and first single, “Break On Through.”

Directed by Mark Abramson and filmed entirely on Jac’s 16mm camera, the performance footage was shot on a dark soundstage with colorful lighting and later synced to the studio version of “Break On Through.” The film was then distributed to television stations, theaters, and music venues to help introduce audiences to the band.

Watch it here: https://t.co/oJuxa1Qvx2

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

Dude, keep shining

[Sami Zayn @SamiZayn]

We did it.

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

I cannot wait to see @_trickwilliams face the first time he comes face to face with the new @WWE undisputed champion, @SamiZayn

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Republicans are going to make you the poster child for the Democratic Party.

Mamdani: Let them. We don’t have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last six months, what we’ve delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

We’ve delivered free child care for two-year-olds for the first time in New York City history. We’ve delivered tens of millions of dollars back to tenants who were taken advantage of by bad landlords. We’ve delivered 165,000 potholes being paved. And we’ve done all of these things while also delivering the lowest recorded crime in our city’s history.

That’s what it looks like to have democratic socialism. And what you’re seeing is that New Yorkers experienced this for six months and made the decision that they wanted to see more of it on the national stage as well.

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

Is it possible that @Obaofwwe could face both @BrockLesnar AND @WWERomanReigns, back to back, in the same night at @WWE #Summerslam?

Not a triple threat, but more like @BretHart at WM10.

[N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S @scottderrickson]

“The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer. And we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.” — Irving Thalberg, President of MGM Studios from 1924-1936

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

"I find, in being Black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness." — Ossie Davis

[NBA @NBA]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆

New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS

A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since.

He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE.

What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried.

Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight.

When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse.

This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long.

In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them.

@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010.

A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015.

France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew.

John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years.

Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything.

BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected.

John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record.

This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation.

If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments.

I will add media coverage links in the comments section.

Sources:
@AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association)
@BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan)
gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive)

@BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air.

@heraldtweets
@WSJ
@FlightGlobal
@TheCanaryUK
@the_ecologist

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

Just finished reading Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and I had to stop and take a picture when I got to the famous line about the United States:

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

OMG- thanks for the like, @ImChelseaGreen ! Now go kick some asses and win some gold, girl!

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

Or, maybe, an “Obsession” angle with @ImChelseaGreen and @tiffstrattonwwe.

Thank would kick ass.

[Damon Young @dayfornight]

Are we going to get a ‘Single White Female” angle between @ImChelseaGreen and @tiffstrattonwwe ? Because that could be amazing.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Silence can help us most to recognize the voice of God, since it fosters attention and recollection. Freed from the noise of a thousand voices, we come to recognize that some voices deceive our desires, others buy us without nourishing us, and still others speak out of self-interest. In silence, we understand that ideologies pass away, while truth remains. https://t.co/lbaMqHx1cJ