🚨 BREAKING: Active shooting in Washington, D.C., less than a mile from the White House.
Police say AT LEAST FOUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SHOT near 15th and P Street NW. It happened just after 8 a.m., at or near a gym in a packed neighborhood.
MPD says the suspect is a WHITE MALE, HEAVY BUILD, wearing gray shorts and carrying a BLACK GUN. At last update he was NOT in custody, and local media report he may be barricaded in a nearby apartment building.
FBI, Homeland Security, ATF, U.S. Marshals and the National Guard are all on scene. 🙏🏻
If you're in the area, STAY AWAY and follow police.
Pray for the victims. This has to be stopped.
Ilhan Omar apparently wants MAGA to see this. Let’s help her. 👀
Yes, this is a REAL repost. I went directly to her X account and checked it myself.
She reposted Alex Cole’s victory lap ending with: “Hey MAGA... Allahu Akbar 🤣🤣🤣”
An elected representative amplifying a religious taunt aimed at millions of Americans.
But please, lecture us again about tolerance, unity, and respecting people with different beliefs. 🙄
Dear Dave Chappelle,
You are not the same human being you once were. You are no longer a champion of compassionate freedom of thought, a person who makes people question their prejudices and preconceived judgements. An entertainer who asks their audience to open their minds and hearts more.
Dave, you are now a champion of senseless violence who embodies the base ugliness of our body politic.
Nobody deserves to die for engaging in conversation. And no one should “feel better” after the violent murder of a husband, a father, a son and a friend. No human being deserves that.
I remain your friend and hope that you will come back to your great spirit of generosity and compassion that earned you the love and respect of so many of us.
Love,
Rob Schneider
🚨 Trump admitted the Iran war likely cost Republicans votes by raising gas prices, but said stopping a nuclear Iran left “no choice.”
“You have no choice. You have to do it. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon or everything that you see here someday might not exist.”
Air traffic control told a JetBlue pilot the storm in front of him was just light rain. He said "Not from here, ma'am," declared an emergency, and turned the plane anyway.
The FAA's own manual backs him up. ATC radar can't see turbulence, and a center controller's storm picture can run 6 minutes behind.
JetBlue 1971 was climbing out of Fort Lauderdale for Austin back in September. Storms were building west of the airport, and the field's weather station had reported lightning 33 minutes before they left. The crew asked to turn left around a cell. The controller said no, take 270, there's traffic, you're going in a gap.
When he asked if she was really sending them through a severe thunderstorm, she said she was showing light precipitation.
Her screen probably did say that, which is the scary part. In controller language, "light" just means the rain is bouncing back a weak radar signal, under 26 dBZ. The FAA flat out warns pilots that turbulence near a storm can be way worse than the rain makes it look, and ATC radar has no way to measure it. Meanwhile the A320 has its own weather radar in the nose, aimed right at the cell and updating live.
The controller was also doing a different job. The FAA says her number one priority is keeping planes from hitting each other, and helping with weather is something extra she does when it doesn't get in the way of that. The manual even admits weather detours are hardest to give around a busy airport. So when she said "unable, there's traffic," she was doing the job exactly the way it's written.
That's what the word "emergency" is for. Federal rules let a captain ignore an ATC instruction in an emergency as long as he tells them right away, and from then on the controller moves the other planes around him. The paperwork everyone's worried about is one written report, and only if the FAA asks for it.
It didn't even make them later. They left Fort Lauderdale 76 minutes behind schedule, got to Austin 48 minutes behind, and the same plane flew back to Florida that afternoon.
Two days ago, over the same part of Florida, a Learjet 60 that took off from Austin, the city JetBlue 1971 was headed to, appears to have flown into a storm cell that was building fast over Palm Beach County at about 35,000 feet. The crew reported ice and moderate turbulence and asked to climb to 37,000, and ATC said yes. Then the jet dropped roughly 27,000 feet in about a minute and showed signs of breaking up before it hit the ground. All nine people on board died, including two little kids.
The NTSB hasn't said what caused that crash, and it'll likely be a year or more before anyone knows. The JetBlue tape shows the system working the way it's supposed to. When the controller and the captain disagree about a storm, the rules give the final call to whoever's actually sitting in the airplane.
Let me tell you something absolutely BONKERS from last night’s midterms…
Democrat Ericka Lomick just “won” Texas House District 93 despite being a convicted felon who suspended her campaign months ago.
She pleaded guilty in 2011 to federal charges including mortgage-fraud conspiracy, bank fraud, and money laundering. Her sentence? 63 months in federal prison.
On her candidate paperwork, she checked the box claiming she had not been finally convicted of a felony. After her criminal record surfaced in September, she suspended her campaign and stopped running.
But Texas election deadlines had already passed, so her name remained on the ballot for both the regular general election and the special election.
And voters still elected her by roughly 51–49%.
Here’s the kicker: Under Texas law, a final felony conviction generally makes someone ineligible to hold office unless they’ve been pardoned or had their disabilities released.
Meaning she can’t actually serve. Her “victory” simply creates a vacancy and triggers yet another special election.
A convicted federal fraudster who quit campaigning still got elected to the Texas House.
Let that absolutely sink in.
So Democrats, now that you have control, by February next year, I better have gas under $2, free healthcare, all the Epstein files released, free food, and free education.
Also, we don’t want to hear it’s Trump’s fault anymore, because you all have total control now.
🚨Nathalia Gadelha's first instructor and mentor has posted a statement.
I write these words unequivocally…
I was one of Nathalia’s first instructors and mentor.
She was without a doubt the most naturally gifted pilot I have ever taught, and I have been teaching for 40 years!!
That young lady was born to fly!
There was not a check ride that the examiner was not blown away!
When she did her Lear type rating, she had less than 1100 hours and she absolutely aced the PIC type rating and the examiner thought she had about 5000 hours!
I gave her numerous opportunities to fly different airplanes to include tailwheel and the Caravan.
When I gave her her Spin Endorsement for her CFI, we did so many spins that I started to become nauseous! Truth!!
I am saddened, because so many of the pilots in training today never wanted to become pilots and only want to become airline pilots!
As I did check rides, I saw this time and time again!
They had no passion for flying.
They only wanted to get to the airlines to make the big money…
Nathalia was PASSIONATE about flying!!!
She was a 💯% natural born pilot!!!
I pray that she continues to fly amongst the clouds in heaven.
May she rest in peace and God watch over her. ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
📸Chris Kirk
#Aviation #Pilot #NathaliaGadelha #AviationCommunity #FlyHigh #InMemoriam
I agree, this crash could've 100% been avoided. Yes, it looked like they tried to deviate a bit and go in between those two big thunderstorm cells, but they should've avoided that entire severe weather system through that area, where new cells can pop up rapidly, and that's exactly what happened. All the other planes in the area were waiting it out. They should've landed and done the same, or should've delayed takeoff. I don't know if that pilot was overconfident, had a death wish, or maybe he was under pressure to hurry up and get to the destination, but he made a bad decision that day.