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[Jon Nicosia @NewsPolitics]

For those who didn't know about this extraordinary man, Howard Lutnick was running Cantor Fitzgerald on September 11, 2001. He had joined the firm in 1983, became president and CEO in 1991, and chairman in 1996. Cantor’s offices were extraordinarily hard hit: they occupied floors 101–105 of the North Tower, above the impact zone. 658 of Cantor Fitzgerald’s 960 New York employees were killed, including Lutnick’s brother, Gary. Lutnick survived because he wasn’t at the office that morning—he was taking his young son to his first day of kindergarten. The Cantor story is one of the most devastating single-company losses of 9/11—roughly two-thirds of its New York workforce was killed in a matter of minutes.

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Supreme Court, here they come.

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Military (Canada / USA) Size and Budgets

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Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov Says Corruption Prevents Ukraine’s Victory▶https://t.co/ennGlF4D3F

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

I think she's possibly the most delusional and repulsive person in politics.

[U.S. Air Force @usairforce]

Now that’s a capital entrance. 🇺🇸

Air Force One soars above the U.S. Capitol ahead of the @IndyCar #Freedom250 Grand Prix.

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

In aviation, the term “Get There-itis” is meant to sound like a disease to be eradicated. Because it is.

Get there-itis occurs when you just want to be done flying, either for the day or the trip. You want to go home. It’s acute on the “Go Home Leg”, the last flight of the trip.

With Get There-itis, you take risks you shouldn’t. Maybe it’s weather, or something is broken on the jet. The broken items are subject to a list of what you can & can’t accept, but just because you *can* fly with it doesn’t mean you always should.

In this case, they knew it was safer to divert, but that would mean a delay, which can roll into an extra day on the road if it goes long enough. So, they accepted a risk they normally wouldn’t.

Sometimes it works out. Maybe it has always worked out & you don’t even really see it as much of a risk anymore. But the nature of risk is that things might work 99 times out of 100…until you find that 1 time it doesn’t.

In this case, it killed almost half of everyone aboard.

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PS. He also bought Fox News' Bret Baier's $25M D.C. home. At the time, the most expensive house ever sold in D.C https://t.co/aTlJ7vn7wH

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👏👏👏👏

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El-Sayed under fire online after taking aim at Usha Vance, female Trump aide in weekend social media posts https://t.co/e4Tbkmf2Mg

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How to piss off American Airlines @AmericanAir passengers...more (hold my beer) 👉🏻American Airlines' AI Is Rebooking Passengers Onto Later Flights Without Asking Them or Letting Agents Intervene https://t.co/rempBABgFq

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Ps. If you’ve ever flown on JetBlue’s E190s before they replaced them with the new A220s, that’s the size of his private jet, which JetBlue packed with 100 seats. Fun fact: the luggage compartment in the private jet is used to add more fuel tanks, giving it much longer range than JetBlue’s did

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Lutnick is at the Freedom 250 talking to Trump. So his jet likely flew him down from his home in New York, but you don’t leave leave private jets (that size) at DCA. Too small and expensive.

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If you thought the people Paramount let take control of Star Trek couldn’t kill the franchise anymore, they made an entire episode of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ with the cast as Muppets. 🤦🏻

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W.T.F. 🧐👉🏻Suspect in burglary, sex assault attempt was free after 3 arrests near White House https://t.co/DgV2FqJgbr

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Death penalty

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Except for every other passenger

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The first jet to get out of DCA once it reopened after the flyovers today in DC was a private Embraer Lineage 1000E, tail number N527AH, the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's private jet 👇🏻

[Jon Nicosia @NewsPolitics]

No *modern* jet has ever broken apart in flight because of turbulence. The last was a Boeing 707 in Japan in 1966 (60 years ago), which broke apart because of severe turbulence coming off Mount Fuji. Weather radar was in its infancy back then