Michelle K

Fly for work, travel for fun, & do my best to not take things too seriously. Oping my way through life.

[Susana A. Mendoza ☮️ @susanamendoza10]

I’m all in Chicago!

It’s time we elect a mayor that understands that progress is greater than promises.

Let’s go Chicago! 🩷

#chicago

[Nick Light @nicklmg]

Interesting that everyone seems to have forgotten that just a year ago Musk went in and destroyed a lot of guardrails in the SEC

Almost like this was the plan all along………..

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Air traffic controller here…

Where do we even start with this? I guess with the air traffic side since that’s what I know best.

One word: capacity!

DFW and Houston have big airports, that is true. But you can only fit so many airplanes and people in one place. Florida is a bigger problem. Most of their airports are suited for domestic flights, not international. Plus, the airspace is already extremely saturated. It is becoming one of the biggest bottlenecks in the entire US system, probably only behind the NY area.

Domestic airlines could theoretically make the switch. It would take a long time to redo their schedules and adjust departures and such. Flight crews would need different arrangements to get from wherever they end up. Also, this affects other flights since airlines use planes based on where they are. Plus the fuel use would be greater since most of these flights would require flying longer distances.

Foreign carriers could not easily switch. Asian ones almost exclusively have their US operations in California. European ones, in NY typically. Etc. They can’t just say, we’ll fly to DFW or wherever. Most don’t have gates there, maintenance crews, offloading crews, whatever else. It wouldn’t be an absolute nightmare.

Basically, it would take on the order of years to implement and cost airlines many millions of dollars. Which they would pass on to the customers in higher ticket prices.

Airlines would probably sue and at least try to stop this long before it’s put in place.

Not to mention, Mullins would be putting his own people out of work or forcing them to move.

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach?

BLANCHE: Excuse me?

REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct?

BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family.

REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

June 1, 1933: The "Fund of German Trade and Industry" is created, a huge slush fund administered by Martin Bormann in the Führer's name. The regime used the funds to compensate SA Stormtroopers who committed street violence, subsize the SS, and enrich Nazi party officials.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

This guy is going to get potential millions of dollars of your tax dollars from Trump’s Insurgent Reparation Fund. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

The Trump Slush Fund is even worse than expected: because he and @DAGToddBlanche know that this whole lawsuit was illegal, they withdrew the case so the judge can’t rule on its legality!

This is just mind-boggling corruption. And the “lawsuit” was all a ruse.

Trump and Blanche must be removed from office immediately.

https://t.co/9Y1Pu1eoKg

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

List of some people eligible to get payouts from taxpayers from the Trump/Blanche Criminal Slush Fund:

Steve Bannon
Peter Navarro
Rudy Giuliani
Mark Meadows
Stewart Rhodes
Enrique Tarrio
Sidney Powell
Jenna Ellis
John Eastman
Jeffrey Clark
Boris Epshteyn
Joe Biggs
Walt Nauta

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

The corruption in broad daylight is astounding. He’s not only going to pardon J6ers, he’s going to pay them with our money, too. And use American independence as the branding!

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company.

On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock.

The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. (link in reply)

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"I think among a lot of Democrats there's this kind of what psychologists would call 'learned helplessness' where you just think, 'Well we can't do anything about it. We have to wait till 2029' ... In New York with some people it's just like, 'Well we just have to do our things in New York and not worry about the rest of the country.'

It does not work that way. We are one country. Our democracy can rise or fall on what this man is doing. And, it's not just our democracy. ... It directly affects our lives. The stability of our economy depends on the belief in the rule of law that people think we have a stable legal system, and it's hard to believe that today"

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

One of the reasons why I've been anti republican for so long is because all they care about is "culture" and I find culture wars to be a detriment to a free society.

I just want good governance, State of the art infrastructure, everyone pay their fair share of taxes (billionaire class) and consumer/environmental protections. Also maybe think about arresting some of these pedos in the Epstein files that the president is protecting... who is also in the files...

American politics for a long time didn’t push this culture wars crap. That pretty much started in the 80s especially by the "moral majority" evangelicals who no longer could use segregation as a wedge issue. This is why they pivoted to abortion.

But before the Reagan revolution we had politicians explaining their policies and having real debates explaining those policies. There was substance. Data. Not just randomly yelling out people are eating cats and dogs.

But at the end of the day I think of a Thomas Jefferson quote: "The government you elect is the government you deserve."

Our politics is a reflection of us and what we allow and support. It's a hard realization of how far American society has fallen. ppl who will sell their country's future away in order to think they got a leg up over their own country men.

"Owning the libs." Like I don't even understand why this ever became a thing. I would never think to vote for someone to own someone to make myself feel better. Knowing I purposely went against my own best interest just to try and make someone else's life shittier.

Like wtf is wrong with you?

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:

https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

“One last question, sir. If, as you say, the reporter ‘fabricated’ those stories about you without talking to anybody from your department, why are demanding to search her phone … for leaks … from your department?”

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

The ballroom went from $200 million & privately funded, to $300 million, to $400 million and taxpayers cover some of it, to MAGA trying to silently jam through $1 BILLION, 100% of which is our tax money, for this ballroom.

WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

The responses to this are a good reminder that a lot of anti-immigrant keyboard warriors have no idea what the law says.

“He had 20 years to become a citizen!” No. Thanks to country of origin caps, the wait time for Indians can be over *100 years*—just to get a green card. Many die waiting in line.

We tell people seeking the American Dream to come here “the right way,” and then we punish them for doing so.

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

18 deaths in ICE custody in just the last 4 months. This time a 33-year-old man. On pace for the most in-custody deaths ever — which was last year.

If ICE is this ruthless and lawless in plain sight, imagine what happens behind closed doors. That is exactly why I sued ICE to force them to let Members of Congress conduct oversight at their detention centers. And it’s why they continue to put up roadblocks to our oversight.

This must stop. And there must be consequences. We will make sure there are when we take back the majority.