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[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

https://t.co/jd0ocbt5BH

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Air Canada

So now that I’m back from my Norway cruise, there are a few travel-related stories I want to tell.

Let’s start with this: IMO, @AirCanada is by far the worst international carrier I have ever flown on. Avoid at all costs.

I’ve flown them twice; the first time was a trip years ago to Berlin where we transferred in London. They lost our bags for TWO WHOLE WEEKS. Do you know that Tesco sells virtually no clothing that fits someone who is 6’5”? The bags instead went to Milan and they were waiting on our doorstep in D.C. when we got home.

That was the first trip. Now let’s talk about the one I just took (my cruise line, Viking Ocean, booked Air Canada for us, not me—I should have said no).

I’m about to talk about Flight AC 866 on June 12, 2026, from Montreal to London.

We flew into Montreal from our home U.S. airport on Air Canada's domestic-style business class, which was just basically shoddy, rundown and depressing. As some of you know I just had major knee surgery and I had therefore requested wheelchair assistance for the transfer to the international flight. Nope, nobody there. To get to immigration was about a mile walk. I attribute the current post-op problems I am having to the fact that I had to make that walk. It was brutal, and while my knee had been recovering nicely until then, that walk set it back and I’m still suffering.

But we made it through the interminable immigration lines and boarded Flight 866 in Montreal en route to London.

Or so we thought.

Turns out, they had the wrong plane. By the “wrong plane,” I mean the WRONG PLANE. They had sold tickets for a differently configured aircraft than the one we were boarding. Guess what? It seems they didn’t even figure this out until PEOPLE ACTUALLY STARTED BOARDING. Let me say that again. The fact that they had sold tickets to the wrong type airplane was not identified until people got on board and their seat did not exist.

As a retired U.S. Army logistician I find this utterly incomprehensible. How do you make such a mistake?

Chaos ensued.

First, they stopped boarding with the plane about 25% full. (@MrsDrPublius and I got onboard before they figured it out because we had bought business class tickets.)

Then we just sat there on the plane as the minutes and hours ticked by and the pilots, ground staff and flight crew hurriedly rushed up and down the aisles looking worried. (At least we were seated. ~75% of the passengers were still in the terminal.) No one was telling us anything except that the flight was delayed because of some unspecified ticketing issues.

Then they tried this crazy thing where they made everybody stay seated and write their name and the number of the seat they were sitting in on a piece of paper and hand it in. I don’t know what they thought that would accomplish, but it was useless. It was the Keystone Kops, poutine style.

Then they made us all get off the plane.

Then they re-booked every single person’s boarding pass in the system. Laboriously. Painfully. I heard complaints that people were kicked off the flight because there was no seat for them. People who had booked business class were sent to economy because there were too few business class seats. The delay was causing mass missed connecting flights in London when/if we ever did arrive.

This was one of those international Airbus jets with ~300 passengers. I honestly thought there might be a riot in the terminal. For a while it looked like we never would fly.

Almost 6 hours later, we took off and actually did make it to London, eventually.

The next day they sent me a survey to let them know how they did. It was the worst survey I have ever written for any business in my entire life, and I separately demanded some sort of compensation for the incredible inconvenience their incompetence caused. It’s three weeks later, and they have yet to reply.

So now I’m writing this post.

You could have at least APOLOGIZED, @AirCanada. Rarely do I use this platform to complain about some personal issue with a business, but you earned it.

Maybe next time at least acknowledge to your customers that you screwed up?

Grrrrr….🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡

[csloud @csloud]

@PostDisclosure @EthicalSkeptic wrote a great article about Nelsonian knowledge. You know all the players supposedly demanding disclosure. Can you explain why they won't give @AshtonForbes the time of day? You don't have to like him, but why ignore him? Gatekeeping?
https://t.co/XwVHxpQdpK

[News Now Yorkshire @NewsNowYorks]

Police in Leeds are now arresting people for insulting Muhammad

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Filippo Biondi @Filippobiondi_1]

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[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Everyone's clowning on Commie Mamdani for having Washington's desk backwards in this hostage video, but it's deliberate.
It's meant to be this way: you are Washington, looking at the carpetbagger who came to your desk to tell you he hates your country and he's got demands.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

On this 4th of July revisit this Orf compilation of the vaccine pushers. I only noticed two or three in the footage who really disappoint me. The rest deserve a fist in the face or much, much worse. Don't ever let this happen again.

https://t.co/QuYvOm67rt

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

Rapid heating oceans is all just El Niño overturning current, surfacing your past sins in fossil fuel emissions, you dirty human. Pay us your penalty for this crime.

...right.

All this is just a coincidence, ...right?

[skeletonheads @skeletonheads]

Hiring this guy to play this riff as they lower my casket into the ground

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Congress had to pass a law in 1998 to stop USAID from forcibly sterilizing people.

[Clint Warren-Davey @Clint_Davey1]

There's a famous story from the GWOT.

Some American infantry in Iraq are pinned down at night and call for support.

Out of nowhere, they hear the song "Vengabus" playing at extreme volume.

Spotlights on tanks light up everything.

A British armoured company comes rolling in, blasting this crappy early 2000's disco music from their speakers and firing their machine guns.

Must have been a laugh.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

@Clock_Hypocrisy Put down the wine glass and pet your cats

[chemistryofquestionablequality @azide_enjoyer]

I know I've asked before but any help getting Dugan's story out there is very much appreciated, please share it everywhere you can. It's an incredibly important free speech case that would set a precedent for creators being legally responsible for the misuse of information in their videos, posts, publications and anything else they put out. Guntubers would be liable if someone said they learned a shooting technique that they used in a crime, same for chemistry, martial arts, computers, electronics and anything else.

Dug's real name is Jordan Derrick and he has a wife and 3 kids who will lose all the income they had in about six weeks when his VA disability benefits are stopped. You can help support them through the GoFundMe campaigns and, T-shirt and hoodie sales, both Free Dugan and Carnikcon designs from the bonfire links.

Whether you agree with his opinions on political matters or not it's clearly a political prosecution and meant to have a chilling effect on anyone saying anything that the government doesn't like. The big thread attached has the GoFundMe links for both his legal defense and medical costs because the VA is cutting off his MS infusion treatment after 60 days in jail.

Thank you so much to the people who have been sharing the links, making posts of their own or even videos like several guntubers have done.
You've helped so much, Jordan's family and friends have been amazed by the outpouring of love and support from all of you.

https://t.co/SnaX5DzYnX

[Sterling Cooley @SterlingCooley]

This shows ~1,200 years of seawater erosion of the Khafre Pyramid, compressed into one minute.

For the first ~500 years a high ocean stand holds about 300 ft above the base; its waves lap the soft Tura limestone casing and dissolve it (carbonic acid) at roughly 0.08 ft/year — about one inch of perpendicular recession annually, and ~14× faster than the slow dissolution on submerged surfaces below.

As the sea recedes, it then pauses at successively lower stands, each held ~75–100 years, and each carves a distinct horizontal band where the casing is stripped to the bare core. Loosened blocks slough off at their own pace and fall down each face, piling into talus that mounds toward the center of all four sides.

The smooth white cap above the highest waterline is never reached and survives intact.

[Sterling Cooley @SterlingCooley]

A great Pyramid Heist has never been replicated since

They so perfectly stole only parts of the pyramid, you could almost be fooled in to thinking it looks just like the pyramid sat partially submerged in water for hundreds of years

Isn't that wild ?

[Michael Button @MichaelButtonX]

Centuries ago, Japan carved tsunami warnings into stone along its coastline.

But in 2011, the ocean proved them right...

Hundreds of 'tsunami stones' still stand across Japan. Some are over 600 years old. Most carry the same warning: do not build below this point.

One stone in Aneyoshi reads:
“Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point.”
The village obeyed.

When the 2011 tsunami hit, the water stopped just below the marker. Aneyoshi survived. Many surrounding towns built below the stones - and over 20,000 people died.

A professor from Tohoku University said:
“It takes about three generations for people to forget.”

So survivors carved memory into stone.
Civilizations may have been doing the same thing for thousands of years.

If these warnings remained accurate after 600 years, why do we assume older warnings are just myths?

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

A tiny American destroyer charged first into the path of the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built.

Her five inch shells could not seriously hurt battleship armor.

She charged anyway, leading the way into an entire enemy fleet.

What her crew did saved thousands of American lives.

This is the story of the USS Johnston..🧵1/6

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

We've forgotten far more horror than we could ever remember.

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

Concerning. Shouldn't happen like this in a country with sovereign citizens.