Brian

Appreciate good spelling, punctuation, and real people. GBR, SEA, Chiefs and Royals!

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

The fact that the French leaked information to Trump to see if it ended up in Putins hands, which of course it did, is some serious fucking shit that shouldn't be swept under the fucking rug. Trump is a danger to this country and to everyone living in it.

[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

Sounds like you need to skip the latte

[Brian @nocab66]

@wolviebets The quick reach to his back pocket while arguing about guns?

[Brian @nocab66]

@wolviebets How many times do we hear cops say "get your hands out of your pockets!" on detentions like this when it's under different circumstances? Plus the quick move with hands when he sits down?

[ally @missmayn]

if you tried pulling this shit at a bank they’d arrest you for elder abuse but they let it happen in congress.

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Hey, so we created the weekend. Absolutely not. Hell no.

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

NEW NEWS‼️

Look who stopped by practice today!

[Jihad al-Haqq • جهاد الحق @JihadalHaqq]

The USPS doesn't lose money, it costs money.

Saying a public service "loses money" is like saying you lose money when you buy groceries. Buying groceries isn't "losing money".

[delulu @welchmeyer]

guys i don’t care if USPS lost your package once or whatever. if we lose USPS it will impact so. many. people. negatively.

it’s the ONLY program we have required to deliver to EVERY address.

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

Government services should never even be looking at profits.

[Senator Megan Hunt @NebraskaMegan]

Equal citizenship is one of America’s greatest achievements. The whole point of the 14th was that citizenship wouldn’t depend on bloodline, wealth, or whether politicians approved of your parents. And reopening settled constitutional questions doesn’t lower anyone’s grocery bill.

[Senator Megan Hunt @NebraskaMegan]

Worth noting Nebraskans have tried to improve their lives at the ballot box, raising wages, passing paid leave, approving medical cannabis, and they’ve watched politicians chip away at those wins while underinvesting in housing, childcare, healthcare, and schools.

[Senator Megan Hunt @NebraskaMegan]

There is a fundamental problem with Nebraska’s leadership culture.

They’re happy to spend down a $1.6 billion surplus on tax cuts, subsidies, prisons, and culture wars… and when the bill comes due, families, schools, healthcare, higher ed, etc are expected to absorb the cuts.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @LEGENDBANKS]

Neurodivergents will say “I need rest” but what they actually mean is “I need uninterrupted time where no one expects anything from me”

[kelly @kellytheboss7]

ADHD is not “can’t pay attention.”

It’s paying attention to everything… all at once… permanently… forever… while still forgetting why you walked into the room.

[Brian @nocab66]

@MCCCANM You got this, brother.

[Brian @nocab66]

@NTSB Visiting DC this summer. I would love a tour if you offer them. Any info on how to set one up?

[Steelers Hostage @SteelBuckeye7]

Defunding education is how they make more republicans

[Brian @nocab66]

@gibbysreturn @NerdingonNFL And Black Friday.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.

Both pilots are dead.

Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.

A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.

The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.

The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.

Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.

Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.

The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.

The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.

The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”

One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.