Josh Rodefer 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🥥 🌴

dad | husband | foodie | Pgh sports | Neuro & Pharm | now: WFMS; path: @DenisonU & @UMNPsych alum, UNC, Harvard; Oxford comma & 2-spaces; he/him

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

Petty thief.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

These are the undocumented immigrants I've known.

[Josh Rodefer 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🥥 🌴 @rodefer]

but can he ride a bike?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Duffy: "The president has been historic in how much he's done, how fast he's moving ... I still pinch myself that I get to call the president and he'll pick up my call or call me back. It's really remarkable. I saw him yesterday. He doesn't stop! ... he has so much energy and is so joyful."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Duffy: "The president has been historic in how much he's done, how fast he's moving ... I still pinch myself that I get to call the president and he'll pick up my call or call me back. It's really remarkable. I saw him yesterday. He doesn't stop! ... he has so much energy and is so joyful."

[Josh Rodefer 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🥥 🌴 @rodefer]

@AnaCabrera would even be better if it was a Friday without the normal baffoonery :-)

[Josh Rodefer 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🥥 🌴 @rodefer]

I hate when contacts just magically appear in my phone and then insert themselves as recipients in Top Secret illegal group chats. #TheyThinkWeAreStupid

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

I mean….

They think we are stupid.

This is a joke

[Mediaite @Mediaite]

ICYMI: Passwords of Top U.S. Security Officials Found Online – Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz Among Those Affected https://t.co/65aYWsRBui

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

WE NEED MORE OF THIS:

Congressman Ritchie Torres interviews Herbert and Audrey Mittman whose access to Medicare Telehealth is in danger of expiring. There are 67 million people like them.

Let’s lift their stories EVERYWHERE.

[Josh Rodefer 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🥥 🌴 @rodefer]

next thing will be that people have to come to Washington DC in person to file claims or collect benefits

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

One way of ending Social Security is to make it difficult if not impossible for people to access service…

[Kyle Keegan @realKyleKeegan]

@Bigdumbdog2

[Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald]

Trump says that illegal border crossings have fallen "by much more than 100%"

I swear, this is the stupidest man walking the planet. And if you don't understand why based on that sentence, and you're not seven years old, you are also quite stupid.

[usaama @yoUsaama]

so telling 60,000 american settlers in the west bank to go back to brooklyn is antisemitic but telling 1.5 million palestinians in gaza to go to saudi arabia is just good real estate planning

[Mark McEathron @Mark_McEathron]

I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army.

I was even a Flight Instructor. This means that I trained Crew Chiefs and ensured that they completed all training annually to maintain their flight ratings.

One massive responsibility we had was to be the eyes for the pilots. We handled airspace obstacle avoidance and communicated potential risks to the pilots.

Quite often we would train as a flight of 2 or 3 birds flying in formation.

It was my job to have my head out the window and tell the pilots that the aircraft behind us was "staggered right at 3 discs". (We measured close distances in terms of the diameter of our rotor discs).

I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft.

These birds are designed to be hard to see at night.

The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green.

Incredibly difficult to see.

If you are above the helicopter, even if it has it flood light or spot light (2 different lights) on, underneath it, it is still hard to see the bird because all of that illumination is below the airframe.

Another thing people should know is just how busy things can get on the aircraft.

Pilots are talking to each other about what they are observing on the instrument panels. This means neither are looking outside the aircraft.

The crew chief might be conducting a fuel check, where we would also be looking up into the cockpit at the fuel gages and the clock.

This CAN lead to moments where all 3 people on the aircraft are all looking inside the aircraft.

It's not supposed to happen that way. We are supposed to announce when we are "coming inside" or are "back outside" the aircraft. But that doesn't always happen.

Also, in cities like DC, the radio traffic is constant and can make it hard to filter out what is important for you to listen to.

Checking instruments, doing math, reading checklists, and listening to multiple radios all at the same time is HARD. Mistakes happen.

Anyone out there telling you that they find the aircraft collision to be suspect, have NEVER been in a flight crew and they have ZERO idea what they are talking about.

Ignore them all. Better yet, mock the hell out of them.

999 times out of 1000 aircraft incidents always come down to a series of pilot and crew errors.

Humans are involved. They aren't perfect.

Tonight, my heart and mind is with the families of those involved in this tragic event.

I won't join the chorus of idiots making speculations.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Colombia yesterday.

Under Biden/Harris, Colombia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 just in 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. 1/

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

This is the Tuskegee Experiment all over again.

[NWS Raleigh @NWSRaleigh]

🥶🥶Dangerously cold temperatures expected next week. Below are the HIGH temperatures on top and overnight LOWS on the bottom. Wind chills will be in the single digits Monday and Tuesday mornings. #NCwx

[Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @woofknight]

How the term software patch came to be

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

President Biden and I have created over 16.6 million jobs during the last four years — making our Administration the only in history to have created jobs every single month.

[Josh Rodefer 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🥥 🌴 @rodefer]

@DiegoPizzagalli @UCIrvine congrats, Diego

[Understanding Animal Research @animalresearch]

Immunotherapies aim to wake up the immune system so it can attack cancer cells. Several immunotherapies are currently used to treat certain types of cancer, but, right now, these treatments only seem to work in a minority of patients.

By investigating in mice, the role of “natural killer cells” and what happens to them when they enter the tumour environment, researchers at the University of Birmingham developed a new understanding of how cancer interacts with our immune system. This could lead to improved immunotherapies.

Read more: https://t.co/tywzviV1Go