Steven Schwartzberg

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@Hertz your checkout system is getting worse every time I rent with you. It shouldn't take 25 minutes from being in the car to getting out of the airport. It doesn't with other rental agencies, anyway.

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@hkweiss Avi and Dina Spierer made a Bar Mitzvah - near West Hempstead

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

For those keeping track, @Delta dl2443. Pilot finally arrived - only now is gate staff working the tickets and seats for extra pilots and documents for ppl switched to our flight. My fam missing a connection already. Whole flight may be grounded as weather worsens. Collosal fail

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@FlyDeltaAir24 I've DMed them to you already - should I post the Delta failures more broadly?

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

Oh, @Delta - we were so impressed you were still flying from JFK. But now, despite tens of canceled flights, you can't find a pilot. After 1.5 hr delay, 2 kids and I will likely be stuck overnight in NY or dtw bc you didn't want to pay pilots to stick around

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@Delta delays impacting my flight all evening. No surprise we pushed back (pilot/crew gets on time credit), just enough to then announce they suddenly got word the flight was held. I'm stuck on a plane when I could have Re-booked a different flight and gotten home to my family

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

Thank you, @SouthwestAir, for leaving 7 pre-teen/teenage girls sitting in Midway for hours... Only to discover a plane issue at boarding and leave them there longer. No care for the passengers and no plan for what happens next.

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@grok is this true?

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

A Chinese company owned by same people that own TikTok just bought $300,000,000 of $TRUMP Coin.

DO YOU GET IT YET?

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@GilStudent Or disappointing, in many ways

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

That was pretty impressive

[Nandita Bose @nanditab1]

BREAKING: Air Force Two took off from Charlotte, North Carolina for Detroit but was diverted to New York City. 

Harris aides informed the press pool mid-air that @KamalaHarris was headed to New York and not Detroit.

They wouldn’t share what the Vice President is doing in New York City late on a Saturday.

My guess is Harris will appear on Saturday Night Live.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“I haven’t seen any Jewish people in America running up on mosques with Israeli flags.

Protest a policy, not a people. What we saw outside of the synagogue in LA is a pogrom.”

Thank you @VanJones68

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@YeahThatsKosher Holy Sushi happens to be very good and won the praise of some of my coworkers, btw

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

Oh, @Macys any chance we can find a way to help a guy who was 3 days late doing a post holiday return?

[Rabbi Efrem Goldberg @RabbiGoldberg]

Just 1 week post Tisha B’av, all those kinnos & videos and yet so much hate has returned.

Choose love instead of hate, positivity instead of negativity, compliments instead of criticism, solutions instead of problems, engaging instead of bashing, building instead of destroying

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

Worth a read for some good analysis

[Tatiana Stanovaya @Stanovaya]

Below is a brief description of Prigozhin's mutiny and the factors that contributed to its outcome. We, as observers, initially missed important details due to the scarcity of information and lack of time for in-depth analysis. Here's the perspective that currently seems most plausible:

1️⃣ Prigozhin's rebellion wasn't a bid for power or an attempt to overtake the Kremlin. It arose from a sense of desperation; Prigozhin was forced out of Ukraine and found himself unable to sustain Wagner the way he did before, while the state machinery was turning against him. To top it off, Putin was ignoring him and publicly supporting his most dangerous adversaries.

2️⃣ Prigozhin's objective was to draw Putin's attention and to impose a discussion about conditions to preserve his activities - a defined role, security, and funding. These weren't demands for a governmental overthrow; they were a desperate bid to save the enterprise, hoping that Prigozhin's merits in taking Bakhmut (that's why he needed it!) would be taken into account and the concerns would catch Putin's serious attention. Now it appears that these merits helped Prigozhin to get out of this crisis alive, but without a political future in Russia (at least while Putin is in power).

3️⃣ Prigozhin was caught off-guard by Putin's reaction and found himself unprepared to assume the role of a revolutionary. He also wasn't prepared for the fact that Wagner was about to reach Moscow where his only option remained - to "take the Kremlin" - an action that would inevitably result in him and his fighters being eradicated.

4️⃣ Those in the elites who were able reached out to Prigozhin with offers to surrender. This likely added to his sense of impending doom. However, I don't believe any high-level negotiations took place. Lukashenko presented Prigozhin with a Putin-endorsed offer to retreat on the condition that Prigozhin would leave Russia and Wagner would be dissolved.

5️⃣ I don't think Prigozhin was in a position to make demands (such as the resignation of Shoigu or Gerasimov - something many observers expect today. If that happens, it will be due to another reason.) After Putin's address in the morning of June 24th, Prigozhin's primary concern was to find an off-ramp. The situation would have led to inevitable death in merely a few hours. It is possible that Putin has promised him safety on the condition that Prigozhin remains quietly in Belarus.

I stand by my previous assertion that Putin and the state have been dealt a severe blow (which will have significant repercussions for the regime). However, I want to emphasize that image has always been a secondary concern for Putin. Setting optics aside, Putin objectively resolved the Wagner and Prigozhin problem by dissolving the former and expelling the latter. The situation would have been far worse if it had culminated in a bloody mess in the outskirts of Moscow.

And no, Putin doesn't need Wagner or Prigozhin. He can manage with his own forces. He's now certainly convinced of that.
I will disclose many more details in my bulletin to be issued tomorrow evening.

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@aimhumor Wontonly? Oy

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@IsaacGalena You have a baby... In a bar!

[Jon Stewart @jonstewart]

This is the best season of cspan…ever.

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@DrKantor I'm intrigued... Explain?

[Steven Schwartzberg @spschwar]

@Allegiant we've been waiting for a gate opening for over an hour while another flight boards at FLL. Just waiting to get off the plane with no food, no updates.