"Any future-history of US airline disasters in 2026 or beyond will probably start its narrative in this past holiday weekend of 2025. That is when the Musk tech-bro team known as DOGE, instructed by Russel Vought and empowered by Trump, began its mass layoffs of air-safety officials whose employment status showed 'probationary.'”
~ James Fallows
#Musk #Trump #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AirSafety #destruction #techbros
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/from-defund-the-police-to-defund
"For 16 years, U.S. aviation had a perfect record—zero major commercial plane crashes. Air travel was the safest it had ever been.
Then Trump returned, gutted the FAA, and in just 29 days, we’ve had seven crashes, 15 aviation disasters, and 85 dead."
~ God
#Musk #Trump #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AirSafety #destruction #techbros
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https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/donald-is-making-airplanes-crash
"Trump, Elon and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy are learning in real time that purging the government of qualified and competent people has consequences— both physical and political."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Musk #Trump #FAA #AirTrafficControl #AirSafety #destruction #techbros
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https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trumps-crash-course-in-air-travel
@wdlindsy they don’t care