HEADLINES: 2025
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Optimist!
During the Biden administration the perpetuation of humanity could be regarded as a virtual certitude.
There were multiple reasons for that then, but during this 2nd Trump term not all of them apply.
Compounding that, if Trump was willing to extend his first term via extra-Constitutional means:
then Katie bar the door on Trump's 2nd, and subsequent terms.
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Delta agrees to pay $79M to settle lawsuit after jetliner dumped fuel on schools
Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los AngelesDelta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes that was experiencing engine trouble dumped its fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods near Los Angeles.
The Delta jet had departed from Los Angeles to Shanghai on Jan. 14, 2020 when it needed to quickly return to Los Angeles International Airport. The Boeing 777-200 landed safely after circling back over Los Angeles while dumping 15,000 gallons of fuel to reach a safe landing weight.
Los Angeles County firefighters were called to schools in the city of Cudahy where nearly 60 schoolchildren and teachers were examined for minor skin and lung irritations. None required hospitalization.
Shortly after, teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy filed a lawsuit against ....
Delta agrees to pay $79M to settle lawsuit after jetliner dumped fuel on schools
Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los Angeles
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Gross, &
a) What did you think wuz gunna happun ?!
b) Commercial air traffic is subject to FAA control in that airspace. This is an unusual case, and there are precedents of heavy aircraft dumping fuel safely. If an FAA approved checklist for this contingency was followed, it's overdue for update with bipartisan congressional oversight. If an FAA approved checklist was not followed, why not?!
c) I'd like additional details on spending criteria, & who signs the $checks. The expenditure of the $79M may be magnificent, I wouldn't count on it. The risk is it may be substantially worse than "magnificent".
What are the guarantees? What are the guidelines? Are any of them binding?
This smells like Boston harbor at low tide on the third day of a windless August heat wave.
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I was under the impression that the plane should have been diverted over the ocean to dump the fuel instead of doing so over land so whatever made the plane return quickly had to be more than slightly serious.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rudy-giu...iding-domestic-violence-victim-spokesman-says
Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash after aiding domestic violence victim, spokesman says
Spokesman Michael Ragusa said the former mayor is recovering from fractured vertebrae and lacerations
By Jasmine Baehr Fox News / Published August 31, 2025 3:23pm EDT
While later traveling on the highway, his rental vehicle was hit from behind at high speed.
He is in "good spirits and recovering tremendously," spokesman and head of security Michael Ragusa told Fox News Digital.
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Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash after aiding domestic violence victim, spokesman says
Spokesman Michael Ragusa said the former mayor is recovering from fractured vertebrae and lacerations
By Jasmine Baehr Fox News / Published August 31, 2025 3:23pm EDT
A spokesman for Rudy Giuliani says the 81‑year‑old former New York City mayor was seriously injured in a car crash in New Hampshire on Saturday night.
According to an official statement shared with Fox News Digital, Giuliani was flagged down by a woman fleeing a domestic-violence incident. He helped the woman and called 911, remaining on the scene until police arrived.While later traveling on the highway, his rental vehicle was hit from behind at high speed.
He is in "good spirits and recovering tremendously," spokesman and head of security Michael Ragusa told Fox News Digital.
Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash after aiding domestic violence victim, spokesman says
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was injured in a major car accident in New Hampshire on Saturday, according to a statement shared by a spokesman via X.
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Hundreds killed as 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan, officials say
Story by Kevin Shalvey, Somayeh MalekianA 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, destroying several villages and killing at least 812 people and injuring scores, according to a local officials.
Almost all of the deaths were in ....
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, destroying several villages and killing at least 812 people and injuring scores, according to a local officials.
Almost all of the deaths were in
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Hacker Showed Tesla Lied, Court Awards a Quarter Billion to Victims
Model S on Autopilot killed one, severely injured another. Tesla plans to appeal.- A jury in Miami Federal Court found Tesla witheld critical evidence in a wrongful death suit filed after a Model S crashed into a young couple.
- The evidence was found by a hacker hired by the plaintiffs.
- Total judgement against Tesla was $243 million.
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Not really a headline but beaches closed, another DOJ scandal, have to go somewhere
Labor Day by Mary Geddry
Good morning! Labor Day in America, 2025. A holiday meant to honor the working class, and what better way to do that than by shutting down the beaches because the water’s literally full of crap. From Maine to Florida, from Michigan’s lakes to San Diego’s surf, the advice was the same: don’t swim unless you want E. coli in your gut, rashes on your skin, or worse. Silver Strand, Coronado, Santa Monica, Hermosa, all closed. It turns out you can’t keep sewage, animal waste, or cyanobacteria out of the water when the nation’s infrastructure is rotting alongside its politics. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates 57 million Americans get sick each year from swimming in contaminated water. Consider it the true national pastime: spending Labor Day weekend with your head in the toilet.
But while Americans are told to stay out of the water, Xi Jinping is busy hosting a literal hand-holding ceremony in Tianjin. He clasped paws with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, calling for an “orderly multipolar world” while Trump sulks in ....
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Labor Day by Mary Geddry
Good morning! Labor Day in America, 2025. A holiday meant to honor the working class, and what better way to do that than by shutting down the beaches because the water’s literally full of crap. From Maine to Florida, from Michigan’s lakes to San Diego’s surf, the advice was the same: don’t swim unless you want E. coli in your gut, rashes on your skin, or worse. Silver Strand, Coronado, Santa Monica, Hermosa, all closed. It turns out you can’t keep sewage, animal waste, or cyanobacteria out of the water when the nation’s infrastructure is rotting alongside its politics. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates 57 million Americans get sick each year from swimming in contaminated water. Consider it the true national pastime: spending Labor Day weekend with your head in the toilet.
But while Americans are told to stay out of the water, Xi Jinping is busy hosting a literal hand-holding ceremony in Tianjin. He clasped paws with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, calling for an “orderly multipolar world” while Trump sulks in ....
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Idaho’s parental consent law impedes 988 suicide crisis hotline access for some youth • Idaho Capital Sun
A law requiring parental consent for most medical treatment provided to minors is affecting work at the Idaho 988 Crisis and Suicide Hotline.
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Where to put this???
On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history, the Gettysburg Address. It opened “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
On Tuesday, Eric Schmitt, the junior senator from Missouri, declared that Lincoln was wrong.
“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.
The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and ....
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A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland
America, he says, isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone.
By Joshua ShanesOn Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history, the Gettysburg Address. It opened “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
On Tuesday, Eric Schmitt, the junior senator from Missouri, declared that Lincoln was wrong.
“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.
The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and ....
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Charlie Kirk was shot & killed.
The brief manhunt for his murderer ended when the murderer's father recognized him, and ...
The following is a reflection on this murder, from a policeman that was present during the January 6 Capitol insurrection:
Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot in the middle of a speech at Utah Valley University.
I am not going to sugarcoat it: I have nothing but contempt for Charlie Kirk’s politics. He made a career out of poisoning young minds with grievance, conspiracy, and hate. He profited off division. He defended the indefensible. He celebrated cruelty. I don’t grieve for his ideas, and I won’t sanitize what he represented.
But here’s the thing: violence has no place in American politics. None.
I know what it’s like to be on the business end of political violence.
I felt fists, flagpoles, and tasers on January 6th. I heard men scream that they were going to kill me in the name of Donald Trump.
That day taught me something too many of us are still trying to ignore: once political violence becomes acceptable—once you decide that your enemy isn’t just wrong but expendable—you don’t control where it leads.
If you cheered this shooting because you hated Kirk, you’re no better than the mob that chanted for Mike Pence’s hanging. If you shrug it off because it happened to the other side, you’re part of the same sickness that’s rotting this country.
The truth is, we’re running out of safe spaces for disagreement. Universities, statehouses, even the Capitol itself—each one has been marked by the threat of blood.
Democracy doesn’t survive in that environment. Free speech doesn’t survive. We don’t survive.
Charlie Kirk’s death doesn’t make him a martyr. It doesn’t redeem his politics. But it does mark another line we’ve crossed in this country—a line that should never have been crossed in the first place.
I’ll say it again: violence is not politics. And if we don’t reclaim that principle right now, we’re going to lose the very thing that makes this place worth fighting for.
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The brief manhunt for his murderer ended when the murderer's father recognized him, and ...
The following is a reflection on this murder, from a policeman that was present during the January 6 Capitol insurrection:
My Statement to the American People on The Death of Charlie Kirk
Michael Fanone / Sep 10, 2025Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot in the middle of a speech at Utah Valley University.
I am not going to sugarcoat it: I have nothing but contempt for Charlie Kirk’s politics. He made a career out of poisoning young minds with grievance, conspiracy, and hate. He profited off division. He defended the indefensible. He celebrated cruelty. I don’t grieve for his ideas, and I won’t sanitize what he represented.
But here’s the thing: violence has no place in American politics. None.
I know what it’s like to be on the business end of political violence.
I felt fists, flagpoles, and tasers on January 6th. I heard men scream that they were going to kill me in the name of Donald Trump.
That day taught me something too many of us are still trying to ignore: once political violence becomes acceptable—once you decide that your enemy isn’t just wrong but expendable—you don’t control where it leads.
If you cheered this shooting because you hated Kirk, you’re no better than the mob that chanted for Mike Pence’s hanging. If you shrug it off because it happened to the other side, you’re part of the same sickness that’s rotting this country.
The truth is, we’re running out of safe spaces for disagreement. Universities, statehouses, even the Capitol itself—each one has been marked by the threat of blood.
Democracy doesn’t survive in that environment. Free speech doesn’t survive. We don’t survive.
Charlie Kirk’s death doesn’t make him a martyr. It doesn’t redeem his politics. But it does mark another line we’ve crossed in this country—a line that should never have been crossed in the first place.
I’ll say it again: violence is not politics. And if we don’t reclaim that principle right now, we’re going to lose the very thing that makes this place worth fighting for.
My Statement to the American People on The Death of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk is dead.
michaelfanone.substack.com