If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ~ Desmond Tutu
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Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
something woke 1.0 in the best way about mcmorrow & dingell going on national tv to be the faces of criticizing stevens, allowing the anger to air out without el-sayed having to deviate from his closing message or ever appear to be the enraged brown candidate
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
Republicans are mad that a Democrat in Alaska *allegedly* may have staff involved in recruiting a third-party candidate with a similar name to a Republican on the ballot, which Florida Republicans did thrice in 2020, but they've got no heat for Darlene Nordone running with the last name Graham because they know their voters are too stupid to realize it's not the dead Senator?
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
Trump's new resort outside Hanoi will soon be known as the Trump Hanoi Hilton.
Very popular among the locals.
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
I didn’t think it was possible to combine primary-loser-sour-grapes & Islamophobia into a more toxic cocktail than Andrew Cuomo. But Haley Stevens has managed to do it.
If she wants to betray civil rights, reproductive freedom, immigrant protections, and working families by endorsing Mike Rogers and trying to give control of the Senate to J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, I guess that's her business — but it’s appalling, oddly patronizing, and simply false to claim that it’s in the interest of Michigan’s Jewish communities.
Our safety comes from welcoming the stranger, fighting for universal human rights, and building pluralist democracy — not from endorsing neo-Nazi adjacent MAGA fanatics.
Fortunately, there’s a powerful response of solidarity and shared safety, that every Jewish & non-Jewish Michigander can do on Tuesday:
Vote for @AbdulElSayed
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
Haley Stevens lied to me. I will not sit by while she tries to use Black folks as a prop and costs us our lives. Vote for @AbdulElSayed.
AbdulForSenate.com
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
We’ve all known a Haley Stevens in our professional lives… and in other places.
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
She was your hand-picked recruit, Senator. You clearly lack the sound judgement to be making such decisions.
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
Kicking working families off their land with a 6 month notice and pricing them out of their own homes is an absolute joke. William and Kate are not sorry for doing it.
They are only sorry because the farmers yelled, the public kicked off, and he got caught out.
Where are all the royal reporters today?
They were cheering him on last week but they are completely silent now that he has had to back down and apologise. It is absolute rubbish. #DuchyOfCornwall #PrinceWilliam
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
it was investigated and reported ages ago but ppl were that busy slagging off meghan and harry they took no notice of bullyboy william
EXPOSED: The Channel 4 Dispatches and The Sunday Times investigation has finally stripped away the mask of Prince William’s £1 billion Duchy of Cornwall. Whilst he lectures the nation on his "Earthshot" programme, nearly 1 in 7 of his rental properties are in illegal breach of energy standards (EPC F & G). He isn’t a steward of the land; he is a tax-exempt landlord letting families freeze in "unfit" homes whilst pocketing a £23 million private income. The most galling part? He is shamelessly profiting from the taxpayer by charging the NHS for ambulance depots and billing the Ministry of Defence millions for the Army to train on "his" soil. As one distraught tenant farmer put it: "It’s just a business to them now... the heart has gone out of it." He isn’t a "Prince of the People", he is a billionaire extracting rent from our hospitals and schools.
Along with the “new valuations” one also hopes they will be given more time. This land has been in the Duchy since the 14th C, why the big hurry to sell it off?
Does Earthshot need money?
Kicking working families off their land with a 6 month notice and pricing them out of their own homes is an absolute joke. William and Kate are not sorry for doing it.
They are only sorry because the farmers yelled, the public kicked off, and he got caught out.
Where are all the royal reporters today?
They were cheering him on last week but they are completely silent now that he has had to back down and apologise. It is absolute rubbish. #DuchyOfCornwall #PrinceWilliam
Was Stevens blaming to endorse Roger’s at the Clyburn event today to create a major scene and cause maximum embarrassment for El-Sayed?
Good for Debbie Dingell for thwarting whatever she had in mind.
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
I spoke with Haley Stevens yesterday.
Feeling a bit absurd in pointing out the obvious and being far kinder than I should have been, I reminded her that the outcome of this senate race will be viewed in the light of a future Supreme Court vacancy, and I expressed a hope that all of us understand the stakes.
She assured me she's supporting Dr. El-Sayed, sent me a video of a recent speech she gave blasting Mike Rogers and said this: "Still stands. I promise."
She also said she's been sending this video to other folks to make it clear where she stands on this race.
Again: that was yesterday.
I have known Haley Stevens for years. I have counted her as a friend and an ally. We've had many thoughtful conversations about this country, and she has never failed to remind me that her mother is a fan of my writing.
Whatever other political differences we have, she has always made it clear to me she would stand with LGBTQ people. It was a red line she refused to cross.
Instead, she has made the inexplicable decision to endorse a man who views LGBTQ Americans as second-class citizens unworthy of full equality.
I can't help but wonder what her mother must be thinking right now.
I have no idea what has happened to the person I thought I knew, but clearly, she has completely taken leave of her senses in endorsing a Republican who is little more than a Trump sycophant -- less than 24 hours after promising me that she has not wavered from the bigger picture.
I am disgusted with her cynicism and cowardice in this moment. God forgive me for trusting her.
If you're a Michigan voter and as disgusted as I am, get to your polling place and vote for Dr. El-Sayed.
It’s a good thing that Debbie Dingell told Haley Stevens that she was no longer invited to Abdul’s event today. Who knows what she would have pulled?
Now we know that she’s a conniving, duplicitous, opportunistic liar. Will Chuck Schumer apologize for his poor judgement?
Mild & Unassuming Leftist retweeted
The British starved Ireland and then cited Irish poverty as evidence of Irish inferiority.
The Belgians extracted the Congo’s resources for a century and then cited Congolese underdevelopment as evidence that Africans needed to be governed.
The Americans sanctioned Cuba for 66 years and then cited Cuban economic difficulties as evidence that socialism doesn’t work.
The structure is the same.
It has always been the same.
You remove the conditions necessary for success.
You wait.
You point.
You conclude.
The only thing that changes across centuries and continents is who’s being pointed at.