🚨BREAKING: UNITED PILOT WHO DEFENDED OCT. 7 STILL FLYING A United Airlines pilot who described the October 7 attack as “resistance by a brave people” and said it was “not unprovoked” is still flying passengers for the airline. Ibrahim R. Mossallam was temporarily removed from flying duties after the post sparked outrage, but later returned to the cockpit. Since then, he has continued posting strongly anti-Israel statements. Mossallam also serves as Vice President of the Board of CAIR-New York. I asked United a simple question: Why is he still flying passengers? As of now, United has not provided an official response. Watch the full report below. @united

The sneering is the whole fucking story. They sneer at Hegseth for talking about fitness. They sneer at the “warrior” language. They sneer at standards. They sneer at discipline. They sneer because @CynicalPublius point goes far deeper than waistlines, drones, or one stupid daytime-TV segment. His argument is that Hegseth is tearing into an ideological culture that spent years burrowing into one of the most respected institutions in America. That is why the hatred feels so damn personal. Cynical’s “skin suit” point explains the fury perfectly: take a respected institution, hollow it out, fill it with your ideology, then demand the public keep saluting the shell because of what that institution used to represent. Then Hegseth comes in swinging a wrecking ball. DEI programs. Cultural priorities. Lowered expectations. Bureaucratic rot. All of it suddenly gets dragged into the light and challenged under one brutal standard: Does this help us win wars? And that is where the sneering becomes revealing as hell. While they mock him as some chest-thumping relic obsessed with pushups and beards, his Pentagon is simultaneously building around drones, AI, robotics, autonomy, rapid acquisition, and future warfare. So the caricature collapses. The man they paint as backward is pushing technological modernization. The man they ridicule for demanding warriors is also building the machinery those warriors will use in the next war. That is Cynical’s larger point: the rage against Hegseth comes from the fact that he is attacking the old cultural order at the same time he is rebuilding the warfighting one. They keep sneering at the warrior. Meanwhile, the warrior is ripping their fucking skin suit off the Pentagon. (article below)

MORE INFO: Captain Smit Machchhar, the flydubai pilot wounded in the cockpit attack, has described what happened. The co-pilot asked to pray in the cockpit. Machchhar said he did not initially consider the request unusual. About 4 to 5 minutes later he was suddenly struck repeatedly in the back of the head. His vision became badly blurred and he then felt the aircraft enter a sharp descent. He managed at one point to open the cockpit door, but the attacker shut it again. People outside were trying to get in using the cockpit access code. The co-pilot refused to grant them access from inside. Lying on the cockpit floor, Machchhar recalled hearing the aircraft rushing downward and passengers screaming. Believing he might die, he said he gathered "one last fight," forced his way back to the door, reached the internal twist handle and opened it. That allowed people outside to enter the cockpit and regain control of the aircraft.

Trump completely changed the culture of the DC administrative state. For the first time in my career, I’ve heard government employees say things like “we work for the American people” and “we need to create value for our country” with sincerity instead of sarcasm and snark. The 47 transition team brought in a bunch of private-equity dealmakers and corporate executives at the cabinet deputy/under-secretary levels, and they’ve been cleaning house. These are people who are used to working long hours, being responsive to their stakeholders, and holding their teams accountable. People who care more about results and value creation than they do about years of tenure or where your MPA degree is from. People for whom the words “fiduciary duty” actually mean something. Almost overnight, they transformed the way work is done in DC. If you view a federal job as a way to just coast through a career and collect a pension (with an occasional pit stop at Booz Allen Hamilton or Accenture to top up your 401k), you’re not going to make it. If you want to just clock in 9-5 via Microsoft Teams and get paid as a GS-14, the American people no longer require your services. If you treat government funds as an infinite reservoir of Monopoly money, rather than as a finite pool of capital funded by hard-working taxpayers who deserve a return on their investment, you’re out. The difference has been night and day. As an investor, as a taxpayer, and—most importantly—as a citizen, I couldn’t be more excited or more grateful. Patriots really are in control 🇺🇸

Asmongold gives his BASED opinion, says: "You're not being oppressed by the top 2% of society. You're being oppressed by the bottom 2% of society instead 👀 "People ain't gunna like this one: the bottom 2% of society have caused all of the manifest problems in your lives”

This is a new TTP, by the way, and they were testing it out in a regional theater where they could control things better. Why try to hijack a plane from the passenger side when you can sneak a terrorist in as a pilot? These types of attacks are the future. They will utilize access and placement in strategic locations to lower risk and improve outcomes. How many terrorists have been in the US for years training in jobs, maintaining a clean record, and even making friends, to hide their ultimate goals? This is a long game strategy.

Slow motion views of Flight 14 liftoff from the pad and tower at Starbase

I want to tell how little we know about the properties of icy lunar soil and how it will have a gigantic effect on the plans for a base near the Moon’s South Pole. Thread🧵 Cryogenic cone penetrometer tests were recently performed on icy lunar soil simulant. They showed that the physical *form* of the ice can swing the icy soil mixture’s strength by orders of magnitude, even when using the same ice %. Paper, here: link.springer.com/article/10… 1/5

🚨BREAKING: The farmer who called 999 over the suspects near RAF Fairford says she is "100% certain" she saw around 8-10 men, not just 5, stating that she is "surprised" the police haven't contacted her to ask what she saw

People usually focus on the Greeks, Romans & medieval Europe, but when it comes to the natural lifecycles of societies & elites, there are better lessons in the first half of recorded history, the 3k years of the Bronze Age. Kingdoms and empires arose & were destroyed, over 1/

30 minutes early into HNL. Which begs the question: how much credit do pilots deserve for being early? Or late? Well, I’m here to explain as simply as I can. I even got into a race w/ Alaska to illustrate…I’ll tell you about it in tweet 2. First thing to know is the best way for me to get us there early is to have all passengers & bags loaded early. I have very little control over that, but if we have all the passengers & bags, I can push back from the gate up to 10 minutes early. If I get permission from ops, even earlier. The second best shot at making up time is from our “out” time (pushing back from the gate) to our “off” time (wheels leave the ground). The flight plan accounts for a historical taxi average & the jets “elapsed time” doesn’t start until the wheels lift off. If lucky & there isn’t much ground traffic, I can beat the historical average taxi. If very lucky, I can both push back early & beat the taxi average. That’s where I start eyeing an arrival 10-20 minutes earlier than the flight plan. Tonight, we pushed “out” 10 early, but only got off 5 minutes before our “off” time. So, my taxi actually took longer than average (out of my control), but the early push still gave us a 5 minute head start on the flight plan. At this point, you should know the flight plan already had us landing 22 minutes early. So the pushback saving us the 5 min head start now put us at 27 minutes early into HNL. This is where you might be disappointed to learn that there usually isn’t a whole lot else I can do beyond that. Yes, I picked up 3 more minutes tonight…over a 4 hour, 55 minute flight. The biggest factor once in the air is almost always winds aloft. When you book your ticket, the flight time is based on a historical average plus a pad. If the winds are wildly off that average, your flight time will be different. Could be good, could be bad. Tonight, we had almost no headwind going West & even had a tailwind at some points…which is not normal & is why the basic flight plan at the most efficient speed had us arriving 22 minutes early before I did anything. Now, winds can be very different depending on your altitude. You can climb or descend a few thousand feet to improve your situation, as long as ATC will allow it. As w/ all things aviation, though, there’s a catch. It’s fuel. Airlines have to be very efficient w/ fuel. Anytime the jet is heavier, it takes more fuel to fly. So, loading extra fuel beyond what you need adds weight & now you’re burning more fuel than needed to just to carry extra fuel you don’t need. Expensive! Winds aside, going higher is more efficient, up to an optimum, then burns more fuel again. Staying lower always burns more fuel. Tonight, at Flight Level 350 (FL350, or 35,000’) I was projected to land w/ 8.0k lbs.. The computer said if I climbed to FL400, I’d land w/ 7.7k lbs, and if I flew at FL300, I’d land w/ 7.0k lbs.. That’s plenty of fuel, but I’m trying to save the airline money. If I burned an extra 300 lbs, it’s about $194 extra. Now imagine every pilot did that on the 4k flights daily…that’s $776k a day, or $283M a year. So, there’s a balance to be found here on winds & altitude. Altitude also plays a role in speed. Speed is going to be the hardest thing to explain, but I’ll try not to make it mystifying: At higher altitudes, we measure speed in terms of “Mach”, or a percent of the speed of sound. So, .75 Mach is 75% of the speed of sound. Got it? Here’s the next catch: the speed of sound changes w/ altitude & air density. At Sea Level, it’s 720 mph. At FL350, it’s 678 mph, and at FL400 it’s 659 mph. Just remember it’s slower the higher you go. I asked the computer how we’d do if I bumped up the speed: At our current .78M, we land 18 minutes after the hour w/ 8.0k lbs of fuel. At .80M, land 4 min earlier (forgot to write down fuel). At .81M, land 6 min earlier w/7.4k fuel. So, bumping speed is a trade for fuel. Sometimes, you don’t have it to spare. Now, the race… 1/2

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⚡️The marginal Fed hike looks like a mistake. The problem is that the transmission mechanism has become badly mismatched to the economy. The biggest new source of investment demand, AI, compute, power, data centers, chips, transmission, is strategically compelled. The expected payoff is so large that a few hundred basis points of financing cost does not shut it down. The hyperscalers keep building. Meanwhile the sectors that are exquisitely sensitive to rates get crushed first. Housing. Commercial real estate. Small business. Startups. Leveraged companies. Anyone refinancing. So the Fed can keep raising rates and destroy increasingly large pieces of the ordinary economy while the very investment boom keeping aggregate demand strong continues almost untouched. That is the fracture. Then the second-order effects start fighting the Fed. Higher rates raise Treasury interest payments. Those payments become income for bondholders, money-market funds, wealthy households, and cash-rich corporations. Higher rates make new housing and infrastructure more expensive to build. Higher rates raise the hurdle rate for new power generation, transmission, factories, and other supply-expanding investment. So the Fed can simultaneously weaken demand in fragile sectors, increase income flowing to capital owners, and make future supply more expensive. That is a very different economy from the textbook model. And the energy shock makes the mismatch worse. If diesel, gasoline, crude, electricity, or other physical inputs are pushing prices higher, rate hikes do not manufacture energy. They mainly destroy enough unrelated demand elsewhere to offset the supply shock. That is an extraordinarily expensive way to fight inflation. The deeper danger is this: AI can keep the economy looking strong long enough for the Fed to overtighten everything outside AI. That delays the visible break. GDP holds up. Capex holds up. Mega-cap earnings hold up. The Fed interprets resilience as room to keep tightening. But underneath the aggregate numbers, housing freezes, credit deteriorates, hiring weakens, refinancing pain compounds, and fiscal interest expense accelerates. Then eventually the thing breaks somewhere the Fed was not trying to break. That is the setup. Ackman’s most important insight is that the economy is no longer responding uniformly to the price of money. There are now two monetary sensitivities living inside one GDP number. One side is strategically compelled to spend. The other side is getting strangled by the cost of capital. That means the Fed has to apply more pressure to produce the same aggregate slowdown. More pressure means more collateral damage. And eventually the policy becomes self-defeating because the sovereign itself starts absorbing more and more of the cost through interest expense. So the highest-coherence path is: AI capex stays strong. The Fed remains tighter than the ordinary economy can comfortably bear. Housing and credit weaken further. The fiscal interest burden keeps rising. Inflation falls more slowly than expected because energy and supply constraints remain alive. The Fed stays restrictive too long. Then the deterioration finally becomes broad enough that policy has to reverse harder than it otherwise would have. That is when real yields roll over and the repression thesis moves from theory toward policy reality.

I’d really like to know the ultimate total on how much the illegals, refugees, visa holders, all foreigners, cost this country through fraud, welfare and abuse of programs but I’m afraid knowing the answer would make my head explode.

There’s a number of things I’m not happy about with the current admin and congress but overall it’s far better than giving the reins to the commies who will absolutely make things exponentially worse.

Whoever came up with the pronouns bs deserves a punch in the face. It’s the dumbest thing ever.

Almost everyone has forgotten that President Trump and Marco Rubio cleaned out the Chinese from managing the Panama Canal not long after they took office last year. Now with this deal in Greenland, coupled with the Venezuelan removal of Maduro, President Trump has secured the western hemisphere from any potential Chinese or Russian infiltration.