(FT) - Lufthansa has cancelled 20,000 flights between May and October to save fuel, one of the largest cuts by global airlines as jet fuel prices double following the Iran war.
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What? Our big, strong, tough, mighty war fighters are afraid of a little old vaccination? The one that millions of ordinary civilians including children and elderly get every year?
Let NASA do NASA stuff.
When someone loves you , the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth. — Billy - age 4
🇺🇸 CNN: The U.S. military has heavily depleted key missile stockpiles during the recent war with Iran, raising concerns about readiness for another major conflict.
— The U.S. has used roughly 45% of Precision Strike Missiles.
— 50% of THAAD interceptors.
— Nearly 50% of Patriot air defense missiles.
Yesterday, AA4464 was cleared to land RWY31L at JFK, while AC8554 was cleared 31R. AA4464’s turn to runway heading brought it close enough to AC8554 that both aircraft responded to TCAS RAs and went around. The flights landed safely a short time later. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/20...
The one thing that has taken a U.S. aircraft carrier offline in recent years was not enemy action. It was COVID.
Deciding now to put anti-science culture war signaling over military readiness is a bad idea.
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The front page of the Star Tribune on April 22, 2016, following the passing of Prince.
Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.
More from Ike, a Republican: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
Compare with this quote from Dwight D Eisenhower, an actual military commander who knew what it was to experience combat: "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Countries continue to turn to renewables for national security despite Trump's attacks on wind and solar.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/8ARL
"Nice book you got here, McQuade . . . be a shame if anything happened to it."
- Robert De Niro, on "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government"
I love science!!!
Modern medicine is not perfect, but it's truly amazing. It's insane not to keep funding science.
Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson has revealed that Donald Trump wanted to use nuclear codes during a White House meeting on Saturday night. General Dan Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stood up and said NO
This is the level of instability in the White House.
Translation:
This deal is about to be exactly like the JCPOA, minus Obama’s signature
We are not being asked to sit in a trench. We are not being asked to sign a document that will get us hanged. We are being asked to stay engaged. That's it. After 250 years of Americans dying for this idea, that's all we owe. I wrote about it here.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
This
“Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.”
—Martin Luther
Is that bad? Seems bad
The El Gamal family did nothing wrong.
The father committed a crime & his children are paying the price.
5 kids and their mother have been held in Dilley for 10 months.
Mom has fluid around her heart & needs urgent medical care.
We made noise for Liam Ramos.
Let’s make noise for this family.
Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
