DCA Plane Crash

Too much for a BlueSky post, so I’m putting it here. This is not a front page blog post, so no comment box. You can comment on my BlueSky post that sent you here.

There has been a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers for a while now. It’s been covered in the news for at least a couple of years, and experts have expressed concern about it. Yet, Trump decided it would be a good idea to thin them out some more.

Air Traffic Controllers were among those who received the resignation “buyout” letters. Many in that field and others who are paying attention were alarmed at that development. The following is a tiny segment of the conversations about it.

 
 

Thomas Schaller posted this on X 12 hours before the crash.

 
 

This Mother Jones reporter quickly responded.

 
 

AOC had this to say after the crash.

 
 

It was already an accident waiting to happen. Trump was trying to make it worse, but of course he’s placing the blame everywhere that it doesn’t belong. Just his usual MO.