The Potomac Crash Was Entirely Avoidable
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 1/31/2025 1:05:41 PM
Danasia Elder was fantastic at her job. Before she died in the horrible plane crash over the Potomac, I flew with her just a couple of weeks ago. She seemed to be filled with joy. She visibly cared about doing a great job. Danasia wasn’t phoning it in. When you are on planes a lot, you notice the best flight attendants, and Danasia was one of the best. I also recently flew with the pilot, Jonathan Campos, and Ian Epstein, the other flight attendant. I remember Ian because he was bit of a character. My short personal interactions with these souls, refreshingly dedicated folks who seemed to care about their work,
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The shutdown comes just before the private migration groups were to be aided by a $5 billion migration fund created by Congress in 2024 for additional migration inflows in 2025.
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Tyler Miles Leveque, 37, of Albuquerque, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of interstate communications containing threats against President Donald Trump.
Tyler Leveque was accused of making several threatening posts toward President Trump from January 2 to January 4, 2025, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Leveque explicitly stated his intentions in various posts, saying, “you and your rich friends are dead no threat a promise” and ominously tagged the President Trump profile in several threats.
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The fires that swept through the Los Angeles area pose a massive challenge for city officials and residents, not just from the sheer scale of the initial damage, but from the unique challenges presented by the cleanup.
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According to one Wednesday report from KNBC-TV,
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering scaling back the United States' support for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and placing its remnants under the State Department, to be overseen by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
As of this writing, no final decision has been made.
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The Army is refusing to name the female pilot killed aboard the military helicopter that collided with a passenger jet flying into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Declares
End of ‘Cultural Awareness Months’
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End of ‘Cultural Awareness Months’
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He added:
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