BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Transportation announces it will reduce scheduled airspace capacity by 10% starting Friday morning if the government shutdown has not ended, citing "growing pressure" in the NAS as controllers and other personnel continue to go unpaid. Developing story.

Which of these did you vote for, MAGAs? 1. War with Venezuela 2. War with Mexico 3. War with Colombia 4. War on Tylenol 5. Marines firing onto US soil 6. Runaway inflation 7. Runaway unemployment 8. Luxury jets for all Trump officials 9. ICE shooting and/or gassing US citizen priests, cops and vets

1h40m of @flightradar24.com NYC-bound traffic sped up by 20,000% down to 30 seconds. It’s not too often we see all three major airports using the same runway 4 approaches. It’s beautiful.

Just hope the progression of Pomeranz and Keller in the 8th and 9th of a game out of reach by a GS doesn't have a bad omen for late Saturday night

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean, verily fuck the Brewers

Announcer: "Batter has one hit in this series, a HR off the starting pitcher" Display graphic, almost immediately: Batter: 2 H in 30 AB Stupidity at its finest

ALDS is tied in the 6th between DET and SEA. Bar: you know what people would love? A blowout college football game in the 4th quarter

I'm heading back to the Orchard, in a different airplane. But I'm back

Unless the next president (will there actually be one?) changes the landscape back to the garden it was, it'll just be one of those references the 2yo of this era wonder why it's called a Garden Club

B-25 Mitchell over Sandusky, west of Cleveland

The best part about Citi Field, the scenery:

Did Belli only get 3 bases on a HR?

Part 1 of our day.

-Trump just bought $100 MILLION in bonds -When Interest Rates go down, bond prices go up -Trump has been pushing for interest rate cuts he would personally benefit from Unheard of levels of corruption and grift. Yet Republicans say nothing.

Boeing Dreamlifter passing through Nashville, en route to CHS

I'm *this close* to getting an ADSBX subscription just to find all the aircraft types on #Skycards

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CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

To be clear: the public WON’T be able to use the Nashville Airport Tesla tunnel @GovBillLee & Elon plan Only for Teslas for hire So: a private tunnel controlled by the richest man in the world, only for those who can afford it and his cars Q: Does the coverage reflect this?

Annual recurrent training started in March, and sims in June. I understand CA line check is due with 2nd biannual, by the end of June. Still haven't had one, and 4 days left in presumed grace month. Am I destined to dequal for reasons out of my control?

If I were a man who had promised to be a dictator and then had begun acting like a dictator and had previously refused to leave office after the end of my appointed term, I would know that the military was the key to me staying in power and I would put atop it only men who owed *everything* to *me*.

NEW: NTSB Chair Homendy reveals during an Oshkosh presentation that the DCA airport ATC tower is at a LOWER staffing level than it was on Jan. 29 when two aircraft collided just east of the airport.

Happy Draft Day

I guess Gage Wood wasn't the right play

An-224 in YYZ?

The Nitwits Guide to Aviation

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Kinda wild when a normally 5a on-call shift ends on the last day with barely making the last flight home. Just bizarre.

Some big lightning over Chicago tonight! Wow!⚡️⚡️ #ILwx #Chicago #WXsky

So it just got more dangerous to live and work in DC and LA and NYC and Chicago... Does that make me eligible for hazard pay?

Dear ATC friends: When you're reading out 15 things, including a speed assignment, altitude, crossing restriction and notes on weather deviations with a frequency change, we don't need to both be going Mach .78

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.” Anne Frank, 01/13/1943

This is a real NYT headline

Fingers crossed for the weather disrupting base ops after my hot reserve period

H/t the GF: don't drink and play #Skycards @flightradar24.com

Boeing B29 Superfortress over EVV #skycards @av8orgamer.bsky.social

I seriously need an MEL/NEF list for all the other things in my life that break.

Wondering how long it took @airlineflyer.net to figure out the location on the latest @jetlagthegame.bsky.social mini-series

Tough to tell who's got the sauce when it comes to union elections

P51 Mustang over Wilmington ILG area @av8orgamer.bsky.social #skycards

You may have lost 20% of your retirement but good news:

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@bleachernation.bsky.social what sort of trajectory are the Cubs on thru this current stretch of games? They seem to be doing much better than expected. What's the worry if they're over .500 at the end?

No plan is better than angering a bunch of veterans who probably still have guns lying around and once promised to defend the Empire

In the midst of a couple weeks of bad news, at least the Cubs can beat up on paper-strong teams like the Dodgers and Padres

At every occasion the far right brings up the Illuminati -slanted Deep State as a response to anti-conservative missions, I just really want the far left to combat this by claiming every right angled Repub. is a member of Abstergo. #assassinscreed #secretagents

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

This is a real exchange I just had: