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1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

Now Elon is taking a big government contract from his competitors, blaming them for problems he himself caused in the FAA.

The Onion has had some gems today (SIAP)

 

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That's the facial hair of a combo bait shop and used tire store owner . . .

Or of the kind of sex offender who tells their attorney "if I did it, it was so she'd know what boys her age are all trying to do to her," while maintaining his innocence after being shown extremely damning DNA test results of swabs from a rape kit and from multiple bedding articles found in the child's room as well as from a half dozen used condoms found in a corner of the garage. Said condoms he claims he only used to masturbate in because he has rough hands and needs to jerk it frequently because of how much the child arouses him in ways that clearly make it her fault, if he did it, but he definitely didn't.

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

I wish there was some way the blue states (makers) could cut off the red states (takers). 

Careful. You are getting awfully close to the line of "secession".

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1 hour ago, softlynow said:

That's the facial hair of a combo bait shop and used tire store owner . . .

Or of the kind of sex offender who tells their attorney "if I did it, it was so she'd know what boys her age are all trying to do to her," while maintaining his innocence after being shown extremely damning DNA test results of swabs from a rape kit and from multiple bedding articles found in the child's room as well as from a half dozen used condoms found in a corner of the garage. Said condoms he claims he only used to masturbate in because he has rough hands and needs to jerk it frequently because of how much the child arouses him in ways that clearly make it her fault, if he did it, but he definitely didn't.

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3 hours ago, softlynow said:

That's the facial hair of a combo bait shop and used tire store owner . . .

Or of the kind of sex offender who tells their attorney "if I did it, it was so she'd know what boys her age are all trying to do to her," while maintaining his innocence after being shown extremely damning DNA test results of swabs from a rape kit and from multiple bedding articles found in the child's room as well as from a half dozen used condoms found in a corner of the garage. Said condoms he claims he only used to masturbate in because he has rough hands and needs to jerk it frequently because of how much the child arouses him in ways that clearly make it her fault, if he did it, but he definitely didn't.

You are a pedophile and I hope someone of age tracks you down and fucks you.

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3 hours ago, softlynow said:

That's the facial hair of a combo bait shop and used tire store owner . . .

Or of the kind of sex offender who tells their attorney "if I did it, it was so she'd know what boys her age are all trying to do to her," while maintaining his innocence after being shown extremely damning DNA test results of swabs from a rape kit and from multiple bedding articles found in the child's room as well as from a half dozen used condoms found in a corner of the garage. Said condoms he claims he only used to masturbate in because he has rough hands and needs to jerk it frequently because of how much the child arouses him in ways that clearly make it her fault, if he did it, but he definitely didn't.

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6 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

You are a pedophile and I hope someone of age tracks you down and fucks you.

I would be surprised you read it that way, but I’ve represented too many sick people to be shocked anymore.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/us-antarctic-program-disrupted-by-doge-induced-chaos/

 

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Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impacts—and are terrified for what’s to come.

The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) operates three permanent stations in Antarctica. These remote stations are difficult to get to and difficult to maintain; scattered across the continent, they are built on volcanic hills, polar plateaus, and icy peninsulas.

 

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But to the US, the science has been worth it. At these stations, over a thousand people each year come to the continent to live and work. Scientists operate a number of major research projects, studying everything from climate change and rising sea levels to the cosmological makeup and origins of the universe itself. With funding cuts and layoffs looming, Antarctic scientists and experts don’t know if their research will be able to continue, how US stations will be sustained, or what all this might mean for the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

“Even brief interruptions will result in people walking away and not coming back,” says Nathan Whitehorn, an associate professor and Antarctic scientist at Michigan State University. “It could easily take decades to rebuild.”

 

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The USAP is managed by the National Science Foundation. Last week, a number of NSF program managers staffed on Antarctic projects were fired as part of a wider purge at the agency. The program managers are critical for maintaining communication with the infrastructure and logistics arm of the NSF, and the contractors for the USAP, as well as planning deployment for scientists to the continent, keeping track of the budgets, and funding the maintenance and operations work. “I have no idea what we do without them,” says another Antarctic scientist who has spent time on the continent, who along with several others WIRED granted anonymity due to fears of retaliation.

“Without them, everything stops,” says a scientist whose NSF project manager was fired last week. “I have no idea who I am supposed to report to now or what happens to submitted proposals.”

 

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Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic background radiation and the evolution of the universe; IceCube, a cubic-kilometer detector designed to study neutrino physics and high energy emission from astrophysical sources; and the Atmospheric Research Observatory that studies climate science and is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Mass firings are also expected at the NOAA.)

“The climate science [at the South Pole Station] is super unique,” an Antarctic scientist says. “The site has so little pollution that we call it ‘the cleanest air on Earth,’ and they have been monitoring the ozone layer and CO2 content in the atmosphere for many decades.”

Other directives from the Donald Trump administration have directly affected daily life on those stations. “Gender-inclusive terms on housing documents” have been removed from Antarctic staffer forms, a source familiar with the situation at McMurdo Station tells WIRED. “It asked if you had a preference with which gender you housed with,” the source says. “That’s all been removed.”

Staffers have already pushed back. “People have been painting waste bins saying “Antarctica is for ALL” in rainbow, people’s email signatures [have] pride additions, [others] keep adding preferred pronouns to emails,” the source says.

“There’s a sense of unease on the station like people have never felt before,” they add. “The job still has to get done, even though people feel like the next shoe can drop at any moment.”

That unease extends to their own job security. “There are some people currently at the South Pole that are worried about losing their jobs any day now,” a source with familiarity of the situation tells WIRED. Workers present at the station aren’t able to physically leave until October, and a midseason firing, or loss of funding, would present a unique set of challenges.

Sources are also bracing for at least a 50 percent reduction in the NSF’s budget due to DOGE cuts. These cuts are sending Antarctic scientists with assistants and graduate students scrambling. “We didn’t know if we could pay graduate students,” says one scientist. While research is conducted on the continent, scientists bring their findings back to the US to process and analyze. A lot of the funding also operates the science itself: For one project that requires electricity to run detectors, the scientist “was paranoid we would not be able to literally pay bills for an experiment starved for data.” That hasn’t come to fruition yet, but as funding cycles restart in the coming weeks and months, scientists are on tenterhooks.

Sources tell WIRED that Germany, Canada, Spain, and China have already started taking advantage of that uncertainty by recruiting US scientists focused on Antarctica.

“Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left,” says one Antarctic scientist. “My students are looking at jobs overseas now … people have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.”

“Now is a great time to see if anyone wants to jump ship,” another Antarctic scientist says. “I do worry about a brain drain of tenured academics, or students who are shunted out.”

“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations,” says another.

Throughout DOGE’s cuts to the federal government, representatives have said that if something needs to be brought back, it could be. In some cases, reversals have already happened: The US Department of Agriculture said it accidentally fired staffers working on preventing the spread of bird flu and is trying to rehire them.

But in Antarctica, a reversal won’t necessarily work. “One of the really scary things about this is that if the Antarctic program budget is cut, then they’ll very quickly get to the point where they can’t even keep the station open, much less science projects going,” an Antarctic scientist tells WIRED. “If the South Pole [station] is shut down, it’s basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow. And some other country will likely immediately take over.

Others share this fear of a station takeover. “Even if science funding is cut back, there is an urgent need for the US to invest in icebreakers and polar airlift capability otherwise at some point the US-managed South Pole station might not be serviceable,” says Klaus Dodds, an Antarctic expert and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London.

Experts are concerned that countries like Russia and China—who have already been eagle-eyed on continental influence—will quickly jostle to fill the power vacuum. “Presumably it would be humiliating for anyone who wishes to promote ‘America First’ to witness China offer to take over the occupation and management of the base at the heart of Antarctica. China is a very determined polar power,” says Dodds.

The political outcome of the US pulling back from its Antarctic research and presence could be dire, sources tell WIRED.

Antarctica isn’t owned by any one country. Instead it’s governed by the Antarctic Treaty System, which protects Antarctica and the scientific research taking place on the continent, and forbids mining and nuclear activity. Some countries, including China and Russia, have indicated that they would be interested in rule changes to the Treaty system, particularly around resource extraction and fishing restrictions. The US, traditionally, has played a key role in championing the treaty: “Many of the leading polar scientists and social scientists are either US citizens and/or have been enriched by contact with US-led programs,” says Dodds.

That leadership role could change quickly. The US also participates in a number of international collaborations involving major Antarctic scientific projects. A US pullback, Whitehorn says, “makes it very hard to regard the US as a reliable partner, so I think there will be a lot less interest in accepting US leadership in such things … The uncertainty will drive people away and sacrifice the leadership the US already has.”

“If the NSF can’t function, or we don’t fund it, projects with long lead times can just die,” another scientist says. “I’m sure international partners would be happy to partner elsewhere. This is what it means to lose US competitiveness.”

 

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The NIH funding freeze is a function of DOGE, so this goes here. Senior scientists are being kicked to the curb. Research projects are losing their leaders. The only way this makes sense to me is that these fucks are doing all they can to ruin the United States of America. Again, every dollar the federal government invests in research yields $2.60 in economic activity.

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It’s the Trump administration’s latest blow to NIH’s $5.2 billion intramural program. Less well known than the agency’s $39 billion extramural program, which gives grants to researchers at outside institutions, it includes basic research labs and a research hospital that treats patients with rare diseases—and helps showcase NIH’s work and build support from Congress, those familiar with it say.

The hold on renewals could eventually affect the vast majority of the program’s staff scientists, research fellows, and tenure-track investigators, most of whom are hired under a statute known as Title 42. It allows federal agencies to recruit talented scientists by paying salaries above the federal pay scale, subject to periodic renewal. Although NIH investigators who have been granted tenure have a type of Title 42 appointment that doesn’t require renewal, those tenured researchers make up just 20% of NIH’s nearly 4000 senior scientists.

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ban-renewing-senior-scientists-adds-assaults-its-house-research

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8 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/us-antarctic-program-disrupted-by-doge-induced-chaos/

 

 

 

 

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Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic background radiation and the evolution of the universe; IceCube, a cubic-kilometer detector designed to study neutrino physics and high energy emission from astrophysical sources; and the Atmospheric Research Observatory that studies climate science and is run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Mass firings are also expected at the NOAA.)

“The climate science [at the South Pole Station] is super unique,” an Antarctic scientist says. “The site has so little pollution that we call it ‘the cleanest air on Earth,’ and they have been monitoring the ozone layer and CO2 content in the atmosphere for many decades.”

Other directives from the Donald Trump administration have directly affected daily life on those stations. “Gender-inclusive terms on housing documents” have been removed from Antarctic staffer forms, a source familiar with the situation at McMurdo Station tells WIRED. “It asked if you had a preference with which gender you housed with,” the source says. “That’s all been removed.”

Staffers have already pushed back. “People have been painting waste bins saying “Antarctica is for ALL” in rainbow, people’s email signatures [have] pride additions, [others] keep adding preferred pronouns to emails,” the source says.

“There’s a sense of unease on the station like people have never felt before,” they add. “The job still has to get done, even though people feel like the next shoe can drop at any moment.”

That unease extends to their own job security. “There are some people currently at the South Pole that are worried about losing their jobs any day now,” a source with familiarity of the situation tells WIRED. Workers present at the station aren’t able to physically leave until October, and a midseason firing, or loss of funding, would present a unique set of challenges.

Sources are also bracing for at least a 50 percent reduction in the NSF’s budget due to DOGE cuts. These cuts are sending Antarctic scientists with assistants and graduate students scrambling. “We didn’t know if we could pay graduate students,” says one scientist. While research is conducted on the continent, scientists bring their findings back to the US to process and analyze. A lot of the funding also operates the science itself: For one project that requires electricity to run detectors, the scientist “was paranoid we would not be able to literally pay bills for an experiment starved for data.” That hasn’t come to fruition yet, but as funding cycles restart in the coming weeks and months, scientists are on tenterhooks.

Sources tell WIRED that Germany, Canada, Spain, and China have already started taking advantage of that uncertainty by recruiting US scientists focused on Antarctica.

“Foreign countries are actively recruiting my colleagues, and some have already left,” says one Antarctic scientist. “My students are looking at jobs overseas now … people have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.”

“Now is a great time to see if anyone wants to jump ship,” another Antarctic scientist says. “I do worry about a brain drain of tenured academics, or students who are shunted out.”

“The damage caused by gutting the [Antarctic] science budget like this is going to last generations,” says another.

Throughout DOGE’s cuts to the federal government, representatives have said that if something needs to be brought back, it could be. In some cases, reversals have already happened: The US Department of Agriculture said it accidentally fired staffers working on preventing the spread of bird flu and is trying to rehire them.

But in Antarctica, a reversal won’t necessarily work. “One of the really scary things about this is that if the Antarctic program budget is cut, then they’ll very quickly get to the point where they can’t even keep the station open, much less science projects going,” an Antarctic scientist tells WIRED. “If the South Pole [station] is shut down, it’s basically nearly impossible to bring it back up. Everything will freeze and get buried in snow. And some other country will likely immediately take over.

Others share this fear of a station takeover. “Even if science funding is cut back, there is an urgent need for the US to invest in icebreakers and polar airlift capability otherwise at some point the US-managed South Pole station might not be serviceable,” says Klaus Dodds, an Antarctic expert and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London.

Experts are concerned that countries like Russia and China—who have already been eagle-eyed on continental influence—will quickly jostle to fill the power vacuum. “Presumably it would be humiliating for anyone who wishes to promote ‘America First’ to witness China offer to take over the occupation and management of the base at the heart of Antarctica. China is a very determined polar power,” says Dodds.

The political outcome of the US pulling back from its Antarctic research and presence could be dire, sources tell WIRED.

Antarctica isn’t owned by any one country. Instead it’s governed by the Antarctic Treaty System, which protects Antarctica and the scientific research taking place on the continent, and forbids mining and nuclear activity. Some countries, including China and Russia, have indicated that they would be interested in rule changes to the Treaty system, particularly around resource extraction and fishing restrictions. The US, traditionally, has played a key role in championing the treaty: “Many of the leading polar scientists and social scientists are either US citizens and/or have been enriched by contact with US-led programs,” says Dodds.

That leadership role could change quickly. The US also participates in a number of international collaborations involving major Antarctic scientific projects. A US pullback, Whitehorn says, “makes it very hard to regard the US as a reliable partner, so I think there will be a lot less interest in accepting US leadership in such things … The uncertainty will drive people away and sacrifice the leadership the US already has.”

“If the NSF can’t function, or we don’t fund it, projects with long lead times can just die,” another scientist says. “I’m sure international partners would be happy to partner elsewhere. This is what it means to lose US competitiveness.”

 

I was just at the Antarctic Center in Christchurch, NZ where we have a US “base”. It was so fucking cool. Of course these idiots would do this. 

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On 2/26/2025 at 6:25 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

Correct.  They'll roll out a shit-ton of anit-gay ads, find a group of browns to vilify, and roll to another term. 

Shit the browns will fucking vote for them…

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Just want to point out that if you are getting yelled at out in Oakley Kansas, where the last Democrat that was voted for President locally was FDR’s first term, and Carter was the last to crack 40%, and the last to exceed 21% was Dukakis in a bad drought year, shits going to get bad. 

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13 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

Just want to point out that if you are getting yelled at out in Oakley Kansas, where the last Democrat that was voted for President locally was FDR’s first term, and Carter was the last to crack 40%, and the last to exceed 21% was Dukakis in a bad drought year, shits going to get bad. 

They will never vote for a Dem no matter how bad it gets. That is the issue. 

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48 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

Just want to point out that if you are getting yelled at out in Oakley Kansas, where the last Democrat that was voted for President locally was FDR’s first term, and Carter was the last to crack 40%, and the last to exceed 21% was Dukakis in a bad drought year, shits going to get bad. 

 

35 minutes ago, Dr. Teeth said:

They will never vote for a Dem no matter how bad it gets. That is the issue. 

This. So much this. That dumb bitch who yelled "We'll vote you out!" at the end... won't vote him out. Not a single one of those camo hat wearing simpletons bothered to read one page of Project 2025 to grasp that this is what they voted for. Time will move on and, by 2026, their anger will be directed towards migrant caravans or gays in the Coast Guard or whatever the fuck.

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2 hours ago, Chopper said:

 

 

2 hours ago, Chopper said:

The government is running out of attorneys to respond in a timely manner to pending cases in federal court.

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both of these are fantastic

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27 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

FYI pubmed is down right now.  My daughter was working on a biochemistry paper and the entire NIH database is gone from the web.  Fun times ahead!

Their landing page is up, but I don’t have a personal login. Is that part working but the database is gone so no search results?

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46 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

FYI pubmed is down right now.  My daughter was working on a biochemistry paper and the entire NIH database is gone from the web.  Fun times ahead!

Pubmed working fine for me

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8 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

FYI pubmed is down right now.  My daughter was working on a biochemistry paper and the entire NIH database is gone from the web.  Fun times ahead!

Thank you for the panic attack.  I have a shit ton of literature to review this week.

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7 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Pubmed working fine for me

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Glad it’s back up!  It was down at about 945 last night with an outage message and she was freaking out.  Back to brainworm research!

 

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10 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

FYI pubmed is down right now.  My daughter was working on a biochemistry paper and the entire NIH database is gone from the web.  Fun times ahead!

Pubmed literally helped heal me when I was sick. I spent easily 100+ hours researching and found the most incredible and effective treatments I took for long covid through pubmed.  Doctors didn’t recommend them, I went straight to the doctors that knew and offered the treatments to get them. Not one doctor asked me to consider this or that. In today’s treatment hellscape, pubmed is a critical part of patient advocacy. 

Fucking deplorable.

edit: it’s working at this moment for me too.

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14 hours ago, Chopper said:

 

dickheads shut down NOAA's Tsunami modeling team. very small group. Yeah, we don't need to understand, think about and prepare for tsunamis. meh. Buddy was at 19 years.

Concerning people leaving the government. Remember when the USSR collapsed? Yep, well lots of their smart people, nukies, IT, etc, went to work for some fucked up people. After a life of service they say fuck it, I am going to be like the oligarchs and get mine. So off they go.

And if you want change. Well go local and go local now. Vote out anyone who supports this crap.

 

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Pefectly normal.   Transparency.   Absolutely no conflict of interest whatsoever.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-starlink-faa-officials-find-funding-1235285246/

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Elon Musk’s satellite business Starlink may not have officially taken over Verizon’s $2.4 billion contract with the Federal Aviation Administration yet to upgrade the systems it uses to manage America’s airspace. However, on Friday, FAA officials ordered staff to begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, according to a source with knowledge of the FAA and two people briefed on the situation. 

 

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The sources note that these internal directives have mostly, if not entirely, been delivered verbally — which they say is unusual for a matter like this. The source with knowledge of the FAA tells Rolling Stone that it appears as though “someone does not want a paper trail.”

It is unclear at this moment if the Verizon contract is officially dead, or if a Starlink deal has been formally inked.

 

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The FAA and SpaceX, the Musk company that owns Starlink, did not respond to Rolling Stone’s request for comment.

Musk, the world’s richest man, is leading Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In that role, he has overseen an unprecedented purge of the federal workforce, including at the FAA, as well as DOGE’s efforts to gain access and control over sensitive information and systems. 

 

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Trump and Musk recently directed the firings of hundreds of employees at the FAA, a long understaffed agency, ranging from air traffic control support staff, lawyers tasked with keeping drunk and reckless pilots out of the skies, and staffers who evaluate potential new construction hazards to inform flight paths. 

Musk’s exceedingly powerful role leading DOGE and myriad business interests present obvious and staggering potential conflicts of interests, which government contracting rules and ethics requirements are supposed to prohibit. SpaceX has benefited from billions of dollars in government contracts. And many of the government agencies he is shredding regulate his businesses. 

The FAA, for example, fined SpaceX last year for safety and regulatory violations. Afterwards, Musk publicly demanded the agency’s previous Senate-confirmed administrator, Michael Whitaker, resign; Whitaker departed the day Trump took office. 

The agency has also been conducting a “mishap investigation” into a SpaceX rocket explosion in January, which occurred days before Trump took office, that sent falling debris across the Caribbean. That hasn’t stopped Musk from gutting the FAA, or from offering to help the agency. Last month, he volunteered the services of his SpaceX engineers to the FAA to “help make air travel safer.” 

Last week, Bloomberg reported that Musk recently approved a deal to ship 4,000 Starlink terminals to the FAA. Musk has claimed on his platform X that “Starlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the taxpayer on an emergency basis to restore air traffic control connectivity.” 

According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration is considering giving Starlink a $2.4 billion contract that had already been awarded to Verizon, to upgrade the information technology systems the FAA uses to manage America’s airspace. 

Musk asserted last week, without evidence, that “the Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly,” before correcting himself to say that Verizon’s system is “not yet operational.” 

 

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Rolling Stone magazine reporting that the FAA was ordered to find tens of millions in funding for Musk’s StarLink. Verbally ordered. No paper trail.

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Elon Musk’s satellite business Starlink may not have officially taken over Verizon’s $2.4 billion contract with the Federal Aviation Administration yet to upgrade the systems it uses to manage America’s airspace. However, on Friday, FAA officials ordered staff to begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, according to a source with knowledge of the FAA and two people briefed on the situation. 

The sources note that these internal directives have mostly, if not entirely, been delivered verbally — which they say is unusual for a matter like this. The source with knowledge of the FAA tells Rolling Stone that it appears as though “someone does not want a paper trail.”

It is unclear at this moment if the Verizon contract is officially dead, or if a Starlink deal has been formally inked.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-starlink-faa-officials-find-funding-1235285246/

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20 hours ago, aggie08 said:

 

This. So much this. That dumb bitch who yelled "We'll vote you out!" at the end... won't vote him out. Not a single one of those camo hat wearing simpletons bothered to read one page of Project 2025 to grasp that this is what they voted for. Time will move on and, by 2026, their anger will be directed towards migrant caravans or gays in the Coast Guard or whatever the fuck.

My brother is a Trumper and a vet, and he actually read Project 2025 and was concerned about his benefits potentially being cut. But he also trusted Trump 100% when Trump said he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and still voted for him. I think this is even worse than not reading Project 2025 at all. 

As of today, none of his benefits have been cut. He gets 100% disability benefits as a PTSD survivor of the War in Afghanistan and his multiple tours in Iraq. What I don’t understand is how he can get full 100% disability payments monthly, yet he’s still allowed to work a civilian job in a police department when he is considered 100% disabled by the VA. It’s not like he’s pushing papers at a desk either, he’s out there as a patrol officer arresting people while getting his 100% disability checks from the VA while also collecting his salary from the police department.

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38 minutes ago, MrBig said:

My brother is a Trumper and a vet, and he actually read Project 2025 and was concerned about his benefits potentially being cut. But he also trusted Trump 100% when Trump said he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and still voted for him. I think this is even worse than not reading Project 2025 at all. 

As of today, none of his benefits have been cut. He gets 100% disability benefits as a PTSD survivor of the War in Afghanistan and his multiple tours in Iraq. What I don’t understand is how he can get full 100% disability payments monthly, yet he’s still allowed to work a civilian job in a police department when he is considered 100% disabled by the VA. It’s not like he’s pushing papers at a desk either, he’s out there as a patrol officer arresting people while getting his 100% disability checks from the VA while also collecting his salary from the police department.

Sounds like he isn’t 100% disabled; but what do I know? No se nada.

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53 minutes ago, MrBig said:

As of today, none of his benefits have been cut. He gets 100% disability benefits as a PTSD survivor of the War in Afghanistan and his multiple tours in Iraq. What I don’t understand is how he can get full 100% disability payments monthly, yet he’s still allowed to work a civilian job in a police department when he is considered 100% disabled by the VA. It’s not like he’s pushing papers at a desk either, he’s out there as a patrol officer arresting people while getting his 100% disability checks from the VA while also collecting his salary from the police department.

You're describing my brother. 2 tours in Iraq, now 100% disabled (PTSD) but able to work when he wants. He's a middle school coach when he wants to be, but frequently takes a year or two off and just hops to another school when he's tired of being an at-home dad. The checks keep clearing.... 



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