Summary

Trump is firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees despite recent fatal air crashes, CNN reports.

The AFL-CIO says terminations were issued Friday, with affected staff possibly locked out of FAA facilities after Monday.

Aviation safety union PASS calls the cuts “dangerous,” especially after four deadly incidents in the past month.

Critics argue these moves risk public safety amid ongoing air traffic controller shortages.

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    3 days ago

    Part of the reason Pres. Biden’s term seemed so useless to those not paying attention. A lot of it was spent fixing all the damage Orange Combover 1.0 did. Entire departments had data and knowledge loss and had to be rebuilt.

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      3 days ago

      Yep. A whole lot of dipshits were saying Bronzo the Clown and Biden were more or less the same because they were both older white men. Also: Gaza.

      And now it seems all of us have to deal with that incredibly stupid take.

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      Biden mostly appeared useless because he accepted so much corporate PAC money that he was unable/unwilling to deliver meaningful change to the working class voters who put him in office.

      He did come through big time for oil and gas companies (record drilling), and for arms manufacturers (billions stolen from American taxpayers to give to Israel for genocidal bombings in Palestine).