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Joint statement from the air traffic controllers, pilots, and flight attendants unions.

“In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play, nor predict the point at which the entire system will break.” afacwa.org/air_traffic_co…
FYI- Air traffic controllers are forbidden from striking by law and airline employees are required to get federal govt permission for any work stoppage. The govt used to tolerate extralegal wildcat strikes but Reagan changed all that when he fired the air traffic controllers.
The status quo is not good in many overlapping ways.
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pea brain: seems unconstitutional

regular brain: there's a statute that allows him to do emergency spending for military construction, so *waves hands* Youngstown whatever

big brain: but look at the debate he would be circumventing in congress; Youngstown cuts the other way!
solar system brain: wait wait that statute doesn't objectively define emergencies; it's just whatever the president wants, and he says when the emergency ends.

galaxy brain: the conservative majority on SCOTUS, not predictable statutory or constitutional analysis, will govern
universe brain: seems unconstitutional
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New York’s OCME rules the deaths of the Farea sisters in the Hudson River last year suicide. The case had prompted widespread suspicion that the Saudi govt had played some role.
For background, here is the Washington Post’s report from November of last year. washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…
OCME just sent out a revised statement from the Medical Examiner deleting the final comment in the previous statement they distributed (about the sisters being 2 of 500 suicides citywide in 2018)
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Breathing life into a nonissue presented by bad people acting in transparently bad faith is the problem, Chris. Senator Harris should have no obligation to respond to this hateful, racist nonsense. You and your network are constantly pumping the poison into our veins.
Every smarmy “here we go again” tweet perpetuates this freak show. We don’t have to go at all. The racists have neither evidence nor a valid legal argument on their side. All they have is witting or unwitting allies in the media. Skip it. For decency’s sake.
This is not a plausible construction of your original tweet, which asserts that “there is no proof either way.”
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Air traffic controllers are holding air traffic in the United States together. They are not getting paid.
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