The news thread

[SGR]

Damn, that's right near my neck of the woods.

[QuantumSync]

Hawaii News Now
 Jan 21, 2025

Lahaina fire survivor Shannon Ii is skeptical of the governor's statement that 99 percent of those displaced have been moved into long-term housing.

[QuantumSync]

NBC Montana
Jan 18, 2025

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last month shuttered its office dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), the agency confirmed to The National News Desk (TNND) on Thursday.

"In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), effective by December 2024," a spokesperson for the FBI said in a statement.

[DJChameleon]

Damn, that's right near my neck of the woods.

You hail from Bernie land?

[SGR]

You hail from Bernie land?

Not exactly - from New Hampshire. But I got married in Bernie land and am only a hop and a skip away from it.

[QuantumSync]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-confirms-john-ratcliffe-trumps-cia-director-rcna188588


The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's nomination of John Ratcliffe to be CIA director. Andrew Harnik / Getty Images

Jan. 23, 2025, 2:26 PM EST
By Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director under President Donald Trump, approving the second high-level appointment for the new administration.

The vote was 74-25 in favor of Ratcliffe, a former congressman from Texas who served as Trump's director of national intelligence for the last eight months of his first term. Twenty-one Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in supporting Ratcliffe's nomination.

Republican leaders failed to achieve unanimous support to fast-track Ratcliffe's nomination to the floor earlier this week and had to jump through some procedural hoops.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he opposed Ratcliffe "not because of our political difference, which of course exists — but because I am deeply worried that Mr. Ratcliffe will be unable to stand up to people like Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, who are known to falsify intelligence. As CIA Director, Mr. Ratcliffe will have to make decisions based on intelligence and fact."

Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, is Trump's nominee to be the director of national intelligence.

During his confirmation hearing, Ratcliffe promised to keep politics out of decisions involving intelligence and said he wouldn't use loyalty tests as a basis for hiring or firing CIA personnel.

[Psy-Fi]

Trump orders administration to evaluate potential for 'national digital asset stockpile'

[SGR]

Commercial Jet Collides With Black Hawk Helicopter Near Reagan Airport

https://x.com/aletweetsnews/status/1884789306645983319

[Trollheart]

And all the Cunt-in-Chief cares about is what political capital he can make out of the tragedy, what points he can score and how he can push his agenda. God help America.

[Psy-Fi]

Mexico asks Google Maps not to rename Gulf of Mexico

[jimmy jazz]

A 25-year-old woman faces possible jail time after pleading guilty in the UK's first-ever cyber-farting case, accused of sending numerous videos of herself farting to her boyfriend's ex, causing distress and anxiety

[SGR]

A 25-year-old woman faces possible jail time after pleading guilty in the UK's first-ever cyber-farting case, accused of sending numerous videos of herself farting to her boyfriend's ex, causing distress and anxiety

[Auroras In Ice]

Inmate 1: So, what are you guys in for. Me... Armed robbery

Inmate 2: Killed a man just to watch him die

Inmate 3: Stabbed a bunch of people

This chick:  *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepfhfpfph*

[Psy-Fi]

Pilots had reported near-misses with helicopters at Reagan National Airport in the years before the deadly crash

In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with helicopters while landing at the airport, a CNN review of federal incident reports found.

On two occasions, passenger planes had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with a helicopter when trying to land at the airport, according to reports filed by pilots. In a third incident, two military helicopters got too close together, an air traffic controller reported.

And just a day before the fatal collision, another flight approaching Reagan was forced to abort its first landing and go around after a helicopter flew near its flight path, according to air traffic control audio.

[Psy-Fi]

Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows