Far right pundits from Glenn Beck to Alex Jones have been warning of mythical FEMA camps for years. Ep. 1 of our new series American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA traces the origins of these conspiracy theories, and explores why FEMA is so distrusted today: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

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The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

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1/ Codex & I built a player for FAA STARS radar plot playback (PPB) data, which sometimes accompanies NTSB reports. There's a lot of information in the data, including collision alerts, and the player has some neat features. The demo shows data from the DCA mid-air. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIh...

FAA STARS PPB Radar Playback Viewer

YouTube video by John Wiseman

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🟢 #DidYouKnow | In 1972, Lufthansa Cargo decided the best way to prove a Boeing 747-200F’s capacity was to turn it into the world’s highest-flying VW dealership, loading all 72 Volkswagen Beetles aboard just to show it could. #Airways #News

Air Loom is a new 3D air traffic visualization app by Ben Lim. objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html...

I dunno here’s a JetBlue A320 and the moon.

UNCONFIRMED reports of Russian drone incursion in Polish airspace as commercial traffic is being moved further to the west with Polish Air Force aircraft active in eastern Poland. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/3c...

NOTAMs active for four airports and traffic areas in Poland all with the same text. Warsaw, Lublin, Rzeszow and Modlin: NOT AVBL DUE TO UNPLANNED MILITARY ACTIVITY RELATED TO ENSURING STATE SECURITY. Overflights are continuing through the areas, but further west than usual.

Someone made this very nice-looking device that displays information on the closest aircraft in realtime. www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comme...

From the ADSB community on Reddit: Nearest Aircraft Display

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lol

Euromaidan Press reports that NATO has “indicated that casualties from GPS interference would be treated 'not as an accident but as a deliberate escalation.'” (I haven't yet been able to find any other sources corroborating this.) euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/14/f...

Frontline report: NATO warns commercial aviation crash could trigger military response to Russian jamming - Euromaidan Press

Alliance officials have indicated that casualties from GPS interference would be treated "not as an accident but as a deliberate escalation," potentially leading to direct strikes on Kaliningrad's ele...

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The new Terminal 1 at New York's JFK Airport is nothing if not BIG. The terminal soars above the future aircraft ramp, dwarfing the old Terminal 1 and encompassing the AirTrain tracks. With less than a year until it opens, join me on a hardhat tour of the terminal: thepointsguy.com/news/new-yor...

Of course open source software has been used in war before, but seeing ArduPilot Mission Planner being used to blow up Russian strategic bombers is still wild.

This is my new favorite thing. Wish I knew about it when it was still realtime. fiveradiostations.com/infraordinar...

Infraordinary FM - Daniel John Jones & Seb Emina - Five Radio Stations

A radio station by Daniel John Jones and Seb Emina delivering reliable, real-time information about quotidian happenings around the world.

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JetBlue “brewing attitude”

In the meantime, check out our first two installments: Jack Posobiec: postthroughit.substack.com/p/009-who-th... Tim Pool: postthroughit.substack.com/p/013-who-th...

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office

‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office

SACRAMENTO, CA—Believing that he was establishing a firm line between who he was as a person and what he did for a living, local man Jordan Wheeler, an employee of Creighton Industries who will ultima...

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Eight year old: Who is the pope? Me: Begins to explain… Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”

Yup, already seeing some Indian airlines denied entry through Pakistani airspace and having to route around it. www.flightradar24.com/IGO1428/3a09...

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BREAKING: Pakistan cancels visas for Indian nationals, suspends trade, closes airspace after attack in disputed Kashmir

Via @stuartathompson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Gift Article)

Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

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Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death theonion.com/man-who...

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death

WASHINGTON—Warning that even the slightest dent, knick, or scratch would henceforth be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that Raymond Pratt, a 54-year-old resident of Chula Vista, CA who bumped a Tesla while parallel parking, had been sentenced to death. “Let me be clear: This man, who attempted to park […]

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This is actually really exciting news for the right kind of map/OSINT nerd: You can now use Overpass Turbo to query OpenStreetMap data with PostGIS SQL instead of the arcane, limited Overpass Query Language. Or use curl if you prefer. github.com/woodpeck/pos...

GitHub - woodpeck/postpass-ops: operational issues about the Postpass instance run on postpass.geofabrik.de

operational issues about the Postpass instance run on postpass.geofabrik.de - woodpeck/postpass-ops

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Ex-Polish Air Force MiG-29 in Ukrainian service. Total of fourteen MiG-29 fighters were donated by Poland.

I periodically come across the image below, with the caption claiming that it is showing a German plan to use an atomic bomb against NYC, or at least an attempt to imagine the effects of such a weapon against NYC. But... it actually doesn't. Not at all! It's actually MUCH stranger than that.

🔴 Breathtaking air-to-air visuals of Edelweiss first Airbus A350-900 flying alongside the Swiss Air Force over the Swiss Alps. 📸: Edelweiss #edelweissair #airbus #avgeek

I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao

US Army Artemis watching Königsberg.