CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@normative.bsky.social Even if we maintained passenger inspection as a federal responsibility, I'd expect we'd get a better mission focus and better results if the TSA was rolled up under the DOT.Although I read at one point individual airports could opt-out of using TSA agents, and SFO was an airport that had done so. Not sure if that's no longer possible, but I'm positive at one point it was.

Non-US news feels no obligation to walk on eggshells, and is much more blunt about the backdrop for all the US coverage being “a military and economic superpower is being run by a deranged imbecile, and this is scary for the rest of the world.”

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h55nabz5glwdanw73qqzmfag/post/3mg75wx7uk223

They made a peaceful and sensible deal. Trump ripped it up because Barack Obama’s name was on it.RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ofbkqcjzvm6gtwuufsubnkaf/post/3mg3oc3yvkc2v

There was a lot of talk among civil society folks between Trump terms about “tyrant-proofing” the presidency, and basically none of those reforms happened. But it looks like Trump is having much more success at doing the opposite—“freedom-proofing” the country in ways that will be very hard to undo…