BEFORE YOU BOARD YOUR NEXT FLIGHT READ THIS A former airline captain named John Hoyte reached out to me recently. He spent nearly 30 years flying commercial aircraft, developed serious neurological damage, lost his career, and has been trying to get this story properly investigated ever since. He sent me documents spanning two decades. The scale of what is in them is HUGE. What he shared includes parliamentary records, a 320-page published report from the British pilots union, @BBC coverage, House of Lords testimony, and active litigation in multiple countries. This has been heard at the highest levels. It has largely been buried. Most commercial jet aircraft use a system called bleed air. Instead of drawing fresh air from outside, the plane takes compressed air directly from the engines and pumps it into the cabin. That is the air you breathe for the entire flight. When engine seals wear down, oil and hydraulic fluid can leak into that air supply. Those fluids contain organophosphates, the same compounds found in certain pesticides and nerve agents. Inhaling them can cause neurological damage, memory loss, and chronic fatigue. In documented cases, far worse. This design has been in use since the 1950s. The health risk has been documented for just as long. In 2005, @BALPApilots, the British pilots union, published a full conference report on this with the University of New South Wales. The following year, 27 BALPA pilots were tested by University College London. All 27 showed evidence of toxic poisoning and reduced cognitive function. Not some of them. All of them. @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on it in 2007 and 2008. In February 2007, 40 unrelated passengers on a single XL Airways flight were seriously injured by contaminated cabin air. Their cases went to court. Twenty of them won a US jurisdiction ruling in 2010. A UK coroner recorded a death linked to this in 2015. France has formally recognised aerotoxic syndrome as an occupational disease. In the US, a law professor is suing Boeing for $40 million after a single exposure left him permanently injured. Morgan & Morgan, America's largest personal injury firm, is now actively taking mass cases on behalf of passengers and crew. John himself was one of those 27 pilots tested by UCL. He founded the Aerotoxic Association in 2007 at the Houses of Parliament to support other survivors. He has been fighting for this for nearly 20 years. Almost every commercial jet aircraft except the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses the bleed air system. The 787 uses a different design that avoids this problem entirely. That safer design has existed for years. That fact alone says everything. BBC has not covered this story since 2020. The UK Civil Aviation Authority continues to say there is no positive evidence of a link. The Aerotoxic Association has been contacted by more than 2,500 people who believe they have been affected. John is looking for mainstream investigative journalists who want to dig deep into this. He is an expert witness with decades of evidence and is willing to answer every question. He has a passenger injured on that 2007 flight, Samantha Sabatino, whose case is in the parliamentary record. This is a genuine story of enormous public interest and it deserves proper investigation. If you are a journalist or researcher and want to speak to John directly, his contact details are in the comments. I will add media coverage links in the comments section. Sources: @AerotoxicAssoc (Aerotoxic Association) @BALPApilots (British Airline Pilots Association) @forthepeople (Morgan & Morgan) gcaqe org (Global Cabin Air Quality Executive) @BBCPanorama covered it in 2008 with a full documentary titled Something in the Air. @heraldtweets @WSJ @FlightGlobal @TheCanaryUK @the_ecologist

A message to all sane Republicans: He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing. He bulldozed the East Wing. You said nothing. He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing. He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing. He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing. He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing. He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing. He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing. His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing. He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing. His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing. He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing. He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing. It’s time to start talking.

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING REPULSIVE THAT PETE HEGSETH REMOVED COLIN POWELLS NAME FROM A LIST OF NOTABLE AMERICANS BURIED AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY 🤬 HE ALSO REMOVED THE NAMES OF EVERY PERSON OF COLOR AND EVERY SINGLE WOMAN ON THE SAME LIST 🤬ONLY WHITE MEN WERE LEFT IN PLACE 🤬 SO PLEASE TELL US ONE MORE TIME HOW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESPECTS AMERICAS FALLEN HEROES 🤬

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Capitol police attacked on January 6th are suing to stop the slush fund. 35 retired judges filed a motion to stop the “unprecedentedly fraudulent” slush fund. It’s a sick misuse of taxpayer money and California will make sure no one in our state gets a dime.

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The past few days have been a bit crazy. I made a post during a time of extreme frustration because of extreme empathy I have for those living in South Bay San Diego who are being exposed to hundreds of toxic gases, carcinogens, and airborne pathogens. Multiple generations of these residents have had zero voice in California. I just sent the note below to them. Someone who was questioning me suggested I share it here so here it is..... I want to share something with all of you living in South Bay San Diego and experiencing horrific health issues due to poor air quality due to the polluted Tijuana River. When I first heard this weekend that a State of Emergency had been declared in California, my heart lifted. For one moment, I let myself hope that someone had finally heard all of us. Then I learned it was for Garden Grove, and that flicker of hope vanished almost as fast as it came. I am genuinely glad those families are safe. They faced a real threat and deserved a fast, fully resourced response — and the state gave them one, within 48 hours: more than 785 responders, scientists and air-monitoring teams among them. I would never wish them anything less. I also want to share something I didn't expect. In raising my voice for the South Bay these past days, I found my own character — my motives, even my integrity — called into question. I won't pretend that didn't feel terrible. But I'd rather share it with you than pretend the road has been smooth, because you all know that it never is smooth for any of us. So let me let you know directly what I believe. I believe Garden Grove and the South Bay both deserve the same protection — fully, neither at the other's expense. I believe the quietest injustice in all of this is the way communities like ours are made to compete for the bare minimum, as though safety were a scarce favor and not a right. And I have spent years measuring the air you breathe not to win an argument, but because the evidence is undeniable and someone has to say it out loud. Because for years, the people of Imperial Beach, Coronado, Chula Vista, Nestor, San Ysidro, and across the South Bay have been breathing something far worse than one single chemical — and we have measured it, not guessed at it. In peer-reviewed science published in Science and Science Advances, my team at UC San Diego has documented hydrogen sulfide at more than 100 times California's health limit, night after night; hundreds of toxic chemicals in the air, including benzene, a known human carcinogen with no safe level of exposure; and airborne pathogens carried inland from the contaminated water. This is not a worst-case model. It is what you have been living, and being harmed by, for years. You did not imagine it. You did not exaggerate it. So I've put that flicker of hope to work. I've written a formal statement making the case that under the very same law the state used for Garden Grove — California Government Code §8558(b) — the South Bay meets and exceeds the threshold for a State of Emergency. It's ready to send to the Governor, and I'm sharing it with leaders across the region. But I wanted you — the people who live this every single day — to see it. We are not asking the state to do one thing less for Garden Grove. We are asking only that the same standards, the same urgency, the same humanity be extended to you in South Bay San Diego. The data are public and updated continuously at airborne.ucsd.edu/h2s. If you feel what I feel, share this — the more of us who say it out loud, the harder we are to ignore. That flicker of hope is not gone. Me and my entire team are holding onto it, and not going anywhere. — Dr. Kim Prather (UC San Diego)

Spencer Pratt's "grassroots campaign" for LA mayor is being bankrolled from outside LA. I analyzed public Ethics Commission data. Here's what it shows: - 80% of his donors aren't from the city of LA - 50% of all money raised ($1.6M of $3.2M) came from out-of-state: Texas (683), Florida (567), Arizona (340) - 3,882 retired donors - the demographic fingerprint of the national MAGA/Fox News small-dollar machine His policies read like a Heritage Foundation wishlist, the Angelenos in his ads are AI-generated, and his support online are from paid clippers. This is a national MAGA operation running on local ballot lines.

These are the individual CDC wastewater sites. The CDC could *and should* post this on their website. They do not. The CDC will only let you see one state at a time, and there is no way to even provide a URL link to an individual state. ⚡️🧵QUICK THREAD: 2 of 3

BREAKING🚨 Trump spent all week bragging that he got Stephen Colbert “fired.” Less than 24 hours later, Colbert was back on TV with Jack White, Eminem, Steve Buscemi, and Jeff Daniels — flipping him the bird from a tiny public access studio in Michigan. Thursday night, after 11 years, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ended on CBS. Trump immediately took a victory lap, posting an AI video of himself grabbing Colbert and throwing him into a dumpster, then dancing on the lid. He ranted that Colbert was “talentless,” celebrated that he was “finally finished,” and basically declared himself the man who got a critic taken off network TV. The party lasted about 23 hours. Friday at 11:30 p.m., Colbert popped back up — not on a major network, but on Monroe Community Media 1 in Monroe, Michigan, hosting the local public‑access show “Only in Monroe.” He read goofy local news, roasted his former bosses at CBS, and welcomed surprise guests Jack White and Jeff Daniels. Then came cameos from Steve Buscemi and hometown legend Eminem, who wandered onto the set just to show they were in on the joke. All that star power, crowding into a community‑access studio, just to send one message: you can’t cancel someone who won’t shut up. “It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,” Colbert deadpanned, before thanking Monroe Community Media for having him “before they get acquired by Paramount.” That’s the whole story in one line: Trump can lean on billionaires and corporate bosses. He can post his little AI cartoons. But he cannot actually make a voice disappear if that person is determined to keep talking — even if it’s from the most bare‑bones cable channel in Michigan. This is what authoritarian types never understand. Censoring a critic doesn’t kill the criticism. It amplifies it. By gloating over Colbert’s finale and literally sharing a fantasy of throwing him in the trash, Trump turned a late‑night host into a free‑speech folk hero. Instead of quietly exiting the stage, Colbert got a new, bigger story: the comic who went from CBS to public access overnight just to prove that comedy doesn’t belong to corporations or presidents. Now the clip that’s going viral isn’t Trump’s AI dumpster video. It’s Colbert sitting in a cramped local studio with Jack White and Eminem, laughing about how fast he bounced back. Everyone’s talking about the comedian Trump tried to erase — and how small, petty, and thin‑skinned the president looks in comparison. Whatever Colbert does next, he’s going to be living rent‑free in Trump’s head the entire time. And the more Trump tries to silence him, the louder that little public‑access studio in Monroe is going to sound.

As Trump posts AI videos of him assaulting Stephen Colbert, here’s what Colbert was doing: Dancing with his wife, having fun at the Fired & Festive!” afterparty in NYC.

Would love to hear @j_g_allen input...as he cares and understand all people's health.

Garden Grove: a chemical that might leak → State of Emergency 50,000 evacuated in 24 hrs. South Bay San Diego has breathed H₂S at 100x the state limit — plus benzene & other carcinogens — for YEARS. No emergency. Same state. Same laws. Whose emergency counts? #TijuanaRiver

OMG @CAgovernor is being painted as a hero while he is ignoring the desperate voices of South San Diego--97% hispanic. They call themselves the "rats in cagee" based on the fact they are being ignored. The contrast in treatment based on zip code is MASSIVE. @GavinNewsom --are you really this racist???

What are the levels of which toxic gas??

Why is @CAgovernor paying so much attention to this "crisis" while ignoring ongoing air quality data in South Bay San Diego showing residents are being exposed to levels 100-1000 times beyond safe levels of a toxic gas used in World War I? He is ignoring desperate pleas to protect these residents who are having heart, lung, and mental health issues.

It is beyond hard not to be offended for all of those living in San Diego County. All of this is happening without any support from air measurements. I stand in disbelief as we have shown that the residents of South Bay San Diego are being exposed to levels well beyond any stated standards by factors of 10=1000. WTF? Why is this being allowed to happen? I keep hearing kids in South Bay say they just don't count--and are "rats in cages" being exposed to these high toxic gas levels. What will it take to end this disaster that started nearly a century ago??

Can California leaders help support all of the requests from San Diego, Imperial Beach, and county of San Diego? Please write supporting letters to @POTUS @epaleezeldin about the ongoing decades-long crisis in California. The crisis in South Bay has been going on for decades and needs to be addressed NOW. @CAgovernor