There are dentists on every corner and they’re all equally impossible to get in with.

Trump Tilts Toward an Ukraine Sellout - WSJ Opinion

Ukraine has delayed elections while it is operating under martial law and fighting a war for survival. Its constitution allows this, and Britain under Nazi siege didn’t hold an election during World War II. Was Churchill a dictator?

Ukraine’s democracy is fragile and would be stronger if it could affiliate with Western institutions like the European Union. The only dictator in the war is Mr. Putin, who poisons exiled Russians on foreign soil and banishes opponents to Arctic prison camps. Call us when he holds a free election.

Required reading, start to finish.

Trump Endorses ‘Big Beautiful’ House Budget Bill, Torpedoing Senate Border Effort - WSJ

President Trump said he wants border spending, tax relief and spending cuts passed in one bill led by House Republicans, undercutting the Senate’s efforts to quickly pass a narrower measure and throwing another wrench into what has become a messy effort to advance his agenda.

Another disaster waiting in the wings.

Trump Criticizes Zelensky, Calling Him a Dictator - WSJ

Trump has said he wants to quickly settle the war in Ukraine. He has increasingly blamed Ukraine—and Zelensky personally—for the invasion while engaging with Putin about ways to end it.

DJT is waaayyyyyy off the reservation with this. He’s setting himself up to have an outcome worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan… combined.

Forever ✱ Notes - A free framework for Apple Notes

Forever ✱ Notes is not an app, but a simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes. It’s free and created to last—forever.

This might be what I’ve been looking for.

Zelensky Decries Peace Talks Without Ukraine, Trump Says He Had His Shot For Years - The War Zone

“They’re upset about not having a seat, well, they’ve had a seat for three years, and a long time before that,” Trump told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “This could have been settled very easily…”

Wrong.

Southwest Airlines to Slash Corporate Workforce in First Mass Layoff - WSJ

Even as the appetite for travel has surged, the airline’s labor costs have increased—in part because of new agreements with unions.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. The first layoffs in its history, eliminating core brand features, what even is Southwest anymore?

WINNING: Trump Announces Plan To Attack The British And Prussian Forces At Waterloo - Babylon Bee

Trump, who was seen wearing a bicorne hat around the White House today, had grown increasingly intent on displacing the British Empire from its perch on the global stage, going so far as to ask his military advisors for strategies to disrupt British trade routes to India. “The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos,” Trump reportedly said.

I’m getting this sinking feeling that the disruptions that 2020 brought to the pilot & maintainers labor market have caught up to us and the golden era of aviation safety is going on hiatus for the near term.