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Above MaidstoneFlight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AAL49" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AAL49</a> ICAO code: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AA3417" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AA3417</a> Registration: N757AN Type: BOEING 777-200 Operator: American Airlines Direction: 324° (Northwest) Speed: 493.3 kmh Altitude: 34975 ft Category: HeavyRoute: 🛫: Paris - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CDG</a> 🛬: Dallas-Fort Worth - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>Previously seen: 23 timesTrack: <a href="https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=aa3417" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=aa3417</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#adsb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/B772" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#B772</a>Photo by: Mario Ferioli Link: <a href="https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/aa3417" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/aa3417</a>

Above MaidstoneFlight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AAL239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AAL239</a> ICAO code: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AA4195" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AA4195</a> Registration: N760AN Type: BOEING 777-200 Operator: American Airlines Direction: 320° (Northwest) Speed: 494.0 kmh Altitude: 34000 ft Category: HeavyRoute: 🛫: Rome - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FCO</a> 🛬: Dallas-Fort Worth - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>Previously seen: 10 timesTrack: <a href="https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=aa4195" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=aa4195</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#adsb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/B772" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#B772</a>Photo by: Dominic Apuzzo Link: <a href="https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/aa4195" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/aa4195</a>

Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Flipboard</a> @bolts@journa.host Huh. That's a pretty hyperlocal story for me, seeing as I live in Tarrant county.>After accusing the sheriff’s office of violating the law last fall in light of Bolts’ reporting, Texas jail regulators now say there’s nothing they can do about the failure to commission independent investigations into deaths in jail custody, which have spiked on Waybourn’s watch. At least 70 people have died in jail custody since the sheriff took office in 2017, compared to 25 deaths in the eight years prior. A near-tripling in the death rate is awful. Tarrant county certainly hasn't tripled its population since 2017.>After the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office listed the Fort Worth Police Department as the agency looking into jail deaths, Bolts filed a public records request last year seeking Fort Worth police investigations into county jail deaths. Last October, the department said it had no records of those investigations, with a Fort Worth police spokesperson saying, “I’m told that the Tarrant County Sheriff Department investigates those.”The notion that FWPD could serve as an impartial investigator of its county-level co-party is itself tenuous. The Thin Blue Line protects itself, and even getting information out of them through Texas' Public Information Act is a pain.>In one case involving a death ruled to be from “natural” causes that occurred in the fall of 2022, the police department apparently didn’t send its review letter to the sheriff’s office until this month, with the letter from a Fort Worth detective dated April 14, 2025 concluding that the sheriff’s office investigation was “consistent, thorough, and complete.” I.e., once FWPD knew that Bolt was sniffing around, they scrambled to cover their asses.>Brandon Wood, director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, said that he hadn’t been aware of Tarrant County’s failure to seek outside investigations into jail deaths until Bolts’ reporting last October—despite his agency being copied on emails from the sheriff’s office stating the Fort Worth Police Department would conduct an “independent review,” according to records Bolts obtained this month. So even the regulators consider themselves members of the Thin Blue Line.>One measure filed by state Representative David Lowe, a former corrections officer and Republican who represents Tarrant County, would create an advisory committee to review in-custody deaths and make recommendations to reduce preventable deaths, while also mandating a detailed and publicly available annual report on deaths that occurred in county jails. Another bill filed by Salman Bojani, a Democratic House member who also represents Tarrant County, would mandate that death investigation records be maintained as vital state records. Nicole Collier, another Democratic House member from Tarrant County, also filed a bill to clarify that the Texas jail commission must appoint a third party law enforcement agency to investigate jail deaths, and require information about those investigations be published on the commission’s website. Collier has said that the legislation was prompted by the failure to conduct independent investigations into Tarrant County jail deaths. Guys. Guys! You're just piling reporting requirements on, not actually tackling the behaviour itself -__- You *already have* a committee dedicated to this effort, and it *is not working*. You *cannot* expect law enforcement, of any stripe, to investigate itself.>In the years after the Sandra Bland Act required independent investigations for jail deaths, the Rangers conducted the bulk of them, including in Tarrant County. But that changed in 2021, after the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office hired the Ranger who investigated the deaths of many people in the county jail, including Myers. That same year, the sheriff’s office tapped the Fort Worth Police Department. Case. In. Point.<a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Texas</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TarrantCo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TarrantCo</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Tarrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tarrant</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/dfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dfw</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/FortWorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FortWorth</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/txpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#txpol</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/txlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#txlege</a>

AirportStatusBotThe departure delay for Dallas Fort Worth International <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Airport</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>) is no longer in effect. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirportStatusBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AirportStatusBot</a>

AirportStatusBotA departure delay has been issued for Dallas Fort Worth International <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Airport</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>) due to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thunderstorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#thunderstorms</a>. Current delays are 16-30 minutes and increasing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirportStatusBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AirportStatusBot</a>

AirportStatusBotA departure delay has been issued for Dallas Fort Worth International <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Airport</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>) due to a runway change. Current delays are 16-30 minutes and increasing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirportStatusBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AirportStatusBot</a>

Above MaidstoneFlight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SIA7951" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SIA7951</a> ICAO code: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/76CCCB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#76CCCB</a> Registration: 9V-SFK Type: BOEING 747-400 Operator: Singapore Airlines Limited Direction: 92° (East) Speed: 486.5 kmh Altitude: 29375 ft Category: HeavyRoute: 🛫: Dallas-Fort Worth - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a> 🛬: Brussels - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BRU" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BRU</a>Previously seen: 23 timesTrack: <a href="https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=76cccb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=76cccb</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#adsb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/B744" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#B744</a>Photo by: Alphathreeeighty Link: <a href="https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/76cccb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/76cccb</a>

Above MaidstoneFlight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AAL49" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AAL49</a> ICAO code: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AAAA92" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AAAA92</a> Registration: N787AL Type: BOEING 777-200 Operator: American Airlines Direction: 322° (Northwest) Speed: 449.8 kmh Altitude: 33000 ft Category: HeavyRoute: 🛫: Paris - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CDG</a> 🛬: Dallas-Fort Worth - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>Previously seen: 11 timesTrack: <a href="https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=aaaa92" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=aaaa92</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#adsb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/B772" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#B772</a>Photo by: Jacob Marshall Link: <a href="https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/aaaa92" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/aaaa92</a>

Above MaidstoneFlight: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DLH439" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DLH439</a> ICAO code: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3C64C3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#3C64C3</a> Registration: D-AIFC Type: AIRBUS A-340-300 Operator: Deutsche Lufthansa AG Koeln Direction: 100° (East) Speed: 496.0 kmh Altitude: 37000 ft Category: HeavyRoute: 🛫: Dallas-Fort Worth - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a> 🛬: Frankfurt-am-Main - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FRA</a>Previously seen: 46 timesTrack: <a href="https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=3c64c3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=3c64c3</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#adsb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/A343" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#A343</a>Photo by: Christoph Flink Link: <a href="https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/3c64c3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://hooks.geekyco.de/ps/3c64c3</a>

Preston Maness ☭<a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/whos-paying-for-public-school-vouchers-1998/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.texasobserver.org/whos-paying-for-public-school-vouchers-1998/</a>Calling all <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/texans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#texans</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/texan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#texan</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#texas</a> to read this 1998 article from <a href="https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@TexasObserver</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/TexasObserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TexasObserver</a> about school <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/vouchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vouchers</a>. If we have any hope of stopping this monstrosity, we've gotta understand its roots. Consider this 1998 article a prophetic post-mortem of how school vouchers finally got through the Lege <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/txlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#txlege</a>. Then subscribe to The Texas Observer and start organizing outside of the two-party right-wing duopoly. (<a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/txpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#txpol</a>)================================>Bullock wouldn’t discuss his recent resignation from the voucher PAC Putting Children First. But his aide, Tony Proffitt—who has worked for Bullock since long before he moved from the comptroller’s to the lieutenant governor’s office—said the Lieutenant Governor still supports a “very limited voucher program,” and that he left Putting Children First because, as was first reported by the Dallas Morning News, “it was engaging in partisan activity.” The specific partisan activity was a January 19 letter from Putting Children First Chairman Jimmy Mansour to Betsy DeVoss, the founder of the Amway company [2025 Editor’s Note: Betsy DeVos married the son of the founder of Amway]. The letter refers to last session’s “tremendous momentum for our forces, as evidenced by Lt. Governor Bob Bullock joining our effort.” And it mentions plans “to gain two additional seats in the senate, where we currently hold a slim majority.”Lolwut? "I left the PAC because it was doing PAC things." Were PACs, in the 1990s, genuinely considered to be "non-partisan" entities engaged in "non-partisan" activities? Or is that just Bullock grasping for straws?(Reading ahead: grasping for straws)Also, I guess Betsy DeVoss has been entangled in Christian Right politics for a while.>“They assured him it wouldn’t be partisan,” Proffitt said. “Bullock still believes that a child who has been refused admission to another public school, after leaving a low-performing public school, should be allowed to attend a private school—as long as it doesn’t have a religious program.” Why do I get the feeling that reading this 1998 article is gonna have me pining for the right-wing of the 1990s? (Yes, I know Bullock was a Democrat; No, Democrats are not, and never have been, left-wing).>And in all likelihood, he has known and knows about Putting Children First, which until last year operated as a thoroughly partisan political action committee called “The A+ PAC for Parental School Choice.”The rhetoric is the same, even 30+ years ago.>Although A+ focused on the House and Board of Education, it also worked to ensure that the Senate over which Bullock presided would have a Republican majority, giving at least $20,000 to the unsuccessful candidacy of Bob Reese and at least $5,000 to Senator Steve Ogden, who trounced a woefully underfunded Democratic opponent.Those numbers are fucking quaint.>(Besides directly electing Republican candidates in the past two sessions, the PACs’ targeting of vulnerable incumbent Democrats has driven the cost of campaigns so high that the limited funding resources of Texas Democrats are constantly exhausted.) > >... > >It is in general elections that PACs make a big splash, and in the last election A+ PAC (Mansour, Leininger, Walton, and several big, out-of-state funders) made sure that conservative Republican candidates were awash in money. So Putting Children First has been bi-partisan thus far. But the last time these funders got together as the A+ PAC, the contributions were indeed “imbalanced.” The A+. PAC provided a total of $8,500 to Democratic House candidates. To Republicans, it contributed $587,445. As with the Putting Children First money, almost all the A+ Democratic money went to minority, inner-city Democrats, who now find themselves in the seemingly awkward position of accepting contributions from corporate and Christian right funders whose explicit and much-announced goals include making the Democrats a minority party, and reducing funding for public education. In this battle, “vouchers” are simply a means to an end—and that end is defined by Republican funders.*Dingalingaling!* (that's a bell) Democrats underfund Texas (even when they ruled it, apparently). Also, water is wet. If you think the Democrats have learned in the intervening 30 years, they haven't.>I asked Glen Lewis, an African-American Democrat from Fort Worth, if he had any misgivings about such funding, considering that most of the $685,000 Leininger spent on lobbying and campaigns last session was used against Democrats and Democratic Party interests. “I didn’t go to them,” Lewis said, “they came to me because I was interested in the issue.” Lewis, one of three Democrats who remain on Putting Children First’s Legislative Advisory Council, said he favors vouchers because of the extremely poor performance of the inner city public schools that his constituents are forced into. (The other Democrats still with Putting Children First are Ron Wilson, of Houston, and Laredo Representative Henry Cuellar, who sent Mansour a letter complaining about the letter that provoked Bullock’s resignation.) I asked Lewis if he had any objection to accepting campaign contributions from a group whose huge investment in elections is moving the state’s political center farther and farther to the right. “Texas politics?” Lewis said. “How could it get any farther right than it already is?” (For the answer to that question, Representative Lewis will only have to watch the next two election cycles.)Yowza. I find it fitting that <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/FortWorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FortWorth</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Dallas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dallas</a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/dfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dfw</a> creeps up here. In Fort Worth, *nobody* wants to send their kids to public school. Everybody fights over slots in private schools. One would have thought that democrats would look at the rightward slide they were in and come to the conclusion that, perhaps, veering leftward might have been the harder, but more foundationally sound, choice to make.Also, not surprised to see that Cuellar was a shithead even back in the 1990s.>He said he will take advantage of whatever resources are available to pass voucher legislation that will allow students to transfer from low-performing public schools to high-performing public schools. “I have a different agenda. The Republicans are in this for the privatization and the free market aspect. I want to improve the public schools,” Garcia said. “I support increasing teacher salaries and decreasing class size to eighteen.” But until schools, and in particular inner-city schools, are improved, Garcia said, he will work to pass a voucher bill that will require school districts with high academic performance to accept students from schools with low academic performance. This is the *escape* mindset. It is a corrosive poison that has embodied the body politic of Texas for decades. We will not *escape* these problems. We must *meet* them, head on.>“I have seven students in my district who want to transfer to suburban schools that refuse to admit them,” Garcia said. “They think if they accept these seven students, they’ll have a whole wave of transfers and their standards will fall.”The classism and racism of suburbia strikes again. May we all read The Color of Law, please.>Garcia’s pragmatic argument may seem to make principled liberal opposition to vouchers seem somewhat precious. But in historical perspective, the battle over school vouchers is not finally about vouchers at all; it’s about real racial integration in Texas (and U.S.) public schools.Yep.>Short term, these guys will use inner-city children as a first step, and even spring for a few tickets for poor minority kids to attend rich majority schools. In the long term, as Republican Representative Rick Williamson said after the House came as close as ever to passing a voucher program in the 1997 session, losing only on a tie vote (67-67): “We’re going after the whole system.”And that is exactly what was done.Subscribe to the Texas Observer, y'all.

aboveFRLICAO: 06A11E Flt: QTR16C <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QATARAIRWAYS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#QATARAIRWAYS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DOH</a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a> First seen: 2025-04-25 06:53:01 CEST Min Alt: 10351 m AGL Min Dist: 39.69 km<a href="https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=06a11e&lat=53.484650&lon=6.236860&zoom=12&showTrace=2025-04-25" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=06a11e&lat=53.484650&lon=6.236860&zoom=12&showTrace=2025-04-25</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adsb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#adsb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aboveFRL" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#aboveFRL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EHLW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EHLW</a>

AirportStatusBotInbound aircraft to Dallas Fort Worth International <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Airport</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>) are no longer being delayed. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirportStatusBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AirportStatusBot</a>

End0fLineIrving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce accused of 'backroom deal' with Las Vegas Sands <a href="https://midwest.social/post/26800851" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://midwest.social/post/26800851</a>

End0fLineFort Worth Opera returns to Bass Performance Hall with first full-scale production in 6 years <a href="https://midwest.social/post/26800615" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://midwest.social/post/26800615</a>

AirportStatusBotThe departure delay at Dallas Fort Worth International <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Airport</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>) has decreased to 15-29 minutes and is now decreasing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirportStatusBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AirportStatusBot</a>

AirportStatusBotThe departure delay at Dallas Fort Worth International <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Airport" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Airport</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DFW</a>) has increased to 31-45 minutes and is still increasing. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AirportStatusBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AirportStatusBot</a>

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