Okay, yesterday it was a cascade failure starting at O’Hare. Now it’s in a “remote location,” you wouldn’t know where, it’s in Canada. And bonus points: we’re throwing a contractor under the bus! A @legacy contractor,” no less, who owns this communication system, so we need to give them $50 billion to REALLY screw it up. Or something.Sean Duffy is taking another stab at trying to explain what happened yesterday now that Markwayne isn't around to trample on the narrative he wants to push https://t.co/ehAHsIObuM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 14, 2026
for the second time in 14 hours, Sean Duffy is holding a news conference not to provide information, but to lecture Congress about how they should give him and Trump more money https://t.co/YUKnvf6Byj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 14, 2026
In my mind, Duffy is wearing a banana suit now.Q: You were trying to make upgrades at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon. Why? Why not do it at say midnight on Saturday when there are fewer planes lined up to take off? DUFFY: There will be a reevaluation of when we do this work https://t.co/G5E2Vtt8lU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 14, 2026
Seriously. And when Duffy can’t handle it, bring in techno-bafflegab guy:Q: This upgrade was made on a Friday afternoon. Why? Why not say at midnight on a Saturday when there are fewer planes lined up to take off? DUFFY: Safety is paramount and if we don't make these upgrades, we have a less safe system. https://t.co/nPCgc525pg
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
FAA ADMIN: We started to experience instability. What is instability mean? Well, within every facility. We started seeing instability we couldn't explain. And as we're going through the diagnostic, we see this propagate into some of our radar low altitude radar facilities known as tracon, affecting both voice and ground communications on our primary lines.
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
FAA ADMIN: We started to experience instability. What is instability mean? Well, within every facility. We started seeing instability we couldn't explain. And as we're going through the diagnostic, we see this propagate into some of our radar low altitude radar facilities known as tracon, affecting both voice and ground communications on our primary lines.He can explain things using words that mean things.
Sort of.Q: The fundamental of aviation safety is redundancy. So what in this situation enables so many points to go down at the same time without a backup in place to kick in? FAA ADMIN: Nothing went down. What we saw was instability. https://t.co/e61nC6rsEy
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
Don’t blame you, don’t blame me, blame that feller behind the tree. Besides, oversight is criminal, isn’t it?DUFFY: This has happened thousands and thousands of times over the course of decades in America and these issues don't happen. Which begs the question for us, what did l3harris do? Did they make mistakes yesterday? They own this network. There are prime contractor. https://t.co/hWqMWyNbBa
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
He’s gonna be wearing that banana suit for the next two years.DUFFY on GROUND STOP: We’re going to hold people accountable. Many of our contractors/partners take our money and they provide really poor service to us. We've had some disruptions to the college football schedule https://t.co/oug8zkgpdI
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
And we’re back to the router failure in O’Hare story. 🤷♂️DUFFY: The routers that we have in these facilities were manufactured in 2001. We’re using old equipment. https://t.co/Mjtb9KKoTm
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
🍌Sean Duffy: "What we did yesterday was routine" https://t.co/IKaTsJn3T5
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 14, 2026
So air flight in America is fucked for 15, 20 years?Duffy: We don't build radar in America until now. We're going to spend this money to buy American radar with American workers. Well, it takes time for us to stand up manufacturing facilities in this country. So it takes time. https://t.co/FvREBgRmNk
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2026
How’s that working for you? Between today and January 2nd, I mean.Q: Last week you requested $30 billion. How do you get from $30 billion then to $50 billion last night? Are you prepared to itemize that? DUFFY: What I'm trying to do is get a number that I think Congress will give me https://t.co/GLRa2gHw7X
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 14, 2026
He still believes in Santa Claus.Sean Duffy: "We're going to have a great end of the year Christmas present for the American people, where they are gonna get a big sum of money that comes to the FAA" https://t.co/WMTelE86aI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 14, 2026
Sean Duffy must resign, or President Trump must remove him immediately. America’s airspace ground to a halt yesterday, leaving thousands of flights canceled and travelers stranded across the country. More than 3,500 planes were already in the air as radar and communications systems faltered. We’re fortunate no lives were lost. From chronic air traffic controller shortages to repeated communications breakdowns, serious lapses in our aviation system have become a pattern on Sean Duffy’s watch. Through it all, he’s been more focused on starring in his own reality show than addressing the crisis at his agency. With millions of Americans preparing to travel for the holidays, families deserve answers and confidence in the safety of our skies. Congress must launch a full investigation to determine what went wrong and ensure it never happens again.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) November 14, 2026
Sean Duffy must resign, or President Trump must remove him immediately.
America’s airspace ground to a halt yesterday, leaving thousands of flights canceled and travelers stranded across the country. More than 3,500 planes were already in the air as radar and communications systems faltered. We’re fortunate no lives were lost.
From chronic air traffic controller shortages to repeated communications breakdowns, serious lapses in our aviation system have become a pattern on Sean Duffy’s watch.
Through it all, he’s been more focused on starring in his own reality show than addressing the crisis at his agency.
With millions of Americans preparing to travel for the holidays, families deserve answers and confidence in the safety of our skies. Congress must launch a full investigation to determine what went wrong and ensure it never happens again.
How a real executive does it.Still not a word publicly from Donald Trump about the nationwide ground stop. He's quick to weigh in on a celebrity divorce or a comedian's joke about him, but when his regime grounds every flight in the country, he goes silent.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 14, 2026
SNAFU.I’ve spoken with Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia and been briefed on the FAA’s nationwide ground stop. We’re working to get answers from federal officials, and I’ll keep New Yorkers updated as we learn more.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) November 13, 2026
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