Ramon #Planes is among the candidates for #ACMilan’s sporting director role. Former Barça’s director has given his availability to join #Milan, which are still evalutating the best option possible before appointing a new director. #transfers

The Wealth Defense Industry and the Working-Class Republic: What Equity Means Here

Henry Demarest Lloyd's 1894 Wealth Against Commonwealth made the case that liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty. The question 132 years later is whether equity against the one percent can still be won inside a system they pay to keep tilted. Equity against the one percent describes parity of political voice, of legal protection, of access to courts and schools and air and water and a livable wage, with no implication that fortunes themselves must be equal. The republic was built on that equality of standing, however imperfectly executed and however brutally suspended along racial and gender lines. The wealth concentration of the past forty years has retired the idea entirely. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/05/24/the-wealth-defense-industry-and-the-working-class-republic-what-equity-means-here/

Biplane tour

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Ready for take-off #2004Arizona #Arizona #Planes #SedonaAZ
How fixed-wing water bombers helped control Queens County wildfire
Scott Tingley, manager of forest protection for Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources, explains how four planes contracted from New Brunswick made a difference fighting the East Port L'Hebert wildfire.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7207832?cmp=rss
$29.3M spent to upgrade Snowbirds jets that will now be retired early
The federal government confirms it spent $29.3 million on a contract to upgrade planes flown by Canada’s iconic Snowbirds demonstration squadron, even though the aging jets are about to be retired.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/30-million-modernization-snowbirds-planes-9.7207399?cmp=rss

Pilot explains reason travellers must switch off devices completely before flight

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/pilot-explains-reason-travellers-must-37162496

Seis chefs con estrellas Michelin cocinarán en el espacio VIP más exclusivo del Gran Premio de Fórmula 1 en Madrid

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.elmundo.es/metropoli/gastronomia/2026/05/21/6a0d86b8fdddff585b8b4585.html

Looks like there a plan to extend the Bankstown metro line to Bankstown Airport, and then redevelop the land for housing.

The idea is that flights to/from Bankstown would then be shifted to Western Sydney Airport.

@NewtonMark you're far more across plane stuff I am, I'm very keen to hear your thoughts?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-the-secret-plan-to-turn-this-sydney-airport-into-housing-extend-metro-20260324-p5tfzd.html

#nswpol #auspol #planes #trains #Bankstown #Sydney #nsw #Australia
Revealed: The secret plan to turn this Sydney airport into housing, extend metro

The Bankstown Airport operator has spoken with both state and federal governments.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Province shows off 4 new planes to boost wildfire-fighting efforts in N.B.
The New Brunswick government has purchased four new amphibious aircraft, which skim lakes and rivers for water refills and speed up getting water onto fires.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/province-unveils-four-new-wildfire-fighting-aircraft-9.7204280?cmp=rss