Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s Daughter Says TSA Pat Down Nearly Made Her Miss Flight — Calls For Agency To Be Abolished


by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • Transportation Secretary’s daughter goes off on TSA. I’m not sure why she’s going through a body scanner (she’d presumably have PreCheck – though she could have been a random selectee).

    I nearly missed my flight this morning after the TSA made me wait 15 minutes for a pat-down because I’m pregnant and didn’t feel like getting radiation exposure from their body scanner.

    The agents were passive-aggressive, rude, and tried to pressure me and another pregnant woman into just walking through the scanner because it’s “safe.” After finally getting the absurdly invasive pat-down, I barely made my flight. All this for an unconstitutional agency that isn’t even good at its job. Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly if I’d handed over my biometric data to a random private company (CLEAR). Then I could enjoy the special privilege of waiting in a shorter line to be treated like a terrorist in my own country.

    Is this freedom? Travel, brought to you by George Orwell—and the privilege of convenience based solely on your willingness to surrender biometric data and submit to radiation exposure? The “golden age of transportation” cannot begin until the TSA is gone.

    She argues that Kristi Noem is weak – that her dad would fix things if he were in charge:

    TSA, by the way, says their scanners use millimeter wave technology not radiation.

  • When you finally go to redeem your Delta miles, and you’re quoted 990,000 SkyPesos one-way for one passenger in business class.

    Detroit
    byu/Relevant-Safety-2699 indelta

    Finally boarded my flight
    byu/NinjaBox47 indelta

  • Amenities.
  • Hyatt will pay Texas over $1 million to settle charges of deceptive pricing over resort fees.
  • I absolutely love United’s advertising – whether in New York or Denver. They don’t shy away from making an argument, and taking on competitors. They’ve brought back the taxi ads hammering home the point about Newark’s convenience versus JFK. This isn’t milquetoast – it’s a case for their product over competitors. (We can quibble with the claims, or what it leaves out about the ways Newark is affected by air traffic control and weather. But it’s bold and I love this.)

  • United is expanding course-style primary meal service starting January 15 not just 3,900+ mile segments. Standard flow: hot towel → pre-meal drink → appetizer/salad cart → entrée → dessert cart.

  • Passenger “Unleashes Racist Tirade And Violence At Cambodia Airport”
  • Expansion of American Airlines Airbus A321XLR service:

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s Daughter Says TSA Pat Down Nearly Made Her Miss Flight — Calls For Agency To Be Abolished

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