Running theory seems to be that someone found his flight reservation using his name and canceled it after he mentioned somewhere that he was leaving. He'd received various death threats for books he wrote and classes he taught and was leaving for personal safety to teach remotely for the year.
The timing is very suspicious given he was able to get his boarding pass and then denied at the gate, so I'm not sure what really happened.
I'm having trouble understanding this, was he personally canceled, or was the flight canceled? Because other new sources seemed to indicate that because there are airport and airline problems, his flight was canceled but not because it was him.
it seems like a failure of journalism that the guardian didn't try and reach out to the airline to find out why this guy's flight was cancelled. if the guardian did do this and didn't find an adequate explanation then they should say this in the article. this just seems to be this zero-value-add reporting where reporters are served up information but then don't do any extra work to find out what the fuck is actually going on. its totally possible this guy is being persecuted by the TSA. there was the quiet skys program which i think is for domestic flights and is meant to have been abandoned but presumably there is something else for international flights where the TSA or homeland security can persecute people they don't like.
So there is an illegally enforced secret government list of individuals. first they attack the universities, govt institutions. now prominent scholars, individuals and voting systems.
There's been a list for a couple of decades now, used to stop "Muslim terrorists" that has been repeatedly used to harass individuals with no ties to terrorism. It has repeatedly proven really easy to get onto that list, and really hard to get off it.
He eventually made it to Spain: https://bsky.app/profile/mark-bray.bsky.social/post/3m2sgs7r...
Running theory seems to be that someone found his flight reservation using his name and canceled it after he mentioned somewhere that he was leaving. He'd received various death threats for books he wrote and classes he taught and was leaving for personal safety to teach remotely for the year.
The timing is very suspicious given he was able to get his boarding pass and then denied at the gate, so I'm not sure what really happened.
There's not going to be any midterms, are there?
Well, someone else to follow on BlueSky. Streisand has awakened again.
I'm having trouble understanding this, was he personally canceled, or was the flight canceled? Because other new sources seemed to indicate that because there are airport and airline problems, his flight was canceled but not because it was him.
It is more likely that his flight has been cancelled considering ongoing government shutdown.
it seems like a failure of journalism that the guardian didn't try and reach out to the airline to find out why this guy's flight was cancelled. if the guardian did do this and didn't find an adequate explanation then they should say this in the article. this just seems to be this zero-value-add reporting where reporters are served up information but then don't do any extra work to find out what the fuck is actually going on. its totally possible this guy is being persecuted by the TSA. there was the quiet skys program which i think is for domestic flights and is meant to have been abandoned but presumably there is something else for international flights where the TSA or homeland security can persecute people they don't like.
So there is an illegally enforced secret government list of individuals. first they attack the universities, govt institutions. now prominent scholars, individuals and voting systems.
There's been a list for a couple of decades now, used to stop "Muslim terrorists" that has been repeatedly used to harass individuals with no ties to terrorism. It has repeatedly proven really easy to get onto that list, and really hard to get off it.