Grounded flights and crashing ships: The Trumpocalypse is hereLisa Needham's Daily Kos article argues that Trump's two-year war on the administrative state is coming home to roost, pointing to a nationwide FAA ground stop over an unexplained communications failure, a tanker ship's collision with a docked New Orleans paddleboat that sent dozens to hospitals, and a National Weather Service radar outage all on November 13, 2026. She floats the possibility the FAA outsourced air traffic work to a shoddy AI tool and expects the administration to blame Joe Biden rather than Sean Duffy.
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- All survive as New Orleans port sues owner of tanker that rammed riverboat on Mississippi
- US flights resume after FAA ground stop blamed on router fault in contractor upgrade
- James Fallows says US air safety layers are being dismantled by the Trump administration
- FAA's SMART AI tool now covers US airspace; officials deny link to nationwide ground stop