That is sad & infuriating all at once. I've been a Mifnetter for a while & recall the origin of NNN. Heated arguments were the norm, I thought about moving on, glad I didn't.
It doesn't seem to be that way now. I hope we can continue to post stuff with NNN & keep our cool all at once. I've grown to appreciate the mix of brains & experience here, the NNN option has been pretty effective. I really appreciated reading this story, thanks for sharing. Mike Borfitz Cell 206-714-8797 Kilroy Aviation LLC WWW.FAAODA.COM <http://www.faaoda.com/> Kilroy is available for aviation regulatory and safety issues - Type & Production Certification, Continued Operational Safety - International validation & safety matters - Program & system management - FAA STC ODA On Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 1:13 PM Jack Keady via Mifnet <[email protected]> wrote: > keady: admittedly this is a political *and* aviation article. I much > wanted to delete the NNN header > > > Deportation on the Rich Man’s Runway > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6zc8h&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MTc2NjY4NTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3MjEwODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fM8tXIvYK0BbNYBcm7RgoJyAW0Ly7kA9dUQFzxyRlIk> > > Closer to the Edge <https://substack.com/@closertotheedge> and Raven > Nightshade <https://substack.com/@ravennightshade> > Nov 25 > <https://substack.com/@closertotheedge> > <https://substack.com/@ravennightshade> > > > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=substack&isFreemail=true&submitLike=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJyZWFjdGlvbiI6IuKdpCIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDA5MzI1NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2Njg1MjU1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzcyMTA4OCIsInN1YiI6InJlYWN0aW9uIn0.E_ao_C1YTkiGVkNqfUP2Ny557x4ASUkdRxmA1sXcDIw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-reaction&r=6zc8h> > > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&isFreemail=true&comments=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MTc2NjY4NTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3MjEwODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fM8tXIvYK0BbNYBcm7RgoJyAW0Ly7kA9dUQFzxyRlIk&r=6zc8h&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments&action=post-comment&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> > > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=6zc8h&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MTc2NjY4NTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3MjEwODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fM8tXIvYK0BbNYBcm7RgoJyAW0Ly7kA9dUQFzxyRlIk> > > <https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9vcGVuLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9wdWIvY2xvc2VydG90aGVlZGdlL3AvZGVwb3J0YXRpb24tb24tdGhlLXJpY2gtbWFucy1ydW53YXk_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1zdWJzdGFjayZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1lbWFpbC1yZXN0YWNrLWNvbW1lbnQmYWN0aW9uPXJlc3RhY2stY29tbWVudCZyPTZ6YzhoJnRva2VuPWV5SjFjMlZ5WDJsa0lqb3hNVGN5TmpVeE15d2ljRzl6ZEY5cFpDSTZNVGM1T1RRME16WTBMQ0pwWVhRaU9qRTNOalF3T1RNeU5UVXNJbVY0Y0NJNk1UYzJOalk0TlRJMU5Td2lhWE56SWpvaWNIVmlMVE0zTWpFd09EZ2lMQ0p6ZFdJaU9pSndiM04wTFhKbFlXTjBhVzl1SW4wLmZNOHRYSXZZSzBCYk5ZQmNtN1Jnb0p5QVcwTHk3a0E5ZFVRRnp4eVJsSWsiLCJwIjoxNzk5NDQzNjQsInMiOjM3MjEwODgsImYiOnRydWUsInUiOjExNzI2NTEzLCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MjA3OTY2OTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTAiLCJzdWIiOiJsaW5rLXJlZGlyZWN0In0.pg0OI-nHGRjnz_qrKAnzwZHCdE81DhFnc37kDMMtVbo?&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> > > READ IN APP > <https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/deportation-on-the-rich-mans-runway?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app> > > > Yesterday, I witnessed a deportation flight at MSP from beginning to end, > a quiet little American horror film playing out on the same tarmac where > billionaires sip champagne in their private jets and NFL teams fly out for > away games. The same runway where George Lucas’s aircraft lounged like an > idle god as steps away fifteen-passenger blacked-out vans rolled in like > funeral carriages. > > This is where the wealthy come and go untouched. And yesterday, it’s where > our neighbors, families, and friends were kidnapped and processed for > disappearance. > > The “Signature” private hangar, the marble-floored gateway for Minnesota’s > rich and powerful, was doubling as a launching pad for state-sanctioned > exile. Across from it, Target Corp’s massive hangar glowed with red beams > like an omen. Beneath it, ICE and DHS agents flashed their credentials, > guiding living human beings through a gate as if they were merchandise > scanned for shipping. > > Their vans crept down the road: *a death-march of the American Dream*. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/4a88de2c-80c7-4f70-994e-19c869a0cc87?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *Why I Was There* > > Because silence is complicity. > Because witnessing is the smallest possible act of courage in a country > addicted to looking away. > > Because our relatives have stood here before, on this exact land, > swallowed by the same machine of American cruelty. > > In 1862, hundreds of Dakota women and children were driven to Fort > Snelling, interned at the world’s first concentration camp, right here at > the confluence of the rivers, right beneath the flight paths of today’s > planes. They were penned into the Fort Snelling concentration camp through > the winter, left to starve and freeze, and many of them did. Just as the > United States wanted. > > History remembers that atrocity politely. Minnesota tells it with plaques. > But the echoes still scream. > > And another part of my bloodline, like the Eagle and the Condor, comes > from Mexico, from the brown-skinned cousins south of a line that was never > anything but a colonial fiction. Once upon a time our trade roads ran into > South America. Now, those same peoples are “illegal” on stolen land. > > Yesterday, they were shackled and loaded for removal, stripped of their > humanity. > > History doesn’t just repeat, and America simply refuses to stop reenacting > the same crimes echoes through the chambers of time. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/31e0eefa-4897-494c-b07a-daaa33acafd4?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *The Tarmac* > > From the 7th-floor of the MSP Gold Ramp, I watched the choreography of the > deportation: three black vans circling the plane’s nose like Conestoga > wagons forming a white-settler defensive ring, bracing for an imaginary > threat by “Savage Indians”. > > ICE dropped more shackles from a bag, the metal winking in the sun like > something proud of itself. > > One by one, the agents hauled men, women, and children off the vans. > One by one, they patted them down. > One by one, they shackled their feet like livestock. > > People hobbled up the stairs in chains while families on vacation rolled > their luggage into the main terminal unshackled, unbothered, unaware that > human beings were being disappeared thirty yards from their Mickey Mouse > backpacks. > > America runs two airports: one for the free, another for the condemned. > They share a runway but not a moral universe. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/6ed02f47-c9e2-435f-98d2-511be31573e0?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *When the Planes Passed Each Other* > > As the deportation jet prepared to lift off, a Delta flight taxied by > first, a commercial plane stuffed with people who would fly home, or to > Cancun, or to a conference in Denver, blissfully ignorant that they were > inches from a vessel full of shattered lives. > > I wondered if any passenger peering out that tiny oval window recognized > what they were seeing. I wondered if they saw the shackles. > I wondered if they would care if they did. > > The deportation jet lifted, slicing across the Minneapolis skyline, a > metal needle stitching a wound nobody wants to claim. > > People on the ground stared up at the fading dot in the sky. > > Did any of them know? > > Did any of them imagine what was happening inside? > > Did any of them care? > > <https://substack.com/redirect/4b01154e-f5cb-4ef1-8582-c62dd2a80fc0?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *The Final Thought Nobody Wants to Face* > > We like to pretend these things happen in the shadows. > > They don’t. > > They happen right next to us at the airport where we pick up loved ones, > at the hangar where the rich store their toys, at the same gates where the > American Dream pretends it can be reached with enough hard work and > TSA-approved liquids. > > Yesterday, I watched that dream die again. > > And the worst part? > > Most people will never know. > > Many people will never care. > > But some of us will remember. Some of us will speak. > > Because someone has to. > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Closer to the Edge <[email protected]> > *To:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 09:54:17 AM PST > *Subject:* Deportation on the Rich Man’s Runway > > Yesterday, I witnessed a deportation flight at MSP from beginning to end, > a quiet little American horror film playing out on the same tarmac where > billionaires sip champagne in their private jets and NFL teams fly out for > away games. > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ > Forwarded this email? Subscribe here > <https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2xvc2VydG90aGVlZGdlLm5ldC9zdWJzY3JpYmU_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249ZW1haWwtc3Vic2NyaWJlJnI9NnpjOGgmbmV4dD1odHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy5jbG9zZXJ0b3RoZWVkZ2UubmV0JTJGcCUyRmRlcG9ydGF0aW9uLW9uLXRoZS1yaWNoLW1hbnMtcnVud2F5IiwicCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJzIjozNzIxMDg4LCJmIjp0cnVlLCJ1IjoxMTcyNjUxMywiaWF0IjoxNzY0MDkzMjU1LCJleHAiOjIwNzk2NjkyNTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoibGluay1yZWRpcmVjdCJ9.-KyTwUl1o_VIh2N5jS4qTg69G04Uc8n6GUiH9bi3Qjc?> > for more > Deportation on the Rich Man’s Runway > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=6zc8h&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MTc2NjY4NTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3MjEwODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fM8tXIvYK0BbNYBcm7RgoJyAW0Ly7kA9dUQFzxyRlIk> > > Closer to the Edge <https://substack.com/@closertotheedge> and Raven > Nightshade <https://substack.com/@ravennightshade> > Nov 25 > <https://substack.com/@closertotheedge> > <https://substack.com/@ravennightshade> > > > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=substack&isFreemail=true&submitLike=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJyZWFjdGlvbiI6IuKdpCIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDA5MzI1NSwiZXhwIjoxNzY2Njg1MjU1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzcyMTA4OCIsInN1YiI6InJlYWN0aW9uIn0.E_ao_C1YTkiGVkNqfUP2Ny557x4ASUkdRxmA1sXcDIw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-reaction&r=6zc8h> > > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&isFreemail=true&comments=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MTc2NjY4NTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3MjEwODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fM8tXIvYK0BbNYBcm7RgoJyAW0Ly7kA9dUQFzxyRlIk&r=6zc8h&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments&action=post-comment&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> > > <https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=3721088&post_id=179944364&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=6zc8h&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTcyNjUxMywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc5OTQ0MzY0LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQwOTMyNTUsImV4cCI6MTc2NjY4NTI1NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3MjEwODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fM8tXIvYK0BbNYBcm7RgoJyAW0Ly7kA9dUQFzxyRlIk> > > <https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9vcGVuLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9wdWIvY2xvc2VydG90aGVlZGdlL3AvZGVwb3J0YXRpb24tb24tdGhlLXJpY2gtbWFucy1ydW53YXk_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.pg0OI-nHGRjnz_qrKAnzwZHCdE81DhFnc37kDMMtVbo?&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email> > > READ IN APP > <https://open.substack.com/pub/closertotheedge/p/deportation-on-the-rich-mans-runway?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app> > > > Yesterday, I witnessed a deportation flight at MSP from beginning to end, > a quiet little American horror film playing out on the same tarmac where > billionaires sip champagne in their private jets and NFL teams fly out for > away games. The same runway where George Lucas’s aircraft lounged like an > idle god as steps away fifteen-passenger blacked-out vans rolled in like > funeral carriages. > > This is where the wealthy come and go untouched. And yesterday, it’s where > our neighbors, families, and friends were kidnapped and processed for > disappearance. > > The “Signature” private hangar, the marble-floored gateway for Minnesota’s > rich and powerful, was doubling as a launching pad for state-sanctioned > exile. Across from it, Target Corp’s massive hangar glowed with red beams > like an omen. Beneath it, ICE and DHS agents flashed their credentials, > guiding living human beings through a gate as if they were merchandise > scanned for shipping. > > Their vans crept down the road: *a death-march of the American Dream*. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/4a88de2c-80c7-4f70-994e-19c869a0cc87?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *Why I Was There* > > Because silence is complicity. > Because witnessing is the smallest possible act of courage in a country > addicted to looking away. > > Because our relatives have stood here before, on this exact land, > swallowed by the same machine of American cruelty. > > In 1862, hundreds of Dakota women and children were driven to Fort > Snelling, interned at the world’s first concentration camp, right here at > the confluence of the rivers, right beneath the flight paths of today’s > planes. They were penned into the Fort Snelling concentration camp through > the winter, left to starve and freeze, and many of them did. Just as the > United States wanted. > > History remembers that atrocity politely. Minnesota tells it with plaques. > But the echoes still scream. > > And another part of my bloodline, like the Eagle and the Condor, comes > from Mexico, from the brown-skinned cousins south of a line that was never > anything but a colonial fiction. Once upon a time our trade roads ran into > South America. Now, those same peoples are “illegal” on stolen land. > > Yesterday, they were shackled and loaded for removal, stripped of their > humanity. > > History doesn’t just repeat, and America simply refuses to stop reenacting > the same crimes echoes through the chambers of time. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/31e0eefa-4897-494c-b07a-daaa33acafd4?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *The Tarmac* > > From the 7th-floor of the MSP Gold Ramp, I watched the choreography of the > deportation: three black vans circling the plane’s nose like Conestoga > wagons forming a white-settler defensive ring, bracing for an imaginary > threat by “Savage Indians”. > > ICE dropped more shackles from a bag, the metal winking in the sun like > something proud of itself. > > One by one, the agents hauled men, women, and children off the vans. > One by one, they patted them down. > One by one, they shackled their feet like livestock. > > People hobbled up the stairs in chains while families on vacation rolled > their luggage into the main terminal unshackled, unbothered, unaware that > human beings were being disappeared thirty yards from their Mickey Mouse > backpacks. > > America runs two airports: one for the free, another for the condemned. > They share a runway but not a moral universe. > > <https://substack.com/redirect/6ed02f47-c9e2-435f-98d2-511be31573e0?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *When the Planes Passed Each Other* > > As the deportation jet prepared to lift off, a Delta flight taxied by > first, a commercial plane stuffed with people who would fly home, or to > Cancun, or to a conference in Denver, blissfully ignorant that they were > inches from a vessel full of shattered lives. > > I wondered if any passenger peering out that tiny oval window recognized > what they were seeing. I wondered if they saw the shackles. > I wondered if they would care if they did. > > The deportation jet lifted, slicing across the Minneapolis skyline, a > metal needle stitching a wound nobody wants to claim. > > People on the ground stared up at the fading dot in the sky. > > Did any of them know? > > Did any of them imagine what was happening inside? > > Did any of them care? > > <https://substack.com/redirect/4b01154e-f5cb-4ef1-8582-c62dd2a80fc0?j=eyJ1IjoiNnpjOGgifQ.kktVkSHgDoIBUrBMveQZgB0T6d_b4N7Ucc4b0A4DrvQ> > *The Final Thought Nobody Wants to Face* > > We like to pretend these things happen in the shadows. > > They don’t. > > They happen right next to us at the airport where we pick up loved ones, > at the hangar where the rich store their toys, at the same gates where the > American Dream pretends it can be reached with enough hard work and > TSA-approved liquids. > > Yesterday, I watched that dream die again. > > And the worst part? > > Most people will never know. > > Many people will never care. > > But some of us will remember. Some of us will speak. > > Because someone has to. > ------------------------------ > > *Closer to the Edge* is 100% reader-supported. 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