News and notes from around the interweb:
- McDonald’s is devaluing its rewards program
- Ralph Nader challenged airline overbooking at the Supreme Court (and lost). He supported airline deregulation in the 1970s, arguing (correctly) that the Civil Aeronautics Board blocked competition and acted to protect airline profits, not consumers. Fifteen years ago he opposed TSA full body scanners and invasive patdowns. He got much wrong in his career, but he was also right about many things. Now he’s taking on the security state’s War On Hummus:
Today, the notoriously picky TSA at Bradley Airport in Connecticut confiscated a container of fresh hummus. "Hummus?! Why?" asked the traveler. "Hummus is not a mysterious liquid. It’s a nutritious popular vegetable!"
"Doesn’t matter," was the rejoinder. "Either leave the line…
— Ralph Nader (@RalphNader) April 10, 2026
- She even makes poor choices about what airline to fly on this route. Delta’s 767 premium product is genuinely awful.
NEW: @KamalaHarris and @DouglasEmhoff spotted on a flight from LA to NYC yesterday.
📸: Iris Osman pic.twitter.com/a8RnTHSVsr
— harris4potus (@kdh4potus) April 10, 2026
- Onboard Kosher for Passover meals are usually pretty good, actually. They’re terrible at almost all other times. But definitely worth ordering at Passover!
way too smelly for an airplane
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u/bauhaus_baby in
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Pure Anarchy on this flight 🤮
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u/zero-degrees28 in
americanairlines - The American Airlines caviar. It’s not Singapore or Etihad but it’s ‘nice for American’?
Caviar in domestic first
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I don’t agree with Ralph Nadar about a lot of things but he is correct in that the war on liquids and things that have a bit of liquid in them is absurd. The implementation is brain dead. When I carry cheddar cheese it always gets a lot of inspection. Surprisingly, things that are verboten, such as peanut butter and jam, are allowed in cabin luggage if they are spread on bread. Maybe Ralph could have popped out some sliced bread or pita bread and smeared the hummus to make it acceptable.
On my trip ten days ago, from ICN to LAX, the guy next to me in upstairs coach on an A380 popped out his bare feet. It did not bother me. No strong revulsion. I was surprised since I thought I would have strong revulsion due to that being described as the normal response in multiple articles on VFTW.
Wait. McDonald’s has a reward program?
Who knew!
That closeup of the toes was a gut punch, Gary.
Still haven’t forgiven Nader for 2000… oh, wait, that was 5-4 Supreme Court, right @Mike Hunt?
@jack the ladd — Ready for another hummus-Hamas comedy routine? “Why’s everyone so outraged about hummus? It’s delicious!”
Good for him. I agree with 1990 about how he should have stayed out of the election, but also with Nader about the horror of scanners. They came in after Obama had a flight with the president of the company that made them (campaign contributions, anyone?). Regarding liquids, some on this site have disagreed with me when I point out that a group of people can easily exceed the 100 ml limit by pooling their resources. The argument is that folks aren’t that organized. Well, they are. And saying that frozen liquids are okay because they can’t be used seems to ignore a physical process called “melting”. Anyway, is a hard apple okay? Probably, so how about a soft spoiled one? An orange? My wife’s sealed little container yogurt didn’t make it, nor did the pasta sauce-covered dinner of an airline dispatcher whom I know. All this would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
@drrichard — You kept it 100. All sides, sadly, are susceptible to the ‘donor’ class. Well said. All of it. Thank you.
I’m not a fan of nadir (pun intended). Plus, who TF flys today and wouldn’t know hummus is a no go. Plus, he then b! tches that TSA wouldn’t allow an exception. Rules are rules.