What travelers are actually facing Flights are still flying. People just spend more time getting to them. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Maria Bartiromo that some passengers are waiting one to four hours at checkpoints. That is the sort of time that makes you rethink a weekend trip. Airports are slower because there are fewer people behind the machines doing the checks. The experience is not only annoying. It can change travel plans, cut into business schedules, and make otherwise routine trips miserable. Why TSA workers are leaving Duffy said TSA staff missed a full paycheck and many simply had to find other work. He noted roughly 300 TSA agents resigned and callouts have doubled. When you do not earn much, skipping a paycheck is not academic. People take Uber shifts, wait tables, or find any steady money. That is basic economics, not a staffing memo. Bureaucracies can promise overtime and moral duty, but rent and groceries do not care about mission statements. Safety or convenience which is impacted The official line from Duffy is that security remains intact. Longer lines come from fewer screeners, not looser standards. Screening takes longer when there are fewer hands on deck. The aviation…

The Singing Moment Former FBI director James Comey posted a Substack video recalling a briefing where the operation was codenamed Sandcastles and he says he replied with a reference to a Beyoncé song. He told the room the joke got blank stares and then he sang a bit in front of agents. Yes, he actually performs a snippet on camera in the Substack message he released. The Legal Cloud Overhead Comey has faced legal scrutiny before. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted him last September on two counts, false statements and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, tied to his testimony about leaks. That case was later dismissed by a judge who relied on the Appointments Clause in the decision. The back-and-forth shows how legal fights can change direction for procedural reasons. Leaks, Emails, and the Media Channel Newly released emails from November 2016 showed Comey communicating with Daniel Richman, who has been identified as a media contact, and those messages have been used to argue Comey guided leaks. Separately, Comey drew headlines for an Instagram post of shells arranged as 86 47, which he later removed and said he opposed violence. The whole episode highlights how…