Firefighters and passengers hurt after train hits fire truck on crossing
The Latest: UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect contests his extradition back to New YorkThe crash happened at 10.45am in crowded downtown Delray Beach, multiple news outlets reported. The Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front destroyed, about a block away from the Delray Beach fire rescue truck, its ladder ripped off and strewn in the grass several yards away, The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported. The Delray Beach Fire Rescue said in a social media post that three Delray Beach firefighters were in stable condition at a hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue took 12 people from the train to the hospital with minor injuries. Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after hearing a loud crash and screeching train brakes from where he was having breakfast a couple of blocks away. He saw firefighters climbing out of the window of their damaged truck and pulling injured colleagues away from the tracks. One of their helmets came to rest several hundred feet away from the crash. “The front of that train is completely smashed, and there was even some of the parts to the fire truck stuck in the front of the train, but it split the car right in half. It split the fire truck right in half, and the debris was everywhere,” Mr Amaral said. Brightline officials did not immediately comment on the crash. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still gathering information about the crash and had not decided yet whether it will investigate. The NTSB is already investigating two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people early this year at the same crossing along the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando. More than 100 people have died after being hit by trains since Brightline began operations in July 2017 – giving the railroad the worst death rate in the United States. But most of those deaths have been either suicides, pedestrians who tried to run across the tracks ahead of a train or drivers who went around crossing gates instead of waiting for a train to pass. Brightline has not been found to be at fault in those previous deaths.ST. PAUL — A buck harvested near Wheaton in western Minnesota during the opening weekend of firearms season has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported on Thursday, Dec. 12. The adult male deer was harvested within Deer Permit Area 271 along the Minnesota - South Dakota border. To date, no wild deer with CWD had been previously detected in that area, nearby permit areas or near the Minnesota border in eastern South Dakota. “This discovery in western Minnesota, while unwelcome news, highlights the importance and necessity of our disease surveillance efforts and allowing hunters to test deer harvested anywhere in the state if they would like to,” said Erik Hildebrand, wildlife health supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Deer Permit Area 271 includes all of Traverse County and small portions of northern Big Stone and Wilkin counties. It is located north of Big Stone Lake and the Minnesota River Valley habitat corridor. The permit area is heavily farmed with limited public lands and habitat. So far this year, the total deer harvest in that permit area totals 397, with 303 of the total being adult males, according to the DNR website. Following the detection near Wheaton, the Minnesota DNR will implement measures outlined in its CWD response plan, which calls for three consecutive years of testing to help determine the potential prevalence of the disease in Deer Permit Area 271 and surrounding permit areas. The Minnesota DNR also will work with the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks and the North Dakota Game and Fish Department to coordinate surveillance of chronic wasting disease and management activities in the vicinity. Within deer permit areas where CWD has been detected and confirmed, the Minnesota DNR uses multiple management actions designed to help mitigate disease spread, including carcass movement restrictions, a deer feeding and attractants ban, and, sometimes, increased hunting opportunities with increased bag limits. In 2024, Deer Permit Area 271 will not be included in the CWD late-season management hunt that takes place Dec. 20-22. The adult male deer in that permit area that tested positive for CWD was harvested during the breeding season when deer are known to travel longer distances. Before deciding whether to remove additional deer in a CWD management hunt, the DNR will conduct surveillance in the fall of 2025 to better understand disease prevalence in the permit area.
Seahawks safety Coby Bryant scored the first pick 6 of his career on Sunday to give Seattle a third-quarter cushion against the Arizona Cardinals. He celebrated with a tribute to one of Seattle's favorite sons — a crotch grab in honor of Marshawn Lynch. It's a move that will surely cost Bryant some money while met with glowing reviews in the Pacific Northwest. The play took place midway through the third quarter as Seattle held a 7-3 lead. Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray overthrew Michael Wilson on a fourth-and-1 pass from the Seattle 39. Bryant was there to pick it off. He then raced 69 yards down the left sideline to the end zone. When he reached the goal line, he leapt backward and grabbed his crotch a la Lynch to the delight of the home Seattle crowd. HOUSE CALL FOR COBY 🎱 — Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) The move was an ode to Lynch, the ex-Seahawks great who made the celebration his own much to the chagrin of the NFL. Lynch first pulled the move while scoring a touchdown in the 2015 NFC championship. The league for the gesture. The celebration has resurfaced multiple times since, with the most recent iteration just last week . Bryant, who's playing on the the third season of his four-year, $4.5 million rookie contract, should expect a fine in the same neighborhood. The Seahawks, meanwhile, are fully embracing Bryant's celebration on social media with a juxtaposition of Bryant's crotch grab next to Lynch's. Art But Make It... Marshawn. — Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) Who did it better?
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Elon Musk (L) with Donald Trump (R) (Image: AP/Brandon Bell) Like Lynx deodorant, wet dreams and the comedian Jimmy Carr, libertarianism is meant to be a phase men grow out of by at least their late teens. Elon Musk, however, appears to be growing more adolescent as he ages. His “small government” ideology is obviously blinkered, conveniently skating over the billions in taxpayer loans and contracts he has received. Nonetheless, it is increasingly central to both his political and business decisions. Indeed, he is emerging as the leader of an extreme libertarian faction within US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team. Can DOGE save some coin? Murdoch to Musk: How global media power has shifted from the moguls to the big tech bros Read More All Republican factions seem to agree on reducing immigration and “wokeness”. But whereas the “national conservatives” led by Vice President-elect JD Vance are invigorated by economic protectionism, Musk appears more excited about deregulation and slashing public service jobs. His intellectual influences appear to be arch free-marketeer Milton Friedman and President of Argentina Javier Milei , who is famous for taking a literal chainsaw to government spending. This would merely be sad, if Musk weren’t edging closer to real political power. On one hand, Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is a sham “department”, a made-up office without congressional oversight. It has no defined powers, in contrast to the real departments being led by the national conservative set. However, Musk seems to have genuinely influenced Trump’s recent thinking, along with DOGE co-leader and fellow austerity enthusiast Vivek Ramaswamy. “These two wonderful Americans,” Trump recently said , “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies.” Trump may, as he is wont to do, lose interest in DOGE. But if he takes up even a fraction of Musk and Ramaswamy’s agenda, the results could be catastrophic. The dynamic duo outlined their initial plan in the Wall Street Journal last week, to cut “$500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorised by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended”. They claim the president can do this unilaterally, though this would likely be legally contested if pursued. This is merely a downpayment on the $2 trillion (of an annual $6.7 trillion in government outlays) that Musk thinks he can cut. The vast bulk of US government spending is on social security and healthcare, and the vast majority of “expired” spending is on veterans’ health care. Despite being extreme on other measures, Trump dialled down Republicans’ austerity talk in his first term, reassuring pensioners and veterans their benefits wouldn’t be targeted. Trump is either about to adopt a much harsher (and less popular) “fend for yourself” posture towards middle America, or his buddies’ lofty targets will be forgotten and DOGE will devolve into small-scale witch hunts over so-called “woke” spending. Watch this space. Death by a thousand cuts Da pacem, Domine: Why Trump is what democracy needs Read More There is no doubt that Elon himself would prefer a full-scale “slash and burn” approach, as it was the approach he himself adopted upon purchasing Twitter. He fired 6,500 people – about 80% of his workforce, by his own reckoning. He later attempted to rehire some of those very same former employees after acknowledging some “babies” were “thrown out [with the bathwater]”. Particularly affected by redundancies were those working on curation, risk and integrity — namely, those reducing misinformation, defamation and harmful content on the platform, and promoting reputable sources. His leadership of Twitter, now rebranded X, reveals an unresolved tension at the heart of his (and all) libertarianism — the emphasis on freedom ends where his company begins. As CEO, Musk led X in a dictatorial fashion, according to former executives. He told remaining employees to submit to an “extremely hardcore” regime of long working hours or leave the company. As Elizabeth Anderson memorably pointed out , such dictatorial company structures are depressingly common and give the lie to many spruiking “freedom” in other domains. Even after stepping down as CEO, Musk clearly continues to exert god-like influence. He reportedly made a team of 80 engineers tweak X’s algorithm in 2023 to boost his own posts. Australian academics Timothy Graham and Mark Andrejevic investigated whether he had repeated such meddling this year, and found a “statistically anomalous boost” in engagement on Musk’s account since July. Such antics are alienating many users. But no-one is powerful enough to stop Musk internally. So naturally, users’ only avenue is to leave. Bluer skies ahead? “Network effects” (i.e. everyone else being on the platform, and not being elsewhere) have prevented a critical mass of users leaving X... until now. New rival platform Bluesky has blown up in recent weeks, as X users jump ship. The platform just hit 22 million users. That’s still far fewer than X in total, but Bluesky is currently adding more than 1 million users per day, including some of the most high-profile users. Bluesky now up to 22 million users and still growing strong [image or embed] — Benjamin Clark ( @benjamin-clark.bsky.social ) November 25, 2024 at 7:11 AM Albert Hirschman famously suggested three ways a consumer could influence an institution: “Voice”: try to influence the organisation’s decision-making through speaking up, including via coordinated efforts; “Loyalty”: try to stick things out and hope things get better; “Exit”: leave. Which Australian media outlets are leaving X for Bluesky? Read More Musk is impervious to the voices of others, and many of X’s users are tiring of loyalty. Their only option is to exit. Libertarians like Musk typically emphasise exit as their preferred means of exercising freedom (“don’t like it? Leave”). There is a delicious irony in users now saying, “OK, bye”. No social media platform will ever be perfect. But Bluesky’s foundations are better than most. It is based on an open protocol, meaning anyone with the technical know-how can set up their own sister network and bring their data across. Users can curate their own feeds to a greater extent. This provides users with some “voice” and “exit” possibilities, inviting them in as co-creators of the platform rather than force-feeding them slop. Musk will, of course, be just fine if X descends into a Star Wars cantina of fascists and spam bots. He’s still the richest man in the world, after all. But Trump likes winners. The more we can make Musk seem like a loser, the less chance his austerity package has of decimating what’s left of the American welfare state. Bluesky is also just a nicer place to be right now. So join me, X users, in the great X-odus. Let’s show Musk what real freedom looks like. Have something to say about this article? Write to us at letters@crikey.com.au . Please include your full name to be considered for publication in Crikey’s Your Say . 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