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IronLionZion

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7. The one agency hated as much as ICE

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:29 PM

Jan 2019

Dems should use this opportunity to reform both agencies to avoid racial profiling, sexual assault, and blatant intimidation tactics and abuses of power. Some people get a little bit of power and they abuse people with impunity.

TSA has never caught even one terrorist. But they have let lots of weapons through and failed tests of their screening policies because they are the most useless agency. We need to debunk the myth that the TSA does anything for security. They exist to make white people feel safe watching brown people randomly selected for enhanced stop and frisk.

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First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports [View all] brooklynite Jan 2019 OP

Shouldn't it be "calling in sick" ? oberliner Jan 2019 #1

Yes. You call in to the workplace to tell them you'll be out sick. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #3

I wonder if they will change the headline oberliner Jan 2019 #6

yeah, you call in to work. mobeau69 Jan 2019 #4

We say' called out' more often. GulfCoast66 Jan 2019 #28

We always said "called in" ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2019 #46

yes CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #5

That is a true nit you have picked. Got anything else? Hekate Jan 2019 #8

It just jumped out at me when I read the headline oberliner Jan 2019 #9

Yeah, I wondered if it was a term specific to the TSA or something! LisaM Jan 2019 #17

Oddly, it is used throughout the article oberliner Jan 2019 #19

Probably got the article from a freelancer. LisaM Jan 2019 #21

Rene Marsh seems to favor the "calling out sick" phrasing oberliner Jan 2019 #23

It is different. I read it a few times before it clicked. I am not familiar with that riversedge Jan 2019 #31

In NYC they do often say "call out sick" violetpastille Jan 2019 #32

strange to me. I am a midwesterner. Lived in the west for a while and NM but riversedge Jan 2019 #33

And in NYC they stand "on" line, not in line like the rest of us. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2019 #38

Interestingly, the NY Times uses "calling in sick" in their tweet on this topic oberliner Jan 2019 #40

trying to derail the thread? CreekDog Jan 2019 #41

No? oberliner Jan 2019 #42

The answer is yes CreekDog Jan 2019 #44

Many news outlets have been getting sloppy for a while IronLionZion Jan 2019 #14

You can say that again! oberliner Jan 2019 #16

I'm thinking now it could be a regional thing oberliner Jan 2019 #24

It may be regional, as you pointed out Docreed2003 Jan 2019 #37

I say Tom-A-to... Juneboarder Jan 2019 #36

Good Sherman A1 Jan 2019 #2

The one agency hated as much as ICE IronLionZion Jan 2019 #7

+1 CountAllVotes Jan 2019 #10

Good points Hekate Jan 2019 #12

If the TSA really wanted to protect us they should stop strip searching and anal probing people cstanleytech Jan 2019 #34

+1 violetpastille Jan 2019 #35

TSA is protected from being prosecuted for sexual assault charges IronLionZion Jan 2019 #39

Maybe the idea of nation wide workers strike is forming. nt NCjack Jan 2019 #11

Federal employees can't go on strike. Quemado Jan 2019 #29

A lot of people cannot work PatSeg Jan 2019 #13

How many paychecks have they missed? Igel Jan 2019 #20

I'm wondering durablend Jan 2019 #15

yeah but that's not gonna happen FromMissouri Jan 2019 #27

So let me get this straight. ON the border, where we don't need extra security.. LisaM Jan 2019 #18

Why would they do such a thing. Cold War Spook Jan 2019 #22

This cannot be angrychair Jan 2019 #25

Can't blame them myself. How can any KPN Jan 2019 #26

Don't often say told you so, but told you so. GulfCoast66 Jan 2019 #30

The way that trump is treating the public servants is horrible Gothmog Jan 2019 #43

What if Border Patrol agents did this, too? Liberty Belle Jan 2019 #45