🚨Jeff Gregory, 55, from Pennsylvania, has been identified as the captain of the Learjet 60 that crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida🚨 Jeff was a husband to his wife, Cheryl, and a father of three children. He was also a devoted Christian whose faith had been part of his life since childhood. According to a longtime friend and former neighbor, Jeff grew up attending Limerick Chapel in Pennsylvania. Their parents worked at the church, and the two boys attended a small Christian school together. His childhood friend recalled that Jeff loved wearing his leather bomber jacket. He eventually pursued that childhood dream, beginning his aviation training in the 1990s and building a career doing something he genuinely loved. Those who knew him described him as diligent, dependable, and hardworking. As the aircraft was rapidly losing altitude, a man’s voice could reportedly be heard reciting the Lord’s Prayer over the radio. That voice is believed to have been Jeff Gregory’s. While his 20-year-old co-pilot, Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, was desperately communicating the aircraft’s emergency, the prayer could reportedly be heard: “Who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” His childhood church has reportedly shared a message mourning his passing and remembering that he has gone home to be with the Lord. Please pray for Cheryl, their three children, and everyone who loved Captain Jeff Gregory.

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🚨Breaking Update: Today @Heritage Foundation's Legal Action Center sued to block @TodaysDAR's attempt to dissolve a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter (TX) whose members oppose accepting biological men as fellow "Daughters." Per the lawyers: "The Martha Laird Chapter is being persecuted for daring to state the obvious: women’s organizations should be for women. DAR leadership may disagree with these women, but that does not mean it can take away their organization." -Lea Patterson “By objecting to out of touch and authoritarian dictates from leaders in a distant capital, our clients are merely following the courageous example set by America's founding women whose memory DAR was created to keep." - Justin Butterfield Because @TodaysDAR is Congressionally chartered, @MarshaBlackburn + @SenKatieBritt @SenMikeLee @SenTuberville @SenKevinCramer @DarlineGrahamSC introduced Senate Bill 5152 to define "Daughters" to mean biological women. @SenatorBanks @berniemoreno @HawleyMO @SenTomCotton @MZHemingway

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A Virginia man received a letter in the mail Thursday from Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration addressed to his deceased dog, informing her that her right to vote has been restored.

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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls. That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching. I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee. Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.