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Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV - Just to share some inside baseball here… what Abby is saying is her producers wrote her script, put it in prompter, and she didn’t preview it ahead of time despite having ample time to do so as any decent host does.
Hence, “didn’t catch it in time.”
Quote:
Abby D. Phillip @abbydphillip
I want to correct something I said last night. The bombs thrown in New York City over the weekend by ISIS inspired attackers was thrown into a crowd of anti-Muslim protestors and not specifically targeted at Mayor Mamdani. That wording was inaccurate and I didn’t catch it ahead of time. I apologize for the error.
https://x.com/JoeConchaTV/status/2031722033776611405

John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad - In truth this is *supposed* to be the largest shipowner conference in North America.
Once it was. Just five or six years ago maritime companies used to buy out every billboard along I-95. Every hotel within 20 miles sold out months in advance.
Now it’s a ghost town. I booked a room at the host Hilton near Greenwich, CT this morning for $195. Just before COVID, rooms for next year’s event would already be gone. They just announced the conference is shutting down.
Why?
If you ask shipowners, they’ll tell you the United States is no longer relevant to global shipping. But there’s more to the story.
Shipping started strong under Trump 1.0 until NYTimes did an expose on Elaine Chao, and her husband Mitch McConnel’s, close ties to Chinese shipping… so they turned their backs on the industry.
Attendance stopped growing but remained steady.
Then@PeteButtigieg absolutely refused to send anyone from DOT for four long years. Shipowners grew frustrated with Biden’s non-response in the Red and Black Seas.
Then, roughly two years ago, word spread that China was tracking which owners attended shipping events in the United States. I could never fully confirm it, but the rumor was widespread and it changed behavior.