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@TheHofstatter @nytimes Too bad the USPS is changing postmarking standards. cbsnews.com/news/usps-same…

@nytimes If the ballot is postmarked by Election Day there’s no reason it shouldn’t count.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court appears poised to reject a Mississippi state law on late-arriving mail-in ballots, a decision that could upend voting and have sweeping consequences in the midterm elections. nyti.ms/4bZrUaC

@nytimes ALLOWING mail in votes to be counted after election day is what upended voting!!!

@PParker3121 @SalTheTree @StarTribune Yet the votes were still counted.

@SublimeOneTen @SalTheTree @StarTribune The judge was investigated, tried and found guilty. Sounds like the system worked.

Election judge who allowed 11 unregistered people to vote pleads guilty startribune.com/election-judge…

@indexnforgetit The painters union in my state is pushing thru legislation that only professionals can buy paint in a container of more than 1 gallon. No more 5 gallon buckets for amateurs.

My hillbilly hot take is paying someone $11,000 to paint your house is possibly the biggest waste of money Unless you're making over $572,000/yr it would make more sense to take a week off work and do it yourself Painting is not hard and takes almost zero skill

People keep asking why we still need to verify legal status to vote when we could just pass photo ID. This is important, so let me walk you through it. Democrats blocked a “not for voting” indicator on the bill signed by Tim Walz that gave driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Then Democrats passed automatic voter registration tied to drivers licenses. They’ve also admitted those same licenses can be used to vote without a challenge at the polls. Minnesota has no provisional balloting. Once an illegal vote is cast, you can’t take it back. Not a fluke. It’s by design. Photo ID alone doesn’t solve the problem. There are many purple and blue states Republicans could flip if we simply cleaned this up. Pass the SAVE America Act. @elonmusk @chiproytx @BasedMikeLee

@SalTheTree @PParker3121 @StarTribune Looking forward to "here's why it's a good thing..."

@PParker3121 @StarTribune I mean, you all claim it isn’t happening at all and it very clearly is. So now you move your goalposts to “11 people are hardly significant”

@EdwardT78344878 @BLKMDL3 We used to run some linehaul operations that were relay runs. One truck with multiple drivers handing off, there was maybe an hour of downtime for a day and a half of running. EV supporters are absolutely clueless about the real world of actual transportation.

I mean just think about this for a second. Average fuel consumption is 5.5-6.5 miles per gallon under full load. If we split the difference thats 6MPG. I hold 300 gallons of fuel. Hammer down with a full load on I get about 1800 miles per fuel up. So in one fuel stop I can go three and a half times farther then they can on one charge. Then factor in when I get to a fuel stop it takes me about 15 mins to get in, get fueled, get a drink or food and get back out on the road. How long will your charging take even in fast mode?? And if it's a team truck forget about it. The truck doesnt stop long enough to get charged up. SO these are just little fantasies of people who have never been in the industry.

Heavy trucks count for just 1% of vehicles on the road, but consume 16-18% of the fuel. Transitioning Semi trucks to electric is a huge deal for the planet and will save a lot of money in maintenance and fuel.

@doctorwinston2 @loonlake55 Cause politicians never lie.

@loonlake55 As it has been said before, there are instances of election fraud but not widespread enough to change the outcome of the election as per Bill Barr Attorney General under Trump.

Let me get this straight. There's SNAP fraud, EBT fraud, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, home healthcare fraud, daycare fraud, medical transportation fraud, and hospice fraud, but definitely, absolutely no election fraud?

@loonlake55 Nope, that one is completely sacrosanct. /s

@oaklandsheriff @smcroasters Oh, I guess that explains the press conference we saw where the sheriff was whining about his feelings being hurt.

@smcroasters Very fake. He wasn’t arrested for a meme or even threatening, racist, and antisemitic postings. He had a felony warrant for aggravated stalking on something else.

Yes

@SteveLovesAmmo Then she made him do a hostage video. She's an absolute B.

It's like the information just bounced off. Classic ruined moment.

If they're blaming GPS and they're not lying there's two scenarios: 1. they're not using a truck GPS or 2. they're using a truck GPS that hasn't had it's settings adjusted for their equipment. They should also have a Motor Carrier road atlas. But then that requires being able to speak the English language. So hit them hard for these fuck ups and maybe they'll change their ways.

$20,000… for trusting your GPS. Let that sink in. Vermont just said “we’re done playing games” and is about to drop a TEN-FOLD fine increase on truckers who get stuck in Smuggler’s Notch. From $2K… to $20K. Same road. Same tight turns. Same bad GPS routing. But now? A mistake could cost more than some trucks make in a month. Here’s the kicker… 🚫 The road is already clearly marked 📍 Trucks still get routed there anyway 🚛 And when they get stuck? Whole highways shut down So instead of fixing routing systems or infrastructure… they’re just raising the bill. 💥 Accountability or cash grab? 💥 Safety measure or punishment for a broken system? Either way… one wrong turn just became a career-level hit. 📞 Drivers....what’s your move? Are you double-checking every route now… or rolling the dice? #Trucking #CDL #SupplyChain #DriverLife #AllGasNoBrakes

@DemocracyDocket If there is no fraud in elections, why would their presence be a problem?

NEW: Former Trump official Steve Bannon suggested the president deployed ICE officers to major U.S. airports as a “test run” for using them in upcoming elections. According to the administration, they will not assist TSA with passenger screenings but instead guard exit lanes or check IDs. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ba…

@StarTribune So that thing that "never happens" happened again?

@Bigqadi No one cares Nigeria.

No amount of apology can ever undo what white people did to Black people.

This is damage to an aircraft was done by a fire truck but an airplane destroyed an entire building made of reinforced steel? And bldg 7 down the street? 😬 They truly think we’re stupid and too afraid to ask questions and demand answers.

@lporiginalg I asked Google yesterday if Union Pacific made any commemorative trains for Democratic party presidents. It said "yes" there were, then listed 1616 Abraham Lincoln and 4141 GW Bush as examples. 🤣🤣

Thanks ChatGPT

@EdwardT78344878 @BLKMDL3 I can just imagine the aftermath of a heinous winter event where a bunch of EV trucks get stacked up and can't leave cause they ran out of juice in the battery. 🤣🤣

@BLKMDL3 They wont work for OTR driving. You might be able to implement local delivery but all weather OTR they are dead in the water.

@concertgoer80 @JoelleAdler @aakashgupta Ok retard.

@JoelleAdler @aakashgupta Nope, that orange shitbag you guys worship owns this one. He’s an incompetent fucking imbecile.

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.