Barry Larry

I am the perfect weight for a 7'3 man. I either need to lose 40 pounds or become a foot taller.

[Destroyer of Bad Takes (Emeritus) @_Credible_Hulk]

Time for a thread! Let's go through this claim by claim.

[Skylar Romines @skylarromines]

@yoamomonstruos Americans truly believe they have a chance at anything. That’s a feature not a bug

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

They refused to bathe. They refused to salute. They poached deer from an English lord's estate and used their washing water ration to cook it.

The night before D-Day they shaved mohawks and painted their faces like warriors.

Then they jumped into Normandy on one of the deadliest missions of the invasion.

This is the story of the Filthy Thirteen..🧵1/7

[Barry Larry @BarryIsFat]

@FreightAlley I hope you can learn from his failings. You have the opportunity to ensure Freightwaves remains committed to dialectical journalism. If you start to pick sides and stifle debate then FW will go the way of JOC. I'm rooting for you.

[Barry Larry @BarryIsFat]

@dartinguphill Congrats brother. You should be proud

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 Watch this video

This is real footage of a Uyghur detention facility in Xinjiang, China.

Filmed in 2020 by a brave dissident who risked his life to get this on camera.

He had to flee China afterward and was granted asylum.

Verified by NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Human Rights Watch, and the UN.

Over 1 million Uyghurs detained.

Forced labour.

Mass surveillance.

Documented by every credible human rights organization on earth.

Liberal MP Michael Ma called testimony about this “hearsay” yesterday.

He asked the expert if she’d personally witnessed it.

As if China would let anyone near these camps.

This is what he denies.
Downplays.
And defends.

Who does Michael Ma work for?

[Barry Larry @BarryIsFat]

@thefreightnerd @freightcaviar Fair. Those will impact the for-hire truckload segment more than others. I think most of the heat you catch comes from those living in that space. You can't convince folks who spend nights in truckstops that enforcement won't reset the market.

[Barry Larry @BarryIsFat]

@thefreightnerd @freightcaviar If you were to bundle ELP and non-dom CDL reform, would that make your top-5? I don't think its a stretch to say they are two elements of a single driver-supply issue resulting from compliance and safety enforcement reform.

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

I'm Italian. I just got back from Rome.

Over dinner, old friends and I started arguing about the same thing we always argue about: which cities in Italy are genuinely incredible but nobody ever talks about?

We went back and forth for hours. By the end of the night, we had a list.

7 hidden cities that most people, including most Italians, will never think to visit, let alone move to.

No crowds. No tourist markup. Insane quality of life.

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[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong....

"The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded.

USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this."

These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade"

And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that.

"We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing.

"Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991.

Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Alysa Liu’s father was persecuted by the CCP for the Tiananmen Square protests and fled to America

His daughter became a world-class figure skater and refused to skate for the CCP when they tried to recruit her

She just won the gold medal for Team USA 🇺🇸

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

None of the large public carriers grew their fleets over the past couple of years and most lost money, despite being 10x the size and having massive advantages over smaller operators - except 1.

They operated in a world of compliance, would only hire drivers that were legitimate, and could only run their trucks a certain hours per day, per the limitations set by the Federal government.

Meanwhile, entrepreneurs that did not care about compliance took advantage of the lack of enforcement.

These fraudulent carriers would hire recent immigrants that couldn’t find legit jobs (no work permits) and could be paid half of their legit counterparts, while running 2x as many hours in a day.

This enabled firms like Sam Express to grow to 500 trucks, while the biggest players, despite all of their advantages, struggled to survive.

Sam doesn’t have tech or operating advantages, but he has a magic trick - he has a massive cost and operating advantage: indentured servitude from truck drivers with few alternative options.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have truly horrific news...

An illegal alien driving a semi-truck has just crashed head-on into a van of Amish men, k*lling 4 of them.

It appears the trucking company that employed the illegal is based out of California and is known as a "chameleon carrier"...

...which are trucking companies that re-register under new names to evade safety violations.

The Amish men who lost their lives to this illegal alien are:

Henry Eicher, 50.

His sons: Menno Eicher, 25, and Paul Eicher, 19.

and Simon Girod, 23.

There will be no protests for them.
Their story won't be in the mainstream news.

Please pray for their families.

[Chuck Bass @ChuckFBass]

Nobody is illegally drunk driving on stolen land, officer.

[Alfie Potts Harmer @ahtralfie]

About 60% of people in Dubai are basically working 12 months a year for free.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Republicans Vow To Uncover All Somali Fraud And Then Do Nothing About It Except Fundraise https://t.co/hB9BwvML23

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Give this a read.

[PostalWhistleBlower @USPSWatchdog]

Well, any rumors of @USPS doing the right thing and banning illegal non-domiciled CDL drivers is out the window. Sent out an internal update that they WILL be allowed next year

@SecDuffy please help! @AmberMcReynolds continues to allow leadership to make our roads more dangerous

[Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank]

Remember, as you tuck in warm tonight, you are free to do so because this time in 1776, George Washington & his men were crossing a freezing river in the driving snow to kill some Germans.