Matthew Blackburn

Latter Day Saint.
Heavy equipment operator and commercial truck driver.
Trying to improve daily.
BofM20 LdM25
RTs and 💙s are all about the algorithm.
🇺🇸🇨🇴

[Matthew Blackburn @RigMatthew]

Alma 46

[Eric W. @EWess92]

A district court determined a delivery driver was an independent contractor and thus ineligible to bring his wage-and-hour action. In an unusual, short, and quickly issued unpublished opinion, the Eighth Circuit reverses. He's an employee and can bring his claim.

[Eric W. @EWess92]

A woman w/ a condition that makes getting vaccines extremely risky. She had a permanent exemption from the MMR vaccine from her employer. In 2021, she worked 100% remotely, and requested a COVID-19 vaccine exemption. Denied without reason. Highly respected Judge Erickson reverses

[Matthew Blackburn @RigMatthew]

Hey @SecDuffy what are you doing to penalize states issuing these CDLs?

[American Truckers United @atutruckers]

The USDOT has authority over both the FMCSA and FAA.

How many pilots licenses have been issued to “Mr No Name Given?

I’m going to venture to say zero!
So why are we issuing them CDL’s?

How many charter certificates have been issued to aircraft owners named “No Name Given”?

Bet the answer is zero

More people die in truck accidents than plane crashes @SecDuffy! Shut them down!

[American Truckers United @atutruckers]

The USDOT has authority over both the FMCSA and FAA.

How many pilots licenses have been issued to “Mr No Name Given?

I’m going to venture to say zero!
So why are we issuing them CDL’s?

How many charter certificates have been issued to aircraft owners named “No Name Given”?

Bet the answer is zero

More people die in truck accidents than plane crashes @SecDuffy! Shut them down!

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

And yet another state championship title stolen from a phenomenal female athlete by an average boy.

In the past decade, boys pretending to be girls have "won" girls' state titles in New York, West Virginia, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Nevada.

They have taken state championship medals in Vermont, Utah, Colorado, Virginia, and Kansas.

Boys who don't pretend to be girls have also "won" girls' state titles in Massachusetts, New York, Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.

Even though "it's not happening," everywhere it's allowed to happen, it happens.

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

A fragile thaw in Hormuz but timing and sequence now matter

▶️Shipowners rushing to reposition vessels and markets are rallying, yet insurers for now are holding firm on high war‑risk premiums, insisting on ‘solid evidence’ of lasting safety before lowering rates
▶️Industry bodies warn that mine clearance and a return to the formal Traffic Separation Scheme are essential, as Iran’s blockade has permanently altered regional risk and demonstrated its leverage over the strait
▶️While a pause in hostilities will free stranded mariners and boost tanker and bulk markets, the sector sees this as a fragile reprieve rather than a return to normality, with elevated risk now embedded in long‑term decision‑making

https://t.co/Q1BhXnAhJf

[Garand Thumb @GarandThumb1]

@elonmusk This is a clip from our video, If you want the full video that goes much more in delth. Here you are!

Anti Drone Rifle Rounds (Military and Civ Use)
https://t.co/vEYeAK8XZX

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

We’ve arrived at the Alberta Court of Kings Bench for SAKAMOTO v. AG of Canada & the government of Alberta for her class action certification hearing. Sakamoto is alleging misrepresentation, negligence and misfeasance of public office, breach of fiduciary duty and conspiracy to commit assault and battery.

Follow thread for today’s updates!
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[The Primary Pianist @Primary_Pianist]

Critic:
Mormons worship a different Jesus.

Latter-day Saint:
Who was born in Bethlehem?

Critic:
Jesus.

Latter-day Saint:
Son of Mary?

Critic:
Yes.

Latter-day Saint:
Performed miracles?

Critic:
Yes.

Latter-day Saint:
Crucified under Pontius Pilate?

Critic:
Yes.

Latter-day Saint:
Rose from the dead?

Critic:
Yes.

Latter-day Saint:
Will return to judge the world?

Critic:
Yes.

Latter-day Saint:
So far we’ve identified the same person.

[RBN Energy (A Novi Labs Company) @RBNEnergy]

The NGL business is one of the most logistically complex segments of the energy industry. To really make sense of it you need to step back and look at the big picture. That’s exactly what our new U.S. NGL Infrastructure Map provides — a comprehensive view of the entire NGL value chain.
https://t.co/UBdCyOlLAD

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨 THREAD: What do Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Elaine Chao have in common? They were all paid by a Marxist-Islamist Iran group that was designated as terrorist until 2012.

No, this is not a joke.

Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) was founded by leftist Islamists to oppose the western-backed Pahlavi, and participated in his 1979 overthrow. Khomeini barred MEK afterwards. MEK was implicated in multiple bombings, including that of Americans, and remained an openly armed group until 2003.

Since they got de-listed as a terrorist organization in 2012 on procedural grounds, MEK and their fronts have been actively recruiting US politicians selling themselves as a moderate alternative to Khomeini. But RAND Corporation says MEK meets the qualifications for a cult, citing criteria such as forcing their members to work 16+ hour days and forced divorces.

Polls of the Iranian-American community shows that they do NOT accept Rajavi, MeK's leader, as legitimate, with a 46-point net disapproval - numbers nearly as bad as the existing regime.

As Pence's former Chief of Staff, Marc Short, has already weighed against Trump deal, it's helpful to recall this.

Receipts below. As always, patience as I pull the thread together.👇

[American Truckers United @atutruckers]

Why are we only finding commercial driver’s licenses from California and New York issued to people literally named “Mr. No Name Given”?

These CDLs are being handed out to illegal immigrants, complete with the absurd “No Name Given” placeholder printed right on the license.

How does this happen in only two sanctuary states while the rest of the country doesn’t seem to be participating?

Why would Arkansas tolerate such garbage and expose their people to such a hazard?

Why hasn't the USDOT shut down their ability to issue any CDLs for such an egregious abuse?

Have you seen these issued by any other state?

Let us know in the comments

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

The Euro Nato Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) program is based at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, TX.

It trains pilots from NATO countries from zero hours up until assignment to a fighter. I was lucky to be an instructor in the T-6.

It’s full of various European students, Instructors & Commanders. While a Euro can’t be the Wing Commander, every leadership position below that is open to them. Ops Group Commanders were German & Italian while I was there, with Flight Commanders from all the countries. It was a lot of fun; each country put on a party for their national holiday.

Anyway, the Euros LOVED to buy big trucks & go out to these kind of places. The instructors rented big houses & would road trip anytime they got the chance. As part of their curriculum, the students did a field trip to D.C., but they’d venture as far as they could go on the weekends, too.

I recall an Italian Instructor telling me how amazed he was with a garbage disposal in the sink. When he went home, he took one with him & installed it himself…he thought he might be the only one in Italy with one.

Getting an ENJJPT assignment was a big deal, and something they all competed for. Nights in Dallas, or a road trip to New Orleans was a huge deal. Cross Country training weekends meant expanding their horizons & seeing the whole country.

They do love it here. I loved to see it, just as I’m excited to take my kids to Europe.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region. No word yet on the crew.

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

"Trans" children do not exist. No one is born in the "wrong body"

Every child should be taught they are perfect the way they are. There is nothing they need to "fix" with hormones and surgery.

They do not need to have a certain body or to be a "boy" or a "girl" in order to have that unique personality you have mentioned.

To say that they do is not only sexist, it is psychologically abusive to young malleable children who quite honestly, have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to sex, sexuality, and reproduction.

[KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler @MCCCANM]

It’s 2,136 nautical miles from PHNL to KSFO, almost all of it over water.

What happens if we have an emergency?

The simple answer is that we’ll either turn back to HNL or continue to SFO, whichever is closest. To decide, we take into account the winds, assuming we have to descend to 10,000’ & drop a point where it’s an equal amount of time to either. If past the point, continue to SFO. Otherwise, turn around.

This is called our “CP” or “Critical Point”. It’s also sometimes called an “Equal Time Point”. It shifts from day to day, based on the winds, but out of the islands it’s usually at around 140° West. That’s about halfway in terms of mileage; the Coast Guard used to put a ship there in the early days, known as “Ocean Station November”. It served as a weather ship, had a beacon for navigation & was on standby for rescues at 30° North, 140° West.

(PanAm 6 did ditch near the Cutter once in 1956, with all aboard surviving)

Today, the Cutter is no longer there. Also, our CP is a little West of the mid point in terms of miles, because the winds are a light tailwind. If the winds were stronger, it would be even further West, because turning around means we have to battle a headwind now, slowing us down.

LAX is actually further from HNL at 2,217 nm, where SFO is 2,081 nm because it’s further West than LAX, so SFO is our best bet.

Hope that helps!

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

By the metrics I set out here, I don't think this war was worth it. Sure, taking out the Ayatollah and decimating their military was nice, but the regime remains in control and it's not clear to me they have really given up their pursuit of nuclear weapons permanently. That looks unlikely right now. Maybe they'll behave while Trump is in office, at best.

Plus, they successfully held the world economy hostage by threatening the Strait of Hormuz, and all it took was some cheap drones and mines. That dynamic can easily return on command.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

A number of navigational buoys have appeared in the Strait of Hormuz on https://t.co/bYX0jXrfTw. They are all showing as Iranian ownership. There has been an extreme amount of spoofing in the region since the war began, so it's unknown if these are genuine.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

The first page of Google was indispensable to anti-Mormonism, because almost nobody reads past it.

AI is the new first page.

It hands even the laziest scroller the full context.

Now the whole picture reaches people who were never going to seek it out.