@HackingButLegal@davetroy@jimstewartson Here, lemme help the "investigative journalist" out. It's real complicated.
Maybe don't make unfounded accusations on the internet lest in you get pushback from the accused.
@jimstewartson@HackingButLegal 'targeted' you?!? You took a meme (explained to you ad nauseum), made it into slander about extremism & you received deserved pushback.
Or have we just missed all the Pulitzer prize follow-on reporting from you, Tess, etc that there was any there there. π€‘
@HackingButLegal@davetroy@jimstewartson@misstessowen And yet there hasn't been any serious update to the story since '21, by Owen or Stephenson. Why do you think that is?
Could it be that you're just the most recent to get played by the joke?
This is like saying 'performance driving is 90% bullshit' and then listing out the expenses of an F1 team.
By all means, enter a PRS contest with none of that and see what happens.
Long-range shooting culture is 90% bullshit, and half of the "snipers" on social media couldn't hit a barn door without an app doing all the math for them.
You buy a $5,000 custom rifle, slap a $3,000 scope on top, drop $150 on a ballistics computer, and sit on a bench with five different sandbags just to hit a static steel plate at 600 yards. That isn't marksmanship, that's just reading data off a screen and pulling a trigger. The second you take away their wind meter, their laser rangefinder, and their bench rest, 95% of these long-range guys are completely helpless.
πΎ CONGRESS IS SLIPPING AMNESTY INTO A FARM LABOR BILL
Don't take my word for it. Read the official summary from the Congressional Research Service.
H.R. 9535, the "Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act." Sponsored by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson. 61 cosponsors, 52 of them Republicans.
One line tells you everything. The bill "establishes an H-2A visa pathway for current unauthorized agricultural workers who otherwise meet requirements."
Current unauthorized workers. People who are here illegally right now.
The sponsor's pitch: "With the border now secure, it is time to address these shortcomings."
The border is more secure because we finally started enforcing the law. You don't reward that by handing a visa to the people who broke it.
And the timing couldn't be worse. Monday night the President said, "We haven't put the same pressure on waitresses and on farmworkers, etc. Not even close." That's exactly the opening this bill's supporters have been waiting for.
We've seen this movie before. In 1986 Congress created the Special Agricultural Worker program, and it was riddled with fraud, with applicants claiming farm work they never did. My career taught me that every carve-out turns into a business model. Make farm work the safe lane and the fake employment letters will show up by the truckload.
Farmers have a real labor problem and I'm not dismissing it. Fix H-2A. Speed it up. Cut the red tape. Let it run year-round. That's legal labor and I'll support it.
But a visa for people who are here illegally isn't a workforce plan. It's amnesty in overalls.
Call your representative and ask one question: are you one of the 61?
@POTUS@StephenM@RealTomHoman@SecMullinDHS@ICEgov@HouseAgGOP@CongressmanGT@Jim_Jordan@JudiciaryGOP@Phase2Deport@NICEnforcement@itsyourgov
Please help me honor Michael Ames, a former US Air Force Pararescueman (PJ) who served with distinction on the Red Team of the elite 24th Special Tactics Squadron.
Completing more than 20 deployments and earning honors including the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star with Valor, Mike lived the PJ creed βThat Others May Live."
He brought advanced medical care, courage, and quiet professionalism to the most demanding joint special operations missions alongside units like Delta Force and DEVGRU.
He passed on February 16, 2025, at age 48, remembered by family and teammates as a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and brother whose larger-than-life presence and deep respect for others left a lasting mark.
Never forgotten.
Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.
Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.
Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.
This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.
Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.
"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."
Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.