Don
@oltmannd.bsky.social
Retired RR guy. Data geek. Train nerd. Occasional optimist. Mechanical Engineer by education and essence.
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Huh
"Canada Plans to Fast-Track Immigration for US H1-B Visa Holders in New Talent Drive" ☹️ share.google/WtKFYfJNhfye...
Canada Plans to Fast-Track Immigration for US H1-B Visa Holders in New Talent Drive
The government says it will fast-track immigration for U.S. H-1B visa holders and spend more than $1 billion to attract researchers from the United States and the rest of the world.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Huh
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Are farmers going to be on welfare for all 4 years of this Trump term, or just for 3 years like the first Trump term?
We get you like voting for government handouts, but we are $38 trillion in debt.
We get you like voting for government handouts, but we are $38 trillion in debt.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Are farmers going to be on welfare for all 4 years of this Trump term, or just for 3 years like the first Trump term?
We get you like voting for government handouts, but we are $38 trillion in debt.
We get you like voting for government handouts, but we are $38 trillion in debt.
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The reason we don’t sell H200, and other advanced chips to China is that they have dual-use (military and civilian) capability.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
December 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The reason we don’t sell H200, and other advanced chips to China is that they have dual-use (military and civilian) capability.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
These will help China improve their AI, surveillance, and cyber espionage capability.
The export controls existed strictly for NatSec purposes.
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"He was telling us this weekend he was a farmer again, so it's hard for me to understand how he could have multiple primary residences and none of them be his farm."
@timmiller.bsky.social and @justinelliott.bsky.social talk Scott Bessent and other Trump cabinet members' mortgage...particularities:
@timmiller.bsky.social and @justinelliott.bsky.social talk Scott Bessent and other Trump cabinet members' mortgage...particularities:
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"He was telling us this weekend he was a farmer again, so it's hard for me to understand how he could have multiple primary residences and none of them be his farm."
@timmiller.bsky.social and @justinelliott.bsky.social talk Scott Bessent and other Trump cabinet members' mortgage...particularities:
@timmiller.bsky.social and @justinelliott.bsky.social talk Scott Bessent and other Trump cabinet members' mortgage...particularities:
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Why anybody listens to him about…well, anything, but about this in particular, I mean 🤷♂️
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Why anybody listens to him about…well, anything, but about this in particular, I mean 🤷♂️
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.
December 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Cassidy continues to pay lip service to the public health catastrophe he created with his cowardice.
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The plot thickens. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The plot thickens. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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If Hegseth's "declassification in my mind" legal theory held water, then all of their complaints about Hillary's e-mail server were for show. Like Hegseth, Hillary was an OCA at the time she sent and received those e-mails. Under Hegseth's legal theory, Hillary had the power to "declassify" them
December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If Hegseth's "declassification in my mind" legal theory held water, then all of their complaints about Hillary's e-mail server were for show. Like Hegseth, Hillary was an OCA at the time she sent and received those e-mails. Under Hegseth's legal theory, Hillary had the power to "declassify" them
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"Speaker Johnson, care to comment on the sun rising in the east this morning?"
"Sorry, I've been in meetings all day and don't know anything about that. I'm a busy man and can't comment on everything going on, especially things I haven't read about."
"Sorry, I've been in meetings all day and don't know anything about that. I'm a busy man and can't comment on everything going on, especially things I haven't read about."
December 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Speaker Johnson, care to comment on the sun rising in the east this morning?"
"Sorry, I've been in meetings all day and don't know anything about that. I'm a busy man and can't comment on everything going on, especially things I haven't read about."
"Sorry, I've been in meetings all day and don't know anything about that. I'm a busy man and can't comment on everything going on, especially things I haven't read about."
Spot on. Similar to mob culture - also not equal.
It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Spot on. Similar to mob culture - also not equal.
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This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.
I'd ask, "Who's side is he on?", but we already know that..."
Trump reposted content from 16 accounts last night that turned out to be from foreign-based ‘MAGA’ users. meidasnews.com/news/trump-r...
Trump Reposted a Slew of Foreign-Based Accounts Monday Night
Trump shared 25 posts from 16 accounts labeled by X as based in other countries or possibly using a proxy to change location data
meidasnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I'd ask, "Who's side is he on?", but we already know that..."
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It’s just wild to watch Trump fall asleep constantly in meetings, then he wakes up and calls Joe Biden “sleepy.”
December 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
It’s just wild to watch Trump fall asleep constantly in meetings, then he wakes up and calls Joe Biden “sleepy.”
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“…the decisions he has made…”
Disgraceful
Disgraceful
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“…the decisions he has made…”
Disgraceful
Disgraceful
Let's go!
Vote these spineless cowards out of their majorities so we can actually have some oversight on this serial criminality.
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Let's go!
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If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
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Erase every lab, every book, every dataset; the universe would still run on the same rules. Sooner or later, people would rediscover them. Facts aren’t time-dependent or personality-driven; they exist whether we like them or not.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Erase every lab, every book, every dataset; the universe would still run on the same rules. Sooner or later, people would rediscover them. Facts aren’t time-dependent or personality-driven; they exist whether we like them or not.
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"U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US manufacturing stuck in doldrums as tariff headwinds persist
U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted.
www.reuters.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"U.S. manufacturing contracted for the ninth straight month in November, with factories facing slumping orders and higher prices for inputs as the drag from import tariffs persisted..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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For accurate science, follow the advice of your healthcare provider, &/or
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@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
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@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For accurate science, follow the advice of your healthcare provider, &/or
@cidrap.bsky.social
&/or
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
&/or
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
@cidrap.bsky.social
&/or
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
&/or
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
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This is the Republican majority in Congress. Completely disinterested in looking into anything Trump is doing. Whatever he decides to do is fine with them and they won’t investigate or question anything. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Markwayne Mullin defends Trump pardoning Honduran president who was convicted of drug trafficking: "What the president is doing is always calculated. I haven't had a direct conversation with the president about it, but I do trust his natural reaction and his approach to foreign affairs."
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is the Republican majority in Congress. Completely disinterested in looking into anything Trump is doing. Whatever he decides to do is fine with them and they won’t investigate or question anything. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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"Shoes on?" @radiofreetom.bsky.social Papal etiquette enforcement squad.
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Shoes on?" @radiofreetom.bsky.social Papal etiquette enforcement squad.
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“Juan Orlando Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.” — US DOJ
November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“Juan Orlando Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras.” — US DOJ