A 17 year old account rarely used with a single follower. Then one day a Tech Bro posted something insulting and vile about American Labor I couldn't hold back. 16 months to 30,000 followers from 1. From Engineering to an account where we discuss, respectfully disagree, educate and learn about labor, policy, history, and the self - interested corruption of our elite. Thank you for the support and willingness to fearlessly add your viewpoints for everyone to engage. We will win this fight through incremental, unending, continuous effort and improvement. We do it for ourselves | We do it for the prosperity of our youth | We do it until we win

Okay here's the exercise... I’m voting for my senator because John Thune promised us ______. Fill in the blank. @LeaderJohnThune what is the answer?

**CORRUPTION WATCH** The Senate was not built to be a national fundraising club. It was built to be the states’ brake on Washington. The Founders had the state legislatures pick senators so a state, as a state, had an agent in the upper house. That design had a real defect. When the two chambers of a legislature were split by party, they deadlocked. From 1885 to 1912 there were dozens of those fights. Some seats sat empty for a whole session. Delaware went years with one senator, and for a stretch with none. Bribes also greased a few elections. The Progressives sold the 17th Amendment in 1913 as the fix: let the people vote, end the vacancies, break the bought legislatures. The vacancy problem was real. The amendment went further than the vacancy problem. It did not just fill empty chairs. It cut the last leash the states had on the Senate. After 1913 a senator’s customer is no longer the legislature that can fire him at the next session. His customer is the national donor class (lobbyists), the party apparatus (The RNC and DNC that handle the pay for play), and whoever can fund a statewide race. That is how you get a body that talks like it represents “the people” and votes like it represents the people who instead write the checks. *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* came out in 1939 and still works because audiences already recognized the club. The freshman walks in with a simple bill. The machine smiles, then buries him. Capra did not invent that. He filmed what people already believed about the chamber. Look at the product since. Trade deals that hollowed out towns while the speeches said opportunity. Immigration rules the public keeps rejecting and the Senate keeps softening. Spending that grows in recess and in session. Stock trades timed to the same bills that pick winners and losers. Foreign priorities that somehow always find a coalition. A confirmation process that protects the permanent class. Rare is the bill whose first beneficiary is the person paying the tax and living with the result. Both parties learned the new incentive. Direct election did not purify the Senate. It nationalized it. A senator who answers to a state legislature has to go home and explain a vote to people who run schools, roads, and budgets. A senator who answers to a national primary and a PAC stack explains the vote on television. The 17th Amendment solved empty seats. It also built a chamber that can ignore the states and still call itself representative. That is why so many “historic” Senate achievements feel like they happened to the country, not for it. If you want a Senate that fears the citizen, you have to restore a customer who can fire them besides a consultant and a donor list. Until then, treat every “for the people” floor speech as marketing. Watch the vote or Watch them put up bills they will never vote on to fool us into voting for them. Its corruption we are watching. @ChiefEngineerCE

I let the pool guy go. Three things became clear to me .. #1 with strips its easy to check chemicals #2 mustard algae consumes chlorine faster than a one time a week visit could handle. #3 he was spending 15 minutes a week and collecting more per month than nearly 6 months of chemicals would take. So I scrub it in the morning for 5 minutes, its calming. I rinse the filter once a week and the pool has never looked better. I have a salt system but the red blinking light means 2000.00 dollars and I am going to just throw tablets at it... for now. The deal is- Florida pools don’t close in September. This is when relatives want to start visiting. Up north people stop buying chlorine. Down here it still 80° and the tabs store fine if you keep the bucket sealed and dry. I’d skip the 20 lb and get the 40 lb + test strips. Better price per pound, and you’re not reordering in a month. Sizes on the page: 20 lb + strips — $80, small pool / first bucket 40 lb + strips — $143, the normal buy 80 lb + strips — $275, big pool / don’t want to think about it till spring Same tabs. Bigger pail is cheaper per pound. Don’t leave it cracked open in a hot shed. That’s how they cake. If the water already smells “chlorine-y,” that’s chloramines - shock it. Tabs alone won’t fix that. amzn.to/4jogT6G As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Congressional stock trading shows clear patterns on both sides of the aisle. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) posted a 29 percent return in 2025. He sits with a group of senators whose portfolios regularly appear near the top of performance lists. The data crosses parties year after year. Long-term patterns are hard to dismiss.

Everything starts local. City council, county commission, school board, and state legislature races shape your daily life more than most federal noise. Strong local governance creates a buffer against bad national policies. Weak local leadership imports problems straight into your community. They don't make much and are running in these elections for self-promotion more often than not. Local elections are often decided by a few hundred votes. That is real leverage.

A Letter from a Mother in Hyderabad My son, Come home. I am not asking. I am telling you before someone else does. America is getting ugly. They say American jobs are for Americans now. Their vice president said the visa is for geniuses, not cheaper workers. Their labor people posted “count your days.” They walk into buildings that were supposed to hold hundreds of visa workers and find empty offices. They talk about fake resumes, wage kickbacks, jobs that were never real, and degrees that were never earned. Even politicians that used to stand up for us are quiet with an election coming. It is not going to get any better. There is a woman at Justice, Harmeet, @HarmeetKDhillon She does not stop. She used to work in Silicon Valley. She calls the consultancies what they are. She is looking at the job ads that say they only want visa people. She is looking at the hiring managers who only call home. She already made one of their precious companies pay millions for shutting Americans out. She might shut them all down. She does not give speeches. She opens files on people. She is not stopping. As well as the Departmen of Labor Inspector General- Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito @DOLOIG Who has ramped up investigations. I worry about this and you my son. If they find the degree was bought, they take the visa. If they find the wage was kicked back to the uncle who “placed” you, they take the visa. If they find the job was a bench and a prayer, they take the visa. If the client never heard of you, they take the visa. And they are talking about ending the 60 days you used to get after a layoff. Lose the job, leave. You should leave we need help at home. The papers here call all of this racism. The papers here already called the Americans racist over that driving ad telling Indian drivers to self deport. They are hunting a paper trail of every issued CDL. India is hurting for the people we sent. Brain drain, they call it, when it is convenient. When you were leaving we called it success. Now the same uncles want you back because the people here cannot even build bridges that do not collapse. The firms here need bodies they can actually keep. Come home while you can still choose the flight. If the degree is clean, if the job is real, if the wage is the wage on the form, stay and let them look, but I fear it is not. If any of it was arranged, do not wait for Harmeet to spell your name. Your mother, Lakshmi

1913 Creation of the Department of Labor – Promised Protection, Later Weakened In 1913 Congress created the Department of Labor to protect American workers, improve conditions, and mediate disputes. It was hailed as a permanent voice for American labor in the federal government after decades of exploitation. Over time budget cuts, shifting priorities, and political pressure turned the department into a weaker enforcer. Many of its original protections became paper promises. Bookmark if you learned something new. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you know another chapter like this.

Dear Mom, I don’t know how to say this without feeling like I failed you. I finished at the top of my class in computer science. I did everything they told us to do. Perfect grades. Projects. Internships when I could get them. I worked harder than almost anyone I knew. And still I cannot find a real job. I am not the only one either, seems like it's who you know not what you know. While I was still a junior, a lot of the foreign students already had offers waiting for them. Full-time positions lined up before they even graduated. Some of them barely spoke English as well as I do, but the companies were already holding spots for them. I send out applications every week. I get polite rejections or silence. Recruiters tell me the market is competitive. They never say the quiet part out loud. I had no idea and the folks advising us never told us that its a tough market for American grad to get a job, especially in America. I feel helpless. I feel stupid for believing the degree would open doors the way everyone promised. What hurts the most is knowing you and Dad took out loans so I could get this education. You sacrificed for something that was supposed to set me up for a good life. Instead I’m sitting here with debt and no clear path forward. I don’t want to sound bitter. I’m just tired. And I’m sorry. I keep telling myself something will open up. But right now it feels like the system was never really built for people like me. I love you. I’m trying. Your son

Dear President H. W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy, I am writing as a recent STEM graduate who finished at the top of my class in 2026. I did everything that was asked of me. High grades. Strong projects. Internships when I could get them. That was the path promised to the few who could finish the coursework. I believed the degree would open doors. It has not. I have gone through interview after interview with no offer. At the same time, many of the foreign students I studied alongside already had jobs waiting before they graduated. Some received offers in their junior year. I am still sending applications and getting short rejections or silence. You both helped create the H-1B program in 1990. The promise was temporary skill gaps and the best talent. That is not what I am seeing. What I am seeing is a system that prefers workers who arrive with sponsorship already arranged while American graduates who trained here compete for fewer open seats. The shortage never closed. The openings for people like me only got tighter. You will never sit where I sit. Classmates from other countries move into roles while I keep hearing the market is competitive. Was this the plan from the start, or were you too ignorant to see what it would become? The harm is personal. It lands on students who did the work and still cannot find a place in the profession they prepared for. That is the part of the promise that did not come true. Sincerely, A top graduate still looking for work in my field

Yes. There's a war going on in our government between nationalists and globalists. Two different definitions of maga one defines it as America. The other defines it as Americans. People think that everybody in Washington is locked up but within Trump's own cabinet and advisors are people with totally different philosophies. This exists in every administration. One believes we can conquer the world through cheap labor and making our companies so massive and so powerful that combined with our government everyone would have to bend the knee. The other believes every single decision that's made has to benefit the American people.

Across several Generations They Don't Work For You** Look at the map before anyone tells you this was one rooftop or limited to a single event. The Army told the Senate in 1977 it ran 239 open-air tests from 1949 to 1969 at 66 military and civilian locations in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, and even in Canada. Live bacteria in 80 of those tests. Powders and chemicals in the rest. Twenty-seven of the releases were on public property. That is the official count. Here is what the public file actually names. Bacteria in shared air San Francisco Bay, September 1950, ship offshore, Serratia and Bacillus. Washington National Airport and the Greyhound terminal, May 1965. New York subway, 1966, light bulbs on the tracks. Key West and Panama City. Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels. Hampton Roads and other ship work. Hawaii tests in the mid-1960s. Metal dust in city air and on long flight lines The National Research Council later reviewed zinc cadmium sulfide releases in Minneapolis, St. Louis, Fort Wayne, Corpus Christi, San Francisco, Winnipeg, Palo Alto, Camp Cooke and Oceanside in California, Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington state, Nevada, the Carolinas and Georgia under Operation Dew, and Dugway in Utah. Operation LAC ran C-119 lines across a belt from the Rockies toward the Atlantic, including paths such as South Dakota to International Falls and Toledo toward Texas. Particles from Midwest lines were reported more than a thousand miles on. Why those towns? The NRC record is blunt. Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Winnipeg were picked because they resembled Soviet cities. Fort Wayne and Corpus Christi stood in for flatland. San Francisco and Panama City stood in for other target types. Forests, deserts, and empty ranges existed. They still used downtowns, terminals, and trains. So no, not every county in America has a named release in the table. Yes, the footprint was national. Coasts. Midwest. Gulf. Desert. Islands. A commute. A ticket line. A public-housing roof. If the goal was only to watch a cloud move, empty land was available no reason to involve people...repeatedly test after test after test over decades. They chose populated air instead. Why? They Dont Work For You. Which state are you in, and did you know it sat on a test path? Like share and bookmark. Follow for the water file. Sources: U.S. Army report to the Senate health subcommittee, 1977 (239 tests, 66 locations). National Research Council, 1997, Toxicologic Assessment of the Army’s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests, including Table B-1 sites. Operation LAC, 1957-1958. Operation Sea-Spray, 1950. Operation Dew, 1952. Here is a high definition map it does not include Hawaii, Canada or Alaska but they were tested too.

They Dont Work For You 4 of 7. They dropped it in the subway. 1966 - New York City. Light bulbs packed with Bacillus subtilis variant Niger were dropped onto the tracks in midtown. The spores rode the tunnels for miles. The Army’s later write-up was blunt. A real disease agent at rush hour would expose large numbers of people to infection, illness, or death. That is in the official file, not a blog. Is it hard to imagine chemtrails taking place given they had decades of work to show exactly how to spread it? They Dont Work For You. If you rode those trains in the 1960s, say so. Like share and bookmark. Follow for 5 of 7. Sources: Army subway vulnerability report cited in the 1977 Senate record. Leonard Cole, Clouds of Secrecy.

They Dont Work For You 3 of 7. The spore they called harmless. Then sprayed it all over us. Bacillus globigii, now called Bacillus atrophaeus, is a hardy spore. The Army used it as a stand-in for a real weapon spore. It went out with the San Francisco ship spray in 1950. It went out again in May 1965 at Washington National Airport and the Greyhound terminal in the same city. Army later said more than 130 exposed passengers then traveled on to 39 cities in seven states. New York and Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels are in the same public list. The point of a spore test is simple. If a tough particle can ride a terminal, a bus, and a plane, a killer spore can too. They ran that test on civilians who never signed a form. They Dont Work For You. If you changed planes in Washington in 1965, that is the file. Comment the year you first heard this. Like share and bookmark. Follow for 4 of 7. Sources: Army report to the Senate, 1977. Washington Post, March 9, 1977.

They Dont Work For You** 2 of 7. You thought it was only the metal dust they were spraying on us...poisoning us with? Zinc cadmium sulfide was one program. San Francisco was another. September 20 to 27, 1950. Operation Sea-Spray. A Navy ship off the Golden Gate released live bacteria, Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii, over the Bay Area. Monitors in the city and across the water in Oakland, Berkeley, Daly City, Colma, Sausalito, Albany, and San Leandro. The Army later said most of about 800,000 people got a heavy inhaled dose. Check this- The Army was spraying the population they were supposed to be protecting. Serratia was picked because it makes a red colony and was treated as a safe marker. Soon after, Stanford Hospital saw a rare Serratia cluster. Ten patients lived. Edward J. Nevin, 75, died of a Serratia infection of the heart valve after surgery. The Army disclosed the test in 1977 Senate hearings. The family sued. They lost. The spray went further than intended but nobody was sent to track the harm it caused which is a pretty strange thing for a drill designed to measure spread and impact...right? Same decade as the powder tests. Different payload. Same rule. Do not tell the people breathing it. They Dont Work For You. Did you grow up thinking this was only St. Louis dust? Name the city you heard first. Like share and bookmark. Follow for 3 of 7. Sources: Army disclosures and Senate health hearings, 1977. Operation Sea-Spray, September 1950.

**They Dont Work For You** They sprayed toxic fluorescent particles over American cities for years. Most people never knew. The people who were supposed to protect the public ran open air tests on the public for nearly 30 years and never seemed to have enough data. Between the late 1940s and 1969 the U.S. Army Chemical Corps released zinc cadmium sulfide over cities and countryside to see how a biological weapon cloud would travel. The powder glowed under ultraviolet light. That made it easy to track. Safety was not the reason they picked it. The tests ran in San Francisco, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Corpus Christi, Fort Wayne, and many other places. In St. Louis they released it from rooftops, station wagons, and aircraft. In San Francisco they released it from a ship offshore. Operation LAC, Large Area Coverage, carried the particles across huge stretches of the country from the Rockies toward the Atlantic. Cadmium is a heavy metal. Cadmium sulfide is treated by the EPA as a human carcinogen. Long exposure is tied to lung cancer, kidney damage, and bone disease. The test particles were small enough to be breathed deep into the lung. A 1997 National Research Council review put the highest inhaled cadmium doses in populated areas at about 6 to 24 micrograms. The panel said cancer risk at those one time estimates looked very low and was unlikely to show up as a clear wave of extra cases. That conclusion used short exposure math. It did not fully settle what happens when the same neighborhood is hit more than once. Yes, they were repeatedly spraying the same communities. It did not settle the extra risk for children. Cadmium stays in the body. A single number on a page with false assumptions leaning to the short exposure was cover the government uses when investigating itself. There is no stamp on a 1960 lung cancer file that says Army spray, 1953. The illness looks like other urban disease. Smoking, factory smoke, and the test dust can sit in the same lung. The Army did not keep a list of the people under the plume. There was no health registry at the time. Follow up came decades later, after people had moved, gotten sick, or died. Any harm blended into ordinary city death records. The public learned about the program in the 1970s through Senate hearings. The tests had already stopped. People under the cloud were never told they had been part of it. Folks who thought it was a conspiracy that chemtrail were a thing probably had no idea that ritual poisoning for 29 years never seemed to collect enough data to make the army happy. This is in the declassified file. The Army acknowledged the program. The National Research Council reviewed the compound. The open question is the cost that never got counted because nobody was counted. It would be nice to report that this was the only such program that took place but it wasn't. This is just one of them. Follow for more details on other programs. They Dont Work For You. If your family lived in one of those cities in those years, say which city in the comments. Like share and bookmark this. Follow for more. Sources U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Open air zinc cadmium sulfide dispersion tests, late 1940s through 1969, including Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage). National Research Council. 1997. Toxicologic Assessment of the Army’s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests. National Academy Press. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Cadmium compounds. Classification of cadmium and cadmium sulfide as carcinogenic or probable human carcinogens, with documented links to lung, kidney, and bone injury. U.S. Senate hearings, 1970s. Public disclosure of Army biological and chemical simulant tests over civilian areas. Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and related congressional reviews of St. Louis, Minneapolis, and other urban release sites, including rooftop, vehicle, aircraft, and offshore ship releases.