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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6h

Had it once. Not sure what the big deal was. Maybe I was eating it wrong or it’s because it’s local so it should be appreciated more.

Would take Dungeness over it any day, of course though, it’s also stupid expensive now.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6h

Probably collective bargaining is the most immediate answer.

Class consciousness is a hard thing to establish in these times though where too many think they are temporarily disadvantaged millionaires and fellow workers with slightly more melanin might be getting something they aren’t.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6h

Realistically in advance of employment.

IMHO, the employer is the financially dominant party and has the most to gain from the employee’s training & retention. The onus is on the employer to hire right and provide a working environment that encourages retention rather than threats and indenture.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a risk shift from the employer to the employee, who has far less resources.

The employers argument is the “training” is expensive and the employee could take it and go elsewhere with a loss to the employer.

Well,the employer could be terrible to work for and the employee has no way to know it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 22h

Mother. Fuckers.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Marine's parents kidnapped at camp
Pendleton

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 15h

Borderline Katie Porter moment there

Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not just agriculture.

For example health care, it’s common for new nurse’s to go through an onboarding period that the employer considers to be compensated training that if they leave before a certain period the employer will demand reimbursement.

www.nationalnursesunited.org/article/nnu-...

NNU applauds FTC’s new rule on stay-or-pay contracts

National Nurses United applauded the FTC’s ruling that limits the use of certain stay-or-pay contracts, including training repayment agreement provisions (TRAPs) that have burdened many nurses.

www.nationalnursesunited.org

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 1d

Has that asshole figured out how to order donuts yet?

Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno, they’ve had some real good fakes over the years

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 2d

They’re obsessed with the imagery of Russian strength. It wouldn’t surprise me if they knew it, but thought that the Russian ship looked better because of all the launchers and cannons.

The irony of course is, they only look tough.

It looked like this after opposing Ukraine, with no Navy

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 2d

I figured after Patronis, they couldn’t possibly get a worse CFO.

Never bet against the FL GOP’s race to the bottom.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 4d

Looks to me like it stopped a drone. Excellent. Build more.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 5d

I think they are going with trickle-down America First.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 5d

Got them this week as well. No one asked us to prove we had certain conditions.

Funny how getting evidence-based medicine doubles as an act of resistance these days.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 5d

The officer in the lead photo is clearly checking whether it will end well or not

Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6d

Did they get lost on the way to Chicago this time?

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6d

MOP suits have changed quite a bit since I served.

Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6d

Since she plagiarizes everything she says, does it really count as her announcement?

Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6d

The Outback being cutoff by an Audi is the proof I needed that it’s not AI

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6d

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Wes of the valley 🚜 🇺🇦 @wes0311.bsky.social · 6d

51 more defendants for a war crimes tribunal

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