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Everyone keeps saying H-1B is about “filling jobs Americans won’t do.”
So @qaggnews pulled 15+ years of data for me to analyze.
What it actually shows is something very different. 🧵
So @qaggnews pulled 15+ years of data for me to analyze.
What it actually shows is something very different. 🧵
This program isn’t small.
Over 5 MILLION approvals across nearly 400,000 employers.
That’s not a niche visa program.
That’s a major workforce pipeline.
Over 5 MILLION approvals across nearly 400,000 employers.
That’s not a niche visa program.
That’s a major workforce pipeline.
Now look at WHO is using it.
It’s not random companies.
It’s the same names… over and over:
Amazon
Infosys
Tata
Cognizant
Microsoft
It’s not random companies.
It’s the same names… over and over:
Amazon
Infosys
Tata
Cognizant
Microsoft
How about some more exhibit pictures from VCF East? Here we have a cool Commodore / Atari accessor, an Amiga featuring me (😂) and a really cool AT&T Unix system
There was a ham radio exhibit with a Win3.1 computer, and a block game on vintage hardware exhibit!!
@yyzkevin is always up to something cool. His new PCMCIA cards will bring wireless networking, sound, and more to vintage laptops!!
@CP24 Experts would like to see non-experts stop blaming everything but what is hiding in plain sight. Check out when absences skyrocketed for both students and teachers.
@CP24 Now check out why.
@CP24 Now, let’s look at the timing of the (now sustained) increase in the context of mass infecting the population with the omicron variant of the immune dysregulating virus to which kids and teachers were disproportionately exposed.
Someone needs to remind Pope Leo XIV why the Vatican has walls. He should know this history.
Pope Leo IV (reigned 847–855) ordered and oversaw the construction of the original walls around the Vatican, known as the Leonine Walls (or Leonine City fortifications).
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Pope Leo IV (reigned 847–855) ordered and oversaw the construction of the original walls around the Vatican, known as the Leonine Walls (or Leonine City fortifications).
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Construction began around 848 and was completed in 852. The primary reason was defense against invasions and raids, specifically following the devastating Saracen Muslim raiders from North Africa who sacked the Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846.
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At the time, the Vatican Hill and St. Peter’s were outside Rome’s main Aurelian Walls, making them vulnerable. The walls protected the basilica, the growing Christian community, papal properties, and pilgrims.
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✡️ The Jewish Volkswagen That Hitler Tried to Erase
What if the real father of the iconic Beetle wasn’t Ferdinand Porsche… but a brilliant Jewish engineer the Nazis tried to delete from history? ⬇️
What if the real father of the iconic Beetle wasn’t Ferdinand Porsche… but a brilliant Jewish engineer the Nazis tried to delete from history? ⬇️
⬇️ Meet Josef Ganz — the man who dreamed up the ultimate “people’s car” long before Hitler made it his obsession. ⬇️
⬇️ In 1931, Ganz built the revolutionary Maikäfer (“May Beetle”) — a tiny, lightweight prototype with a rear engine, tubular backbone chassis, and independent suspension on all four wheels. It was pure genius: affordable, safe, and fun. ⬇️
The True Reason Why Nordic Countries Are Different
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"When Americans or other outsiders visit the Nordics and say “I was amazed by the trust, safety, cleanliness, and social cohesion,” they usually attribute it to the welfare state or “progressive values.” "
"In reality, the welfare state works so well here because the deep cultural foundation was already in place: high trust, low corruption, pragmatism, and a strong sense of “we.”"
National Security-First Approach of the Trump Administration
This incident highlights the administration's firm, consistent enforcement of immigration and border laws to protect American technological leadership and
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This incident highlights the administration's firm, consistent enforcement of immigration and border laws to protect American technological leadership and
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national security amid well-documented risks from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
CBP is doing its job rigorously:
Officers at the border have broad authority to assess admissibility, even for visa holders.
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CBP is doing its job rigorously:
Officers at the border have broad authority to assess admissibility, even for visa holders.
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Valid visas are not a guarantee of entry—CBP evaluates intent, potential risks (e.g., technology transfer, undisclosed affiliations, or military-civil fusion ties), and inconsistencies on a case-by-case basis.
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Little known fact, but the NZ household sector is really very wealthy compared to our economy and the rest of the world. This data doesn't include land or weatherboard palaces, it's just a huge stack of financial assets - shares, equity, cash etc. How do we do it? [🧵 1/n]
Most of our stack of financial assets is equity and shares - but we have a cool $280bn in cash in the bank as well. Well, I say 'our' and 'we' but... [2/n]
... the vast majority of NZ wealth is held by the wealthiest households. One in five (20%) of NZ households hold 85% of our net financial worth, and the distribution within that top 20% will be highly skewed towards the top few per cent. Where does this wealth come from? [3/n]
WHAT IS BOTSWANA LIKE? 🇧🇼
Sometimes people talk about Botswana as one of the most developed, advanced countries in Africa, point to it as example of competent government significantly improving quality of life. This is sort of true but has to be asterisked that that is relative to the rest of Africa and also Botswana is a giant empty desert with Okavango swampland to the north so what counts as developed in that context is probably not as grand in scope as you might imagine
Of course I like Botswana but it obviously isn’t Wakanda, would describe it as more ‘a few towns in the Kalahari’ - a couple of which have some modern Chinese made buildings (or if they’re not Chinese made they at least look Chinese made aesthetically). Outside of this the country is largely more traditional African villages. Gaborone specifically, Botswana’s capital, has just over half a million but it doesn’t really feel very grand in scale… reminds me of somewhere like Boulder City, Nevada or Alice Springs, Australia. Suburbs aren’t all townships but they sprawl a bit out, some townships do exist but nowhere near on the level of South Africa
There is a modern downtown area that looks impressive from certain angles in images online but if you go there in person you can walk one end of that downtown to the other in about 15 minutes. You can’t really fairly think of it as some high economic activity CBD. There are a couple of nightclubs and air conditioned gyms, a few rooftop pools, ‘nice’ restaurants, there are some shopping malls but they aren’t exactly Dubai-type malls, a lot of the bigger brands they do have there are just imported from South Africa - actually I think Namibia is more modern with respect to these kinds of amenities too and then actually again would say both countries… you can broadly kind of conceive of them as provinces of South Africa in terms of development, infrastructure etc
When I say Botswana’s development is relative then I mean that the capital looks like a clean regional South African city, ie it’s Basically Fine. An improvement actually over South Africa in the sense there is less crime. Other towns like Francistown and Maun… they’re not really full towns in the proper sense, again maybe you can think of them as sort of rural Nevada roadside type settlements with less amenities than Gaborone. Botswana only has 2.4 million people living there
Botswana is quite fortunate in that it 1) had a string of mostly competent leaders under Seretse Khama onwards and 2) has large, well-managed diamond mines. What exists isn’t bad by any means though also it isn’t going to blow anybody away. Botswana ‘as a success story’ today is represented then in the transition from a traditional Tswana village societies to a few modest sized cities in the desert where the inhabitants have some disposable income. Even still it is a mostly undeveloped though not unpleasant country with smaller developed pockets that if only referenced in statistical terms make the place seem like it punches more above its weight than it probably actually does
Sometimes people talk about Botswana as one of the most developed, advanced countries in Africa, point to it as example of competent government significantly improving quality of life. This is sort of true but has to be asterisked that that is relative to the rest of Africa and also Botswana is a giant empty desert with Okavango swampland to the north so what counts as developed in that context is probably not as grand in scope as you might imagine
Of course I like Botswana but it obviously isn’t Wakanda, would describe it as more ‘a few towns in the Kalahari’ - a couple of which have some modern Chinese made buildings (or if they’re not Chinese made they at least look Chinese made aesthetically). Outside of this the country is largely more traditional African villages. Gaborone specifically, Botswana’s capital, has just over half a million but it doesn’t really feel very grand in scale… reminds me of somewhere like Boulder City, Nevada or Alice Springs, Australia. Suburbs aren’t all townships but they sprawl a bit out, some townships do exist but nowhere near on the level of South Africa
There is a modern downtown area that looks impressive from certain angles in images online but if you go there in person you can walk one end of that downtown to the other in about 15 minutes. You can’t really fairly think of it as some high economic activity CBD. There are a couple of nightclubs and air conditioned gyms, a few rooftop pools, ‘nice’ restaurants, there are some shopping malls but they aren’t exactly Dubai-type malls, a lot of the bigger brands they do have there are just imported from South Africa - actually I think Namibia is more modern with respect to these kinds of amenities too and then actually again would say both countries… you can broadly kind of conceive of them as provinces of South Africa in terms of development, infrastructure etc
When I say Botswana’s development is relative then I mean that the capital looks like a clean regional South African city, ie it’s Basically Fine. An improvement actually over South Africa in the sense there is less crime. Other towns like Francistown and Maun… they’re not really full towns in the proper sense, again maybe you can think of them as sort of rural Nevada roadside type settlements with less amenities than Gaborone. Botswana only has 2.4 million people living there
Botswana is quite fortunate in that it 1) had a string of mostly competent leaders under Seretse Khama onwards and 2) has large, well-managed diamond mines. What exists isn’t bad by any means though also it isn’t going to blow anybody away. Botswana ‘as a success story’ today is represented then in the transition from a traditional Tswana village societies to a few modest sized cities in the desert where the inhabitants have some disposable income. Even still it is a mostly undeveloped though not unpleasant country with smaller developed pockets that if only referenced in statistical terms make the place seem like it punches more above its weight than it probably actually does
Want to add Seretse Khama to the canon of ‘Basically Fineist’ leaders. His achievement not so much that he turned Botswana into some advanced first world country, more that he wasn’t corrupt and invested mostly responsibly. This alone puts him in the top tiers of African leaders
Botswana is still mostly rural
Remember Greenland crisis? Trump's allies now run a covert influence campaign in Greenland.
A network of Americans with White House ties has bribed a dogsledding association, cultivated opposition politicians, and highlighted Denmark's colonial crimes — Reuters.
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A network of Americans with White House ties has bribed a dogsledding association, cultivated opposition politicians, and highlighted Denmark's colonial crimes — Reuters.
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The main face: Jørgen Boassen. Banned from Nuuk's main hotel, its public pool, and its fight club.
In December, he confronted a senior Greenlandic parliamentarian outside a restaurant and challenged him to a fight.
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In December, he confronted a senior Greenlandic parliamentarian outside a restaurant and challenged him to a fight.
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Tom Dans, linked to Project 2025 and reappointed by Trump to chair the US Arctic Research Commission, coordinated with National Security Council staff.
He raised $250,000 for the dogsledding championship in exchange for inviting US officials.
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He raised $250,000 for the dogsledding championship in exchange for inviting US officials.
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The same FSB unit that poisoned Navalny also runs Russia’s state doping program. It shares the same staff, the same lab, and the same command.
The workers handle urine samples and nerve agents under one roof and joke: “you don’t want to mix urine and Novichok” - The Insider. 1/
The workers handle urine samples and nerve agents under one roof and joke: “you don’t want to mix urine and Novichok” - The Insider. 1/
At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, FSB officers ran a system that swapped dirty urine samples for clean ones.
They used a hidden hole in the lab wall, opened sealed bottles, replaced the samples, and closed them again. Russian athletes passed tests and won medals. 2/
They used a hidden hole in the lab wall, opened sealed bottles, replaced the samples, and closed them again. Russian athletes passed tests and won medals. 2/
Staff edited the Moscow anti-doping lab database before handing it to investigators.
They deleted positive test results, removed raw data files, and added fake entries designed to shift blame onto whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov and hide the state program. 3/
They deleted positive test results, removed raw data files, and added fake entries designed to shift blame onto whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov and hide the state program. 3/
1/🚨A UK visa, for most people, takes weeks or months. An expedite request from a convicted sex offender would not, in any normal world, help.
In December 2012, a British investor emailed Jeffrey Epstein:
"I've heard back from No. 10 — the Paris embassy isn't able to sort this out."
The Prime Minister's office then expedited the visa in 3–4 days. 🧵👇
In December 2012, a British investor emailed Jeffrey Epstein:
"I've heard back from No. 10 — the Paris embassy isn't able to sort this out."
The Prime Minister's office then expedited the visa in 3–4 days. 🧵👇
2/ The British investor was Ian Osborne — a private fund manager, longtime informal adviser to David Cameron, and a regular visitor to 10 Downing Street.
Cameron was the sitting Prime Minister.
The email was sent just before midnight London time on December 5, 2012. (EFTA00659281) justice.gov/epstein/files/…
Cameron was the sitting Prime Minister.
The email was sent just before midnight London time on December 5, 2012. (EFTA00659281) justice.gov/epstein/files/…
3/ Osborne's email continued:
"What the PM's team has offered is when [NAME] is in New York, i.e. next week, to have the Consulate-General take care of it in 3-4 days. I'm in touch with Danny Lopez, the new HM Consul-General..."
Danny Lopez: Britain's senior diplomat in New York.
"What the PM's team has offered is when [NAME] is in New York, i.e. next week, to have the Consulate-General take care of it in 3-4 days. I'm in touch with Danny Lopez, the new HM Consul-General..."
Danny Lopez: Britain's senior diplomat in New York.
