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@gauravsabnis
Aug 29, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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You know what Stone Ridge, Accord, New Paltz in upstate NY remind me of? Schitt's Creek. Everybody is nice and liberal and welcoming. Rainbow flags and #BlackLivesMatter signs and everybody knows everybody. Welcome change from the default Trump signs elsewhere in rural areas.
Well, #SchittsCreek is sort of modeled after such areas anyway. They never specify what state or even country they are in. But the they did the popup store in upstate NY.
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Local butcher shop AND a BLM sign? Two things I love the most. And wait, 24/7? Was intrigued so pulled in. @applestonemeat has premium local meats in vending machines!! 😍😍😍 And very reasonable prices. ImageImageImageImage
Alright, the universe definitely is a simulation for my benefit. Randomly ran into literally THE only person I miss from cable news - @chrislhayes. Told him as much. Covid means even asking for a selfie would've been stupid. Hope this far shot is okay. Image
Arindam C arrested. Navratilova giving direct replies. And now literally my favorite political pundit just casually hiking past. All in my birthday week. This is either a simulation or a coma or a Truman show type situation.
And ran into him once again on the way back from the hike. 😍😍
This @mohonkpreserve membership is the best $60 we've ever spent. 9000 acres of mountains, rivers, woods, monarch butterflies, bald eagles and just nonstop gorgeousness. ImageImageImageImage
Much of Ulster county NY looks like the back of @curiousgawker's car and twitter feed. Image
Sounds like the Solomon Grundy of aqueducts 🤣🤣 Image
It's fascinating to watch these remnants of the Northeast's short lived but massive river linking project. It all lasted less than a century and was only possible because of slave labor, immigrant labor. And also child labor. ImageImageImageImage
Now that @curiousgawker is here, we gotta fill up on crustaceans and molluscs before our next hike. ImageImageImageImage
Huddled under a canopy with the gang in a passing rain shower which so far is as "passing" as a gluten-only diet. Image

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Apr 24
During & after COVID, I became good friends with a dozen neighbors ages 65-85, mostly women. Coming from India, watching their daily senior citizen lives is such a pleasant cultural shock! So happening!

Now bear in mind, there is a huge self selection element at play here.🧵
These are senior citizens who can afford to AND have chosen to live in Manhattan. Didn't move to Florida Arizona California like many of their generation.

Manhattan is walking friendly. And it also makes you walk. And also keeps you in close walking distance from everything.
But still, their lives are so noticeably different from my roughly just as affluent or more affluent relatives that age.

They truly feel like characters from Golden Girls!

They are active in many clubs, travel a lot, and are politically VERY active. They're 60s flower children.
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Apr 13
Another student visa cancellation horror story. Swimming in these today!

Dude was making a turn in rainy foggy weather and gently bumped against a car. That driver got out. Both examined the damage. Negligible. A nearby cop car saw the small accident and showed up. /1
Cop realized that Dude's license expired 3 days ago. Dude said I know and I've already applied for a renewal and the new one should be in the mail.

Cop said I still have to write you up for driving on an expired license. But explain your situation to the judge. It's cool.
Dude went to court and explained, I was traveling a lot. So only sent in license renewal paperwork close to the expiration date. It arrived literally 2 days after the accident. Which had no damage.

Case dismissed with a shrug.

But last week, visa revoked! 😳
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Apr 13
Grad students Amit & Mita (names changed) drove to finger lakes for their anniversary.

Mita was driving when they hit unusual traffic. Due to some escaped convicts, cops had set up a check post to eyeball every passing car.

Cops looked at their car, said please pull aside! /1
"Have you been drinking, ma'am?"

Mita: No I don't drink. He had some saki at lunch but I'm stone cold sober! You can test me!

"That's not necessary but here's the thing. I have a body cam. Which captured that half filled saki bottle in your back seat. It's been recorded."
Amit: Oh that's the leftover saki bottle from the restaurant, with leftover food. I wasn't drinking it in the car.

"I believe you. But having a bottle like that in the back seat is still a violation. That my body cam caught. So I'm gonna give you a ticket. Don't worry about it"
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Mar 24
Something I'm telling y'all that Godi media doesn't. An important distinction.

An "Immigration Judge" is not a real judge. They are directly under Trump's control and are basically bureaucrats play acting judges.

Immigration courts under Trump will not be like actual courts. Image
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Trump is currently targeting actual federal judges BECAUSE systemically, he can't really do anything to them. Other than defy them.

But "Immigration Judges" are hired by him &serve at his pleasure. They have no constitutional validity or independence outside the executive branch
Until now, most administrations have run Immigration Courts like they are real courts. Immigration Judges weren't real judges but presidents treated them like they were and did not interfere in their cases.
Trump tho is unlike any other POTUS. He is obsessed with mass deportation
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Feb 9
My univ is one of many that recently got hit by what was in hindsight a coordinated sophisticated migration scam built on exploiting student visas. 🧵

You enter USA on visa & i20 tied to one university, but can transfer almost as soon as you get here if another uni takes you...
A buddy of mine got into Stevens for Masters, was wait-listed at Wisconsin. Just before the academic year started, Wisconsin sent him an admit. He came to US on the Stevens linked student visa, showed up at Stevens, said, thank you but I want to transfer to Wisconsin....
Stevens says oh well, we are sad to see you go, but we understand. University of Wisconsin is a bigger and more well known University than Stevens. Here is your transfer. Good luck.

That is how the system is supposed to work. You transfer when you "upgrade" Masters programs...
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Jan 16
Bookmark this.

Soon after Trump takes over, you'll see planefuls of Gujarati Haryanvi Telugu young men deported cattle like to India. It'll be on TV news & social media in Feb.

He has to start off with quick easy mass deportations. Recent undocumented Desi dudes are easiest.
Trump has been promising splashy deportations that are a media event like his overnight Muslim ban last time.

But it's way too difficult & expensive to actually hunt, catch, and deport those whose melted into society.

It's easier to deport those who turned themselves over.
The 100K or so undocumented Indians who've crossed the land borders in recent years generally turn themselves over to the government. Then wait for their immigration hearings in the clogged system. But that also means the federal government generally knows where they are.
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