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HX design expert in health technology / ex @HHS / passionate about eldercare and caregivers and grassroots organizing. #resist #StandUp
Yeah always listen to the segments with McQuade. - I didn't realize she had not only written a new book but one with practical solutions regular people can do. Just ordered it and it will be here tomorrow.
I came to find you, after reading your comments in the NPR article, about how even normal people are starting to feel hopeless about the institutions protecting us. They no longer reflect our values and it feels like power and corruption are winning.
Where is Paolo now? Trump appointed him UN special envoy - Why would a former party model broker get that type of position? The called Hillary to testify - get Melania on the record before congress and ask if she was trafficked by Zampolli to Trump. (he "introduced" them).
On our super block (about 50 houses) 3 neighbors who all worked at Amazon (2 women there for over 10 years) and a man (kids in high school and college) have all been laid off in the last 2 rounds. At the same time Amazon is hiring in India.
The abuse of girls by Epstein in the 90s is horrible but that isn't as bad as the abuse of our democracy by powerful people then and now. Epstein is at the center of Theil, Trump, Bannon, Musk and even Russian UN ambassador and Zuckerberg via @jim-stewartson.bsky.social
@maddow.bsky.social Putting cameras on ICE may backfire. Many of us in tech have tried to raise alarm about Peter Thiel and cos like Palantir and Clearview (facial recognition). Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) got $1.3 billion in BBB responsiblestatecraft.org/clearviewai-...
ICE also has two contracts with Clearview AI, a facial recognition company Look at who is behind the companies. Peter Thiel and Trump connections Clearview AI appointed Hal Lambert and Richard Swartz as CEOs. Lambert previously did fundraising for the Trump presidential campaigns.
When Representative Al Green (D-TX) was removed from the House chamber for interrupting and no one #stoodup I knew Dems had lost their spine. Trump core belief is that people are "other" than us. We can't do the same thing, hold Trump administration and both sides accountable.
Homan is the one said, he is going to be doxing protestors they arrest - and apparently anyone who shows up with a vehicle will be put in an ICE Database and made public
They changed the Law in WA state so you can't open carry in the state capitol and within 250' of a protest but you can still carry (just not visible)
They need to claw back the tens of billions Homeland Security got last year in the BBB. Remember when Musk and his team targeted USAID for elimination, calling it a "radical-left" entity and a "waste of money". This led to a shutdown of its headquarters, with programs cancelled across the world.
Today is the anniversary of when his US backed Father the Shah of Iran left the country January 16, 1979. Hasn't the US/CIA learned to not put their own guy in 45 years later?
At West Point, one of the US military academies, that train future military leaders, is a plaque Loyalty to the Constitution Officers take an oath to the constitution not to a a leader and that when there is a conflict between orders and the law - they MUST follow the law.
Thank you that you do to keep us informed on Ukraine. In our Seattle, WA USA exurb neighborhood we have two families from Ukraine and we try to give them hope Since we don't really like turkey, we adopted a turkey at an animal sanctuary ;-) and for dessert eat our favorite pie - Marionberry.
Fact check your #H1b ope-ed. Yes only 65,000 new H1B under the cap; + another 20k for advanced degrees + 40k cap exempt (like universities and hospitals) BUT renewals account for 2/3 each year (they last for 3 years). ~400,000 every year last 5 years. Now 2/3 of silicon valley is foreign born.
The fee is only for those outside of the US when they apply. 2/3 of the 400,000 h1b a year are renewals and most of the rest go to foreign nationals already in the US at US colleges. In 2024, there were 194,554 students on one-year OPT and an additional 95,384 on the STEM OPT extension.
You are a little behind on this issue. 1) Companies are already offshoring their AI and IT innovation teams to India. Amgen hiring 3000 2) We already have enough AI talent and researchers (both foreign and domestic) 400,000 #h1b approved last year. So ~1,200,000 here. Do we need more?
The cost to extend the subsidies for 22 million would only be $35 billion a year. R's found enough to give the top 10% of the population 500 billion a year (5 trillion over 10 years)
Fact check 1,200,000 #h1b currently in US (they last 3 years) but most renewed ~400,000/year (new + renewals) are approved. US CS science BS increased 15% 105,098 up 143% from 2011 but half grad slots taken by foreign kids Recent grads 2x highest unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Plus healthcare and nonprofits as well as universities are usually exempt from the fees now so that will probalby continue Last year out of the ~400,000 (new + renewals) 133,751 were exempt from fees (colleges, nonprofits, extensions) www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
Top 10 are all tech - 2/3 of silicon valley are now foreign born (not all on h1b) FYI in the last 3 years ~ 400,000/year were approved (new+ renewals) for a total of ~ 1,200,000 You can look up the breakout by industry on the USCIS website www.uscis.gov/tools/report...
Well this is dramatic and wrong. Out of the 1,200,000 in the US on #h1b only about 5,000 are doctors. + new regulation will only apply to new applications outside US and the Sec can exempt companies and industries like healthcare. Also very colonial to be harvesting Docs from other countries?
H1b has become an indentured servant program. 75% of silicon valley is now foreign born. 1,200,000 in total (3 year visas) Companies will just off shore the jobs though. ex) Amgen hiring 3,000 tech in India Innovatin Center amritt.com/the-india-ex...
Out of the 1,200,000 in the US on #h1b only about 5200 are doctors. Go to the USCIS data hub and search for healthcare (code 62) for a current count Remember also that doc are exempt from the annual cap so they may be from the new fees also bigdataanalyticspub-sb.uscis.dhs.gov/views/H1BEmp...