Oh. Takes a local sheriff to call these dudes what they are
"Only a degenerate politician like you would bring this up."
Sheriff Fred Akshar tears into Rep. Dan Goldman after the New York Democrat confronts him over an alleged past sexual relationship during a House hearing on sanctuary laws.
"You really should be ashamed of yourself to bring something like this up at a hearing," Akshar fires back as Goldman argues the issue is relevant to the sheriff's credibility.
Akshar, one of several sheriffs suing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul over a law limiting cooperation with ICE, closes with another shot:
"Governor Hochul will be proud of you."
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weird that the Saudis would put Cyrillic writing on their firefighters' bunker gear
in Saratov
🔥 2 MORE REFINERIES DOWN IN SAUDI ARABIA
Syzran + Saratov
Combined capacity: 15.5M tonnes/year
Processing: ZERO
THANK YOU MR TRUMP FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Syzran and Saratov are Rosneft oil refineries in Russia, not Saudi Arabia. Per Reuters, they halted processing after Ukrainian drone strikes this month. Combined capacity ~15.5M t/y. Video from Syzran shows Russian EMERCOM gear, Exilenova+ watermark.
reuters.com/business/energ…
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“They came here legally and assimilated”
Actually they scammed their way hear to live in ethnic enclaves where they erected statues to foreign gods
“Well, nevertheless…”
🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION
100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯
"Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees. It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those."
"And while these are supposed to be high skilled employees during almost all of Biden's time in office, 83% got junior or entry level positions."
This is INSANE! SHUT DOWN THE H-1B SCAM!
@KenPaxtonTX is now going after this in Texas 🔥
@kayleighmcenany @SatAmericaFNC
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A California sheriff says 60% of illegal cannabis growers he encounters in one subdivision are Chinese nationals. That single neighborhood may produce over $2 billion a year.
Siskiyou County’s Shasta Vista, beneath Mount Shasta, went from empty lots in 2017 to thousands of plastic hoop houses by 2021. Deeds often list Chinese names living out of state, LLC buyers, and money wired from China.
Raids keep finding banned Chinese-labeled pesticides that have burned and sickened first responders. Workers are recruited on WeChat, then work off debts. Water is stolen. Neighbors report shootings, robberies, and kidnappings.
The sheriff has 62 officers for 6,300 square miles. Unlicensed cultivation is often a misdemeanor. Growers rebuild after every raid.
When a criminal operation this large runs openly for nearly a decade, is it still an enforcement problem, or a policy failure?
JUST IN: Chinese nationals are accused of operating a massive $2 billion illegal marijuana network in Northern California.
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Start executing these women.
And no, I don't care about your whining and moaning and victimhood.
You dump a baby in the trash to die, you give up your right to breathe.
I'll swing the ax myself.
Newborn miraculously found alive after being tossed into airport trash can trib.al/Ov3zaDe
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UPDATE: This gets better.
On August 31, Washington received Amazon’s WARN notice for another 121 layoffs.
Then on September 1, literally the next day, Amazon posted new jobs in INDIA for the Amazonian eXperience and Technology Departures Team.
In other words, the same Departures organization whose director is signing American layoff notices is actively adding headcount in India.
Including people who will work on Appeals for departing Amazon employees.
Amazon’s own job posting explains the role:
“Our organization delivers best-in-class service to Amazon employees and alumni throughout their Appeals journey. As a member of the HR organization, you will handle confidential and sensitive information, as well as demonstrate strong integrity and ethical behaviors.”
You really cannot make this up.
August 31: Vani’s name goes on a government notice documenting another round of American job losses.
September 1: Amazon starts advertising more jobs in India for the Departures organization she leads.
An Immigrant from India signs the WARN notice.
America loses the jobs.
India gets jobs.
And when an employee wants to appeal what happened, an Indian, in India handles the appeal - but they’ll do it while ‘demonstrating integrity and strong ethical behaviors.’
“Earth’s Best Employer” 🤡
More layoff rumors have been surfacing at Amazon, so I went digging through the latest WARN notice.
It turns out, Amazon IS cutting at least another 121 jobs in Washington and 148 in California starting in October.
Washington state layoffs include:
13 Software Development Engineer I
12 Software Development Engineer II
12 Software Development Engineer III
15 Applied Scientist II/III
3 Manager III, Software Development
So 37 software development engineers are getting cut.
Then I checked the visa filings.
On March 31, the Department of Labor certified an H-1B LCA for Amazon Web Services for a Software Development Engineer III in Seattle making $220,100 a year.
Case I-200-26083-724548.
But what really caught my attention was the filing is for CONTINUED EMPLOYMENT, with the requested employment period beginning September 20, 2026.
Look at the timeline:
Amazon tells Washington it’s eliminating 12 SDE III positions.
September 20: the employment period begins for an H-1B worker with the exact same title in Seattle.
October 1: the layoffs begin.
I think it’s completely fair to ask:
Why is Amazon continuing H-1B employment for an SDE III in Seattle, while eliminating SDE III jobs in Washington at essentially the same time?
Then I looked at who signed the WARN notice.
Vani Appukkutty
Director, SDM Departures
PXT Departures
So, I looked deeper - Her story makes this even more interesting.
Vani came to the United States from India for graduate school at West Virginia University. She appears in WVU payroll records, and her graduate research acknowledged support from NASA and NSF programs.
She then landed an entry level software engineering job at Amazon.
Over time, she worked her way into management, left Amazon for Microsoft, became a Principal Engineering Manager there and then boomeranged back to Amazon during the pandemic hiring boom.
Today she’s the engineering director for Amazon’s Departures organization and her name is on the government notices announcing that American workers are losing their jobs.
That’s quite an American opportunity story.
I’d like to know whether the Americans on these WARN notices are being afforded the same opportunity.
Because you have Amazon telling the Department of Labor it wants to continue H-1B employment for an SDE III in Seattle, while telling Washington it’s eliminating 12 SDE III jobs.
Maybe there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Let’s see it.
How many H-1B workers is Amazon continuing in occupations it’s simultaneously cutting?
How many Americans selected for layoff were considered for other open positions with the same title?
How many new or continued H-1B petitions did Amazon file for those occupations between its January layoffs and this WARN?
And what role, if any, does Amazon’s Departures technology play in determining who stays and who goes?
Those are questions Congress should be asking.
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EXCLUSIVE: Judge Boasberg was a 9-time host for a CCP-founded program run by a Chinese spy front flagged for its efforts to compromise Americans.
SIX were during his FISA term—with access to top secret intelligence. 🧵
Communists always go after Catholics first.
🚨 BRAZIL
President Lula has launched a STUNNING ATTACK on Catholicism in a speech to Brazilian evangelicals
The president attacked celibacy and called for women priests:
'As long as the Catholic Church doesn't end celibacy and allow women to be priests, to be bishops, for women to speak, you know... we're going to see the Catholic Church face difficulties. That's an advantage the evangelical church has'
He continued:
'Women are treated equally. A woman can be whatever she wants . And that’s what has made the evangelical church grow so much in Brazil'
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Friendly Catholic reminder it was the legendary St. Thomas Aquinas who said “if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people.”
idk just seems worth repeating today...
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They're selling cheap inflatable cruise missile decoys on Douyin for $299 and this lady says "it won't freeze, we added a heat system, you know what I mean?" as in our decoys even emit realistic heat signatures.
Incredible things are happening in China.
@BryanDeanWright show this morning reminded me of this clip. This was (mainly by his account) one of the guys in the room.
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I caught NYPD traffic ticketing only non muslims outside New York's biggest mosque that governor Kathy Hochul just spoke at.
Me: I noticed you're giving this car a ticket, what about all the muslim taxi drivers that are double parked?
NYPD traffic officer: They are allowed to double park in the time of Salah (prayer)
It starts with parking tickets and it ends with much more significant crimes.
Who in the Catholic Church oversees @GonzagaU ? Because what? Lol
Gonzaga University, a “Catholic” college, tried to shut us out because they’re scared of the truth about abortion.
I was banned from tabling. The administration prevented students from coming inside to ask questions. “Catholic” student protestors demanded the Church bend to abortion.
This indoctrination is happening on college campuses across America, including at “Catholic” schools. Let’s be clear: you cannot be Catholic and support abortion. The backlash I faced here is in direct contradiction to the Church.
I’m not going anywhere.
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The U.S. now has an “on orbit” space weapon to protect American forces, the Air Force secretary announced, in a not-so-subtle warning to China and Russia.
It marked the first time the U.S. has acknowledged its own offensive capability in space. wapo.st/4iXuG44
The holdout juror in the Clancy case is a "devoutly Catholic Haitian immigrant." His brother says faith had nothing to do with refusing to acquit a woman who killed her 3 kids. He and his family live in fear of retribution by the self-righteously tolerant. nypost.com/2026/09/15/us-new…