Altan Alpay retweeted
Another way the current administration is trapped in the ZERO-SUM FALLACY: The H-1B visa situation.
+ You are NOT taking a job from a citizen, rather creating jobs by increasing overal economic output. Plus these people (even vegetarians) SPEND locally.
+ The US has long been benefiting from other countries' brain drain; without it its edge wd collapse. Tesla, Von Braun, von Neumann, Fermi & Einstein did NOT each take the job of a citizen.
+ It the problem is anti-Indian racism, say it, don't play games.
Altan Alpay retweeted
America is an incurious culture.
When I speak in the US and ask, raise your hand if you know what the Mosaic Defense Doctrine is, almost nobody raises their hand.
When the president was presented with it by his own intelligence team, he dismissed it.
Here’s what the Iranians knew.
They watched America in Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years.
They said, when they come for us, they’ll try to decapitate our leadership.
They won’t do a ground invasion, mountainous terrain, 93 million people, a skilled and educated population.
Two decades of nightmarish ground wars costing $8 trillion have made that impossible.
So they built the Mosaic Defense Doctrine.
31 autonomous units inside the country, went 9 or 10 layers deep.
Every time you hit one layer, a new group stepped in.
The Iranians planned for exactly what happened.
The president dismissed it and led the American military into a major disaster.
Altan Alpay retweeted
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.
The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.
The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
Altan Alpay retweeted
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
I will not be silenced.
Altan Alpay retweeted
I can't emphasize enough how important this @a16z chart seems and how few have internalized it.
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Iraq says it transported 2 million barrels of crude through Strait of Hormuz
By @reuters
Trita Parsi says countries are paying Iran to get their oil out. This looks like just such an operation. US takes credit, Iran gets money, and Iraq gets oil out.
reuters.com/business/energy/…
Altan Alpay retweeted
Renée Good's partner: I don't hate the people who took Renée from us. But what I want them to understand is every single day they get to look at their children, their wives, their sisters, and know what they took away from our family. Caring for each other shouldn't cost you your life. We are here because Renée's love and legacy demanded a better world.
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🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis.
The first lawsuit is against the United States itself, alleging wrongful death and other claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The complaint alleges Ross fired three times as Good’s vehicle turned away from him, killing the 37-year-old mother of three, and argues the shooting violated the Fourth Amendment and DHS use-of-force policies.
The second, much broader lawsuit personally names Ross, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, Tom Homan, Todd Lyons, Gregory Bovino, and other federal agents. It accuses them of participating in an unlawful conspiracy surrounding “Operation Metro Surge” and brings claims under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, Bivens, and Minnesota law.
The 149-page complaint alleges Good’s killing was not an isolated incident, but the “predictable and intended product” of a coordinated federal operation that plaintiffs say targeted Minnesota’s Somali and Hispanic communities and sought to intimidate people documenting or warning others about federal enforcement activity.
Together, the lawsuits seek damages over Good’s death and the injuries Rebecca Good says she suffered after witnessing the shooting.
Altan Alpay retweeted
Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Gaza:
I had a painful meeting with a group of very young people, and I heard all the lines about how "everyone has to be killed" and "there are no innocents." I asked them, "Babies?" They said, "Babies too, because eventually they’ll grow up and become terrorists."
I said, "Even a two-week-old baby?" And I thought: Hamas won. Those are Hamas’s standards. That is what Hamas wanted — for us to become like them.
I support the use of force. But I am saying that we must not become like them.
Altan Alpay retweeted
JUST IN: Long-term unemployment in the U.S. is surging at a rate "unprecedented outside recessions," with the average job search now taking more than 6 months. — Bloomberg
Altan Alpay retweeted
When Rufo ran for Seattle City Council he proudly boasted that his wife was an illegal immigrant to court liberals. Now that his career depends on right wingers, he recently said he found her immigration papers.
Altan Alpay retweeted
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play.
We stopped by recently to see how things were going.
Thank you to @NYJTL, @usta and @yonex_tennis for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
Altan Alpay retweeted
Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
Altan Alpay retweeted
Thiel on Trump:
“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”
“You wish they’d appointed more competent people.”
“administration is… staffed by not very smart but very loyal people”
Altan Alpay retweeted
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S. southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the GOP needs to scare you into voting because nothing else is working.
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TODAY: The UN Human Rights Council final ruling on Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza & beyond:
“In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"
Hence, after Netanyahu’s grotesque gloating at UNGA this week - the only rightful action now is to SUSPEND Israel from the United Nations forum….
Altan Alpay retweeted
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:
Even if you think that TĂĽrkiye is about to invade us, do you really think that this strategic alliance with Israel is going to help us militarily?
Do you think, do you ever, ever think that Israel is going to lift its little finger maybe against the Turkish air force if needs be? Under no circumstances.
So we are not gaining anything by siding with a genocidal state, but we're losing a lot because Greece's good name has been dragged through the mud in the United Nations General Assembly.
