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@VERBAL_CHANCLA We don't. But, even if we did, there's every reason to have more smart people here.
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@AlexNowrasteh It’s abominable how American citizens are treated: thrown aside and discriminated against for a population more compliant and less skilled.
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This guy makes Bill Melugin sound like a reporter.
Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando
Hey @David_J_Bier, @AlexNowrasteh, do the lost economic contributions of an American family of five wiped out by a fresh immigrant count against immigrant contributions in your Cato Institute models or are they offset by the increased funeral home earnings?
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@MsMelChen I don’t know if that’s why they went woke, but bring back Elle, for the love of God.
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Elite schools went woke because they stopped admitting (and rewarding) this female archetype at scale: the bubbly feminine, high agency, super sociable sorority sister who believes she can win with talent and charm and looks.
Elle Woods, basically.
Instead they filled it with grim, status-seeking activists obsessed with perpetual victim hood and deconstructing everything.
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@marklevinshow @Iman29972997 Thank you so much, Mr. Levin! 🩵
As an Iranian living in Iran, your unwavering support for the Iranian people means the world to us. History will remember men of honor like you.
#KingRezaPahlaviForIran
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@DrJasmeetBains How in the hell do Sikhs represent Americans? You are here to subvert, defraud and leech. Get out.
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So grateful for my Sikh community and everyone who has stepped up to support this campaign. At a time when the Sikh community has no representation in Washington, we have the opportunity to help elect the first Sikh woman to Congress.
Representation matters – and I’m honored to have this community beside me every step of the way. Thank you!

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@kiran_nadella @trumptrainengie @TRICHFUN This doesn’t even make sense. And why do you care? Your account is based in India. Mad you can’t come? Or are the remittances drying up? If Indians are so great, we gift them back. India must have a brighter future.
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@trumptrainengie @TRICHFUN You are nothing less than Aliens. Characterless people are Americans.
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#AhmaudArbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism.
The virus kills our black neighbors if they’re jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, or carrying a bag of Skittles...

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An old, but apt fable:
A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia
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This was sent to me...
@HarmeetKDhillon @USDOL
This is suspicious as heck. Apparently a remote position exists IF and only IF you require sponsorship.
Check out this job posting. It only continues for sponshorship applicants or non authorized apolicants who are not local.
Click first check box ("I am authorized to work in the US") and try both values of "Yes" and "No" for the question "Are you comfortable commuting to this job's location in Gallatin, Tennessee?" It will not proceed.
Do the same thing for the other two checkboxes - the one that requires sponsorship and the one stating you are not authorized to work in the US. It will only proceed if you choose "no" for commuting.
t.co/heIhoItQro
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@pushpendrakum It’s no longer safe to defraud and scam at scale. Too many watchdogs. Is that what you mean?
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@NancyMace NO ONE should even know what the heck an H1B is. It should be that rare. Get yourself right, Mace.
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I’m making a show about buildings.
The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world.
But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it.
So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k likes, and 23k comments.
People are interested, and now it’s time to make the full show.
Six episodes, filming in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the USA, and releasing on a streaming service like HBO, Netflix, or Prime.
Why does this show matter?
First: we’re surrounded by buildings all the time. Look around yourself, right now… what do you see? Buildings are the logical conclusion of everything a society believes in. That’s the real focus of this show: not the buildings themselves, but what they say about us.
Second: there’s global dissatisfaction with modern architecture. This feeling gets written about online, but nobody’s given a voice to it on film or TV. That’s what this show will be. But this isn’t just about criticising modernity. That’s easy. This is about learning from the past in order to understand and improve the present, for everybody.
Third: there’s a drought of high-quality culture shows. When I spoke to film executives they said that only documentaries about sports, music, or true crime get funded. That’s a colossal missed opportunity. Galleries are always full, content about architecture goes viral online all the time, and people spend their precious holidays visiting beautiful cities.
Why no shows about architecture, then?
Tourists flock in their millions to see (for example) the buildings of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. But, if you asked those same people if they’re interested in “architecture”, they’d probably say no.
To put that another way: not many people want to watch “a show about architecture”, but lots of people want to watch a show that illuminates the real world they’re living in, each and every day.
What will the show be like?
Six episodes, going chronologically through history and arriving at the present, each focussing on the architecture and design of a specific period:
1. Middle Ages
2. Renaissance
3. Enlightenment
4. The Nineteenth Century
5. Art Nouveau & Art Deco
6. Present Day
But, in each case, the point isn’t just to learn about that era; the point is to learn about our modern world through those eras and what they’ve left behind. If you watch the pilot episode (included below) you’ll see what I mean.
So the show’s not really “about” the past; it’s about the twenty-first century.
That’s why it’s called The Modern World.
When you think of a typical history show there are loads of interviews, stock footage, archive photos, historical recreations, and graphics. We’re doing none of that. Everything will be filmed on location, because we’re telling our story only through the real world that exists right now. And, rather than going to the most obvious places, we’ll focus on buildings that aren’t well-known but should be more famous.
But that’s all big picture; what will it be like on screen?
Buildings used to look different in every country, and now they look the same. Why? Because the weather is different everywhere, and buildings were always a way of dealing with that weather, using local materials. Now we have air conditioning and we ship concrete around the world, so we don’t need to design our buildings with regard to local weather or rely on local materials.
Look at really old clocks and you’ll notice something: they don’t have a second hand… because it was only invented 300 years ago! Then you look at the present and you realise we’re surrounded by timers, by seconds ticking down and ticking up relentlessly. If we’re looking for a cause of our anxiety-inducing culture, that might be it.
When you spend time with the sun-softened bricks and time-warped timbers of old cities you notice that synthetic materials like plastic have taken over. When we’re surrounded by things that feel temporary, how do you think it makes us feel?
It’s only by seeing 19th century train stations, designed like cathedrals, that you realise tradition and technology aren’t enemies. New things don’t have to look boring: if the Victorians had designed AI data centres, they’d look like Medieval castles.
In the 1920s, at the zenith of Art Deco, people believed technology would uplift humanity. That’s why they decorated their buildings with statues inspired by electricity. Only by seeing their enthusiasm can we realise our own cynicism, and perhaps begin to fix it.
All of that… and much, much more.
But, above all else, this show is about a way of seeing. If you want to understand any society then you need to look at what it creates, not what it says about itself.
There’s a worldview in every single object; our skyscrapers are designed the same way as our phones. Learn to look at this world, to notice its details, and everything else starts to make sense.
What now?
I’ve been quiet online recently because I’ve been researching and working on scripts for six full-length episodes. Production begins when we’ve raised the funding.
The Modern World is coming.
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@pepesgrandma Well I will be watching. Your research is thorough & everyone should see it. 😊
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🔥🔥🔥Welp folks, I’m 💯 getting a new account. I just need to decide on the @, the photo, the profile name, and whether it’s connected to this accounts login.
I’m keeping this account active right now so you will see the announcement when it’s ready.
If this experiment works, you may wanna try it yourselves. If it fails, I still have this account. It’s a win win experiment.
Once I reach 11,000 followers there, I will start my exposés again.
This is so exciting!
Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻@pepesgrandma
I’m sooo happy and excited! I may have a way out, but it means starting over! 🥳🥳🥳 Fingers crossed they’ll let me have a second politics account by calling this one an archive. But if so, will the account need to be stand alone and not switchable between the two under settings? 🤷♀️ If they let me, I need to think of a new @.
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@JohnCornyn @RichardGrenell You didn’t fight a “good fight”—you just wouldn’t serve the will of the people. Your literal job. And they tried to tell you. You gambled on what? Voter apathy? Campaign spending from Thune? Stop abusing US citizens.
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Hey @SecRubio isn’t this hate speech against Americans?
They want to protest the “rednecks” …”low class” you mean Texans? Then he puts every flag but an American flag on it…are we in a war and the citizens are just not notified or what’s going on? They are building 10 acre Hindu temples in small towns with 1700 population…now this?
@USCIS
@POTUS
@brianeharrison
@AlexDuncanTX

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