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Once again.... for the hundredth time: Voters are selecting Paxton because he fights and he gets things done. You lump of mush "Republicans" can whine all you want about character but in the end you all are the reasons Progressives are running so many parts of the country into the ground. Stuff it

When all you care about is controlling the senate, you get this kind of logic. Who cares if the D is ... checks notes ... bad at making decisions. And on the right side, who cares if the R (Paxton) is among the most corrupt candidates in decades?

@EricLDaugh So get a team to go pick up these supplies. They appear abandoned so anyone can grab them, right?

🚨 NOW: It's been exposed that leftist rioters at NJ ICE are requesting MILITARY-GRADE GOGGLES so they can FIGHT the police and federal agents Make MASS ARRESTS, fill up the jails! "Supplies are needed" for the chaos to continue Is an NGO funding it? Cut off the communist dollars!

@DataRepublican @SKDoubleDub33 When history records the 250th celebrations the musicians that played will be remembered. Ms McBride wont be

America250 was originally going to be ran by NGOs with an explicit, left-leaning agenda to promote global, multilateral “democracy,” as demonstrated by @SKDoubleDub33 . Then Trump rooted out most of that nonsense. I suspect what we’re seeing is a revenge tour by the original NGOs who are painting the current celebration as “partisan.” If they can’t be in control, they have to destroy it for everyone else.

Oh stfu. Japan was the country of war criminals. They bombed the US, invaded Manchuria and raped and murdered women, they treated everyone the attacked and conquered like cattle. The US would have suffered half a million to a millioned to invade and subdue. Just read a book already. The bombe saved lives ultimately.

Was dropping the bomb on Nagasaki a violation of direct orders? Physicist Adam Brown read every crew member's account of the bombing. They all claimed they followed orders. But their stories don't agree. At very least, "it's clear there was something highly sus."

@fran_geleno @SinaiLawFirm Walk in only Starbucks were a homeless magnet in LA and the police were not allowed to do anything. I rented sosce in a mixed use project downtown and within a year the Starbucks removed all furniture inside and out because of stinky drugged out maniacs. I think is closed now

@SinaiLawFirm They nuked so many locations throughout LA. Yet they were (and remain) all busy. I don’t get it. Maybe they were bad leases?

Every Starbucks location near me has shut down in the past 15 years (aside from the one on 3rd street) If it's not a drive-thru don't count on those options...

@RepLiccardo @SecMullinDHS Or maybe we push universities to give more spots to Americans. You know the ones who subsidize these schools through tax exemption and fed govt funding? How anout that?

The Trump Administration’s proposal to cap the duration of status for F-1 and J-1 visas will lead students to return home to propel foreign companies — in countries like China — to compete against us. I led a bipartisan group of colleagues in calling on @SecMullinDHS to reverse course. In Silicon Valley, we know that America leads when the best and brightest choose to study, research, and build their futures here. punchbowl.news/article/policy…

Return to work should not qualify as a project under the law but some politician masquerading as a judge will deem it so..... with unintended consequences going forward. Business will get tied up in CEQA lawsuits for increasing business that is legal simply because they use vehicles, unless they bribe politicians to get "waivers". This is how mafia works

State worker unions threatening lawsuit under California Environmental Quality Act over the governor's return-to-office mandate: “Putting 90,000 people on the road and pumping that much carbon into the air has an environmental impact." #storylink=cpy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sacbee.com/news/politics-…

So if someone in the UK reads my post (typed in the US) quoting facts about the Pamistani rape gangs in the UK and those same Pakistanis get offended, the UK can arrest me? Right..... Good luck getting X or other sites totally banned in the UK. The totalitarians running the UK government have an expiration date

@JoelKatz @MCRobredz @Paul_Reviews @prestonjbyrne First amendment means fuck all outside of USA. Stick to having Trump violate your 1a rights by failing people who say mean things about him!

Thats what CA did, they passed law after law. Still takes years to build, particularly in LA. The local bureaucrats alway nitpick the local interpretation of state laws and find ways to slow down or stop the process. Add in union work from home rules that result in lower productivity from staff without consequence and you get lower production. This is personal experience

Starting today, a 500 unit building in NYC: - can be approved in six months rather than two years or longer - will cost over $40 million less to build Total abundance victory.

@edgefills People absolutely cared about the border outside of the Biden admin. I grew up with a guy in Texas, his grandparents lived in Laredo at the border, things got so bad in the 90's - a flood of immigrants, crime, drugs, that they moved his grandparents out to Dallas.

If you have ever lived in California, you know there’s a pretty peaceful coexistence with illegal Mexicans. Most work pretty hard, don’t really care to do much other than drink Pacifico, hang out in their communities, and watch sports, and only care about bringing their immediate cousins they’ve known for their entire life over. The terms of oversight are well understood and it’s really the fault of Democrats conflating illegal with legal immigration, and trying to ignore that it’s a uniquely border town culture across CA/AZ/TX to flood the country with people for all sorts of purposes. Truthfully, outside of the chaos of the Biden admin, which allowed the entire world in, I don’t think anyone really cared about the border, which is why Trump’s wall was so controversial in the first place. It’s impossible for a culture where traffic laws don’t work, where eat what you kill is so reinforced by overpopulation, to understand the dignity of operating in an environment where that’s not only not necessary, but looked down upon. It’s the most fragile egos possible, totally incapable en masse of the self reflection to understand the contradiction between leaving your home to better your life but also having paper thin skin whenever someone remotely expresses discontent with behavior. What should be a learning experience over time turns into doubling down nonstop without hard rulesets being enforced, and the chain migration and ingroup bias is so much worse. It’s legitimately unfair that these people are used purely for wage suppression purposes post-giga skill, sparse immigration culture pre 1990. (Especially due to Kitboga exposing the internet side of things to the world.) A total shutdown until we figure out what the hell is going on is the moderate option. 3-5 years won’t hurt an economy forever. We desperately need to reconsider the entirety of this system, or it’s going to get ugly.

@ImMeme0 When are the arrests coming for those that allowed this fraud to happen?

BREAKING: Federal officials arrested two Somali women, Shamso Ahmed Hassan and Hanaan Mursal Yusuf, for embezzling more than $21 million through a massive Medicaid autism therapy fraud scheme in Minnesota. The pair paid parents kickbacks of $300 to $1,500 per month to enroll their children. They also submitted claims using therapists who did not work at the company or were entirely untrained. Prosecutors allege the stolen taxpayer money was used to purchase domestic real estate and diverted overseas to Kenya. Both were charged with a conspiracy to commit health care fraud, EIGHT counts of health care fraud, and TWO counts of money laundering. The arrests were part of a coordinated, 15-defendant federal takedown targeting over $90 million in healthcare fraud across Minnesota. DEPORT. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

Your argument breaks doen when you consider actual numbers. The maintenance and operational costs of these buildings is high, particularly when you have tenants that respond to poor building conditions by trashing the place. Most non profits that jump into this business end up bankrupt because they underestimate costs.

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene. First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners. Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith. The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood'). But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications. The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario. As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power. That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax. Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster. Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be. No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate. Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.

@andrewdfeldman How many immigrants are gaming the green card system? How many emoloyers are enabling that?

The White House policy creating significant hurdles for green card applicants is not good policy. I say this not because my parents arrived in the US and got green cards, or that many of the leaders in the tech industry both executives and world class engineers arrived in the US and went through the green card process, but rather it is exactly the process we ought to be supporting. Doing the right thing, going through the legal process particularly for those with technical skills ought to be a priority. Our universities and our industries have for decades been a magnet for the worlds best talent. Industries have been created by those who came and the US has benefited from their hard work.

@nicksortor @BillMelugin_ Performance theater and nothing else

🚨 WTF?! Anti-ICE rioters set up an INSPECTION CHECKPOINT outside ICE Newark, and is ONLY letting vehicles in that don’t have detainees inside What the HELL have they done to ICE??! This is EMBARRASSING.

@loganb Sure why not force people into 20 square blocls of high rises? The entire city could become a park.

If Seattle were built-out at triplex density instead of SFH but kept the same population, we could have a ~30sq mi nature preserve in the city. If you like the majesty of the PNW, density is the solution.

Musk and Bezos and their companies and employees generate tens of billions of dollars in tax revenues yearly that should be used to solve these problems, and would if we had capable politicians that actually did their jobs instead of grifting the money, we would be better off. Blaming Musk and Bezos ignores this

I genuinely don't understand people like Bezos and Musk. If I had billions of dollars, I would just start fixing everything. Homeless veterans sleeping on the streets? Not on my watch. Hungry children going to bed with empty stomachs? Hell no. They could be making life better but instead choose to build spaceships and data centers to pump stocks and destroy the planet

@DrDiGiorgio The ACA banned physician owned hospitals, mandated huge amounts of paperwork so that it made independent doctor clinics financially infeasible. This was all by design to push medical provider consolidation, resulting in much higher prices we see now

I honestly don't think med school debt has led to the death of independent physician practice. When the hospital conglomerate can charge twice as much for the same clinic visit or procedure, or when they can play arbitrage games with drug discount programs that independent doctors don't get, or when they get massive tax exemptions, that leads to a financial imbalance which is impossible to rectify. The independent physician practice is worth more to the large hospital conglomerate than it is to the independent physician. No amount of debt-free medical education will change that.

@mnolangray Correctio. - should be "Type III" not Type IIII

@mnolangray Read my comment again. 75 ft construction in wood (typical) is Type IIII, 55 ft is Type V which is less costly. High rise is more than 85 ft

It's crazy how many US states, including California, allow local jurisdictions to substantially amend or adopt their own building code. How can you have an efficient, national construction industry when you've got tens of thousands of sets of distinct regulatory frameworks?

First sentence talks about Britain, America and Canada, then you smear Britain with France's actions in its colony of Haiti. We all know France is not nor ever has been a beacon of western freedom and justice. And yes it paid slave owners to free their slaves. Not ideal but it got the job done. The perfect is the enemy of the good

Konstantin, you asked a Black woman where she'd rather live than Britain or America or Canada. Let's take Britain as your example of tolerant, slavery-ending Western excellence. Britain did not end slavery voluntarily. Britain ended the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 after decades of organized abolitionist pressure, slave rebellions across the Caribbean, most consequentially Haiti in 1791, and the growing calculation that wage labor was becoming more economically efficient than chattel slavery in certain contexts. When Britain "abolished" slavery in its colonies in 1833, it paid £20 million in compensation. Not to the enslaved. To the enslavers. The people who had been worked and beaten and raped and bred like livestock for generations received nothing. Their enslavers received the equivalent of £17 billion in today's money, funded by British taxpayers. A debt so large that British citizens were still paying it off in 2015. You read that correctly. British taxpayers were paying off the debt incurred compensating slave owners until 2015. So when you ask a Black woman where she would rather live, the answer she gives, if she says Britain, is not an endorsement of British moral superiority. It is a statement about which available option causes her the least harm. Those are not the same thing. And you know the difference. You just find it more comfortable not to say it.