Lizette Alvarez

ICE detain immigration court interpreter—whose son serves in U.S. Military. She is Texas' only licensed Hindi legal interpreter. Detention center staff recognized her—agents took photos with her handcuffed for "social media." Son filed military parole application for mother under USCIS military family provisions. Meenu Batra said the people who arrested her did not have visible badges—nor were they wearing uniforms. Job requires her to fly all across the country wherever South Asian immigrants need language access. Her attorneys argue that in the 35 years that she’s had legal protection in the U.S.—the government never told her that it was planning to deport her—and that her detention violates her right to due process. She is now locked up inside one of the ICE facilities where she used to work—the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas.

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

Bloomberg: "the energy industry is warning that the crisis is only beginning. In conversations with more than three dozen oil and gas traders, executives, brokers, shippers and advisers over the last week, one message was repeated over and over: The world still hasn’t grasped the severity of the situation. ...If the strait stays closed, the world will have to significantly reduce its oil and gas consumption — but not before prices spike to a level that forces consumers and businesses to fly, drive and spend much less." bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…

This man was 41 years old and had 6 kids, the youngest of which is an 18-month-old American citizen. He fought our war for us. Now he is dead, less than 24 hours after being taken into custody by ICE. We need investigations NOW.

ICE detain husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him one interview and a ceremony away from becoming a U.S. citizen. Zahid Chaudhry has been awarded multiple medals for his service: ▪︎Army Service Ribbon ▪︎Global War on Terrorism Service Medal ▪︎Armed Forces Reserve Medal ▪︎Reserve Achievement Medal ▪︎National Defense Service Medal ▪︎Recruitment Achievement Medal ▪︎Army Strength Management Award After 124 days in detention a federal judge finally ruled he had been wrongfully detained. Zahid Chaudhry is currently waiting for his new hearing—living back at home with his wife and 2 U.S. citizen children in Tacoma, Washington.

@Chris_Montz @ribarcodi Brillante!

Se hizo una convocatoria pública para que todos los trombonistas de Nueva York llevaran su instrumento y despidieran a Willie Colón hoy, a la salida de su féretro de la Catedral de San Patricio, donde se celebró una misa en su honor. Mira el resultado:

There's no question someone in the White House told Trump to call the war in Iran an "incursion," but he heard it as "excursion" and now he keeps calling it that - making the war sound like a holiday getaway - because no one around him ever corrects him when he makes a mistake.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Kristi Noem spent $220 MILLION on a 60-second ad. Pete Hegseth spent $93 BILLION in one month. Trump just gave four Big Tech companies a $51 BILLION tax break. And you’re worried about a single mom getting a few bucks from SNAP to feed her kids? Wake up, people.

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered? Noem: I don’t know. Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?

@DVNJr Spectacular.

Humility. Empathy. Gratitude. Grace. They’re in short supply these days. And irresistible.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M of our tax money, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes, plus another 530 with minor traffic violations. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two civilian deaths. Your tax dollars hard at work 🙄

This is awesome. This Epstein Timeline is spot on….

"If nothing changes soon, Cubans, starved of basic goods, will risk heading to Miami by sea in a new wave of mass migration while the island crumbles behind them," @LizetteScribe writes. wapo.st/4bJNFLY

Cuba is collapsing. That’s an opportunity for Trump — and the island. Outstanding ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ column by ⁦@LizetteScribe⁩ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

My latest. Cuba is collapsing. That’s an opportunity for Trump — and the island. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

We need more Super Bowl commercials like this tonight. 😂

Many of you may have missed this, but the little boy who Bad Bunny handed his Grammy to at the Super Bowl was Liam Ramos! Amazing!

@DVNJr WEPA!

Wow. All the flags. All the love.

Breaking: DOJ's 86-page prosecution memo listing possible co-conspirators in the Epstein case - and the victim's allegations against those possible co-conspirators -- disappeared from their website after the Miami Herald questioned them about the list. miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…