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@WadeMiller You can’t build an economy on collapsing purchasing power forever. When ordinary people stop spending, corporations eventually discover they optimized away their own customers.

If such a thing were necessary, I don’t trust Sam Altman to be driving that change.

@beffjezos Americans spent decades getting degrees, collecting debt, sending hundreds of applications, and doing everything ‘right’ just to be told they’re not needed in their own economy. That’s why nobody believes the system anymore.

Feeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.

It’s been a while since Texas has felt like home… and I know exactly why. They’re taking it from us - neighborhood by neighborhood and street by street. The crowds feel foreign and the backroads we grew up on are gone. What exactly are we conserving when the Texas that raised us is being erased right in front of us?

@Michell33650674 Elon publicly told Erdogan he was married and that his wife lived in San Francisco. So how exactly do you have a child with a married man and then publicly frame it like some grand relationship betrayal story?

America needs to know WHY, when Biden and Harris had PROOF, through a 12/2024 CIA election audit, that the 2024 election was RIGGED, they didn't CONTEST the results! And WHY Dem lawmakers haven't INVESTIGATED this! Our VOTES were STOLEN and our COUNTRY is being DESTROYED!!

Whole “national security threat” running on tweets and vibes. No action, no results—just noise. Secure the country or stop performing.

@TexasGOP @JGuandolo54271 If it’s a real security threat, show the actions—investigations, charges, policy changes. If not, stop using it as a talking point.

Why is the Muslim Brotherhood being discussed in connection with Texas? What’s driving that shift? And what does it mean for our future? Chairman Abraham George sat down with John Guandolo (@JGuandolo54271) to take a hard look at the claims, the concerns, and why the Lone Star State is now part of the national security discussion. This is serious. Texans deserve to hear it for themselves. Full podcast available here: youtu.be/_PTpWpHR20c?si…

@joekent16jan19 Easy to say “just leave” when the problem doesn’t follow you home. The question isn’t only who handles them there—it’s who handles their networks, financing, recruitment, and influence here. Retreat is not a strategy if the threat already crossed borders. #NationalSecurity

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation. There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave. The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region. A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached. A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible. If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now. Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

@AmyMek #WhereIsMyCountry

🚨 TEXAS CHURCH CONQUEST ALERT – WE WARNED YOU LAST YEAR, NOW IT’S HAPPENING In March 2025, RAIR Foundation exposed the plan: Radical imams Sheikh Karim AbuZaid and Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq were moving to Texas to lead the charge ....buying land, building mega-mosques, converting churches into mosques, and expanding Islamic dominance statewide. Our report captured their excited announcements about overwriting Christian heritage in Texas. Fast-Forward to 2026: It’s Unfolding Exactly as Predicted The former Korean World Mission Baptist Church - a longtime Christian sanctuary - is now under legal threat. THEY NEED HELP! 🚨 Key details of the lawsuit: 📍 Dallas County Case: DC-26-03563 📍 Salahuddin Future Academy (SAFA) is suing to force the $3.8 million sale. The church backed out, claiming the pastor misunderstood the contract. 🚨 SAFA demands: • Full property handover, or • $1 million in damages This 40,000 sq ft property is set for takeover. 🚨What They Plan to Build • Masjid Dar Al-Tawhid Mosque • SAFA K-12 Islamic School (“Islamized” curriculum) • AIM Dawah Academy & Seminary led by the same imams The Imams Leading This 📍 Sheikh Uthman Ibn Farooq (banned in UK & Canada): • Defends hand amputation for theft • Supports stoning • Justifies sex with war captives • Aggressive street dawah attacking Christianity ( 📍 Sheikh Karim AbuZaid: • Calls for flogging/stoning adulterers (suggests kids watch as a lesson) • Referenced “killing Jews” as solution (Hitler comparison) • Blamed COVID on homosexuality/adultery • Defends Taliban restrictions on women 📍Their Stated Goals “Islam will enter every house.” “If America truly knew Sharia, they would chant ‘Long live Sharia!’ ”This matches classical Sharia strategy: Aggressive invitation (dawah) first → submission/dominance if refused (Reliance of the Traveller o9.8, Quran 9:29). We warned last year. Now it’s reality. ⚠️ Patriots & Texans – Act Now: • Support the Korean church’s legal defense • Demand investigations into tax-exempt groups platforming extremists • Expose these networks before more sites fall READ THE FULL REPORT: rairfoundation.com/texas-church-c…

@gothburz Interestingly, a lot of historians say systems rarely fail because of one crisis. They weaken when trust in institutions slowly declines. Once that trust drops too far, even small shocks can create major instability.

The confession above is fiction. The numbers behind it are not. 7.4 million job openings. 5.2 million hires. 2.2 million that went nowhere. Every month. For four years. 40% of companies admitted to posting fake listings. 85% interviewed people for roles that didn't exist. 70% said it boosted revenue. I dug into the data. Every stat sourced. BLS, Revelio Labs, ResumeBuilder, Korn Ferry, Forbes, CNBC. The full investigation: x.com/gothburz/statu…

Last year I posted 500 open positions for my company. We hired 34 people. The other 466 jobs were never real. I'm the Head of Talent Acquisition. That's not what I acquire. What I acquire is data. Resumes, salary expectations, skill sets, market intelligence. 160,000 applicants gave us their career history for free. We used it to benchmark compensation. Not to raise salaries. To confirm we were paying below market and get away with it. I call it "building a talent pipeline." A pipeline is a thing you build and never turn on. Recruiters call this "passive sourcing." There is nothing passive about wasting 160,000 people's time. But it sounds like a strategy. Some of our listings have been posted for 11 months. One has been up for two years. It's for a "Director of Innovation." We don't have an innovation department. We don't have the budget. But the listing makes us look like we're growing. Investors see open roles and think momentum. Our stock went up 8% after we posted 200 jobs in one week. We didn't hire anyone that week. Or the week after. We have an applicant tracking system. It auto-rejects 95% of applicants. Based on keywords. I don't know what keywords. No one does. It was configured in 2019 by a contractor who no longer works here. We've never updated it. Some applicants spend hours customizing their resumes. The system reads them for six seconds. Then it sends a rejection email. "After careful consideration." There was no consideration. Careful or otherwise. I know this because I'm the one who wrote the template. Sometimes I repost the same job with a different title. "Senior Data Analyst" becomes "Data Analytics Lead." Same description. Same salary. Same no one getting hired. But it resets the posting date. Fresh listings get more applicants. More applicants means more data. More data means better benchmarking. Better benchmarking means I present at the quarterly review. I presented last quarter. I showed a slide that said we "received unprecedented candidate interest." 160,000 people applied for jobs that didn't exist. That's the unprecedented interest. The VP of People called it "brand strength." The CFO asked about our hiring efficiency. I said we were "optimizing for quality over speed." Quality means we haven't hired anyone. Speed means we don't plan to. HR asked about candidate experience. I showed them our NPS score. It was 12. Out of 100. I said that was "within industry range." I made up the industry range. No one checked. They never do. Last month a candidate emailed me directly. She said she'd applied to four roles over eight months. Customized every resume. Wrote every cover letter. Never heard back. She asked if the jobs were real. I sent her to the automated FAQ. The FAQ says "We value every application." That's not true. We value every data point. There's a difference. I'm up for promotion. My metrics are outstanding. 500 roles posted. 160,000 applicants captured. Cost per acquisition: $0. I didn't acquire anyone. But the cost was zero. Zero is a good number in a dashboard. Dashboards get presented. Presentations get approved. Approvals get me promoted. I'll be VP of Talent by Q4. I don't find talent. I collect it. Like a jar you never open.

@gothburz Cool story bro

This is a classic dependency problem. Europeans are getting shadowbanned on X. Views crash, followers stay the same. Why? Because the platform is not theirs. They obsess over Twitter not for love of the app, but for the audience it aggregates — the global conversation hub they can’t recreate at home.

Elon is a perfect example of how someone with a high IQ can, at the same time, have an abysmal EQ People witb a very low EQ should not be telling the rest of us how to live

It’s honestly amazing how a single week can rewrite someone’s “principles” so theatrically. It’s like watching a moral contortionist show up and suddenly declare, “New alignment unlocked”! #NarrativeGymnastics #ConvenientAlignment

@AmyMek What they allowed is exactly what continued. 🤷🏻‍♀️

🚨 Mecca Comes to Sugar Land, Texas - And Your Leaders Welcomed It A Pakistani propagandist, reportedly blacklisted by India for terror-linked activity, anti-Hindu incitement, and ISI influence operations, commandeered a Texas town square - with the full blessing of Sugar Land officials. 🔴 Thousands of Muslims gathered in front of City Hall for a public Iftar - not in a mosque, but in the civic square. 🔴 The Adhan - the Islamic supremacy call - blasted across public streets as prayer mats were laid and the land claimed for Allah. 🔴 A jumbo screen livestreamed Mecca (where non-Muslims are banned by law) while an imam led prayers. 🔴 Only Sharia-approved halal food was served. 📢 This was not a community event. It was a religious-political takeover, a visible territorial marker rooted in classical jihad doctrine. Do Americans realize that the Adhan is a civilizational battle cry - a public declaration that Islam rules here? 👉 “Allahu Akbar” - Allah is greater than your god, your laws, your system. 👉“La ilaha illa-Allah” - all other faiths are false. 💣 Despite India formally blacklisting Rehan Siddiqi for advancing Pakistan’s ISI agenda, Sugar Land handed him the microphone. Are our leaders ignorant? Complicit? Or both? 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 Europe has seen this before: Street prayers. Loudspeaker adhan. Islamic rituals replacing civic space. 👉 France called it “occupation without tanks.” 👉 Germany warned of a “land grab.” 👉 Ex-Muslims describe it as a warlike declaration., as threatening as blasting Nazi songs in Jewish neighborhoods. 🛑 Now it’s happens in Texas. This isn’t religious freedom. It’s Islamic supremacy, shielded by the First Amendment, while Muslim nations criminalize Christianity and ban non-Muslims from Mecca. Contact your representatives - tell them NEVER AGAIN. Don’t let your town be next.... SEE THE FULL REPORT: rairfoundation.com/mecca-comes-te…

Maduro gets arrested and Mehdi’s already on the “support” hotline. Somebody get him a cape, he’s saving villains one tweet at a time. 🦸‍♂️ #VillainSupportClub #HotTakeHero #NarcoFanClub

@mattvanswol Cluelessness confirmed ✅

Interview tips for a role you already know? When companies focus on irrelevant questions, personality puzzles, or obscure “soft skills” exercises, that’s not a deficiency on the candidate’s side. It’s a reflection of the company’s internal dysfunction, outdated hiring practices, or over-engineered screening processes. In other words; You are qualified. Skills ready. Company clueless. Don’t sweat their nonsense questions. Walk away.

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@WallStreetMav Pretty much

Does this mean all of the Venezuelans in the USA can go home now ?

@mehdirhasan Hey Mehdi: Hunter Biden got Ukraine’s energy gig and you never complained. Now, I’m ready for Petroleum Minister position in Venezuela 🤷🏻‍♀️

Where do I go to get my apology from all the folks on both sides and center of the political spectrum who insisted Trump wasn't a warmonger or imperialist and would be different to the Democrats and Republicans and (especially) neocons who came before him?

When hiring depends first and primarily on referrals, access matters more than ability. That means jobs circulate inside closed social, ideological, or demographic networks, not the open labor market. Skills become secondary, resumes become decorative, and “talent shortages” are manufactured excuses. A system like that isn’t competitive capitalism—it’s soft nepotism. It rewards proximity, conformity, and connections while systematically excluding outsiders, no matter how qualified they are. When people say “this is just how hiring works,” what they really mean is the system is corrupted, and everyone’s pretending it’s normal.

Referral > Resume > Skills This is how hiring actually works. Anyone who says otherwise hasn’t hired.

@Simon_Ingari Rejected for everything—salary, age, experience, notice period. Don’t take it personally? Sure. But someone’s clearly blocking Americans from getting hired.

Your current salary is too High - 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 You are over 40 - 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 You have No Experience - 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 Your Experience is too much - 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 Your Notice period is three Months. We are looking for immediate hiring, we cannot hire you - 𝗥𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 Don't take it on heart if someone reject you, believe me, better things are on the way...) Be Patient. Great things takes time