Joe Pierce
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Asheville’s effort to end homeless was was to just let all the homeless people do whatever they wanted.
Like do drugs and whack off in the main square where all the nice restaurants and shops are, in broad daylight
New York Post@nypost
Once-charming, US mountain escape has transformed into 'nasty, crazy, and scary' city trib.al/jpSrLJ6
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@Notwokenow @KYGOP Good bet that most of those tata and cognizant guys are working for Humana
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Here is Louisville, Kentucky, just since 2020.
In 1 county, over 9,000 H1B visas.
@KYGOP this is shocking and unacceptable.
TATA Consultancy Services is a Mumbai based IT company.
Official Layoff@LayoffAI
We present to you: the H-1B visa explorer. Every filing. Every county. Filter by zip to zoom into the heat map over 11 fiscal years. Every employer is cross-referenced against our layoff tracker. What does your county look like? layoffhedge.com/h1b
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@RapidResponse47 Breaking: Judge James Boasberg issues ruling requiring a halt to plan to paint the bottom of the reflecting pool blue, noting that the color is offensive to undocumented immigrants from countries whose flags are predominantely red and/or green.
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🚨🇬🇧 Oxford, UK will be the first ever Official WEF 15 Minute City
The zones have already been drawn up, roads closed off, barriers installed, AI driver surveillance cameras are up.
Residence have already been asked to apply for their permits to leave their zone.
Seriously, this is happening.
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@AngelaLMorabito But, he got caught while stopping for an ice cream.
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Tonight is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride.
If he were to make the same journey from Boston to Lexington today, he could stop at 7 Dunkin locations. (via Reddit)
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@aaron_renn 50+ years of single (D) party rule.
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St Louis is a river city like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville. All of these cities are similar dynamics and weird underperformance on conventional growth metrics relative to their urban assets. A possible culprit: very parochial and insular cultures.
Dion@2024dion
The downfall of St Louis in nearly every way needs to be studied It’s not like Detroit where the city collapsed but the suburbs are doing well—the whole region seems washed
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@stats_feed KY would be a problem. We have all the gold, all the bourbon, and plenty of coal. Invaders from the north would have to swim across the Ohio River. Invaders from the south and west would face the 101st airborne. Invaders from the east would turn back upon hearing banjo music.
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If the US collapsed, and each state became its own country, which ones would be the most powerful militarily and economically?
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Today is #InternetDay… To mark this auspicious occasion, here’s David Bowie speaking to Jeremy Paxman in 1999 about the "unimaginable" effects on society it was going to have.
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