
First GP hired at @a16z. 1st gen immigrant who got all the breaks. Passionate believer in a strong, democratic, diverse, equitable America. Resigned May 1 2025.
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Wondering how the eager tech enablers of this regime, including some of my former VC friends and partners, are rationalizing this atrocity. Just the latest in a year of horrors.
Is all the crypto and AI money in the world really worth this?
A comprehensive summary of the cowardly, deeply dishonest campaign being waged by the billionaire opponents of Proposition 40.
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25 kids in one Texas courtroom. 15 with no lawyer. The youngest was 3.
One of them, 13-year-old Angel, broke down crying: "I have no one. I have nothing."
And it's happening to kids in immigration courts across the country. It's evil.
cnn.com/2026/09/28/politics/…
Today in America.
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
"We’re talking about kids who have a mom, a dad, and siblings who want them to be living with them." motherjones.com/politics/202…
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If the UAE wants better press, instead of trying to buy journalists it should stop arming brutal forces in Sudan.
The fact that Iran's regime is brutal and tyrannical does not justify war crimes, including the bombing of schools - intentional or not.
We just released a short film on our investigation into the U.S. bombing of the Minab school in Iran in the opening hours of the war on February 28,2026.
The stories survivors, parents, first responders and others shared with us will forever haunt me.
youtu.be/9OmK0oeq5fc?si=UuIU…
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NEW: I showed up unannounced at the immigration detention facility at SFO yesterday. I was concerned by reports of green card holders being detained for days, including a 67-year-old diabetic held for eight days without adequate medical care.
When the Trump Administration uses our tax dollars to lock people up, we deserve to know what’s happening inside.
I will always demand answers to ensure that people being held in detention are treated with dignity and provided access to basic needs and their lawyers.
America the Shameful
A 13-year-old Honduran boy named Angel did not have representation when he appeared before a judge. A judge asked if there was a reason he could not return to Honduras. Angel told the judge, ‘My mom and almost my entire family are here. It’s too dangerous to go back.’ The judge ruled that Angel did not qualify for asylum and asked, 'Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?’
‘I don’t know,’ Angel replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically before continuing to cry and said, ‘I have no one. I have nothing.’
This is not a choice a child should be given, but it's the unfortunate experience of many migrant children.
Texas, migrant children as young as 2 years old are appearing in U.S. immigration courts, where they face deportation proceedings without guaranteed legal representation.
Witnesses inside the courtrooms describe a 6-year-old pretending to fly an airplane.
Mateo, a 3-year-old in a blue jacket, is playing with the microphone. The judge spoke to Mateo’s attorney, who appeared remotely.
A teen girl tried to make eye contact with a friend, only for the judge to reprimand her: ‘I see you’re smiling and think these proceedings are funny, but I need you to pay attention.’
In July, the Trump admin let a years-long contract with the Acacia Center for Justice lapse, ending federal funding for 100 legal services providers for more than 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children: Children who are usually in the United States are trying to escape trafficking, abandonment, violence, gangs, or other ab*se.
In August, the Office of Refugee Resettlement gave $20 million to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit organization that provides legal services. However, many advocates say USCRI lawyers either weren’t present or didn’t speak up when children were in court.
In some cases, USCRI attorneys even posed as ‘friend of the court’ for some of the children, including Angel, according to Lauren Fisher Flores, legal director at ProBar.
And now, the Trump administration will allow lawyers to start requesting virtual interviews for kids seeking asylum.
Children have to make their cases to receive asylum, and since procedures are also constantly changing, this can put extra stress on children. The interviews can take hours and dive into potentially traumatic events. And without a lawyer, kids may have to face this trauma alone.
Under Trump, they’re being pushed through faster hearings and asylum interviews without adequate legal counsel, which makes it harder for them to seek asylum and other protections under the law.
The goal is to deport more children faster.
Attorneys representing migrant children initially try to establish a rapport with their clients and help them understand what to expect in asylum interviews. But children are struggling to understand, as many of them aren’t able to speak English, let alone understand complex legal terms. So kids are being asked to make choices about their cases when they may not fully understand what those choices mean.
In an interview with a 3-year-old, who was too small to fit in the chair and ended up sitting on the floor. The child put bandages on the furniture and played with dinosaurs while the asylum officer tried to ask the child questions about their case.
A judge asked a group of 15 minors without attorneys: ‘Is this your first time in immigration court?’ They all answered, ‘Yes.’ ‘Do any of you want voluntary departure?’ the judge asked. No one raised their hand. Another child stretched her hands playfully toward the sky.
The initiative comes under the direction of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, so that the Trump admin can deport as many migrant children as possible as quickly as possible.
Nearly 200,000 migrant children have been ordered removed from the U.S. since Trump returned to office, according to The Guardian. About 70% were younger than 13.
This is the supposed pro-life party, making kids face legal challenges alone and sending them back to danger in the country they were trying to escape.
Her crime was pure barbarism, and so is the state's attempt at punishment.
nytimes.com/live/2026/10/01/… via @NYTimes
John O'Farrell retweeted
It will always be weird to me that people who benefited so much professionally and financially from Silicon Valley publicly shit on it so much. Criticism is healthy, but so is gratitude. 🙏
The Taliban Aren’t United. Accountability Can Exploit the Gaps. by @FereshtaAbbasi
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Amen
We didn't get a $40 trillion debt by accident. By one estimate, the Bush and Trump tax cuts alone added $10 trillion+. Keep Clinton-era rates and debt would be stable as a share of the economy today. We cut taxes, fought wars, and sent the bill to our kids. #AllTheWrongMoves
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"Mobile detention facilities" is the most Orwellian phrase you'll read today.
NEW: ICE wants to turn vans into “mobile detention facilities,” or holding cells on wheels that would allow officers to stay on the streets making arrests.
But the plans say little about how long people could be kept inside — or under what conditions. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…
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Our bipartisan @WSJ poll confirms that economic populism is becoming a dominant ideology in both the Democratic and Republican Parties. Economic populism defies party labels.
We tested 30 policies, many on cost of living issues.
Voters feel nearly every system is stacked against them and want accountability for health insurance companies, technology companies, credit card companies and institutional investers who gooble up housing.
Check out this story and our poll which is posted on the WSJ website
wsj.com/politics/policy/amer… via @WSJ
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was just thinking I haven’t seen a single man on my tech timeline talk about this. rare pleasant timeline surprise.
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Under President Trump, the wealth of the top 1% has grown more than twice as fast as the bottom half of Americans.
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A core tenet of fascism is to claim that all of society's problems are actually caused by a minority group, thus requiring the state to use its full power to attack that group.
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This is what Israel's deliberate, widespread destruction looks like. No pretense of military necessity. Just a determined effort to make broad swathes of Gaza unlivable. xitter.cf/hrw/status/21053352823…
Trump administration gave firm with ties to ballroom donor the green light to do business with a sanctioned Russian bank icij.org/news/2026/09/trump-… by @icijorg
"Much of the critique from populists both on the left and the right isn’t wrong. The economy is built to allow rich people like me to get richer. Our taxes are too low, our wealth and our political power are too concentrated."
I agree 100% with @nickhanauer
wsj.com/economy/market-human… via @WSJ

























