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It’s a shame Vivek is so unlikeable, otherwise this race wouldn’t be so close
🚨 OMG. Amy Acton is HAMMERED... She straight-up embarrassed herself, walking out and slurring like she's drunk out of her mind! "Ohhh it's so GOOD. Good to be back here, it's about truuuth and justice I just wrote on the worrrr, words back here. That is. I'm honored to be here!" 💀💀 Ohio, do NOT make the wrong choice on Tuesday, Vivek is your only option to maintain sanity! Keep Ohio red. Don't hand the governorship over to this PSYCHO h/t @TheCharlesDowns
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Here’s Vasant Bhatt saying that white Americans are “too stupid” to work STEM jobs. Bhatt previously interned for Ted Cruz and did grassroots conservative organizing. But in the end, his hatred of white Americans led him to the Democrat Party.
I just cast my ballot for James Talarico. As a second-generation Indian American, I am thoroughly disgusted by the xenophobia, racial resentment, and increasingly brazen attacks on my identity. My family has contributed to the American story through hard work, sacrifice, and an unwavering belief in the opportunities this nation promises. I am every bit as American as anyone else, and I will not tolerate being treated as a perpetual foreigner in the country I call home. I implore every eligible Texan to get out and vote. This election is about the kind of state and country we are prepared to defend—and the principles we refuse to surrender. @TeamTalaricoHQ @texasdemocrats
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VIRGINIA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL IS PREPARING FOR A SHOWDOWN WITH FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ON ELECTION DAY. The Virginia's Attorney General and Department of Elections issued a remarkable 10-page directive to election officials. Here's what they're being told: Pages 4–5: Local registrars can deny ordinary DOJ election monitors access to polling locations. Page 7: Election officials should ask federal agents to leave polling locations and contact local police. Page 7: Document federal agents' badge numbers, weapons, vehicles, and movements. Collect complaints from voters who say federal agents frighten them. Pages 8–9: Consult attorneys about challenging federal subpoenas seeking election materials. Page 3: And while all this is happening, Virginia has eliminated the ability to challenge a voter's qualifications at the polling place. Think about what we're witnessing. The Attorney General is preparing election officials to scrutinize federal law enforcement while Virginia has eliminated a longstanding Election Day safeguard for questioning voter eligibility. The bulletin identifies no specific planned unlawful federal operation in Virginia. Federal law enforcement has legitimate authority to enforce federal election laws. State officials cannot override that authority simply because they dislike federal involvement. So what exactly is the Attorney General afraid federal investigators might discover? And why is the Commonwealth treating federal election oversight as a threat rather than an opportunity to demonstrate election integrity? Read the document yourself: shorturl.at/DizI5
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If your text messages and email aren’t being blown up by Republicans begging you for donations, are you even a real patriot?
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Some of you people are embarrassingly impossible to please. I expected the apoplectic comments from Indians but a surprising number of Chud-coded accounts are being entirely dismissive of Vance and his actions against H-1B. I don’t know if it’s just a lack of perspective because some people are very young, psychic damage from previous governmental failures, or a perpetually oppositional disposition, but even having this issue discussed in the terms Vance used is such a generational win. They are implementing our exact rhetoric. They are speaking in terms of specifically protecting White American men from discrimination. This perspective has been treated like a third rail in American politics my entire life, and Vance is out here just grabbing it with both hands. And it’s backed by real action. Real companies are being targeted for material consequences. The Indian stock market crashed in response to this news. Did it crash because Vance is spewing empty rhetoric? No, we’ve actually been heard on this issue and concrete action is being delivered. “He’s only doing it before midterms.” - No shit. It’s strategic timing to motivate voter turnout because the masses have a very short memory. “Boo hoo they’re only delivering generational wins on a timeline that maximizes their ability to stay in office and deliver more wins.” Spare me. “Indians will just move the offices offshore or find some other loophole.” - This is entirely possible and it may well demand some other action if the pattern of visa abuse or offshoring abuse shifts. But that’s ok. The bigger hurdle of getting the government to recognize this abusive pattern at all is already cleared. They will now be monitoring and addressing this issue and they’ve demonstrated an ability to take our criticism of these programs and turn it into action against abusers. There’s no reason to believe we won’t be able to replicate this against novel abuse vectors as they arise. We have the admin’s ear on this. “Vance can’t be trusted because he has an Indian wife.” - Actions speak louder than words. Vance is presently doing more on this Visa abuse issue than anyone else in the entire government as the leader of this task force. In terms of people who could plausibly be our next president there is no one in office who has done more to fix this than Vance personally. His wife has clearly not impeded his judgement here. Moreover, it’s never been the case that literally EVERY Indian expresses the problem behaviors associated with Indians. Usha doesn’t matter. Only Vance and the wins he delivers do. “It’s just a rug pull.” - It’s quite materially much more than that. I would prefer the death of the program outright but Congress won’t do that and so this is a completely adequate response under the powers of the executive. Some of you clearly don’t understand how politics works or how seismic a development this is. Don’t be a psychically obliterated doomer. This is genuinely an incredible step in the right direction.
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If you are sitting out the midterms, not voting Republican, and not donating to campaigns, You are not a radical, you’re one of the hysterical women and weak men we would be better off disenfranchising. Recognize what time it is and what the proper course of action is
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🚨Illegal Alien Killed Cops & Laughed🚨 “I will break out soon & I will kill more,” said Luis Bracamontes — an illegal alien from Mexico. Bracamontes laughed, smiled, & could barely contain his joy after killing 2 cops in Sacramento, California. When the border is opened again, this is who will be welcomed into our country. “They’re f***ing dead. I don’t f***ing regret that.”
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration has invoked the long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the United States of “any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.” Ultimately, this will allow the Trump Administration to deny green cards to immigrants who are likely to use federal welfare, food stamps, or Medicaid, and to revoke the green cards of immigrants who are currently using these programs. The new rule is set to take effect Friday, September 18. As a result, 5.6 million immigrants are expected to lose access to those benefits, and American taxpayers are expected to save $13 billion per year. Follow: @MorseReport
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DHS JUST FILED A $103,265 H-1B FEE, BUILT TO SURVIVE THE SAME COURT THAT STRUCK DOWN THE FIRST $100k FEE Here is why this one is different. 1. Different authority. The $100K came from a Presidential Proclamation using entry restriction powers (INA 212(f) and 215(a)). The Massachusetts judge said that made it a tax, and only Congress can tax. This new fee uses INA 286(m), the same fee statute USCIS has used for decades to set every filing fee it charges. 2. Different process. The Proclamation skipped public comment. This is a formal Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with a 30 day comment period, a cost study, and a regulatory impact analysis. That is the procedural box the court said was missing. 3. Different math. The $100K was a round number picked by the White House. The $103,265 has a paper trail: $8,777,488,035 in identified agency costs divided by 85,000 cap petitions, rounded to the nearest $5. Cost recovery is what 286(m) allows. 4. Different scope, and this is the big one. The Proclamation only hit workers entering from abroad. USCIS confirmed in October that F-1 students already in the US changing status to H-1B were exempt. That was the loophole. Roughly half of cap petitions come from students moving off OPT. This fee closes it. It applies to "all H-1B cap-subject petitions," including change of status filed from inside the US. The rule specifically names the cap-gap process (OPT extension while the H-1B is pending) as one of the activities it funds. Every F-1 to H-1B conversion pays $103,265. And DHS sent a separate OPT fee rule to OMB on August 20, reported at $100K per application. 5. DHS says both can stack. Page 6: if the Proclamation payment is ever revived, "the petitioner would be required to pay both amounts." 67 pages. Filed for public inspection this morning, publishes tomorrow. My take: this is the right design. The old system let employers hire from abroad at a discount to the US market. DHS's own analysis in this rule says H-1B workers are paid 16.1% less than comparable American workers. A $103K fee wipes out that discount over the first 6 years of the visa. But renewals are still at an all time high. This doesn’t help that.
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Absurd to the point of hilarity. You could not make up a more racist story for fear of the reader being unable to suspend their disbelief.
This is what $100 and zero value for human life looks like in Philadelphia. A woman walks up in broad daylight, fires at a family, and shoots a 7-month-old baby boy in the leg while screaming “F—k your baby, bitch!” as the teen mom shrieks “My baby!” The infant was sitting in a stroller. The shooter, later identified as 28-year-old Dominique Billips, then casually walked away. The baby was hit in the leg and is in stable condition. He was later discharged from the hospital. A Good Samaritan neighbor had to grab the wounded infant and rush him to the hospital because the parents FLED THE SCENE. Why? They had outstanding warrants and were more afraid of cops than of leaving their shot 7-month-old behind. Police say it started over a $100 narcotics debt the father owed. The father was the intended target. The baby and his mother just got caught in it. This is what happens when life is cheap and consequences are optional.
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🚨 Holy smokes! The Trump Administration just moved to terminate the ABA's status as a law school "accreditor." This will be one of the most meaningful changes to open doors for Americans and steer legal culture toward justice, not radical indoctrination. The American Bar Association (ABA) is a left-wing advocacy group, filing 80% of its amicus briefs for liberal arguments and 0% for conservative. It uses its monopoly on recognizing which law schools are "accredited" (get student loans) to force DEI hiring, recruitment, and inflate the cost of education.
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When are women gonna stop doing the surrogacy thing? You’re not being a good person. You’re letting Bay Area freaks live out their dollhouse fantasies with their curated baby which they would get rid of if it didn’t meet their expectations.
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The strategy here is clear: take over the Democrat party and push it to the Left. Our response is equally clear: never voluntarily let a Democrat win an election. Always vote Republican, and primary the traitors in the GOP
🚨 Inside Baseball With DSA’s Terminally Online Security Commission Leader - DSA as Gateway to “Harder Shit,” Democratic Socialism “Can Mean Anything to Anybody,” DSA Entryism, and “How About a Promise to Destroy America?” If you did not know who Christopher Winston, aka BlackRedGuard, was, you would just think this was a madman yelling into the void. But DSA’s national leadership describes him as “a very prominent member of the organization, especially in online spaces.” He actually is a national leader on their Red Rabbits Security Commission. And remember, this is someone with a national DSA security role saying DSA has to “take advantage of these crises” and “continue to push the envelope further.” And once you get past some inside baseball, he is actually admitting a lot. There is so much here that won’t get the attention it deserves, like his response to “Promise to America” with “How about a promise to destroy America?” He is responding to a Fox News segment and the Chait article, but he responds to the fact that most of DSA’s National Political Committee openly identifies as communist, then adds, “let’s get those numbers up.” He says “democratic socialism” is basically a meaningless term that “can mean anything to anybody,” and describes it as a way to “ease people into harder shit.” He says he is a “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist,” that socialism means the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and that the working class must “crush the bourgeoisie under its heel.” He says DSA needs to “replace the existing Democratic apparatus with DSA apparatus.” He says the remnants of Michael Harrington’s DSA were “basically killed” at the 2025 convention. And he acknowledges entryism as “a very effective way for a small group to work its will” and project influence inside a larger organization in context to DSA. So yes, it sounds like a rant, but it is also a useful window into what a very online, very influential DSA communist thinks the organization is for.
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When she says “ruling class” she means white people
🚨 New DSA Talking Point Just Dropped! Communists Inside DSA Are Apparently Just “Highly Obscure Historical Strains” Paola Ramos of The Moment podcast point-blank asked DSA’s national co-chairs whether they consider themselves communists and what separates communism from DSA. Megan Romer took the question, but never really answered either part. Instead, she describes DSA as a “big tent” stretching from social democrats to “highly obscure historical strains” that she sometimes struggles to understand. But she never mentions Maoists. She never mentions Trotskyists. She never even mentions Marxist-Leninists, despite her own affiliation with the Red Star Caucus. These “highly obscure historical strains” wield real power inside the organization, actively shaping its policies and priorities. Romer eventually defines democratic socialism as “transferring power from the ruling class to the working class,” including through elections, labor unions, and tenant unions.
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs bill allowing abortion up to birth. Little baby girls can now be ripped apart in the womb moments before being born. These “feminists” clapped for it.
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Let’s revisit this topic when we have the full dataset.
Crime data analyst Jeff Asher: "The 2026 US Murder Rate Will Be By Far The Lowest Ever Recorded" jasher.substack.com/p/the-20…
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We benefit by living here bc our ancestors and neighbors chose to make it a good place to live. Just as his ancestors + neighbors are responsible for Haiti being a shithole. We don’t want them here bc they will probably make the USA into a shithole too if we keep them here.
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Pitbull solution: Strict liability in all dog bite cases. If it’s really the owner and not the breed, then good pit bull owners should have no reason to fear their dog biting someone and being held liable, right?
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Thank you @AndyOgles patriot
Tennessee Republican begins impeachment process against judge who BLOCKED TPS removals to Somalia dlvr.it/TTrHc3
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