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  1. Not really a good analogy per the text of the EO. What the EO does is declare that the entry of aliens in this class is detrimental to the United States under 212(f) of the immigration act: So although reported as a fee and in effect it may be a fee, it is in fact a “restriction deemed appropriate.” Or that’s the argument they will make in any case. The fight here will be about application of the INA more than inappropriate rule making for fees. What will be interesting if it holds is when it’s collected: as a prerequisite for an approved petition or as a prerequisite to approve the visa following the approved petition; which is a very different step.
  2. Off-shoring and H1B are complementary. Almost half visas are not given to high-skilled, innovative tech companies. They’re given to IT outsourcing firms, which then strategically transition knowledge and operations overseas. After Amazon the biggest recipients of H1Bs are companies like Tata, Infosys, etc. Indian firms sponsoring visas for Indian workers to come get trained to then bring the work back to the HQ in India. You’re supposed to advertise to Americans first but they will print ads in actual print and the applications go to their “Global Mobility” teams and not even HR. Truly insane system and at odds with how it was envisioned, and the numbers involved and workload mean you can’t effectively police it. This method is dubiously legal and might not stand up in court but H1B as it was conceived has nothing in common with what’s going on and the whole thing did need to be blown up. It’s the type of things Dems who care about the middle class should have tackled.
  3. Este. Between the “body shops” and the on-shore outsourcing (bring someone on the H1B to train them to go back overseas and set up the off-shore shop) I’d easily estimate that the majority of H1Bs are either abusive or outright fraudulent. Broken beyond any real repair IMO. Mass layoffs of tech workers, stagnant IT wages, shriveled market for American grads are a fact; big tech has been selling a lot of bullshit about tech labor shortages. It’s more likely that depressing wages via H1B is causing an American stem crisis rather than solving it.
  4. They haven’t made it since 1970 and never have since moving to the Europe region, so yeah this is pure meaningless posturing, like threatening to boycott the CFP if UMass makes it in.
  5. I cannot imagine the hate and personal danger she’d subject herself to if she didn’t vote for it. Of all the people in the House I can forgive this one the most.
  6. I’d be fine with all Dems agreeing to vote present on shit like this. “We showed up and they wasted our time with this bullshit” would be the talker.
  7. Pats: Isn’t this great? Everyone: Hell yeah! One of the best logos and helmets of all time! Can we always have it? Pats: No, just one game a year LOL.
  8. Welch was extremely competent, well-liked, and high-character. It’s a big loss and I’m furious about this whole bullshit.
  9. And taught them how to lay out a camp so not everyone would get dysentery and diphtheria. Someone should do a big pop history of the marching camp and its effect on fighting power from the Romans to modern day.
  10. Also fun fact: Von Steuben was at the siege of Prague during the war of the Austrian Succession and there is still a Prussian cannonball lodged in the wall of the oldest church still extant (St. Martin). Photo my own, you can barely make it out next to the window on the right.
  11. Von Steuben and while he is sadly not taught, I would not call his contributions small. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben
  12. America’s Ground Proximity Warning is screaming at us.
  13. Chosen deliberately to encompass all forms of 45-47 falsity that extend beyond just lying (plenty of that too of course).
  14. There is really nothing the CR can say that is more sacrilegious than what CK’s fans are doing at the moment.
  15. I always hate it when through some weird set of incidents a dismembered corpse ends up in the trunk of a car I abandoned. Really awkward.
  16. Grew up in a Tech household before going to A&M and have some great memories of this game in person from both sides. I would really like it to come back as an individual. It’s a hard one (although playoffs ease some concerns) to justify on a regular basis for A&M. The first couple will get big attention but after that it’s a regional rivalry that is easy for the national networks to pre-empt. You get little credit for beating Tech but losing is a problem. And Tech will always be dangerous in that game. If you’re on the cusp of an at large bid you’d rather have an early season loss to a helmet school than Tech in most cases. You’re not getting a recruiting boost, you’re not really satisfying nation-wide alums by going to Lubbock and that market. This is not a new problem for Tech. They used to have to schedule one season matches against name schools under Spike because the road trip to Lubbock wasn’t worth the squeeze. Like I said, I do wish it would come back but it’s hard to see the upside in the cutthroat environment. I’d like to see one home-home series scheduled at least though.
  17. I won’t be surprised if it’s much worse than the spread. Small chance that this is a rally the troops, save Billy effort but more likely I think the team has given up.
  18. Here’s something every media conglomerate can (should) do but won’t: Boycott the admin entirely. No press conferences. No press pools. No backgrounders. No running quotes or seeking quotes. Nothing at all, let them try to use only social and Fox. Report on what they do: “Today POTUS signed an executive order order that does X.” “Today POTUS met with world leader Y to discuss X.” Run quotes from independent analysts and others, but absolutely zero platforming of the admin at all levels. “We have an obligation to report the news openly and truthfully. Accordingly, we will not carry quotes or give space to officials that habitually tell untruths and seek to silence critical coverage. We will continue to report and analyze the actions of this administration but we will not allow ourselves to be a venue for public manipulation.”
  19. Enchubben, can you provide a plausible reading of how Michelle Obama (First Lady) and Sheila Jackson Lee (Elected Rep) were “affirmative action picks?” What’s a good faith interpretation of that?
  20. They’ve worn that combo and look fairly often the past few years. UM is one that does a lot more experimentation than traditional blue bloods often do, including some surprisingly shitty/trendy alts over the years.
  21. Kimmel’s conditions should be: 1. No apology from him. 2. Apology from Disney to his viewers and Americans for caving to political pressure. Maybe also a contribution to a trans youth support group or something. If he wants to go really hard in the paint. But fuck any apologies. On 1A go scorched earth.
  22. Sinclair’s ABC stations are going to air a Charlie Kirk special on Friday in place of Kimmel, LOL everything is SO fucked. Oh and they are begging Daddy to do more censorship.
  23. Reminder that the first real indicator of where Russia was going (their media market in the 1990s was free-wheeling and actually excellent in a lot of places) was when the Kremlin made a show about puppets stop using a puppet of him they didn’t like. Then in 2001 they forced a sale of the network to Gazprom and then in 2002 just killed the show. There was also a blowup over a program that upset the Kremlin about some bombings of apartments blamed on Chechens.
  24. Viktor Orbanization of America. This stuff isn’t disciplined enough to be real fascism.
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