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Joe Murrey @duncandognut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is disingenuous! Bill Gates' own lobbyists essentially wrote the visa-to-green card H1 Visas in the Reagan years as a way to undercut the high salaries of MS software developers. Microsoft has relied on this immigration fast-track to keep salaries low for thirty years now.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So what used to be a wave of highly educated and privileged immigrants who were often more cosmopolitan than the average American in the 50s and 60s suddenly became mediocre and uncultured immigrants who increasingly sought to remain in religious orgs in the US.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And then we also have the explosive growth in international student and grad students at many large land grant schools where colleges began to rely on foreign students to plug budget/staffing gaps as the US pop declines

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Often these folks were from a petty capitalist background with very little education, but keen and closed networks of business communities/castes. Then most recently the H1B wave (not a bad idea to start) became a highly lucrative and predatory route for anyone with any IT (real or fake) credential

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is not the full picture and looks like a great story of immigrant resilience, but the waves of migration are distinct. The Mahajan generation were higher caste Hindus and mostly urban/class professionals. The 90s brought the entrepreneurial wave of lottery and chain migration folks.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also food trucks/stands. Do both solar panels and green boxes

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026

Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If NFL owners want to censor who performs in stadiums, they shouldn't ask taxpayers to help build them. You can't take public subsidies for stadiums then use them as your personal editorial board. Pay for it all out of your own pocket and hold as many Kid Rock concerts as you want to.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These old uns are just self aggrandizing wraiths with nothing better to do in their old age. The world will not fall apart if you leave and are put out to pasture. So scare of being irrelevant.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore "every child deserves to live" Ed Sheeran "this is hurtful to a lot of people"

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is about pastoral care which used to be part of academia before the bean counters got into it. Now it is just numbers sadly and too many predatory “mentors” using students in place of actual peer relationships since they are social stunted themselves

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good boundaries make good mentors

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At a meeting someone said academic mentoring is not just about the profession it is about “life” and I just disagree. I am not a life coach. I care about your life and will celebrate and accommodate it, and advise that you put boundaries around it. But I have my own boundaries as well.

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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have been asked to speak at a schoolboard meeting about how our district has functionally removed books from middle school English. So if the clip of my impassioned speech ends up going viral, everyone be cool

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cringey and genuine and sees things for what they are - very neurodivergent coded

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No. They are just greedy and want to sell or rent these at a certain price to ensure a nice cushy profit margin. They already have other incentives dont give them more to keep prices high

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is very common across most of Europe and many other countries and what we used to require. Get your training, then GTFO to your own country and help the people who sweat for you and need your help more.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unpopular opinions: 1- hand over the area Russia wants and call it a day in Crimea 2- let the Persians control the fucking Persian Gulf Not hard. Both are areas of land/sea that no one else wants to be responsible for and the whole damn world is paying a very expensive bill for wars we don’t want

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 16/08/2026

And ICYMI, Zohran Mamdani does have a Chinese name, and whoever coined it did a banger job: bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“They are trying to make the land uninhabitable. They are erasing our entire history, our entire culture, all our memories.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say

Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Genuinely not too much to ask.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if nothing else another big night for the "polling in the no-one-picks-up-their-phone-anymore Era is cooked" take

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Saw The Odyssey last night and realized there’s another reason the right’s rage furbys are foaming at their mouths over the film. It is deeply antiwar, making an argument that builds incident by incident. Nolan’s sin: making explicit the vicious destructiveness of “heroic” ambition and violence.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/07/2026

all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's so awkward when awful people you deeply dislike say something you 100% agree with.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What are they going to do for MA working class? The elderly, young families, and folks with disabilities? Our kids are failing at school, housing values are ridiculously overinflated, and we have too many elders who are going to take up a lot of resources. Where is the money going to come from?

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We cause a brain drain and that is well documented

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is actually not true anymore. India, China, and Singapore have advanced training facilities. In many cases, this training is provided at no cost by the state. With the expectation of government service. Instead, due to the market, they are enticed west $$$

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Instead they would rather a nice Asian woman doctor come from her home to treat them and then complain when their town doesn’t look the same as it used too but all the professionals you need to make communities work: doctors, engineers, are foreign born so?

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The social implication is stark. We refuse to invest in our children and students because of the demographic shifts. Older white voters don’t want to pay for higher taxes to pay teachers or fund schools. In many cases now because their kids are grown and not having kids in the same neighborhoods.

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

5-If these foreign students don’t come here and stay in their own countries, is that not more equitable so that their fellow countryman benefit from their expertise and uplift their economies and standard of living rather than just giving us more than anyone has?

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

*Bad in the sense that unless we have an infusion of foreign students our university system cannot maintain a top rank? 4-Why do our HS students and all other markers of K-12 achievement place us at the bottom of the barrel or mid amongst other countries, but not at the university level?

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

No one is asking: 1-Why are there different tiers of tuition for foreign and domestic students? 2-Why did universities, which are non-profits decide to expand in such a way as to seem entirely like a for profit model? 3-Even with the reduced enrollment, is the caliber of our students that bad?

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The philosophical questions about AI can be clarified by people with philosophical training. Answering them, however, involves basic aspects of humanity’s place in the universe. We all need to participate in that. #philosophy #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

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The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

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hollowsmith.bsky.social @hollowsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🤬 how is this even a thing? We need clarification on what should be common sense that under 18 or a student teacher relationship is off limits

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The Economist @economist.com · 28/06/2026

“Within a few years, AI will displace a significant portion of the world’s highly paid knowledge workers,” predicts Carson Block. “We will witness not just an almighty market correction, but the end of the existing social contract”

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If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…

When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block

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Costa Rica Kid @zymplex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Why it’s time for Democratic socialism!

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The fact that I have to take the time to give some company my email address and phone number just to park the car for 45 minutes to run into a cafe for a coffee is truly enough for me to riot.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/06/2026

Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.

Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/06/2026

The democratic socialist introduced a bill to require AI firms making < $200M annually to pay a one-time tax of 50% of stock, creating a sovereign wealth fund for taxpayers. “The principle is simple: When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth.” trib.al/DLdaszR

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Bernie Sanders Unveils Plan for Public Ownership of AI

The Vermont senator wants to create an AI sovereign wealth fund—with an annual public payout.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

More than a century after wild rice largely disappeared from their lakes, the Menominee Tribe is using new methods to bring the sacred wild rice back. www.circleofblue.org/2026/agricul...

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On Menominee Lakes, Wild Rice Is Coming Back. It Isn’t Easy.

Explore the connection between Wild Rice and Menominee Lakes in northern Wisconsin through ancient wisdom and modern technology.

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