Ruben Izmailyan
@rubendinho
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founder @quilttfintech | software engineer, 🇦🇲 immigrant, naturalized Texan. Tweets on Caucasus + fintech
Dallas
Joined April 2009
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he
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Congratulations to Yana Simonyan on her acceptance to @WestPoint_USMA, Class of 2029! Yana will be the first female Armenian cadet to attend West Point. Her enrollment in this prestigious institution is a testament to her exceptional abilities and the growing partnership between
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the united states is not at war with iran. it’s more of a special military operation.
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One of the best, bravest, and brightest young scholars of the Caucasus almost lost his life today. I hope, despite the madness all around, media outlets will pay attention to Bahruz Samadov’s unjust imprisonment in Azerbaijan
Urgent: Political prisoner Bəhruz Səmədov attempted suicide in prison after the prosecutor demanded 16 years. He was rescued at the last moment. He also declared a hunger strike that will continue until his release.
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Wow, what a stressful week of work. Time to relax by holding a phone beaming endless streams of horrific international news inches from my head
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Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down & those appointments are no longer valid.
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Statement by Ruben Vardanyan, Armenian Political Prisoner Illegally Incarcerated in Azerbaijan (conveyed to his family during his weekly phone call) January 16, 2025 I would like to address the global community, to those who care about what is happening in our region, those
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1/ You'll hear a lot about rich and famous folks who have lost their house in the Los Angeles fires, but there are a lot of normal middle class folks who have also lost their homes and small businesses including my mother in law Cha Jago.
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Our experiment with rapacious post-Soviet oligarchy is off to a great start so far
@dorajfacundo @pmarca Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies.
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feels appropriate that a department of government efficiency would have two heads
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When you start a startup, so many people tell you to ship fast and ship messy. "You’ll know you have PMF when people use your broken product." I think this is outdated advice that doesn't work anymore in 2024. Maybe better today would be: "ship fast, small scope, high quality"
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This is what I mean when I say over & over again that the information environment has fundamentally changed for the worse. Yeah, the old gatekeepers weren't great, but having *no* gatekeepers, no responsible filters committed to accuracy, is destroying this country.
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We can't have peace without justice. G. Apkarian: “The issue since the 1915 Armenian genocide, and all subsequent atrocities, is if you don’t hold people responsible, atrocities return with impunity. That’s why accountability is key to peace” https://t.co/iyRrfYjrpu
jacobin.com
One year after Azerbaijan’s militarized takeover of the area, Nagorno-Karabakh remains scarred by violence and loss. As peace efforts stall, our reporter uncovers personal stories that reveal the...
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Siege, starve, kill, expel, ransack, and be welcomed in European capitals, leaders of which 🙈🙉🙊
Journalists @ellachakarian and @BenceXavier investigate suspected cases of property destruction and ransacking in Khankendi/Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, after over 100,000 Karabakh Armenians fled the region last year amongst Azerbaijan’s offensive.
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Congratulations to Eric Adams on becoming the 2028 Republican nominee for president.
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