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Totally legit account, trust me. Major focus on immigration policy, along with healthcare and software ideas
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Joined November 2025
đźšśThread: How Tech/Automation Can Replace Farming H2A visas and Spur Innovation Every year, farmers demand visas to bring in hundreds of thousands of laborers, in addition to illegals. At this point, we can replace most of those visas/jobs with technology, and spur innovation.
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🚨Hot off the presses! @TheJusticeDept OLC just issued an opinion that helps make housing more affordable, removes incentives for illegal immigration, and ensures that ineligible aliens don’t drain funds for housing programs meant to help American citizens. Nice @ElliotGaiser!
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The Fairness Act — Indiana's strongest immigration enforcement bill ever — is right at the one-yard line. The Senate needs to concur on the House amendments and send it to Governor Braun's desk for signature. They can make it happen today! This would be a huge victory for
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The U.S. needs to 10x its investment in agricultural innovation and technology ASAP The upside is basically unlimited: - cheaper & healthier crops - way better for the soil & environment - saves a ton of water - eliminates reliance on migrant labor - helps save family farms
It is very exciting to imagine a world where agricultural scale involves not vast reservoirs of chemicals, but high-tech, precision equipment Things like the weeder (shown below) that burns thousands of weeds a minute, dozens a second, saving farmers money and obviating RoundUp
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Under @ENERGY's Reactor Pilot Program, we are turning on a full-scale reactor at zero to low thermal power, with our control system and fuel (made by @BWXT) before July 4th of this year. Achieving criticality is just the "20-yd line" for microreactor development. Most
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Factory-produced, deployable fission microreactors to provide strategic energy for mission-critical systems across Earth, space, and underseas.
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Business as usual is over. We’re streamlining oversight, leveraging commercial best practices, and using proven designs to deliver capability faster. The VCM model drives accountability and performance. We’re delivering the ships our @USNavy and @USMC need to remain the most
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) to oversee the acquisition of the new Medium Landing Ship (LSM). This strategy is designed to
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BREAKING NEWS: The Convention of States Resolution has passed in the Iowa House Committee on State Government!
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Important immigration law changes made in the 2025 OBBB most people don’t know about:
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American workers shouldn't be treated as second-class citizens. The H-1B visa is an America Last scheme that prioritizes foreign labor over working families. It's time to pass my EXILE Act and end the H-1B visa forever.
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South Dakota just overwhelmingly passed universal E-Verify out of the House. Momentum is building. E-Verify isn’t extreme. Ignoring the law is. South Dakota is moving. Idaho, the time is now. #EVerify
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South Dakota House passes E-Verify mandate requiring employers to verify worker eligibility. Bill 1209 could make South Dakota the 10th state to require the system, with penalties up to $2,000.
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A stunning comeback in South Dakota! The motion to revive SJ 503 — the COS application for an Article V convention — passed after at least 24 members of the South Dakota House of Representatives stood in favor of pulling the resolution out of its committee and directly to the
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One government agency wasn’t talking to another government agency—and that led to your tax dollars being sent to dead people. I’ve been fighting for years to pass a law to fix this, and with President Trump’s signature, that work paid off. https://t.co/2HrgDOzZFO
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President Donald Trump has signed the Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act into law, which aims to prevent taxpayer money from going to deceased individuals by mistake and is expected to…
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Average tax refund is nearly 11% higher so far this year, IRS data shows
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Forecasters predicted filers would benefit from larger checks​ this year due to a series of new tax provisions in the "one big, beautiful" bill.
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Per the Dallas Fed, illegal immigration has been net negative since February 2025. Illegal entries are blue on this chart and exits are green. The black line is the net flow.
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Visas granted abroad are down across the board. A lot fewer people are being allowed into America! A 19% drop in H1B visa issuances is most notable (it should still be abolished!) H4 visas (family of H1Bs) are down 20%. K1 and K2 visas (family visas) are down by 52% and 48%.
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Medicaid Provider Spending dataset now available on @huggingface as well https://t.co/Y2NcTyQEBl
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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A supermajority vote in Wyoming! https://t.co/hSkg67whzW Convention of States is a top priority for Wyoming lawmakers — even in a limited legislative session. To be introduced in the 2026 budget session, non-budget bills must receive a supermajority vote by one chamber. Within
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“It’s not surprising that we maintain this overwhelming support.”
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.@SecKennedy on the GRAS loophole in the United States: “In Europe there’s only 400 legal ingredients. This agency [HHS] does not know how many ingredients there are in American food. The estimates are between 4,000 and 10,000.”
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TVPA is a anti trafficking law that has loopholes which create an incentive to smuggle children, since it does not allow for rapid repatriation of them after they have been evaluated:
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“I believe that this creates a safety issue not only … for the lives of the UACs but also for the American people” WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) participated in a Senate...
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