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Gergely Orosz

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

What a hot mess.

Official US social media accounts are now contradicting the published predidential order, saying it doesn't apply to existing H1B holders (the execive order says it does) and existing H1Bs would no be turned back on the border (the order says they would)

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · Sep 20

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

September 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM

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Olli Bäckström

@ollibackstrom.bsky.social

Wool trade in 15th century Flanders is easily one of the most crucial topics in economic history. But I've noted The Economist's rabid hatred of economic history before - it is indeed a field of science feared and loathed by almost all acolytes of the modern mainstream economics cult.

August 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM

SrGesus

@srgesus.bsky.social

It's pretty simple There is either a one state solution or there is no solution. A two state solution is unfeasible, people get no rights on the wrong side of the border, and no one agrees on the border. There needs to be one state where there are no second class citizens, end the apartheid period.

Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · Jul 25

There is no one state solution. A one state solution is only possible through the ethnic cleansing of one of the two populations.

Seth Campbell @eunacis.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ahad HaAm was right, the only just solution is a binational state.

July 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM

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ℳatt

@matttomic.bsky.social

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

“I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

“They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Philip Bump

@pbump.com

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
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