Immigrants have founded or cofounded 59% of America’s privately held startup companies valued at $1 billion or more. The collective value of the 455 immigrant-founded billion-dollar companies is $5.0 trillion. @David_J_Bier @gsiskind @nickgillespie forbes.com/sites/stuartan…

“A senior Nordic official said the idea of resuming Russian gas purchases goes against everything the Europeans stand for, while a senior official from a large European nation compared it to former British leader Neville Chamberlain sacrificing Czechoslovakia to Hitler in exchange for business deals.”

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The U.S. proposal: a quick resumption of Russian natural-gas sales to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines, with an American company acting as an intermediary and money going to an escrow account. Our scoop. wsj.com/world/europe/u…

A dentist from Ontario married a U.S. citizen, performed dentistry in "shortage areas" and was pursuing lawful status when ICE arrested him based on erroneous paperwork.

Judge Mike Davis said the "hubris" and "appalling" facts justify immediate release.
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“There are political repressions taking place. Now they’ve reached us.” Journalist and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov tells me how the Russian authorities have “strangled” Russia’s most prominent independent newspaper. Novaya Gazeta is closing down. #ReadingRussia

Reagan: “Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close.”

Trump: “Why do we always have to take people from shit house countries?”

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Ukraine hits the third major Russian refinery in three days, disabling several major parts of the installation in every attack. Novokuybyshevsk Friday, Ufa Saturday and below, Kstovo Sunday morning.

ICE agents slashed the tires of a couple who were recording the agents, then drove away without arresting or talking to them.

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So many people seem genuinely astonished by this local ceasefire in Oleshky, where Russian occupation and the fighting have driven the city into a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe.

Turns out, all it takes is an order from the Kremlin, and Russians and Ukrainians stop shooting at each other. They can calmly and civilly arrange the evacuation of innocent civilians facing starvation, even allow Ukrainian and American journalists to be present on the ground, and so on.

Well, duh.

There is not, and never has been, a single adequate, rational, even remotely sane reason to wage a war aimed at destroying Ukraine. This is the stupidest, most brainless, absurd, pointless, contrived, and deceitful war in human history.

The Kremlin wanted to give Donald Trump a little gift ahead of the elections, so the Kremlin gave an order to put the bloodbath on hold for a few dozen hours.

All it would take is a single order from the Kremlin, and not only would a local ceasefire become possible, but the entire war would end. Just like that. Instantly.

And 95% of Russians wouldn't give a single damn. They would happily accept absolutely anything as yet another "great victory of Russian arms," provided that's how state television explained it to them.

And with a snap of the fingers, all those insane fairy tales about "NATO expansion," "Nazi Satanists," the "multipolar world," "historical Russian lands," and all the rest of that bullshit would simply vanish into thin air.

The problem is that, in this insane, upside-down looking-glass world, absolutely everything is being done to encourage a megalomaniacal maniac, driven mad by impunity and boredom, to never, ever, under any circumstances stop the war, but to keep it going indefinitely.

Instead, he is constantly appeased and rewarded for it.

Opinion: The trouble with Uncle Sam’s Intel share wapo.st/3Ur9Job via @washingtonpost #semiconductors $INTC

As for the other people, there are reports that Hubbard was tortured, not fed well, and denied adequate medical care.

A man had protection from being deported to Nicaragua so ICE to the Central African Republican where he is apparently living under 24-hour armed guard in a country with rampant civil unrest.

A judge has ordered the agency to facilitate his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Breaking News: The Trump administration has detained dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana — including relatives of those who helped the U.S. military — and plans to deport them to Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials. nyti.ms/4jPVvrw

🔴 Thousands of Ukrainian civilians face torture and indefinite detention inside Russia's modern gulag system.

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Today, on the International Day of Political Prisoners, we will gather at the Lincoln Memorial to honour all those imprisoned for their beliefs — and to be the voices for those whom dictatorships are trying to silence.

Please join us at 5:00pm at the Roll Call for Freedom.
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Breaking: A Harris County grand jury indicted a federal immigration agent Friday after he was filmed on video running over a fleeing pedestrian during an Oct. 10 vehicle pursuit in Houston. bit.ly/4svPodY

Exclusive: Body camera video shows ICE agent's chilling response to running over Houston immigrant houstonchronicle.com/news/columnist…

Robot taxes on the rise.

Another new local automation tax proposed, this one in Philly. Taxing robotics and productivity enhancements is a sure-fire way to undermine technological innovation, economic investment, and global competitiveness.

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U.S. Supreme Court faces consequential term on immigration law
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A district court's order that the FY 2027 Diversity Visa registration period open this Sunday was blocked by the Ninth Circuit. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/div…

Regarding refinery strikes. There has been an established pattern. Whenever Ukraine showed restraint, or halted strikes on refineries, Russia simply continued its strike campaign against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and continued to strike civilian targets in cities.