An #earthquake strong enough just now not only to wake me up, but wake me up involuntarily YELLING

Fuck major earthquake.

imo we should give longer grace periods when h1b folks get laid off to mitigate this but if people are saying that the program should be ended because it has flaws, they are wrong.

I think it is morally repugnant to treat immigrants to the United States like subhuman playthings.

Who was president on January 6, 2020?

❗️Trump:We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting and it was a bad one.

Did you know the apples available for sale in supermarkets now are nearly a year old and their aging has been managed by precisely controlling the number of breaths they take?

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

I think it is morally repugnant to treat immigrants to the United States like subhuman playthings.

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

There are over 700,000 H1-B visa holders in the United States. If you include dependents, the total is 1.3 million people. There are going to be people denied entry to the US tomorrow for not paying $100,000 with zero notice. Who does this benefit?

I think a lot of the criticism of democrats ‘not meeting the moment’ is sort of dumb and based on incomplete or inaccurate information, unrealistic expectations, etc. so please believe me when I say that Merrick Garland really was in my view a world-historical fuckup choice for AG.

this was summer ‘24… MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE SOME HEADLINES ABOUT THIS IN THE FUCKING FALL OF 2024, MERICK. MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL.

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

$100,000/year is more than many H1-B holders earn. Maybe Google could afford to pay this, but most companies cannot.

A lot of postdocs are J1 or H1B visa holders. When I was a postdoc at a top cancer center, I was the only postdoc not on visa in the lab. It was a very competitive group (High impact papers/ multiple R01s). I made 40-50K a year. It's rightfully gone up to 60-70K a year, but still.

Since 2017, UCLA has had 1,414 H1-Bs approved. Trump js demanding the taxpayers of the State of California pay $141 million dollars a year so those workers can enter and leave the country.

$100,000/year is more than many H1-B holders earn. Maybe Google could afford to pay this, but most companies cannot.

Decorative gourd season.

Decorative gourd season.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

This really fucking sucks. It’s awful. And I’m sorry.

Besides the effects on the tech industry, right now there are H-1B holders—people—who built a life in the US. If they are traveling, they have 17 hours to get back to the US, or the life they built will be shattered and taken from them. Can you imagine constantly living with this uncertainty?

Importantly, the employer files the petition, so the employer would be required to include a $100,000 check with the petition. But the ban on entry appears to also apply to ANYONE with an H-1B currently, and says that petitions must be "supplemented" with a $100,000 fee, so who knows who pays that.

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

Siri, show me California politics in one image.

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

Hi @pjvogt.bsky.social — thank you so, so much for this piece. Something similar happened to me when my husband died unexpectedly. I hate that this happened to me, too. I wish I had known, too. pjvogt.substack.com/p/the-obituary

Just saw an Influencer creating Content on Highland and Fountain and nearly had a panic attack.

Thank you, Underworld. Absolutely mental show.

Absolutely life changing show. This level of intensity for 3+ hours. Incredible.

Underworld!

Siri, show me California politics in one image.

I know it hardly rates among the horrors in the world, but today I had to listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” play on a loop while on hold with a bank’s deceased persons’ affairs department.

Dubai chocolate latte $12.

Your body is a battleground.

I … I’m sorry!

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Grey morning.

I had a really intense dream I moved back to NZ last night.

Anyone down in Los Angeles today?

Do you think they have pet names for each other?

Timeline cleanse.

As a widow, one of the things I hate the most in the world is when people react as though I am emotionally fragile and broken and that other people are brave for putting up with me. It’s simultaneously erasing, belittling, and infantilizing.

This is chaotic.