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[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

In 1966, teenage girls beat their vice principal to death and were not even punished. In communist China, they were the revolutionaries, and she was the enemy.

Her name was Bian Zhongyun, 50 years old, a teacher at the same Beijing girls' school for 17 years.

That year Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, a campaign to purge every "bourgeois" and "capitalist" trace from Chinese life and restore communist purity. He called on the nation's youth to hunt down "class enemies." The students turned on their teachers.

For weeks she was dragged through "struggle sessions," public rituals of humiliation and beating.

One fateful day, students forced her to kneel, clubbed her with nail-spiked sticks, scalded her with boiling water and left her to die in a garbage cart.

She was the first teacher beaten to death by communist Red Guard students in Beijing. Sadly, she was not the last.

Across China, children denounced their parents as class traitors, students tortured their teachers and anyone educated, foreign or "old" became an enemy of the revolution.

Estimates of the dead range from the hundreds of thousands to as many as two million.

[winegoggles @winegoggles1]

@oliverhenry Soccer, volleyball, cross country

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Look at this chart.
These are American residency programs.

Red = foreign resident doctors.
Grey = Americans.

Some hospitals are almost 100% foreign. A lot of these doctors came in on visas. Some have been tied to fake credentials and USMLE cheating scandals.

I pay the premiums. I wait months to be seen. Taxpayer-funded Medicare GME money(over $21 billion a year) is training these foreign doctors instead of Americans.

And I DO NOT even trust these doctors!

Why should we keep funding this?

Source of the data:
https://t.co/67wQ506NQE

h/t @JobsNowPaper

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak.

The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples.

A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk.

Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified.

This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: In a MAJOR mask-off moment, Dem Sen. Mark Kelly went on national TV to announce his AFFORDABILITY plan is to raise taxes

VOTE RED!

KELLY: We’re going to lower costs for the American people.

CBS: How?

KELLY: I've got legislation with Chris Van Hollen...it raises taxes... 🤯

This is the message that needs to get out to Americans!

They scream AFFORDABILITY, an issue they CAUSED and then promote policies that will just make it worse.

Raising taxes is never the answer!

[HornSports @HornSports]

What Bo Mascoe did in the second half against Smith becomes more impressive by the week. #HookEm

[winegoggles @winegoggles1]

@oliverhenry Texas/OU at the state fair in Dallas.

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@oliverhenry Texas

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The University of Oklahoma says no qualified American was available for a $55,931 sports video production job.

So it filed for an H-1B visa.

Alumni are furious.

And they should be.

JD Vance is right.

The H-1B program is BROKEN.

American jobs for American workers.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

Almost every wall in history was built to keep enemies out.

The Berlin Wall was built to keep a country's own people in.

By 1961, socialist East Germany was losing its people. An estimated 2.5 to 3 million had walked out to the free market West since 1949. Nearly one in six citizens.

Doctors, engineers, teachers, the young. Given a free choice, they chose against the socialist system.

But instead of giving its people freedom, the ruling Socialist Unity Party chose the opposite.

Overnight on August 13, 1961, it sealed Berlin. Barbed wire, then concrete, guard towers, dogs, a raked "death strip," and the Schießbefehl: the order to shoot anyone attempting to leave.

The Wall stood 28 years. At least 140 people were killed trying to reach the other side of the same city. Some were teenagers. Some were left to bleed in the no-man's-land while guards watched.

Then on November 9, 1989, it fell. Less than a year later, Germany was one country again.

East Germany was opened to free markets and private enterprise. Within a generation, incomes, goods on the shelves and freedom of movement were realized again.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Some DACA recipients, like this ungrateful and entitled Latina, should never be given citizenship. Her own son, who serves in the military, petitioned for her a few months ago. She even posted pictures of him standing behind President Trump and JD Vance.

Then she proudly announced that she will be a “Dreamer” forever, which makes it seem as if she simply wants to remain an immigrant while continuing to benefit from everything America provides her, especially the assistance she receives for her other disabled son. And of course, she uploaded her video using the same background music that became the “anthem” for the anti-ICE protests.

People like her will never be loyal to this country. She made it clear that idea of “Latinos for Trump” is “gross,” while she is already plotting how to help other illegals.

And when another Instagram user pointed out that she forgot to thank the United States, she snapped.

Immigrant to immigrant: if you won’t even thank the country that took you in, you don’t deserve the papers.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

The University of Oklahoma (@UofOklahoma) has just filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Sport Video Production Manager

Salary: $55,931

No American citizen was qualified for this job.

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

NEW: The White House finds that seven policies in the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2026 program would add about $49 trillion to federal deficits over ten years. That is roughly $355,000 for every American household.

https://t.co/lSn7ZxLcZZ

[EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince]

The administration that told people to get into the face of their family at Thanksgiving would like to know how we got here.

[Chris Brunet @chrisbrunet]

Tulane University (@Tulane) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Athletic Trainer

Salary: $55k

No American citizen was qualified for this job.

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

Post update**
How many fake Physicians are there and how do we know?

Long overdue update on a post where all it took was a claim for a foreigner to practice medicine.

After fraudulently practicing medicine for several years...he was given a 6 month sentence.

Samrat Mukherjee was a paramedic at Acadian Ambulance. He never finished medical school. He never finished the undergraduate degree. He built a fake Tulane medical diploma, a fake residency match letter, and wore M.D. and Flight Surgeon on his clothes.

Hospitals gave him a physician badge. He walked ICUs. From 2019 to 2022 he called in prescriptions under the names of two real doctors, including for a cancer patient.

He pleaded guilty in March 2025. In November 2025 a federal judge gave him six months. The charge carried five years. Six months for three years of walking into intensive care as a doctor he was not.

Here is what is so concerning...
Baton Rouge let this man practice and obviously never vetted his credentials. How easy is it? How many more are there?

This is the hole. A badge, a stitched title, and a hospital that did not check the school. He did not slip through an India pipeline. He slipped through an American one.

That is worse, not better. If a paramedic can invent Tulane and see ICU patients, the file on foreign diplomas, provisional licenses, and frozen residency seats for American graduates is not a side issue. It is the same unlocked door.

India’s own exam scandals, invalidated USMLE scores, and states fast-tracking foreign licenses sit on that same door. Re-check the high-risk credentials. Publish the schools with proven fraud. Charge the lie. Six months is not a review.

They Dont Work For You.

If your hospital still cannot tell you where the doctor trained, say so. Like share and bookmark.

Sources: U.S. Attorney, Middle District of Louisiana, plea announcement, March 10, 2025. The Advocate, sentencing, November 5, 2025.
https://t.co/7cFjQfgqlM

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the school protests in Bordeaux

🇫🇷

[Hany Girgis @SanDiegoKnight]

I DON’T THINK MOST AMERICANS KNOW THIS EXISTS.

The University of North Texas, a taxpayer-funded public university, had a contract with an international recruiting company that paid a commission for every student it successfully enrolled.

$3,000 for an overseas student enrolling full-time.
$1,500 for an international transfer already in the U.S.

The $3,000 was explicitly tied to enrollment: $1,500 after the first semester and another $1,500 after the second.

And this wasn’t necessarily illegal. The federal rules restricting enrollment-based recruiting commissions contain an exception covering certain foreign students abroad who aren’t eligible for federal student aid.

UNT’s contract was written specifically around that category.

By Fall 2024, UNT reported 7,509 international students. 73% were from India.

UNT receives hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding while also paying commissions to recruit international students.

The question now is:

How widespread is commission-based international student recruiting across American universities, and how much money is being paid to these recruiters?

@StephenM @SusieWiles47 @SecRubio @JDVance @realDonaldTrump

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[winegoggles @winegoggles1]

Why hasn’t this already been done

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

My dream Gen X retirement community isn't a golf course or a luxury resort.

It's a fully renovated 80s/90s shopping mall.

Half the building is apartments. The other half looks exactly like the mall we grew up in.

The Waldenbooks is now a massive library where you can spend hours getting lost in books.

The food court is part of your meal plan, so you can grab an Orange Julius, a slice of pizza, Chinese food, or sit down for a proper meal at Shoney's whenever you want.

The movie theater plays classics every night.

The arcade is free and packed with Pac-Man, Galaga, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong, and every cabinet game we spent our allowance on.

Sam Goody is still there. You can browse CDs, listen to Bowie, The Ramones, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, or whatever you love. They even host monthly dance nights for anyone who still remembers MTV when it actually played music.

The Sharper Image has massage chairs you can reserve whenever your back reminds you that you're no longer 25.

The pharmacy is still an Eckerds.

Blockbuster is fully operational. You can rent movies, video games, and spend 30 minutes wandering the aisles before choosing something you'll probably fall asleep watching.

There's an aerobics studio offering Tae-Bo, Richard Simmons, MTV's The Grind workouts, and every fitness craze we survived the first time around.

There are fountains everywhere, a lazy river because we've earned it, and plenty of benches where people can sit and talk instead of staring at their phones.

Every morning we go mall walking before the stores "open."

Every evening we meet friends at the food court.

No algorithms. No endless scrolling. No influencers.

Just books, music, movies, arcades, friends, nostalgia, and the feeling that for a few hours, it's 1995 again.

Honestly, I'd put my name on the waiting list today.

[winegoggles @winegoggles1]

@FreddyLA7 Are you ok?