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There is a tale of two software companies that tells you nearly everything you need to know about the American economy in 2026: a company that builds, a company that extracts, and the people who ...
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- The White House Doesn’t Need Congress to Help Struggling Graduates
At a recent Turning Point USA event, a group of college students told JD Vance that the system isn’t working for them and voiced frustration with the H-1B visa program, a program that allows U.S. companies ... - The Leash We Don’t See
Benjamin Franklin once observed that a lightning rod saves the house by absorbing the strike. What follows is written in that spirit. The analysis applied here to the left will be applied equally to the ... - They Told You It Was About Policy. It Was Always About Power.
Fair warning: Francis was a controversial figure and not without his critics on matters beyond politics — but a framework this accurate and this predictive deserves serious engagement regardless of its author’s other liabilities. There’s a ...
American Employment and Economic Security
Tariffs on Electric Vehicles? Biden and Trump’s Positions
Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we appear not only in an international trade war but, a domestic trade war as [...]
SpaceX Wrestles With The Technicalities of U.S. Immigration Law
On August 24th, the Department of Justice announced it was suing Elon Musk’s "Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices." The news took off on X, formerly Twitter, with the ferocity of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, and as to be [...]
Supporting our tired, our poor, our huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a beacon for immigrants, and not just any immigrants, but the poorest and most destitute [...]
Meta/Facebook Needs a Makeover
Meta Platforms, until October 2021 known as Facebook, is in turmoil. Infamous for its commitment to employing H-1B workers, and simultaneously undermining qualified U.S. tech workers’ careers, the Silicon Valley titan is finally getting its just rewards. Sheryl Sandberg, a Facebook fixture for 14 years, and as Chief Operating Officer [...]
U.S. Tech Workers
Tariffs on Electric Vehicles? Biden and Trump’s Positions
Today we are giving our take on the Biden administration’s announcement that it will be raising tariffs on a host of Chinese-made products. Given they are calling for a 100% tariff on electric vehicles, we appear not only in an international trade war but, a domestic trade war as [...]
Biden’s Proposed Rule Change Is A Kick In The Teeth To American Workers
President Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing a new rule that will hurt Americans employed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) occupations by making it even easier for employers to discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of foreign workers on H-1B visas. Before we dig into what this proposed rule change is, here is a quick primer [...]
What Happened To Alphabet and Google Search?
Hello, and welcome to another Institute for Sound Public Policy podcast. I’m the Executive Director, Kevin Lynn. In this series, we offer our short take on daily stories impacting working Americans. Today’s story deals with Alphabet and how that company’s most popular product. Google Search, used by millions of Americans [...]
Environment
Our NEPA Lawsuit Moves Forward
Executive Director's Corner Dear All: On August 11th, federal judge Trevor McFadden, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia ruled that a lawsuit brought forth by the Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform (MCIR) against three federal agencies can proceed. In a nutshell and according to the Boston Associated Press, “A group [...]
Wooldridge Delivers the Overpopulation Message for the 21st Century – Will We Listen this Time?
As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” s/he is hit with a staggering amount of stats on issues that, unless one lives in media isolation, should be somewhat familiar – peak oil, species/biodiversity extinction, consumption, pollution and the underpinning escalating all these [...]
The American Southwest: Twice the people, half the water?
Colorado River Showing reservoirs, including iconic Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, shrunk to a fraction of their intended size, national news media is reporting that the American Southwest is in the worst 20-year drought in 1,200 years. Yet, no one asked why President Biden is hellbent on increasing immigration – [...]
Calif. Gov., Feds Agree on Wildfire Management Plan
Two years ago, California’s Little Hoover Commission warned that unless the state took immediate streps to limit wildfire probabilities, death and destruction were a near-certainty. The Little Hoover Commission, created in 1962, is an independent California state oversight agency modeled after the Hoover Commission – President Herbert, not FBI [...]
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The BART Poster That Riled Reporters #substack #shorts
.@SecScottBessent: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others. That is a dangerous dependency for any country; it is an unacceptable one for the United States of America."
Glenn Beck: "Where do you stand on the WEF?"
RFK Jr: "We shouldn't be paying any attention to it. It's a billionaires boys club that’s arranging for the world to shift wealth upward, and to clamp down totalitarian controls on everybody else".
"It's astonishing to me that
"Hiring has grown “tribal,” according to Kevin Lynn of the Institute for Sound Public Policy: “Professionalism doesn’t exist in these IT departments anymore… when you look at the hiring, it becomes very tribal — India versus the rest of the world.” Engineer Stephen Vivien
Link to article: https://californiaglobe.com/fr/h-1b-visa-surge-displaces-american-tech-workers-as-foreign-born-talent-dominates-silicon-valley/
Ed Zitron nails it with his latest scree titled, Revenge of The Business Idiot:
"Organizations aren’t burning millions or hundreds of millions of dollars a year on AI because it’s good, they’re doing it because they are run by people who do not know what the fuck they’re doing.
It has always been thethe CCP's M.O. None of the brains behind DeepSeek studied overseas.
Beijing is restricting the overseas travel of China’s top AI engineers while continuing efforts to place Chinese operatives inside leading U.S. AI companies. Evidence of China’s desperate drive to try to close the gap with the world’s leading AI innovators in the U.S. 🇺🇸
Why the Supreme Court must rule on Trump v. Barabara on its merits. This abuse of the country's citizenship must end.
WOAH 🚨 House Oversight Committee finds there is a company is Florida called “Have My Baby in Miami”
It’s a birthright tourism company and just this one company has brought OVER 2,000 FOREIGNERS TO AMERICA TO GIVE BIRTH
“That's the name of an actual company that is facilitating
🚨The Minnesota fraud empire is falling:
Yesterday 15 fraudsters were charged and $90 million was busted. The MSM tried to cover for the fraudsters. @GovTimWalz called it "white supremacy" to expose it and @IlhanMN is completely SILENT.
Independent journalism defeated an entire
@Mithrandir48 The reason only 85 visas paid the fee is that nearly all visas were exempt from the fee. The fee did NOTHING for American workers. The number of H-1B visa was the same with it because of all the exemptions.
Can We End Birthright Citizenship? (ft. Ilan Wurman) https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1kKzDDDNNlWJv
"All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley."
The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs
Mary, a veteran Silicon Valley marketer who can’t find a job, considers herself a victim of an H-1B visa progr...
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