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alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Journalist. @twistartups, @CaOptNews. Dad x2. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!

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Another US government equity stake just dropped, bringing the grand total to TWELVE since Trump took office. Reminder: prior to last year, Washington hadn't been a shareholder in a healthy private company since at least the 1950s. ft.com/content/0a337d…

scottlincicome's tweet image. Another US government equity stake just dropped, bringing the grand total to TWELVE since Trump took office.

Reminder: prior to last year, Washington hadn't been a shareholder in a healthy private company since at least the 1950s.
 ft.com/content/0a337d…

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New rule: If your knee-jerk reaction to today's events is "he shouldn't have had a gun," you don't get to fly the Gadsden flag ever again.

ChaseForLiberty's tweet image. New rule: If your knee-jerk reaction to today's events is "he shouldn't have had a gun," you don't get to fly the Gadsden flag ever again.

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 reposted

These fucking morons didn’t even know he was disarmed. Send them home before they kill someone else.

You can literally hear him say "Where's the f*cking gun? Where's the gun?", and a man in the back, presumably the one who confiscated it before they all started shooting, says he has it. They pepper sprayed and threw him to the ground, disarmed him, then executed him



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Look, if DHS and ICE legitimately felt that these killings were justified, then they wouldn't be doing everything in their power to stop normal-course investigations into them. But that's precisely what's happening.


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They are lying to us. Shamelessly.

Greg Bovino: "An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol agents with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive…



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"The man fatally shot by federal officers in Minneapolis this morning has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, according to sources familiar with the investigation ... State records show Pretti was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026."…


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Unsealed court documents suggest Trump admin detained Tufts student for writing op-ed critical of Israel cnn.com/2026/01/23/pol…


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Third angle of today’s shooting of a 37-year-old male by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, clearly shows one of the agents running away from the scuffle before the shooting carrying the victim's handgun, a Sig P320.


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scoop w/@ErikWemple: The Washington Post had spent $80,000 on housing to cover the Olympics, and obtained more than a dozen credentials for journalists who had already booked their travel. Then they pulled the plug. nytimes.com/2026/01/24/bus…


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The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned. Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an…


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Bloomberg’s takeaway, stripped of the spin: • LinkedIn data shows a 40% increase in tech professionals changing their location to India in Q3 2025 • Tighter H-1B rules and higher fees have reduced the flow of foreign tech workers into the US • Some foreign-born engineers…

SanDiegoKnight's tweet image. Bloomberg’s takeaway, stripped of the spin:

• LinkedIn data shows a 40% increase in tech professionals changing their location to India in Q3 2025

• Tighter H-1B rules and higher fees have reduced the flow of foreign tech workers into the US

• Some foreign-born engineers…
SanDiegoKnight's tweet image. Bloomberg’s takeaway, stripped of the spin:

• LinkedIn data shows a 40% increase in tech professionals changing their location to India in Q3 2025

• Tighter H-1B rules and higher fees have reduced the flow of foreign tech workers into the US

• Some foreign-born engineers…

alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 reposted

Put together a quick analysis of the Brex exit based on an analysis of their cap table. Done relatively quickly, so pardon any errors! Funding history sourced from @CaplightData. Overall, it's a pretty big win. — The company probably minted well in excess of 100 millionaires. —…

haridigresses's tweet image. Put together a quick analysis of the Brex exit based on an analysis of their cap table.

Done relatively quickly, so pardon any errors! Funding history sourced from @CaplightData.

Overall, it's a pretty big win.
— The company probably minted well in excess of 100 millionaires.
—…
haridigresses's tweet image. Put together a quick analysis of the Brex exit based on an analysis of their cap table.

Done relatively quickly, so pardon any errors! Funding history sourced from @CaplightData.

Overall, it's a pretty big win.
— The company probably minted well in excess of 100 millionaires.
—…

Winning

U.S. Dollar share of global foreign currency reserves have fallen to its lowest level this century 🤯📉👀💸

Barchart's tweet image. U.S. Dollar share of global foreign currency reserves have fallen to its lowest level this century 🤯📉👀💸


alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 reposted

NEW from me: Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/01/22/hun…


a16z has 80+ people on its crypto team til

Some news! After 6 incredible years, I’m going to be transitioning out of a16z. I’m starting a fund of my own to do what I love most, which is investing in great founders as early as I can find them, with a broader aperture across the many verticals where great companies are…



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🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making-l…


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