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🧵Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath dropped a 3-hour conversation with Elon Musk and the part everyone is talking about is H-1B visas @elonmusk 's exact words: “America has a severe shortage of top 0.1% engineering talent. The reason Google, Microsoft, Adobe and half of Silicon… pic.twitter.com/Jp8zNwye7n — InfactoWeaver (@InfactoWeaver) December 1, 2025 The Cost of Entry The leaves are brown and dead on the ground here in Canada, and down south in Austin, the mood is just as dry. I have seen boom times and I have seen busts. I have seen the internet turn from a library into a shopping mall. But what is happening right now with the U.S. borders and Silicon Valley is something different. It is a collision. A crash. On one side, you have the new rules from the Trump administration. As of September 21, 2025, if a company wants to bring in a skilled worker on an H-1B visa, they have to pay a fee. Not a small fee. It is $100,000. That is the price of a luxury car or a down payment o...

The War Came Home It is 2 AM. The coffee is cold and the printer is jammed again. But we need to talk about what happened in D.C. this week. If you have been offline, here is the short version: A gun went off near the White House. Now, thousands of people halfway across the world are hearing the sound of a door slamming shut. The Shooting On Wednesday, November 26, the war we thought we left behind in Kabul showed up at Farragut Square. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, allegedly opened fire on two National Guard members. He didn't use a sophisticated plot. He used a gun and the element of surprise. The cost was immediate and heavy. Sarah Beckstrom , 20 years old. She was a Specialist in the West Virginia Army National Guard. She is dead. Andrew Wolfe , 24 years old. A Staff Sergeant. He is in critical condition, fighting for his life while the politicians fight for the microphone. Here is t...

The Undo Button I have seen a lot of strange things in this town. I have seen scandals over suits, scandals over emails, and scandals over where a President went to dinner. But I have never seen anything quite like this. It is December 2025. We are nearly a year into Donald Trump's return to the White House. And just when you thought things might settle into a rhythm, the President decided to try and erase the last four years. Not with a law. Not with a vote. But with a post on Truth Social. The claim is simple. Trump says that Joe Biden did not sign his own papers. He says a machine did it. An "autopen." And because the machine did it, Trump says none of it counts. "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect," he wrote. Read that again. "Terminated." He is not just canceling executive orders. He is say...

THE SHOT THAT STOPPED THE PAPERS You probably heard about the shooting. It happened the day before Thanksgiving. Washington D.C. is cold that time of year. Gray skies. Wet pavement. Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was just 20 years old. She was standing guard near Farragut West, blocks from the White House. She did not make it home for turkey dinner. She died. Another soldier, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, is fighting for his life. The man with the gun was Rahmanullah Lakanwal. An Afghan national. Now, because of that one man with a gun, the doors are slamming shut for millions. On Thursday, the order came down. It did not come with a whisper. It came with a megaphone. The Trump administration is not just looking at new people coming in. They are looking at the people who are already here. Joseph B. Edlow is the man in charge at USCIS. That is the agency that handles the paperwork for immigrants. He said they are going to do a "rigorous re-evaluation...

9 Months Later: US Teen Free But Broken For nine months, a family in Florida has been living a nightmare that most of us only see in movies. Their son, Mohammed Ibrahim, is finally out. He was released Thursday. But looking at the reports on my desk, this is not a happy ending. It is just the end of the holding cell. A Florida Kid in a West Bank Cell Mohammed is 16 now. He was 15 when they took him. Picture this. You are a teenager. You live in Florida. You go to visit family in the West Bank. Then, in the middle of the night, soldiers come into the house. His family says it was brutal. Blindfolds. Handcuffs. They say he was beaten. The charge? Throwing rocks. The kid denied it. But when you are a boy in a military system, "no" does not mean much. His family says he was forced to confess. He took a plea deal just to get it over with. A suspended sentence. Now he is out. But he is not the same kid who went in. The Physical Cost The photos and reports coming out a...

The fire tore through bamboo scaffolding, sending plumes of smoke into the night sky as emergency services rushed to the scene. Around 2,000 apartments are housed within these towers, and RTHK reports that several people remain trapped inside. Two people are in critical condition… pic.twitter.com/gswIcQvftr — InfactoWeaver (@InfactoWeaver) November 26, 2025 THE SMELL OF TAI PO You can taste it before you see it. That acrid, chemical sting at the back of your throat. It is the smell of melted plastic, scorched concrete, and a city's broken promise. Tai Po is usually quiet. It is a place for families, for the old folks who built this city. But since Wednesday, it has been a graveyard. The Wang Fuk Court complex - huge towers that have stood since 1983 - is now a blackened skeleton. The official count is 75 dead. Maybe 80. Hundreds are missing. I have seen bad fires. I covered the grim days of the garley building fire years ago. But this? This ...

Same old story I am sitting here looking at a screen that feels like a bad rerun from ten years ago. Another week. Another woman asking a question. Another insult from the man in the big chair. This time it is Katie Rogers from The New York Times. She is a good reporter. She does the work. But this week, she found herself in the middle of a storm. President Trump went on Truth Social and called her "ugly." He did not say she was wrong. He did not say her math was bad. He said she was a "third-rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out." I have been in this business a long time. I have been yelled at by city council members and hung up on by senators. But this? This is something else. It is personal. It is nasty. And frankly, it is boring. We have seen this movie before. The president's Truth Social post slammed Rogers following an article sugg...