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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net

20% of practicing doctors in the United States are immigrants.

sep 7, 2025, 2:28 am • 476 74

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Matt Rkiouak @rkiouak.com

66% of tech workers in Silicon Valley are immigrants.

sep 7, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Matt Rkiouak @rkiouak.com

Because this is probably such an unbelievable statistics to those outside the Valley: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

sep 7, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Matt Rkiouak @rkiouak.com

Nationally, almost 40% of software developers are foreign born: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/f...

sep 7, 2025, 10:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Nova The Machine @novathemachine.bsky.social

Makes sense, we wrote the global talent visa.

sep 7, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social

we need more one of my original inciting incidents to realizing government can be multigenerational fuck ups not just localized to a single event, but multi casual is how we restricted how much funding we gave hospitals to train new doctors in the 80s and 90s as a “cost-saving measure”

sep 7, 2025, 2:51 am • 5 0 • view
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roland00 / Matthew @roland00.bsky.social

penny wise pound foolish likely not just done to count pennies but also as a favor to some people who know this will likely increase salaries long term for specific disciplines

sep 7, 2025, 2:51 am • 6 0 • view
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Fred Grott @fredgrott.bsky.social

Blake Masters is a mini-Thiel

sep 7, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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eschatomaton.bsky.social @eschatomaton.bsky.social

Also I am irrationally irritated by the misunderstanding of “orders of magnitude” demonstrated in that tweet.

sep 8, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Aaron @slapula.bsky.social

Aren't we already in the middle of a doctor shortage across the country? 🤔🤔🤔

sep 7, 2025, 2:32 am • 5 0 • view
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Bill Cochrane @fiverumbeach.bsky.social

News flash - If you're not 100% Native American? You're an immigrant

sep 7, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net

Excuse me. “One fourth” are. We here at the Sky Marchini account regret the error pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

sep 7, 2025, 2:32 am • 65 8 • view
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Simon @simon-blone.bsky.social

three pinocchios

sep 7, 2025, 6:09 am • 0 0 • view
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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social

We really do import the worlds brightest people because of the economy and it’s all getting burned down

sep 7, 2025, 2:34 am • 30 1 • view
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Mike Kile @mad-wolf.bsky.social

My doctor is Chinese. I like him a lot better than any other doctor I've had. Side note, nobody is illegal on stolen land.

sep 7, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social

They resent the immigrant professionals most of all

sep 7, 2025, 2:34 am • 40 0 • view
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prairieguy2623.bsky.social @prairieguy2623.bsky.social

But they spend their time, money and effort terrorizing the working-class ones.

sep 7, 2025, 3:01 am • 0 0 • view
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spiced pudding @spiced-pudding.bsky.social

yes, they’re especially insecure there

sep 7, 2025, 2:45 am • 4 0 • view
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Chris Hind @hindchristopher.bsky.social

it's alright, 100 million people is 29% of the US population, so the per-capita number of doctors would increase

sep 7, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
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JeremyB @bariolaj.bsky.social

Terrible people use scapegoats to blame their problems on.

sep 7, 2025, 2:30 am • 5 0 • view
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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social

Wow that's a stunning statistic

sep 7, 2025, 3:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social

And the percentage of primary care physicians is MUCH higher than that as US-born docs tend to congregate in the higher priced specialties like dermatology and cardiology.

sep 7, 2025, 2:41 am • 8 0 • view
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rigamaroll1.bsky.social @rigamaroll1.bsky.social

Are they legal or illegal? Makes a HUGE difference.

sep 10, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike Freeman @mfreeman.bsky.social

Blake’s gonna bag lettuce all morning, do triple bypasses all day.

sep 7, 2025, 2:48 am • 3 1 • view