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"Shaun Maguire wanted New York City voters to know about the dangers ahead. On July 4, the general partner at the industry-leading Sequoia Capital posted on X that Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was a secret "Islamist" who "comes from a culture of lying." Mamdani, he added, "has basically advocated for the destruction of America."

The comments were not unusual for Maguire, a self-described moderate former Hillary Clinton voter who has become a full-throated MAGA convert, defender of Israel, and one of the most provocative right-wing political commentators among an increasingly right-leaning group of venture capitalists and founders. This time, though, the social-media dam broke, bringing a flood of critical comments from startup founders and tech workers. Hundreds of Muslim founders signed an open letter asking that Sequoia apologize and discipline Maguire. At the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, the annual "summer camp for billionaires" in Idaho, Sequoia's managing partner Roelof Botha was hounded with questions about Maguire, The New York Times reported. Several other people I spoke to — including Maguire's friends, colleagues, and executives from a Sequoia limited partner and a Sequoia portfolio company — wondered what might happen to tech's new leading controversialist.

More broadly, the ongoing debate over Maguire's posts reflects a tech business riven by faultlines over the industry's positions on Israel's war in Gaza. Those disagreements, which have been tamped down by some Muslim tech workers' fear of losing their jobs or funding, are now exploding into the open."

businessinsider.com/shaun-magu

Business Insider · How Shaun Maguire became Silicon Valley's most MAGA firebrandBy Jacob Silverman
#USA#Trump#MAGA

No, #Democrats don't have an #Epstein problem. Anybody that's found guilty of a crime, especially an Epstein type crime, should be in jail. If #Trump is guilty of that kind of crime, he should be kicked out of office and thrown in jail. Right now, the existing evidence suggests Trump and Epstein were good friends, and no Democrat is currently the #POTUS. Do we want a #pedo in the Oval Office? Republicans trying to cover for Trump tells you all you should need to know.

thehill.com/opinion/white-hous

If Trump does pardon Ghislaine Maxwell I am sure there will be cases against her in a bunch of states, and the UK - It's hardly a get out of jail free card for her - It's probably saving her from being torn apart by an angry MAGA mob.

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"Trump is also rescinding the Temporary Protected Status of tens of thousands of Haitians, Venezuelans, and Cubans, while at the same time using taxpayer money to bring scores of white South Africans here based on the lie that they are in danger from the Black majority in that country.

None of the millions of white undocumented immigrants are being targeted or removed by ICE."


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"ICE is pulling Black, brown, and Asian people off the streets, out of their homes, workplaces, and churches, and even from their legal immigration hearings. The majority of those people have no criminal records (entering this country illegally is a misdemeanor) and are being 'disappeared' and/or sent to concentration camps here and abroad without due process or the ability to contact an attorney or even their family members."


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