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Theodore Banerjee retweeted
🚨 DHS JUST FINALIZED ITS BAN ON AUTOMATIC WORK PERMIT EXTENSIONS FOR H-4 SPOUSES AND OTHER FOREIGN WORKERS.
The government’s own economic analysis estimates:
• 20,000 to 33,000 work permits could lapse.
• $312 million in employer turnover costs.
• $138 million in potential earnings transferred to replacement workers.
DHS acknowledges that some jobs could go to other workers in the U.S. labor force.
But here’s the bigger question:
How many of those opportunities will actually go to American workers?
federalregister.gov/document…
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
Anti-H1B turnout in Dallas is STRONG
Remember that NOBODY can see which way you voted, everyone is taking 20-22-24 precinct results and remapping it to today's turnout.
H-1B has changed EVERYTHING in Dallas so I expect to see lots of divergence. Sure you will have some techies in Dallas voting commie, but most will not.
Talarico is cooked. Cooked, I say.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
DO NOT VOTE STRAIGHT TICKET
SKIP @GregAbbott_TX
VOTE @bofrench
VOTE @KenPaxtonTX
VOTE @DanPatrick
VOTE @mayes_middleton
VOTE @DonHuffines
VOTE @DrBuckinghamTX
VOTE @natesheetsforTX
EARLY VOTING is MONDAY OCT 19 TO FRIDAY OCT 30
PLEASE EARLY VOTE TO SAVE TEXAS!
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
Is September, Texas DPS confirmed a technical issue caused an unknown number of voter registrations to not be processed.
On Thursday, they learned of another issue with voter registrations being processed, but this time they pointed the finger at Civix.
Civix, a company you’ve probably never heard of, received a $36M contract for the Texas Election Administration Management (TEAM) system, happens to be a steady employer of H-1Bs. What I want to know is how many of these foreigners are working on critical Texas election infrastructure?
Assuming Civix points fingers at DPS, lets look at that side of the data handoff…
LCA files show Wise Equation Solutions, LLC, claim H-1Bs are placed directly at Texas DPS, on a remote work arrangement, in Quality Assurance roles.
Oh the irony…
So much for Tax Payer funded opportunities going to Texans.
@GregAbbott_TX - Just like I posted in September, this is going to keep getting worse until you address this.
Texas county officials said they learned Thursday about another state error that has backlogged thousands of voter registration records.
The total number of backlogged records wasn’t immediately available, but the secretary of state’s office told election officials that not all counties were impacted. bit.ly/4hQS7v6
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
No H-1Bs until the black population of your engineers is 13%
No one gets an H-1B 💅
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
What a joke.
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Theodore Banerjee retweeted
Indians revert to blaming the British colonizers for everything, as if Indians themselves are responsible for nothing, even after 80 years of so-called independence. In reality, what happens in India is still a sanitized, Europeanized version of the underlying savagery.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
New Fall 2026 UT Austin Demographic data is out:
UT Austin added just 172 students this fall and Asian enrollment rose by 419 - White enrollment fell by 325 and that’s just in the last year.
Ten years ago, 22,227 White students attended UT Austin - today, only 16,285 do.
Over that decade, the university grew 7.5%, adding 3,841 students. But White enrollment fell by 5,942 (−26.7%), while Asian enrollment increased 41.8% and Hispanic enrollment increased 36.8%.
The shift is especially striking at age 18.
In 2017, UT enrolled 3,075 White and 1,813 Asian undergraduates who were 18 years old. Today, it has fully flipped with 2,315 White and 2,713 Asian undergrads.
The demographic differences become even more striking when normalized against Texas public-school enrollment.
Asian students account for 30% of UT Austin’s 18-year-old undergraduates, compared with just 5.8% of Texas K–12 enrollment. That’s 5.2 times their statewide share.
White students are represented almost proportionally, at 1.05 times their statewide share.
Hispanic students, who make up a majority of Texas public-school enrollment, account for just 26.6% of UT’s 18-year-old undergraduates, half their statewide share.
Black students account for 4.6%, despite representing 12.9% of Texas public-school enrollment, just 36% of their statewide share.
Graduate school tells another story.
International students represent just 4.3% of undergraduates but 35% of graduate students and UT’s age data raises another question.
Among undergraduates ages 19–21, Asian representation is 26.6% and International representation is 4.0%.
At ages 22–24, Asian representation falls to 17.6%, while International representation doubles to 8.1%.
H-4 dependent children generally age out at 21. USCIS confirms that H-4-to-F-1 changes of status occur nationally, and Texas reporting rules can classify those students differently. Could that explain some of the shift?
Possibly, but UT’s public data doesn’t provide the granularity needed to test this.
Then there’s the question of Black male enrollment - Black females are represented 2:1 with Black Males.
UT enrolled 627 Black undergraduate men in 2017, in 2026, it enrolled 652; adding just 25 additional students in nine years.
Anecdotally, a historical USC study found Black men represented 68.3% of UT’s scholarship football and men’s basketball players while accounting for just 1.6% of undergraduates. Maybe that historical contrast deserves renewed examination.
But the bigger problem is UT’s racial enrollment data doesn’t tell us where students attended high school, whether they came from another state, or how they qualified for Texas residency.
So we can continue to document a decade of dramatic demographic change, but we cannot fully explain the admissions and residency pathways behind it.
Texas taxpayers deserve that explanation. Now it’s time to examine what’s driving this change.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
“White Americans need H1B visas because they are too stupid to work these jobs”
- Vasant Bhatt, University of Houston.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
India is a land of comedies. In a riot, male officers are not allowed to touch female rioters, and vice versa. Similarly, male rioters cannot protect female rioters from female policewomen. Now, drape yourself in the Indian flag and no one can touch you.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
PART THREE: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN OF HOUSTON’S THIRD WARD?
I kept digging into Imagine Learning and found Yellowstone College Preparatory in Houston’s Third Ward. It’s a public charter school that leveraged Imagine Learning for seventh-grade TEXAS HISTORY.
The school served a community where approximately 92% of students were economically disadvantaged. It received failing Texas accountability ratings in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
In 2025, just 8% of its eighth-grade students met grade-level standards in social studies. Meanwhile, its own Texas Education Agency grant application disclosed that its seventh-grade Texas History teacher was NON-CERTIFIED.
The school had a plan though, their proposed solution was none other than Imagine Learning. So they requested an additional $188,300 education grant. The request included funding for staff, materials and Imagine Learning’s online history curriculum.
And here’s where it gets interesting:
TEXAS HAS NOT FORMALLY REVIEWED THIS COMPANIES MIDDLE-SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES MATERIALS.
TEA’s own 2026–27 records place the product family under “NOT YET REVIEWED.”
The company also operates curriculum-development teams in INDIA, including employees with substantive responsibilities for American K–12 educational content.
Here’s the silver lining: In its final year as an independent charter, Yellowstone improved from an overall F to a D before joining IDEA Public Schools for the 2026–27 school year.
IDEA’s published Texas curriculum now identifies its own social-studies materials for seventh-grade Texas History rather than Imagine Learning.
Which begs the question: How much taxpayer money was actually spent on materials that may no longer be used? And who accounted for those funds when the charter changed hands?
The children of Houston’s Third Ward don’t need any more obstacles stacked against them. They deserve a fair shot, proven educational materials, qualified instruction and a school system that puts their futures ahead of bureaucratic convenience and corporate interests.
But this story doesn’t end in Houston’s Third Ward.
Other Texas school districts are offering Imagine Learning’s history and government courses, while the company’s Edgenuity social studies materials remain classified by TEA as NOT YET REVIEWED.
How many other classrooms are relying on these materials? Who is verifying their accuracy? And how many parents even know?
PART TWO: THE TEXAS EDUCATION MONEY TRAIL LEADS BACK TO INDIA.
I’ve been investigating Imagine Learning, the American education giant hiring workers in INDIA to develop curriculum for American schoolchildren.
Now I’ve traced its history through the Texas Education Agency, millions in taxpayer funding and a company once run regionally by JAMES TALARICO.
In 2018, under Greg Abbott’s education commissioner Mike Morath, the TEA approved just FOUR math software products for its Math Innovation Zones program.
Imagine Math, Reasoning Mind, IXL Math and ST Math. Participating districts were required to choose from that approved list.
Then Imagine Learning acquired Reasoning Mind in July 2018.
TWO OF THE FOUR STATE-APPROVED OPTIONS WERE NOW OWNED BY THE SAME CORPORATE GROUP.
And who was Reasoning Mind’s Central Texas executive director?
JAMES TALARICO.
Before becoming a state legislator, Talarico publicly promoted Reasoning Mind.
Texas then appropriated $17.5 MILLION specifically for Reasoning Mind across the 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2016–17 budget cycles.
And what were taxpayers getting?
Dallas ISD’s 2017–18 evaluation classified between 87% and 100% of participating campuses as LOW IMPLEMENTATION, depending on grade.
Participation in its centrally funded program fell from 29,714 students in 2016–17 to just 2,267 in 2018–19, largely amid district budget cuts.
A separate randomized study of Reasoning Mind’s fifth-grade curriculum, published in 2019 and subsequently reviewed by the federal What Works Clearinghouse, found NO statistically significant positive effect on mathematics achievement.
That’s one curriculum and one study, not proof that every product failed, but it certainly raises questions about the value taxpayers were receiving.
And the offshore development history goes back even further.
A 2013 Texas Observer investigation reported that Reasoning Mind’s tax filings showed $1.6 MILLION spent on computer programming and product testing in MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Think about the progression.
Texas appropriated millions for Reasoning Mind.
TEA later placed Reasoning Mind and Imagine Math on its approved vendor list.
Imagine Learning acquired Reasoning Mind, consolidating two of those four approved products.
And now - Imagine Learning is building American K–12 curriculum-development operations in INDIA.
Its Bengaluru teams work on English Language Arts, mathematics and other instructional content. Straive LearningMate identifies Imagine Learning as a client for AI-assisted curriculum production and Infosys has disclosed additional India-based delivery operations.
Meanwhile, Imagine Learning markets TEXAS HISTORY, U.S. HISTORY, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT and ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS courses to Texas schools.
I’ve now identified more than $8.5 MILLION in additional Texas district purchasing records and authorizations involving Imagine Learning across multiple years.
I still don’t have an audited statewide payment total but it’s substantial.
So here’s what I want to know.
Who reviewed the consolidation of two state-approved software products under one corporate owner?
What evidence justified their selection and continued public spending?
How much taxpayer-funded curriculum production now happens overseas?
And what safeguards protect Texas students’ educational records?
The Texas education software industry didn’t appear overnight - we helped finance it.
And now we need to examine where that investment is going.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
Here is what you are competing against when you are out of work. There are roughly 1.6 million foreigners in less-happy circumstances who want to transfer out of their positions into any of the jobs you are applying for while you are OUT of work.
These job hoppers on-average cost employers 15-35% less in comp per head, and in some categories, like OPT/CPT, are entirely free of Payroll Tax.
This creates an ENORMOUS incentive for employers to run after this pool of foreigners, before ever considering you. This is the fundamental thing broken in our economy right now.
The more this foreign labor pool increases, the more incentive employers have to shed their American workers to chase after this pool of Temu-quality workers, to the ruin of our economy. And this warped incentive is also the primary driver of political upheaval which will be coming in the future.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
PART TWO: THE TEXAS EDUCATION MONEY TRAIL LEADS BACK TO INDIA.
I’ve been investigating Imagine Learning, the American education giant hiring workers in INDIA to develop curriculum for American schoolchildren.
Now I’ve traced its history through the Texas Education Agency, millions in taxpayer funding and a company once run regionally by JAMES TALARICO.
In 2018, under Greg Abbott’s education commissioner Mike Morath, the TEA approved just FOUR math software products for its Math Innovation Zones program.
Imagine Math, Reasoning Mind, IXL Math and ST Math. Participating districts were required to choose from that approved list.
Then Imagine Learning acquired Reasoning Mind in July 2018.
TWO OF THE FOUR STATE-APPROVED OPTIONS WERE NOW OWNED BY THE SAME CORPORATE GROUP.
And who was Reasoning Mind’s Central Texas executive director?
JAMES TALARICO.
Before becoming a state legislator, Talarico publicly promoted Reasoning Mind.
Texas then appropriated $17.5 MILLION specifically for Reasoning Mind across the 2012–13, 2014–15 and 2016–17 budget cycles.
And what were taxpayers getting?
Dallas ISD’s 2017–18 evaluation classified between 87% and 100% of participating campuses as LOW IMPLEMENTATION, depending on grade.
Participation in its centrally funded program fell from 29,714 students in 2016–17 to just 2,267 in 2018–19, largely amid district budget cuts.
A separate randomized study of Reasoning Mind’s fifth-grade curriculum, published in 2019 and subsequently reviewed by the federal What Works Clearinghouse, found NO statistically significant positive effect on mathematics achievement.
That’s one curriculum and one study, not proof that every product failed, but it certainly raises questions about the value taxpayers were receiving.
And the offshore development history goes back even further.
A 2013 Texas Observer investigation reported that Reasoning Mind’s tax filings showed $1.6 MILLION spent on computer programming and product testing in MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
Think about the progression.
Texas appropriated millions for Reasoning Mind.
TEA later placed Reasoning Mind and Imagine Math on its approved vendor list.
Imagine Learning acquired Reasoning Mind, consolidating two of those four approved products.
And now - Imagine Learning is building American K–12 curriculum-development operations in INDIA.
Its Bengaluru teams work on English Language Arts, mathematics and other instructional content. Straive LearningMate identifies Imagine Learning as a client for AI-assisted curriculum production and Infosys has disclosed additional India-based delivery operations.
Meanwhile, Imagine Learning markets TEXAS HISTORY, U.S. HISTORY, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT and ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS courses to Texas schools.
I’ve now identified more than $8.5 MILLION in additional Texas district purchasing records and authorizations involving Imagine Learning across multiple years.
I still don’t have an audited statewide payment total but it’s substantial.
So here’s what I want to know.
Who reviewed the consolidation of two state-approved software products under one corporate owner?
What evidence justified their selection and continued public spending?
How much taxpayer-funded curriculum production now happens overseas?
And what safeguards protect Texas students’ educational records?
The Texas education software industry didn’t appear overnight - we helped finance it.
And now we need to examine where that investment is going.
At first, I was shocked to learn Texas was importing English Teachers from India, but what I’ve just learned is even worse.
TEXAS TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING MILLIONS TO AN EDUCATION COMPANY DEVELOPING AMERICAN SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN INDIA.
And the deeper I dig, the worse this looks.
Imagine Learning says it serves 18 MILLION students, 38,000+ U.S. schools and HALF of all American school districts.
I’ve identified more than $7.7 MILLION in Texas district contracts, purchasing authorizations and payment records.
Imagine Learning is recruiting workers in Bengaluru to develop American K–12 curriculum.
Not just software engineers, not customer support but CURRICULUM ARCHITECTS, INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNERS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS MANAGERS.
People in India are developing American K–12 reading lessons, writing assignments, literature questions, essay prompts, assessments and materials “aligned with U.S. state education standards.”
They’re even recruiting managers to oversee curriculum design decisions and AI-assisted lesson development.
We’re talking about the actual educational content being created for American children and this goes FAR beyond one office.
INFOSYS publicly announced TWO AI-first delivery centers for Imagine Learning in Chandigarh and Pune, supporting product engineering, business systems and operations.
Straive LearningMate also names Imagine Learning as a client for AI-assisted curriculum production, including assessments and content transformation. Its executives describe a relationship spanning more than a decade and the INDIAN GOVERNMENT is celebrating the expansion.
Karnataka’s government technology department publicly promoted Imagine Learning’s Bengaluru operation, highlighting AI, data science, engineering and product development.
Imagine Learning India executive Ravi Shanker also reported attending a Karnataka government-hosted industry meeting with senior political leadership.
But wait, there’s more - look at what Imagine Learning markets to TEXAS schools:
7TH GRADE TEXAS HISTORY.
8TH GRADE U.S. HISTORY.
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
U.S. HISTORY SINCE 1877.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS.
A Houston charter school’s Texas Education Agency grant application specifically identified Imagine Learning for seventh-grade Texas History and eighth- and eleventh-grade U.S. History.
We’re talking about lessons addressing Texas independence, annexation, the Constitution and the history of our country.
WHO is writing those lessons? WHERE are they being developed? Who has final editorial authority?
AND THEN THERE’S THE CHILDREN’S DATA.
Imagine Learning’s privacy policy says its platforms can collect student names, assessments, writing samples, audio recordings, demographic information, and sensitive indicators including IEP status, foster care and homelessness.
The company says personal information is stored and processed in the United States, but it’s also hiring platform and data engineers in India.
Can employees or contractors overseas remotely access identifiable student records? Do Infosys or LearningMate personnel have access? What do the Texas contracts actually permit?
We have outsourced American jobs, technology and entire industries. Now companies are building offshore operations around the development of lessons for American children - financed by American taxpayers.
TEXAS NEEDS A FULL AUDIT OF IMAGINE LEARNING.
Every taxpayer dollar, every offshore contractor, every curriculum author, every AI workflow and every very permission to access student data.
American parents deserve to know who writes their children’s lessons and who can see their records.
How many of you knew OUR children’s curriculum is being developed in India?
I think I need to keep pulling this thread.
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
I’m old enough to remember going to the Texas State Fair and NOT being worried about my life. Even went to the Cotton Bowl to see Thomas the Tank Engine 🚂. Now that N TX looks completely different I wonder what the reception for Thomas, Percy, and Mr Conductor would be. 😂
Theodore Banerjee retweeted
H-1Bs should probably just go ahead and start packing their bags now. This man (@VP) wants to be the next President and knows what he has to do to secure an easy path to the Whitehouse.
@GregAbbott_TX I hope you’re paying attention, Texan’s tax dollars are being siphoned off the top of consulting contracts and your H-1B dependent vendors are paying their indentured servants a laughable wage. You can fix this - will you?
Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H1-B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."
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Theodore Banerjee retweeted
SECRETARY RUBIO: For twenty-five centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow.
And the progeny of the men who built it – the sons of Athens and Rome – have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the Earth.
Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now, I stand here today – as the Secretary of State of that republic, and as the great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space, can ever extinguish.