Eric Schmitt
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Eric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittThe Optional Practical Training program is a cheap foreign-labor program for big companies and universities. But it's undermining young Americans. It’s time to overhaul or possibly end this terribly...
SummaryThe Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows foreign graduates to work in the U.S. with minimal restrictions, undercutting American STEM workers through tax exemptions, unlimited visas, and compliance-motivated foreign labor, while universities prioritize foreign students for higher tuition revenue. The thread argues OPT should be reformed or ended since American STEM graduates face high unemployment and never authorized this uncapped program that was created by executive action.Nov 15, 202514 tweets♥ 7KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittToday, I’m leading a Senate Judiciary hearing on one of the most dangerous forces in American life today: Violent left-wing extremism. Over the past few years, this threat has spiraled into an all-ou...
SummaryA Senate Judiciary hearing addresses what the speaker characterizes as a crisis of violent left-wing extremism in America, citing various incidents of political violence and arguing that radical ideology from universities and media outlets has motivated organized terrorism. The hearing features witnesses from The Daily Wire, former DHS leadership, and counterterrorism experts to discuss the threat and potential responses.Oct 28, 20259 tweets♥ 8.4KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittIn one 18-month period in the early 1970s, there were 2,500 bombings on American soil—nearly 5 a day. Did you know that? Many Americans don't. These leftist terrorists who declared war on America we...
SummaryThis thread documents how Weather Underground members and other left-wing extremists from the 1970s bombing era went on to hold prestigious positions at top universities, law firms, and nonprofits, including figures like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who influenced major American institutions and political figures.Oct 2, 202511 tweets♥ 19.6KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittThe entire Democratic Party is lining up behind an anti-American open borders socialist who wants to tear down the country that welcomed him and his family. Don't look away. This is who they are. 🧵...
SummaryA critical thread arguing that Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for NYC mayor, represents radical left-wing socialist ideology including open borders, abolishing prisons, and defunding police, and that his success reflects problematic Democratic Party values and mass immigration policy.Jun 25, 20257 tweets♥ 19.8KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittUntil yesterday, the Biden Administration's "Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism" was classified. Now, thanks to @DNIGabbard, it's public. It's a roadmap for left-wing ideological warfare. 🧵 htt...
SummaryA previously classified Biden Administration plan for countering domestic terrorism has been declassified, revealing a strategy that critics argue weaponizes the domestic terrorism framework to suppress right-wing speech, ideology, and political opposition through government coordination with tech companies and NGOs, targeting activities ranging from online speech to gun ownership.Apr 17, 202514 tweets♥ 27.4KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittIt's official: USAID is dead. This is a huge win — not just for America, but for all of Western civilization. Here’s why. 🧵
SummaryThe author celebrates USAID's closure, arguing it was a tool that funneled U.S. taxpayer money to left-wing NGOs and activist groups globally that undermined American interests, promoted progressive causes abroad, and ran transnational networks that also operated domestically on issues like migration and censorship.Mar 30, 202511 tweets♥ 53.4KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittThe Tesla attacks are getting worse. Arson. Molotov cocktails. Bouts of gunfire. This isn't new. The Left has used violence as a political tool for decades. Only one thing can stop this. In the wor...
SummaryThe thread argues that left-wing political violence has been a persistent problem in America since the 1960s, citing examples like Weather Underground bombings and recent Tesla attacks, and claims the institutional left enables this violence through soft-pedaling and equivocation while right-wing violence receives disproportionate scrutiny.Mar 20, 202510 tweets♥ 31KEric Schmitt@Eric_SchmittThe Left spent the past decade building a vast censorship enterprise. A shadowy network of NGOs, tech groups and governments working to censor the Left's enemies—not just in America, but across the W...
SummaryThe thread argues that the Biden administration built a coordinated "censorship-industrial complex" involving government agencies, NGOs, and tech companies to suppress right-wing speech and misinformation across the West, using taxpayer funding and leveraging both US and foreign laws. The author claims this revolving-door system is now being dismantled under Trump, but argues many private censorship NGOs remain operational and require continued investigation.Mar 12, 202520 tweets♥ 27.3KEric Schmitt@Eric_Schmitt