For a few years now I have espoused the belief that national borders should not impede or restrict the movement of people at all. People should be able to move where they want, work where they want, and live where they want. Borders do not matter to the rich and should not matter to the rest of us.
One reason I believe this is because “enforcing” a border inevitably leads to dehumanization, abuse, and death.
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview -- Then Arrested by ICE (Akela Lacy/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/
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From an open letter by Harvard's president published today: "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights." harvard.edu/president/news/202…
Good on Harvard. I hope other universities will stand with them as well. The alternative, as we've seen, is to be brought to heel one by one. #HigherEd #USPol
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
- 49% drop in global container bookings - 64% drop in US imports - 30% drop in US exports
If this continues for more than a few weeks -no doubt in my mind that we're🚨HEADED FOR ONE OF THE WORST #RECESSIONS IN OUR LIFETIME." -B Krassenstein
"No foreseeable way of producing all the things that we import, at the same price that we import them, the -8% DEPR of the Dollar in 2025 -another tax on consumers/bus' -rely on importing foreign prods." -S Hakimian
Volodymyr Zelensky continues to do daily broadcasts to his country about the war, as he has been doing for a Very Long Time, because he gets it. Meanwhile Democrats in the U.S. still haven't figured out the most basic facts that we are also in a war and they also need to be doing daily primetime press conferences. The former comedian gets it; the career politicians don't. It's incredibly unbelievable how much Democratic leadership has failed to live up to this moment. #politics #USPol
#SCOTUS Ruled that the it’s legal if the President breaks the law so now the President claims their rulings don’t apply to him. Who could have seen that coming? 👋
"When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity
Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice." - Will Bunch, Philly Inquirer
And healthcare executives are being shot or threatened. I just don't get it...
"The insurer "preapproved" surgeries for thousands of patients, but then held back 92% of the payments it owed, with CEO Steven Udvarhelyi insisting that "authorization never says we’re going to pay you"
Breaking news out of China, they announced that they will raise their tariffs on US imports from 85% to 125% to match the US. Meanwhile the US is raising tariffs on Chinese goods from 125% to 145%.
These tariffs are changing so fast its making my head spin trying to keep up with it 🥴
China has announced that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125%. It was the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies that has rattled markets and raised fears of a global slowdown. While U.S.
Several democrats have also called out the Trump administration for insider trading. AOC noted that congress has mandatory stock ownership disclosures coming up on May 15th and says she's very interested to see who benefited and front ran these announcements.
All that happy talk about RFK Jr supporting the measles vaccine was bunk. The full transcript & subsequent reporting and actions make clear he’s deeply invested in proving vaccines are the problem, not the solution.
It’s part of a much bigger blow to American HC that’ll reverberate for decades.
“Truth & transparency aren’t desired by this sec.” (& throughout the Trump regime)
A sicker, poorer electorate is easier to rule. It’s a Putinesque.
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US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon at the ASU+GSV Summit, an event focusing on educational innovation largely on artificial intelligence in education, said, “A1” when apparently meaning AI multiple times.
Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter introduced eight amendments to the SAVE Act that her office said were designed to prevent married women and other potentially affected groups from being disenfranchised.
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'“Concurrent with these agreements, the EEOC has withdrawn the March 17, 2025 letters to the Law Firms, and will not pursue any claims related to those issues,” Trump noted, referring to his intimidation of the firms.
The announcements come as part of Trump’s widespread attack on law firms, punishing them for filing lawsuits he disagrees with or hiring attorneys he doesn’t like. He’s issued executive orders penalizing some of the country’s top law firms, many of which have bent to the president’s will—including Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm of former second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
The total amount of free services pledged by law firms has now reached more than $900 million, a concerning statistic not only for other law firms but for the rule of law itself.'
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I keep coming back to this and wondering why Politico didn't ask Bessent to ID who he thinks are still our allies. Denmark? Canada? Germany? Seems like a faulty starting premise. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
I'm quite sure that continuing down this path, the #US will experience yet another #SputnikShock, but this time it will be a #伴侶Shock, as with #DeepSeek.
(Sputnik/Спутник means travel companion in Russian)
Massive (68%) cut to NASA astrophysics proposed in WH budget. If this stands, it's the end of American pre-eminence in space science. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Despite the science (recent @theeconomist report), I am all in favor of making Daylight Saving Time permanent: in winter, it will be dark in most states anyway for most people when getting back from work. In early and late summer, one hour more gives you some weeks more to enjoy an evening swim in daylight, etc.
So, for once, I can agree with the #OrangePeril on something.
Earlier this morning, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday called on Congress to make daylight saving time permanent and end the twice yearly practice of switching clocks.
"The CDC has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team."
Trump & RFK Jr find sinister ways to sicken & kill us.
"CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks."
It's obvious, as Trump & the oligarchs profiteer, the rest of us are sickened, disabled, laid off, financially ruined, or DIE. #Resist
All of the FT employees in the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job -gutting the agency's ability to investigate outbreaks & conduct health inspections on cruise ships. A smaller group of 12 US #publichealth svc officers will remain. #PublicSafety #USPol cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cruise-sh…
The #Trump #ExecutiveOrders on #race remind me of a commentary for the @NPR station WMOT in Murfreesboro/#Nashville : “Chemical Eye 👁️ on the Race Factor”.
#USpol Reading the news. Canada owns $350 billion in U.S. treasury bonds; Japan, one trillion; the EU, $1.5.
Canada threatened to sell, and the EU. These loans, and others, ($8.5T) bankroll the US. No wonder the President backed down.
In December 2024, China held $759 billion in US Treasury stock. So, between the authoritarian and the wannabe, who has more to loose, and who has more power over their economy?
A proper economist might make it more complicated, but you know where my bet goes.
The Supreme Court says the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.
'More than 100 colleges and universities across the country have reported cases of student visas being revoked by the U.S. State Department, with the department changing the legal status of over 600 international students and recent graduates, according to Inside Higher Ed.
“No president should be allowed to set an ideological litmus test and exclude or remove people from our country who they disagree with,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement.
Several universities have reported that some international students were forced to abruptly leave the United States after discovering — sometimes through a federal database, or via unexpected text messages or emails — that their visas had been canceled. Attorneys representing the affected students say that many lost their visas without any prior notice, explanation, or chance to respond. In many cases, university administrators were also left in the dark, receiving no formal explanation from federal immigration agencies.
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'More than 100 colleges and universities across the country have reported cases of student visas being revoked by the U.S. State Department, with the department changing the legal status of over 600 international students and recent graduates, according to Inside Higher Ed.
“No president should be allowed to set an ideological litmus test and exclude or remove people from our country who they disagree with,” the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a statement.
Several universities have reported that some international students were forced to abruptly leave the United States after discovering — sometimes through a federal database, or via unexpected text messages or emails — that their visas had been canceled. Attorneys representing the affected students say that many lost their visas without any prior notice, explanation, or chance to respond. In many cases, university administrators were also left in the dark, receiving no formal explanation from federal immigration agencies.
Legal advocates say the Trump administration has increasingly revoked visas based on pro-Palestianian sentiment. While legal scholars affirm that international students are entitled to First Amendment protections, their temporary immigration status makes them especially vulnerable to punitive measures related to political speech.
“By surveilling visa and green card holders and targeting them based on nothing more than their protected expression, the administration trades America’s commitment to free and open discourse for fear and silence. Unfortunately, that chill appears to be the administration’s aim,” the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) wrote on X.'
"Wird als illegal hier zu sein eingestuft" ist nun ein völlig willkürlicher juristischer Zustand:
Sie haben Menschen mit gültiger Arbeitserlaubnis, legale Einwanderer, die auf die Bestimmung ihres Status' warten, die in Amerika geborenen Kinder illegaler Einwanderer (=Staatsbürger durch Geburtsrecht) usw. zusammengetrieben und abgeschoben.
A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government.
To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
Members of Trump's cabinet, as well as Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted felon leader.
