Not just BAD, but REALLY BAD! Putin better hope that Trumpy doesn’t post a REALLY, REALLY BAD warning! 
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For state universities, where in the past would get the majority of their funding by their state governments, they are now reaching out more and more to international students for this reason: they can charge them full out-of-state tuition, and other fees (probbaly).
I know this is true of the University of California system, where state funding is now a fraction of what it used to be.
Honestly, I’m surprised that FfvC hasn’t started targeting the UC system, and Berkeley and UCLA, specifically. I’m assuming it’s going to happen eventually. UC also administers several national labs as well (LLNL, LBL). If FfvC decides to sever those relationships, it will be a huge blow.
(FfvC = Fuckface von Clownstick)
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Could also go under “Fall of the 4th Estate”
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So…I guess we’ll stock up on masks this summer so we can send the kids to school with them next fall? Maybe provide their teacher with a few boxes as well?
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Blatantly illegally wiretaps… that may or may not have happened. WTF?
We have people committing crimes, (maybe) lying about bigger crimes, and a general air of paranoia and confusion in the Pentagon/NSA/administration as no one knows what the facts are or who is trustworthy.
It’s hard to tell how much is members of the administration cosplaying Stalinism and how much is them actually doing it…
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A friend shared his receipt from the pharmacy for his latest Covid shot. He’s headed to Europe and wanted reinforcements. Anyway, it also had the full price - $250! - if he didn’t have insurance.
The goddamn Trump Administration wants us to both die and go broke paying off the grifters in the process.
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Oh no. This administration is violating the Constitution? I’m shocked. I’ll be over here not holding my breath waiting on someone to be held accountable.
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Violating the constitution is obviously par for the course with this lot, which is what made the (false*) wiretap claims extremely believable, even to those within the administration.
Still, I keep thinking that if they’re willing to make fake claims about doing illegal wiretaps targeting top level Pentagon officials, then gods know what they’re actually doing to the rest of us at this point. (I mean, I have a vague sense of what they’d like to do to the rest of us, what with the Palantir contracts, but this suggests a whole lot is going on right now, given their sense of what’s acceptable behavior.)
*I know the article indicates that the claims were “found to be untrue,” but it really sounds like there’s a bit of uncertainty around that. And, of course, the mere fact that Hegseth etc. thought nothing of it to make these claims of wildly illegal behavior says something by itself. The idea that the constitution can and would be blatantly violated is the norm.
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I just can’t even keep up with it anymore. There’s a Danish immigrant who was detained by ICE at his final hearing before being approved for citizenship. He never entered the country illegally. He’s never been arrested or accused of a crime. He’s employed, married, has children, and he’s white. And they still threw him in a detention center. It seems like their only motivation now is to see what they can get away with.
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Die Fahne hoch,
die Reihen fest geschlossen.
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Yesterday, Norway evacuated a student from Harvard, because they believe the situation could get out of control, and felt it safer to bring that student home, rather than allow them to get caught up in a political situation where he would be detained for just being a student.
Let that sink in, a foreign country, decided it was safer to require their citizen come home, because they feel he could be DETAINED and would be unsafe, by attending school in the US.
This article is in Norwegian, so you have to translate, but it confirms those details.
We have damaged our reputation on the world stage of being a safe haven for education and that’s horrific.
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When NY Mayor Eric Adams was being charged with bribery, I heard many defenders try to hand-wave it away not being worth prosecuting because, “it simply wasn’t a lot of money”. It was somewhere in the $100k range, which isn’t a lot of money if you already have a lot of money, but for an average person would be life changing. And all that aside, is it too much to ask that public officials not accept any bribes? When did bribery and corruption become perfectly acceptable as long as, “oh it wasn’t that much money”?
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This is all such a self-own as well. This money is largely in the form of research grants. This is how Trump plans to one-up other countries in innovation and research? By forcing people go to other countries to do that same work?
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