Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to scour social media accounts of applicants for student visas and other types of visas. Rubio and other aides aim to bar people critical of the US or Israel from entering. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u... - ThreadSky

ewong.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to scour social media accounts of applicants for student visas and other types of visas. Rubio and other aides aim to bar people critical of the US or Israel from entering. Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/student-visas-social-media.html

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coletteaustin.bsky.social•44 days ago

Soon they'll have very little scouring to do, because there will be fewer and fewer applicants for US visas. That's what MAGA wants, of course, but not what the US needs.

murmorana.bsky.social•44 days ago

Did you start erecting the gold statue of the dear orange leader yet?

ubie-fuzzman.bsky.social•44 days ago

They’ve done their homework. The Vietnam war was ended, in large part, by student protests that subsequently inspired and influenced the nation. These fascists are coming for the source. We need to stop them.

walkonthewildside.bsky.social•44 days ago

gestapo working

enuffisenuff.bsky.social•44 days ago

Because God knows we wouldn’t want any other ideas…🤯

johnstockbridge.bsky.social•43 days ago

Diaper Don is a fat, ignorant pig. A lifelong amphetamine addict, it has left him fecally incontinent.

I'm happily giving the fat asshole and his Nazi minions something to find in my social media, so they can suck it.

corporatecuck.bsky.social•44 days ago

Why would we want people who are critical of our country, to enter our country? Let these foreign activists stay where they are.

Would your employer hire someone who talks shit about your employer on social media? It just makes zero sense.

steenws.bsky.social•44 days ago

Because the **whole f’n point** of the United States is to make one out of many. It’s that whole “E pluribus Unum” thing. That includes humans, ideas, and opinions.

scassian.bsky.social•44 days ago

I wonder if any of these students have said “America is arrogant, fundamentally hostile to us, and they wish to dominate world politics.”
Because that would be just awful, and probably enough to get them deported in the current climate.
Which is interesting. Because that was Winston Churchill.

alainlaboile.bsky.social•44 days ago

walkonthewildside.bsky.social•44 days ago

pleasenoqcrap.bsky.social•44 days ago

There are 1.2m jobs in the US dependent on foreign tourism

What is your guess of how much foreign tourism will fall? It already looks like 40% from Canada and 25-30% from Europe

marksero.bsky.social•44 days ago

so much freedom of speech.... like in North Korea or Russia

paniker.bsky.social•44 days ago

And Vance lectured Europe about free speech! What an absurd parade of fascist clowns. What is mind-boggling, many US citizens cheer them on. Don't they recognize this perverted view of "freedom"? Don't they realize they will be targeted themselves soon?

thewakan.bsky.social•44 days ago

FASCISTS

thewakan.bsky.social•44 days ago

schiltron.bsky.social•44 days ago

A McCarthy-esque witch hunt - sounds on brand. You gotta wonder what pushed Rubio to sell the little integrity he had left to this group.

bxgirl2700.bsky.social•44 days ago

You know what violates national security?
* linking up with an Salvadorian prison which tortures immigrant prisoners (8th A)
* dragging Turkish Fulbrighter to detention for an op-ed piece criticized US/Israel re-Gaza;
* destroying US legal system, its lawyers & judges.

It’s fascism. It’s Trump

bxgirl2700.bsky.social•44 days ago

This is beyond unacceptable. Perhaps, focusing on national security texts, emails, Signals, threatening US. is more important than students speaking out against Israel & US involvement in Gaza?

Ya think?

Oh I forgot. The boys up Trump’s posterior , neither think nor have a conscious mind.

nbg-steigt-ab.bsky.social•44 days ago

You read it here first
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3llcn63enzc2m

floridalia.bsky.social•44 days ago

It’s starting ...

grumpymol.bsky.social•44 days ago

I think US diplomats are going to have their hands too full of other matters post tarrif Wednesday to bother with that nonsense.

firsttheycamefor.bsky.social•44 days ago

Absolutely absurd. If anything thinks that it will stop at the issue of Palestine or with visa holders, they’re deluding themselves.

kilzeus.bsky.social•44 days ago

"Land of the free" my ass.

expatgirl.bsky.social•44 days ago

How about he works to keep national security plans off of commercial messaging platforms? Might be more effective.

katrapkin.bsky.social•44 days ago

"I don't have any social media accounts".

stephenswan.bsky.social•43 days ago

Why would I visit a fascist, authoritarian, corrupt country anyway? A country with a head of state that is a convicted felon, no respect for human rights, threatens peaceful countries (Canada, Ukraine, Denmark over Greenland), extorts others resources & support genocide & ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

blshiv.bsky.social•44 days ago

Why go to a racist hellhole?

topcatone.bsky.social•44 days ago

Yea for free speech and no censorship...oh, wait @elonmusk Elon, what say you? Can you help stop this?

maxsec.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not coming anywhere near the USA for bit anyway

batgirl2005.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sickening!

rorol.bsky.social•44 days ago

So free

chris-kraft.bsky.social•44 days ago

Weird thing to come from the pioneers of free speech 🙄

hilarylennon.bsky.social•44 days ago

Israel, and yet...
https://bsky.app/profile/paulrosenberg.bsky.social/post/3llrjkggls22z #Trump

janznsea.bsky.social•44 days ago

We’re next.

goatest.bsky.social•44 days ago

The point is to bring in people who are critical of America and then show them the best of what America can be. Changing minds goes a lot further to make allies than almost anything else. It’s why, in the Cold War, we brought in students from the USSR and China.

qnbechtel.bsky.social•44 days ago

I've lost any interest in visiting the US anyway. I don't travel to countries with a fascist, tyrannical government.

muggly.bsky.social•44 days ago

Let alone the danger to your life.

djx8.bsky.social•44 days ago

Mostly everyone should start using pseudonyms for all their social media accounts, use different email address for each (and don’t use your name in your email) and definitely make them private. Small things we can do to remain somewhat anonymous.

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