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Trump's assault on universities is sinking global interest in American degrees • Weekly internet page views of US university courses halved between January 5th and end of April • Traffic on webpages of US courses stands well below levels registered during covid-19 pandemic

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Totally not fascist.

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incredible stuff!

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President Trump’s sweeping bid to deport foreign students who have condemned the war in Gaza has been brought to a standstill by federal judges who have repeatedly ruled against the administration, according to an NBC News review of recent court filings. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Fake Agency DOGE is actually going to cost us money. youtu.be/-8YREs4vmUA?...

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Apprenticeship which leads to a postgraduate qualification (MA) in Field Archaeology and more! Historic Environment Higher Level Apprentice Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority Salary: £23,657 to £24,790 per annum Closing Date: 30/06/25 Location: Bainbridge, www.bajr.org/job-ad/histo...

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news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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For many undocumented students at my institution this would mean a 167% increase in costs.

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“Many of Dead Sea scrolls may be older than thought, experts say Researchers enlisted help of AI along with radiocarbon dating to produce new insights into ancient texts” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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The GOP bill would cut $1 trillion from health care. This would kick 10.9 million people off their health insurance. That, plus the expiration of the APTCs (and the other half of the ACA rule), lead to 16 million people losing health insurance, pushing the uninsurance rate up 4 percentage points.

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ICE arrests record number of immigrants in single day, including hundreds at scheduled appointments

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Say Goodbye to Your Data & Privacy, Say Hello to Palantir & the Mass Surveillance State Billionaire Peter Thiel's company Palantir has received millions from the Trump Regime to compile data on Americans, which will be abused for mass surveillance & profit. thelefthook.substack.com/p/say-goodby...

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Gov. Walz: “I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected.” www.startribune.com/gov-tim-walz...

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In 2026 Maine has the opportunity to erase "concerned" from our political vocabulary. For the sake of all of us do the right thing

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“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”

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NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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Up to 51k annual deaths from the "pro-life" party.

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Why do all three of these men look like they’re going through a wind tunnel

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A spokesman for Organized Communities Against Deportation told press he believes 10 people have already been detained. ICE agents just brought another man out of a car and into the ISAP facilty.

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Judge orders Trump administration to provide due process to some migrants deported to El Salvador

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BREAKING: A Guatemalan man who was deported by the Trump administration and then was ordered to be returned by a judge because of due process concerns is back in the United States, his attorney said.

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BREAKING: President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body.

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Of the 12 new detainees, 6 are women and 6 are men. Bellwood, Maywood, and Broadview PD are all on site now as well.

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Fox News left out the 10 million people who lose their health insurance and the $2 trillion tacked onto the deficit… and the part where all of this is to pay for rich people and big corporations’ tax cuts

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BREAKING: Trump announces new travel restrictions on 19 countries, including 12 outright bans www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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🚨 When it rains it pours; Trump has apparently signed ANOTHER 212(f) travel ban tonight, this time banning all foreign students and researchers going to Harvard.

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A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.

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The bus is pulling up now. Will send footage ASAP. Organizers on site have low battery so we just used Instacart to send them a battery, cord, and some waters. Once they are charged they will go live. Please keep boosting. ❤️‍🩹

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We have 50501 organizers on the ground right now, and they just got confirmation a bus with more detainees is coming. They also just overheard the cops on site say they have a minor in the car, so one of the detainees may be under 18. Will send more updates as we get them. Please help boost this!

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that's right

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Russell Vought, now a key figure in the DOGE, is openly challenging the constitutionality of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. He claims the executive branch has the authority to withhold funds even after Congress has appropriated them, essentially saying the president, not Congress,

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Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

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A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king

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"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

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“It is unclear what happened in the yrs between the deaths of 19 patients and the 1880s, when a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls to a doctor in Germany who researched the then-popular practice of phrenology.” Never forget the rise of Jim Crow enabled the rise of the Third Reich on so many levels…

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One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in February when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Toppens ypperste bedrift har altid været at overbevise bunden om at toppens guldrandede privilegier er til bundens bedste… 🤷‍♂️ #dkpol

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Next week's bestseller 😃

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Celebrating Pride Month 🌈 Past Preservers are committed to inclusivity & equity in media, travel, public engagement & knowledge sharing. Let's amplify diverse voices & foster a more just environment 🌟 #PrideMonth #Inclusion #Diversity

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“First, the contention that anyone assigned male at birth is always going to be better at sports than anyone assigned female at birth is simply not true. Second, for most people in most situations, a slight difference in athletic capacity rarely matters.” Agustin Fuentes again:

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New from 404 Media: ICE just paid Palantir tens of millions for "complete target analysis of known populations." Shows Palantir is actively working on, and updating, the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

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This notion, that there always has to be a large underclass of people who aren’t well educated and just do manual work for the rest of us, is called “Mudsill Theory.” I bristled yet again at what the Party of Lincoln has become. marypezzulo.substack.com/p/the-mudsil...

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