As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.
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Yan Matusevich
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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we all saw this coming, and yet
It was the first time I ever traveled out of the country. This is horrific and cruel.
#avoidablehardship
He has enough functioning neurons to know that he’s not ‘smart.’
Cancelling these scholarships is just another example of getting even with a group which excludes him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/11/fulbright-study-abroad-funding-freeze-state-department/
The PMC was once aligned with labor but abandoned them during globalization/offshoring.
This is the irrational payback — rage and destruction.
If a foreign power had done this to our country we would consider it an act of war.
show by your concrete actions you are truly committed to the fight
We now have two choices. Live free or kneel to your MAGA king like a slave.
Color? Gender? Race? Immigrant? Rural? Urban? Worker? Boss? Poor? Rich? Red? Blue? Your flag is one of these.
I know which one is mine.
This chaos is globally harmful and we need Congressional leaders (See also Crocket, Green, & AOC) to stand against this bizarre attempt to dismantle what Congress has established.