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Didn’t always live in Florida. Loves to travel. Taught journalism students to code. Reads novels. BritBox fan. https://mindymcadams.com/
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—and also bringing foreign senior researchers and graduate students to the U.S., many of them for the first time, where they immerse themselves in our culture and academic traditions.
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The Fulbright program was established 80 years ago. It’s one of the U.S.’s great sources of soft power and low-key diplomacy, introducing thousands of people around the world to Americans, both senior researchers and fresh college grads—
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“In addition, the department is reviewing the applications of about 1,200 scholars from other countries who have already been approved by the board to come to the United States …”
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We cannot END these dynamics if we accept that actually ICE is ok under Dems like Barack Obama and Joe Biden
We cannot stop this if we accept paying for them to be used in Palestine and then taught to American forces
We cannot stop this if we accept doing it to anti-genocide protectors
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The president is lying.
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Trump said he was ordering Hegseth, Bondi, etc., “to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots.” There were NO RIOTS. There is no invasion.
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There were no “violent, insurrectionist mobs … swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations.” None. Zero. Call out the lies.
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Source: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-8-2025
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2/2
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ICYM: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Especially seeing as how the U.S. president told the German chancellor with a straight face that D-Day “was not a pleasant day for you.”
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Details: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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“—dozens of pregnant women, some of whom needed emergency abortions, were turned away from emergency rooms with advice to ‘let nature take its course.’” 4/4 Source: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-4-2025
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“The Trump administration will no longer enforce that policy. Last year, an investigation by the Associated Press found that even when the Biden administration policy was being enforced—“ 3/n
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“—if the procedure is necessary to prevent a patient’s organ failure or severe hemorrhaging. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act requires emergency rooms to stabilize patients.” 2/n
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All this has been known — but HCR puts it so plainly.
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“To do so, the plan calls for destroying the administrative state, withdrawing the United States from global affairs, and ending environmental and business regulations.” 2/2 Source: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-4-2025
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Source: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2025
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It’s sad that half of America receives news and information only from Fox News, which never, ever informs them about the Russian supporters within the U.S. government. If they knew, they would be horrified. Americans are not fans of Russia or Putin. But they wallow in ignorance. 8/8
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“Beattie also wrote: ‘NATO is a far worse threat to the health, liberty, freedom, and flourishing of American citizens than Russia and China combined.’” NATO, which protects our allies in Europe from the greed and corruption of Putin’s repressive regime! 7/n
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As a child of the Cold War, I am stunned by the love of Russia and Putin shown by the current U.S. government and its officials. Russia has always desired to destroy America. 6/n
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“Praising Putin as ‘brave and strong,’ [Beattie] said that Putin had ‘done more to advance conservative positions in the US than any Republican’ and that ‘just about every Western institution would improve in quality if it were directly infiltrated and controlled by Putin.’” 5/n
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“In 2021, Beattie wrote that the ‘position [of the U.S.] in the global order [is] rapidly deteriorating’ and that he looked forward to its ‘prestige and power’ collapsing.” 4/n
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Note, the current State Department acting under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs advocates that Vladimir Putin should infiltrate U.S. institutions! 3/n