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In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
Today, 09:46 AM
Mentalist, on 31 March 2025 - 01:34 AM, said:The one bright spot is, Timothy Snyder will be teaching at UfT now. I may get a chance to hear him lecture live.
3 days left until "liberate-Americans-from-money" day.
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college life as we know it may soon come to an end [in the United States]. [...] Trump [...] has frozen, canceled, or substantially cut billions of dollars in federal grants to universities. Johns Hopkins has had to fire more than 2,000 workers. The University of California has frozen staff hiring across all 10 of its campuses. Many other schools have cut back on graduate admissions. And international students and faculty have been placed at such high risk of detainment, deportation, or imprisonment that Brown University advised its own to avoid any travel outside the country for the foreseeable future. [...]
"Our problem in part is a failure of imagination," [...] a former Columbia president, told The Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. "We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions." Now the most frightening versions are taking shape [...]
[...] no university in America was prepared for this assault, and none seems ready to respond.
[...] For the moment, though, the demands themselves (whatever those might be for different schools) seem less destructive than the sudden, chaotic application of extreme financial leverage:
"It's all arson and no architecture," [...]
Universities might be amenable to adjusting the terms of their relationship with the federal government, but they cannot do so quickly and under such duress. The Trump administration appears to want them not to talk, but to die.
The End of College Life - If they persist, [...]Trump's attacks on universities will destroy a cornerstone of American life - The Atlantic -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
Yesterday, 09:42 PM
HoosierDaddy, on 30 March 2025 - 06:56 PM, said:I'm too old and tired for a fucking civil war because of a fucking entitled trust fund baby and his enablers trying get him a third turn when the country is already ready for him to die.
Well, since you're devout, you might as well charge into battle
to ensure your place in Valhalla...
then you'll no longer be tired, or old.
For then you'll be youthful as time, and all energies unfolded...
(For anyone who hasn't read about it yet, Trump went on NBC news, said he wants a third term, and clarified that he's "not joking"; Republican congresspeople, including Lauren Boebert, have proposed bills to let Trump run again... but not Obama. However, I doubt Trump will really want to run again... he'll just postpone elections indefinitely, because reasons. Unless he manages to compromise voting so thoroughly that he's genuinely certain that he couldn't possibly lose again.) -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
Yesterday, 10:44 AM
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a Harvard political scientist and author of books on democracy's decline and autocracy's rise[... said t]he first two months under Trump had been "much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding[.] Erdoğan, Chávez, Orbán – they hid it."
Other [academic] observers agree that Trump's moves are of greater magnitude than those seen in other democracies turned autocracies.
"The best parallel that I can see is the collapse of the Soviet Union,"Spoiler
https://www.theguard...ran-ahmadinejad
The new American dream:
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Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.
Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. [...] Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor.
[...] There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor. They watched, helpless, as some did.
https://www.usatoday...on/82029368007/
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A video that has since gone viral shows people sleeping on the floor, and a man pleads for help, explaining there is little to no food at Krome [detention center, in Florida]
"[...] detained in Krome for several days with no water, sleeping outside," [...] "They are being treated like dogs. There's no AC, everybody is sick, God knows what they have, there's no medical attention, much less give them privileges to a bathroom."
https://www.nbcmiami...center/3573640/
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'There's a pattern': Ukrainian man is 3rd to die in ICE custody at Krome Detention Center
[...] 44-year-old Maksym Chernyak[...] "We called the officers and they didn't want to come until we told him that he was dead[.] He passed out. We tried to call medical. They didn't wanna come because they didn't have no staff until hours later, till he was mostly unresponsive."
"There's a pattern of neglecting medical care, [...] when this gentleman went into crisis [...] he received no medical care until the point his brain was bleeding and he was brain dead."
https://www.nbcmiami...center/3556811/ -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
28 March 2025 - 07:31 PM
Now they're planning to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia for opposing Putin. She had been arrested in Russia for publicly protesting the invasion of Ukraine and calling for Putin's impeachment.
She might get an asylum hearing, but the way they've been going they'll probably just deport her straight to a Russian prison, no matter what judges may say...
https://www.theguard...l-ice-detention -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
28 March 2025 - 04:24 PM
Mentalist, on 28 March 2025 - 02:33 AM, said:"how to reverse Brain Drain in 3 easy steps" by D. J. Trump.
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State Dept. demands 'enhanced' social media vetting of student visa applicants
[...] it states that a student visa applicant doesn't necessarily need to express explicit support for "terrorist activity" in order to be denied [...] "[...] conduct that bears a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles). Or [...] advocacy or sympathy for foreign terrorist organizations. All of these matters may open lines of inquiry regarding the applicant's credibility and purpose of travel."
[...] This standard may also apply to current student visa holders. While the cable recognizes that consulates do not have the authority to revoke visas, should they find evidence of current visa holders violating the new standards, they're instructed to contact the Visa Office in order to initiate review.
https://www.thehandb...visa-applicants
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