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I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Every word of this is agony to read. What Israel is doing to Palestinians is pure barbarism... by far the greatest single crime of the 21st century. Every sane person must oppose this evil.
August 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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In investigating Nike’s claims, reporter @robwdavis.bsky.social‬ had a breakthrough when he received payroll information for a Cambodian factory.

Quick calculations showed that just 1% of workers made 1.9x the minimum wage, the amount that Nike said was typical.
In Cambodia, Our Journalists Put Nike’s Claims About Factory Conditions to the Test
ProPublica reporter Rob Davis began with a simple question: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed? To find the answer, he had to travel…
www.propublica.org
June 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.
June 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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“Between the beginning of February and the beginning of March, we lost five grants that were funding my salary and my team’s salaries,” @jrspringman.bsky.social said. www.yahoo.com/news/univers...
University professors face uncertain future after research grants terminated by Trump
University professors say the termination of federal funding could lead the United States to relinquish its global competitive advantage when it comes to higher education and scientific research.
www.yahoo.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM