Sónia Cabral

@scabral.bsky.social

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews

More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

forbes.com

Há 50 anos, todas as pessoas em Portugal puderam votar pela primeira vez em liberdade. Não esquecemos quem lutou e não paramos enquanto todas forem ouvidas, representadas e livres. A liberdade conquista-se — e defende-se.

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Liberdade para pensar. Liberdade para fazer, dizer, viver. Liberdade para ser. Há 51 anos, foi conquistada. Hoje e sempre, não a deixe fugir. 📷 Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.

IMF paper: “…tariff increases are associated with an economically and statistically sizeable and persistent decline in output growth. Thus, fears that the ongoing trade war may be costly for the world economy in terms of foregone output growth are justified.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Are tariffs bad for growth? Yes, say five decades of data from 150 countries

The empirical evidence on the growth effects of import tariffs is sparse in the literature, notwithstanding strong views held by the public and politicians. Using an annual panel of macroeconomic data...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov