The United States is losing one of its most precious assets: its onetime status as the top destination for global talent. Current politicians are poisoning that well. The cost, shared by Conservative and Liberal Americans, will be incalculable and permanent.

Immigration changes are driving foreign researchers to leave the U.S. — or not come to begin with

Labs are seeing fewer applications from international students and researchers, and some doctoral students are considering leaving early.

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Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

We could have had 3x as many dead but instead wore masks and got a vaccine and damnit I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

We are rightly up in arms over ICE killings in the streets, but what's happening in Trump's detention camps will leave a moral stain for generations

‘This Place Is a Graveyard of Living People’

A harrowing human rights report details horrors at America’s largest concentration camp.

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My new high score in maptap: www.maptap.gg July 26 100🎯 95🏅 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 995 (Washington DC, St. Gallen, The Hague, Skopje, Monrovia)

this is plain abuse of power & should be an enormous scandal, yet it is one of how many outrages just this week...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Read this enraging story about the Trump regime's corruption of a civics contest (a civics contest!). And know that the reporter who wrote the hell out of it was laid off by WaPo six months ago. This poor young man, believing in institutions just as they all collapse. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO

"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."

America’s Death Squads Are Real

Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.

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BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo ago

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story

Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...

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“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death

“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

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Gee, Justice Kavanaugh has anything come up in gun technology that was largely unknown in 1789 and that the Framers of the Second Amendment could not have fully anticipated?

We have quite simply never seen corruption as massive and utterly out in the open by a US President and his family. There is no precedent for this level of public theft and self enrichment.

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.

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Today's was my best maptap performance yet. www.maptap.gg June 29 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 97🔥 Final score: 991

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 3mo ago

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

Americans have the RIGHT to better kerning.

FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK: Marco Rubio just had a man arrested and jailed, and is seeking to deport him, because he publicly supported Petro and opposed a presidential candidate in Colombia that Donald Trump would prefer to be elected. He committed no crimes and had an asylum application pending.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Trump administration detained a Colombian immigrant this week in Phoenix after he spoke out against a Trump-endorsed candidate in his home country’s upcoming presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Same office that covered up prosecutor's crimes in the Broadview Six case just covered up a police shooting. Feds said a teen beat up a cop before he's shot. They have clear video evidence showing the kid just squirmed away from him. They hid it from the judge. Judge just set a sanctions hearing.

Video contradicts FBI agent's account of shooting during undercover sting in Country Club Hills

U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling ordered the video’s public release Thursday after its discovery prompted federal prosecutors to drop charges related to an attempted robbery during an underc...

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KAY: There's no commitment in this MOU for Iran not becoming a nuclear state REP. MIKE TURNER: It actually expressly states that- 'the Islamic Republic confirms that it shall not procure or develop nukes' K: Which was the first sentence of the JCPOA, but that was backed up by an inspections regime

The Social Security cap is the most transparently ridiculous arbitrary rich people tax haven there is

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On the contrary, I believe that raising the cap on incomes for Social Security taxes above the current ceiling of $184,500 is the best and fairest option and would likely be politically popular. It still leaves plenty of room for taxing the rich, even if it brings their effective tax rate over 50%.

Any reporter who chooses to interview Trump (and I am not sure if that’s even a good idea!) should have a couple of these in their back pocket. Anything beats pleading what trouble you went through, which implies a kind of personal debt. Trump owes THE PUBLIC these answers, not a network.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Woman held by ICE for 25 days, despite U.S. citizenship claim, gets a passport

Attorneys for Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales had presented a Maryland birth certificate and other documents as proof of her U.S. citizenship.

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Gifting this article 🎁 I don’t understand. Who can defend this? How stupid is this country? How stupid are our Senators? Are we really thinking that simply shorting ourselves in the face is going to make us better off? Why isn’t this a complete outrage? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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It’s about to be a heyday for grifters with this $1.766B slush fund. But payouts for dubious cases have already started — they’re just not being covered in MSM. I wrote ab Alex Berenson — “The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man” — getting a $150k government handout for a case that had already been dismissed.

They did this with Avelo planes they bought for their DHS “deportation” fleet, too. Avelo source told me told me they were offered “fuck-you money” and snatched it right up. Real stewardship of our tax dollars, huh?

Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 3mo ago

‘A New Level of Corruption': DHS Bought ICE Warehouses From Trump Cronies For 10x Markup "Folks very close to the White House... were sitting on properties that were causing them losses... The decision was made to buy them at taxpayer expense.""

The strike “was prompted by a new report on CA ICE detention centers released by the CA Attorney General’s office describing conditions as ‘cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable.’” “The food I wouldn’t feed to my neighbor’s dog,” said one jailed man: www.dailynews.com/2026/05/20/a... #ShutDownAdelanto

Adelanto ICE detainees launch hunger strike to demand improved conditions

Detainees say the ICE facility is rife with abuse and neglect that is harming their health.

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