All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Tero]

All foreign college students expressing support for Gaza will be rejected. Not just those going to Harvard.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... visa-trump

[Svartalf]

that's fucking illegal, the gummint is opening itself to million dollar lawsuits for the inconvenience it's causing students, and possibly ruining their future, and if those students are going to the US, odds are the 'rents do have the money to pay the lawyers.

[Tero]

Hey look! They almost balanced the budget. Trump will sign it!

[Tero]

https://www.threads.com/@howroute/post/ ... 2Mp43GPN2A

JUST IN: Trump administration is interfering in the Polish presidential election. Kristi Noem is in Rzeszów, Poland, where she is actively campaigning for the pro-Russia, pro-Trump candidate, Karol Nawrocki, and saying that he should be the next president of Poland.

[Tero]

Trump does not have power of tariffs. Congress does.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... mp-tariffs

[pErvinalia]

The courts have TDS!

[Tero]

mrentropy88
10h
Trump just canceled all J1 visas. That includes 6,000 doctors set to start work in the U.S. July 1. Most of them work in under served and rural areas. Good luck with that MAGA. Also it’s 100% the Democrats fault for not stopping this after voters made them the minority party without any power.

[L'Emmerdeur]

The woke 'inclusion' part of the horribly woke DEI initiatives must be stamped out to Make America Great Again. The traitorous deaf people need to stop trying to impede that beautiful project!

'National Association of the Deaf Sues White House for Access to Press Briefings'

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed a lawsuit today to compel the White House to immediately resume providing American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters during broadcasts of their press briefings to make them accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. Two deaf individuals—Derrick Ford and Matthew Bonn—join NAD in this lawsuit.

This is not the first time the NAD has sued the White House for access to press briefings. In September 2020, the NAD obtained a landmark court ruling ordering the White House to provide interpreters for all coronavirus-related briefings. The lawsuit was resolved when the White House implemented a policy to provide ASL interpreters for all press briefings conducted by the President, Vice President, First Lady, Second Gentleman, or the White House Press Secretary.

Since that settlement, the White House provided ASL interpreters, including Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs), for all public briefings, press conferences, and related events by the President, the Vice President, and the White House Press Secretary. These interpreters were visible on the White House’s official communication channels, including WH.gov/live, Facebook, Twitter/X, and YouTube. The White House’s press briefings were thus fully accessible for deaf and hard of hearing people. However, this practice abruptly ended in January 2025. The White House has not provided any ASL interpreters for any press briefings since that time, despite the NAD’s repeated requests.

[Brian Peacock]

Maybe they could make the briefings inaccessible to the blind by turning the sound off too... please.

[Tero]

Trump is saying that only his tarriffs saved the US economy going to the toilet due to Biden. But they must have worked real fast!

[Svartalf]

because the economy is NOT going down the toilet, thanks, at least in part, to those famous tariffs?

[Tero]

Taco Trump
https://www.threads.com/@sjhippie1/post ... nYF-dlnHnQ

[aufbahrung]

just because the economy is sinking slowly and seems like the beach before a tsuanmai quite rosey, doesn't mean bad things aren't in the pipeline

[Tero]

Steven Pinker is at Harvard. He writes:

In my 22 years as a Harvard professor, I have not been afraid to bite the hand that feeds me. My 2014 essay “The Trouble With Harvard” called for a transparent, meritocratic admissions policy to replace the current “eye-of-newt-wing-of-bat mysticism” which “conceals unknown mischief.” My 2023 “five-point plan to save Harvard from itself” urged the university to commit itself to free speech, institutional neutrality, nonviolence, viewpoint diversity and disempowering D.E.I. Last fall, on the anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, I explained “how I wish Harvard taught students to talk about Israel,” calling on the university to teach our students to grapple with moral and historical complexity. Two years ago I co-founded the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, which has since regularly challenged university policies and pressed for changes.

"So I’m hardly an apologist for my employer when I say that the invective now being aimed at Harvard has become unhinged. According to its critics, Harvard is a “national disgrace,” a “woke madrasa,” a “Maoist indoctrination camp,” a “ship of fools,” a “bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment,” a “cesspool of extremist riots” and an “Islamist outpost” in which the “dominant view on campus” is “destroy the Jews, and you’ve destroyed the root of Western civilization."

"Call it Harvard Derangement Syndrome. As the country’s oldest, richest and most famous university, Harvard has always attracted outsize attention. In the public imagination the university is both the epitome of higher learning and a natural magnet for grievances against elites."
"How did Harvard become such a tempting target? Some of the ire is unavoidable, a consequence of its very nature.

"Harvard is huge: It has 25,000 students taught by 2,400 faculty members, spread out over 13 schools (including business and dentistry). Inevitably, these multitudes will include some eccentrics and troublemakers, and today their antics can go viral. People are vulnerable to the availability bias, in which a memorable anecdote lodges in their brains and inflates their subjective estimate of its prevalence. One loudmouth lefty becomes a Maoist indoctrination camp."

"Yet some of the enmity against Harvard has been earned. My colleagues and I have worried for years about the erosion of academic freedom here, exemplified by some notorious persecutions. In 2021 the biologist Carole Hooven was demonized and ostracized, effectively driving her out of Harvard, for explaining in an interview how biology defines male and female. Her cancellation was the last straw that led us to create the academic freedom council, but it was neither the first nor the last."

"Another area in which Harvard’s shortcomings are genuine, but seeing it as all bad does not help in the long run, is viewpoint diversity. According to a 2023 survey in The Harvard Crimson, 45 percent of members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences identified their politics as “liberal,” 32 percent as “very liberal,” 20 percent as “moderate” and only 3 percent as “conservative” or “very conservative.”

"How to achieve an optimal diversity of viewpoints in a university is a difficult problem and an obsession of our council. Of course, not every viewpoint should be represented. The universe of ideas is infinite, and many of them are not worthy of serious attention, such as astrology, flat earthism, and Holocaust denial. The demand of the Trump administration to audit Harvard’s programs for diversity and jawbone a “critical mass” of government-approved contrarians into the noncompliant ones would be poisonous both to the university and to democracy. The biology department could be forced to hire creationists, the medical school vaccine skeptics and the history department denialists of the 2020 election. Harvard had no choice but to reject the ultimatum, becoming an unlikely folk hero in the process."

"Why does this matter? For all its foibles, Harvard (together with other universities) has made the world a better place, significantly so. Fifty-two faculty members have won Nobel Prizes, and more than 5,800 patents are held by Harvard. Its researchers invented baking powder, the first organ transplant, the programmable computer, the defibrillator, the syphilis test and oral rehydration therapy (a cheap treatment that has saved tens of millions of lives). They developed the theory of nuclear stability that has saved the world from Armageddon. They invented the golf tee and the catcher’s mask. Harvard spawned “Sesame Street,” The National Lampoon, “The Simpsons,” Microsoft and Facebook."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opin ... ation.html

[Brian Peacock]

All that just because Barron was rejected by Harvard eh?