Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.
Source: Economist, 2025 economist.com/science-and-tech… #science #uspol
Other countries may benefit. Science will sufferThe Economist
"Israel has NO RIGHT to plan Gaza’s future. The occupation is ILLEGAL"
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to end the occupation & pay reparations. Instead, Israel plans the post-genocide.”
~Francesca Albanese
#FrancescaAlbanese #israeliethniccleansing #uspol .
Israel says it carried out ‘extensive attacks’ as operation ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ launched to seize more land in Gaza.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
I remember hearing the Trojan Horse story as a kid and thinking it was a super cool story but with a massive plot hole. As a seven year old, I struggled to believe anyone would be stupid enough to just wheel a giant horse into their castle, thinking it was a gift.
Then Trump got given a luxury 747 from Qatar. Take that, cynical seven year old me #uspol
“Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud,” Popular Information reports.
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#ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol
Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
You might have seen a post being shared around saying Canada has opened up its suicide hotline to American citizens with Trump threatening a shutdown of ours in the US.
The number it links to is the Trans Helpline. This is likely a right wing attempt to try to flood and overwhelm the hotline and hurt trans people.
Please be careful and check on this before you share them. And if you see an account for a Jeras Ikehorn which seems to be bridged here from Bluesky, know this is the second time in several weeks they have blatantly shared misinformation that harms trans people.
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #ethics #corruption #maga #ice
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
The SAVE act is really the SAVE THE GOP act. Don't fall for it.
#NoSAVEAct #ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol
I was told the stock market would crash, unemployment and inflation would rise, our allies wouldn’t be taking us seriously anymore, the war in Ukraine would still be going, and the ceasefire in Israel would collapse if Kamala Harris became president. Good thing we avoided that.
#uspol #kamalaharris #wallstreet #unemployment #ukraine #trump
Angry constituent here: "It’s very hard to get people to believe that anyone is trying to end research into finding cures for diseases that affect everyone. The richest people get #cancer & #Alzheimers & #Parkinson’s. . . . & yet it is happening. Quite simply, until elected officials start hearing from angry constituents in town halls who are pissed that their futures & the futures of their loved ones are being lit on fire for no reason, then nothing matters."
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This post isn’t quite a post in the way I normally do them, more jotting down some of my brainstorming over the weekend. Universities are a core pillar of civil…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Read this, weep, refuse to comply, & don't be paralyzed by the evil.
"I understand that we have an immigration problem. I do," Riggs said. "I understand that our country cannot harbor every single person that crosses its borders. I understand that there are really bad people that we have to find." But starting w/a 73-year-old grandfather who has a #heart condition & who is the primary caretaker of his wife w/#dementia is not the solution, she said.
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The Lafayette man was detained outside of a gas station on his way to work, and his family posted a video begging for prayers and help to bring him home.The Advocate
My mom wants to watch the Booker speech on her TV, but we can't find a single station showing it.
Lots of commentary. Lots of chyrons. Can't find it. We will not go to Fox, she is very clear about that.
Help a guy's dear old mother?
Edit: Never did find an answer, but since the filibuster is finished, there's no point in seeking additional help. Thanks to everyone that chimed in and/or boosted.
Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble.MSNBC
THIS IS IMPEACHABLE!!!
President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House
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#BystanderTrump #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Confronted with key questions about life-or-death issues, Donald Trump looks like a bystander, offering the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.Steve Benen (MSNBC)
Thank you, Bishops! He's a threat to the entire world.
More leaders: STAND UP!!!!
'The President is a dangerous threat': Lutheran bishops take a stand
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#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Who gets to decide what is Christian? What does religious liberty look like today? With so much unsettling and destabilizing news coming from the new administration in Washington, DC, it’s hard to keep up with and keep track of everything.Wisconsin Examiner (Alternet.org)
SOCIAL SECURITY IS BREAKING DOWN!!!
Washington Post: “The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts because the servers were overloaded.
1/2
#SocialSecurity #DOGE #SSI #USPol
And so, here we are #canada #cdnpoli
A version of this @ #globeandmail
“What’s the probability of this kind of scenario? Ten per cent, 5 per cent, or 1 per cent? No one can say for sure. But it’s certainly not zero. And given the existential cost to Canada, we’d be stupid not to take it seriously. In game-theory terms, we need to pursue a strategy of “minimax regret” – to minimize, as best we can, the possibility of worst-case outcomes.”
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Cascade Institute Executive Director Thomas Homer-Dixon urges Canada to bolster its defenses against the growing threat of an authoritarian and imperialist U.S. regime.nicole (Cascade Institute)
The Department of Education being closed is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
Most #maga supporters want it as #trump and #doge convinced them schools were federally funded, and they were going to overhaul and fix it.
They're too uneducated to know that it's already funded by states, and The Department of Education exists to fill gaps in resources, especially for #disabled and disadvantaged children.
Which red states need THE MOST.
There are a lot of Canadians who don’t want to visit the US just now. But if you have to, I would strongly advise going by air, because US CBP is in the airport in Canada. So they can still arbitrarily refuse entry because you voted Liberal or your name is Nadia or whatever, but they can’t throw you into detention without recourse, which they definitely can at the highway crossings, and seem to be doing more of.
"I deal with every country, indirectly or directly. One of the nastiest countries to deal with is Canada," Trump said.
He continued: "Canada was meant to be the 51st state because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion a year."
Do not tell Canadians that he's "just kidding". Or that the threats are not real.
Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid US #deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more info as a legal battle plays out.
Advocates have launched a WhatsApp helpline for people searching for family members, while #immigration attorneys have tried to locate their clients after they went dark.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #USpol #Trump #AbuseOfPower #AlienEnemiesAct
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The public comment period for the transphobic bullshit on US passports ends TOMORROW! (Monday)
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.The General Strike
A friend of mine, Amy Paris, has decided to speak out after being fired from DHHS, where she oversaw the safety of organ donations across the US. As a high-performer and one of the highest-ranking trans people in the US government, it’s hard not to see this as politically-motivated.
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#USPol #transgender #trans #19thNews
6,000 probationary USDA employees hired back.
Guantanamo detainees brought back stateside
Weldon's CDC nomination yanked.
Tesla stock in the toilet.
Pushback works. Court battles work. Protests work.
We can't save everything, but the things we can save are worth saving.
Keep going.
I had to learn a lot about parliamentary government when studying for Canadian citizenship so I have all the passion of the recently-converted but I think we're all getting a lesson on which is the superior* approach right now.
*Not perfect, of course. And I'm still holding my breath for the Canadian election.
The public comment period is currently open for a proposal to remove NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations. Please share this with your networks and add your thoughts: federalregister.gov/documents/…
Trump and MAGA Republicans are attempting to dismantle the Department of Education to enrich themselves, at the expense of our students, families, and communities.
100K plus MoveOn members have signed. Will you text BLOCK to 668366 to add your name to the protest petition, too?
I haven't fact checked that, so I'm assuming it's bullshit (and that our own tariffs will stay on as Trudeau said he didn't care about half measures)
"Trump’s tariffs will still apply to about 50% of Mexican imports and more than 60% Canadian goods.
The president’s exemptions apply only to goods that are compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the deal negotiated during Trump’s first term that governs trade in North America.
White House official told CNBC that only about 50% of Mexican imports and 38% of Canadian imports are USMCA compliant."
