AP: International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court
Anjan Roy was studying with friends at Missouri State University when he got an email that turned his world upside down. His legal status as an international student had been terminated, and he was suddenly at risk for deportation.
“I was in literal shock, like, what the hell is this?” said Roy, a graduate student in computer science from Bangladesh.
At first, he avoided going out in public, skipping classes and mostly keeping his phone turned off. A court ruling in his favor led to his status being restored this week, and he has returned to his apartment, but he is still asking his roommates to screen visitors.
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Slate: Donald Trump Is Tanking One of America’s Greatest Exports in the Middle of a Trade War
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The United States exports more than $44 billion per year in education and accompanying services. This is more revenue than any other category of services: more than travel services, more than business services, more than financial services, and many multiples of computer, health, and legal services. In fact, education raises more revenue from foreign countries than all but a handful of categories of American goods and commodities, only slightly less than pharmaceuticals and far more than iron and steel, plastics, furniture, dairy products, and even soybeans.
Most people, and perhaps the president, don’t think of education as an “export,” because we don’t ship it abroad like corn or transmit it digitally like computer software. Instead, foreigners come to the United States to purchase education from us and then take it home with them. They do this primarily by attending American universities, which are the envy of the world, and paying tuition in cold, hard cash. Well over 1 million foreigners purchase U.S.-produced education this way each year, according to the Institute of International Education. In addition to paying tuition, they pay American businesses for food, shelter, transportation, and entertainment while they are here, supporting 400,000 American jobs and creating a double “win” for the balance of trade.
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NY Times: U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
The personal cellphones of dozens of current and former Barnard College employees pinged Monday evening with a text message that looked, at first, like a scam.The text said it was from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, part of a review of the employment practices of Barnard. A link led to a survey that asked respondents if they were Jewish or Israeli, and if they had been subjected to harassment.
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Robert Reich: Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity, and chaos
Trump is fundamentally incapable of governing. That’s the theme that unites everything.
… The theme that unites Trump’s inept handling of deportations, his trampling on human and civil rights, his rejection of the rule of law, his dictatorial centralization of power, and his utterly inept handling of the economy is the ineptness itself.In his first term, not only did his advisers and Cabinet officials put guardrails around his crazier tendencies, but they also provided his first administration a degree of stability and focus. Now, it’s mayhem.
…- The Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth disaster.
- The Harvard debacle.
- The tariff travesty.
- The attack on the Fed chair fiasco.
- The Kilmar Abrego Garcia calamity.
- ICE’s blunderbuss.
- Musk’s DOGE disaster.
- Measles mayhem.
- Student debt snafu.
- Who’s in charge?
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All this ineptitude in just the last few weeks reveals that the Trump regime is coming apart. Incompetence is everywhere. The regime can’t keep military secrets. It can’t maintain financial stability. It can’t protect children from measles. It cannot protect America.While we need to continue to resist Trump’s authoritarianism, we also need to highlight his utter inability to govern America.
(Robert Reich more…)Bulwark: Trump Is Paying A Price For His Reign Of Error
Sarah Jones: Trump Is Trying To ‘Fake News’ His Way Out Of Tariff Crisis
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spox called Trump claims that US-China are talking on tariffs “fake news.”
News Nation: China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs
Al Jazeera: Trump says lower tariffs depend on China, as US states sue over trade war
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Daily Beast: Musk Goons Purged Living U.S. Citizens from Social Security
RESURRECTION DAY
Elon Musk and his DOGE foot soldiers effectively killed the financial lives of “countless” citizens through their database meddling.
(Daily Beast more…)Judd Legum: The DOGE deception
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The claimed overall cuts have never matched the itemized cuts listed on the DOGE website. Currently, just $61.5 billion in cuts have been itemized on the DOGE website. But Musk Watch’s analysis of the underlying value of the canceled cuts, grants, and leases — based on the original government sources — shows there are just $12.6 billion in verifiable cuts.
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Bulwark: Nayib Bukele, 2028 Republican Frontrunner
The heir to the MAGA id isn’t JD Vance or Don Jr. It’s the dictator of El Salvador.
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That Bukele would engage in such hamfisted agitprop wasn’t a surprise. He’s a tinpot dictator. They do these things.But even after Van Hollen revealed it was all a setup, Bukele’s claim is still emanating from the mouths of American politicians.
(Bulwark more…)Joshua J. Friedman: Last night Judge Xinis—with the consent of plaintiffs!—agreed to a one-week pause in expedited discovery and daily status reports in the Abrego-Garcia case.
So here’s hoping that actual progress is being made in securing Abrego-Garcia’s release.
Law & Chaos: Is The Pause In Abrego Garcia Case A Sign Of Progress?
Or more shenanigans?
FactCheck.org: Due Process and the Abrego Garcia Case
NY Times: Judge Orders Administration to Seek Return of Another Deported Migrant
Closer to the Edge : The names they don’t want you to say
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Jennifer Rubin: Trump will be out of place at Pope Francis’s funeral
Be a Francis, not a Trump
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TNR: Was This White House Press Release Written by “The Onion”?
The Trump administration marked Earth Day with a publication that read like satire, but instead was a faithful representation of their twisted view of the world.
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“On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science,” the statement declared of an administration that has cut so much funding for science that 75 percent of 1,200 scientists responding to a survey by the journal Nature said they were considering leaving the country. The Trump administration has also laid off thousands of researchers, sidelined climate research, frozen all new grants from the National Science Foundation, appointed noted anti-scientific kooks who praise discredited measles treatments, and reportedly plans to completely eliminate the EPA’s science and research arm.
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MSNBC: Linda McMahon’s Education Department is just a glorified loan collection agency
The resumption of involuntary student loan repayments for federal borrowers in default couldn’t come at a worse time for Americans already struggling with higher prices. The policy also underscores the Education Department’s transformation under President Donald Trump from a guarantor for quality education for all into a glorified collection agency.
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NY Times: Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting College Accreditors
It was the latest move by President Trump in his effort to shift the ideological tilt of the higher education system as he battles elite universities.
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NY Times: A Beleaguered Hegseth Wanders Into His Forever War
President Trump came into office promising to disentangle the U.S. military from its costly forever wars in the Middle East. Three months in, he is embroiled in the same sort of open-ended military campaign that plagued his predecessors, and one that holds the potential for wider war with Iran.
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Sarah Jones: Pete Hegseth Orders Makeup Studio at Pentagon
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NY Times: Hegseth Set Up Signal on a Computer in His Pentagon Office
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the commercial messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – April 23, 2025
After previously suggesting that the U.S. would not involve European representatives in negotiations to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff met in Paris last week for talks with Ukrainian and European officials. The U.S. presented what it called “the outlines of a durable and lasting peace,” even as Russia continued to attack Ukrainian civilian areas.
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In essence, this gives Russian president Vladimir Putin everything he wanted.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)WSJ: Trump’s Ukraine Ultimatum
The President puts pressure only on one side—not on Russia.
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Sarah Jones: Comedian Nikki Glaser Concerned She Might Not Be Let Back In Country after Critical Jokes about Trump
Comedian Nikki Glaser raised the alarm about comedians and critics being put on a Trump list, noting that a comedian friend of hers was asked by customs agent if she made fun of politicians.
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Register: IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette
IBM beat Wall Street’s expectations for both revenue and income in the first quarter of 2025, but its stock price still dropped more than six percent in after-hours trading.
Some share of the blame for the dip may belong to DOGE, the US government data-scouring, cost-trimming operation unofficially overseen by Tesla and SpaceX oligarch Elon Musk.
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Dan Pfeiffer: Trump’s Crypto Corruption Scheme Goes into Overdrive
Trump is selling access and lining his own pockets.
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