The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-...
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
CARRIE: If you don’t mind me asking, how did you know Samantha?
FRAN LEBOWITZ: If I’m being completely honest, I saw a line of 300 men trying to get in here and assumed Brooks Brothers was having a sale. I was going to get a new jacket.
Nice crowds at every Fri night showing in my 35k Missouri town. Encouraging.
THUNDERBOLTS* is good enough that I'm worried people won't go see it.
Good job team America
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Democrats meeting with political detainees is an extremely positive trend and should be encouraged and celebrated
“Government Efficiency” 🧐
Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.
Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country.
All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.
*HIGHLY Recommend* the poignant, deeply compelling documentary VAL on #PrimeVideo, which follows Val Kilmer post-throat cancer diagnosis, narrated by his son Jack & using Val’s own home video footage chronicling his career & life’s journey. #RIPValKilmer
Frengel Reyes Mota
No criminal record, no gang ties, no tattoos, applied for asylum, father of a 9-year-old, government's case full of errors, sent to mega-prison anyway amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
Dictator shit
There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports.
There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state.
Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social
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the Dow is now down not from when Trump was sworn in, but from when he was last November
Here’s the thing, though: it’s affected no more than 15% of chickens while prices have gone up over 200% - and the corporations are making bigger profits, not hurting.
The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
Republican support for same-sex marriage down 31pts, from 55% to 24%, in four years according to new poll from YouGov.
Yikes.
“I won’t forget” ?
and there it is
Mike Lawler: "I've been very clear: I will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid."
(Bookmark this one.)
In advance of the Oscars tonight: a lot of comedy heroes let you down. They become unfunny/bitter/closed minded. Conan is the exception. He has grown & evolved & is funnier than he’s ever been. He’s also an extremely kind and lovely human. Just a sincere post to say: Conan rules.
Lift the cap.
