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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
In a startling escalation in its war against higher education and, well, knowledge in general, the Trump regime just revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, claiming Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus. It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party, saying it hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as recently as 2024. Harvard enrolls almost 6,800 foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, accounting for more than a quarter of its student body. Most are graduate students, coming from more than 100 countries. We call it fascism because it is fascism.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Greenland and Europe team up to defy Trump in surprise move
One of the main reasons the MAGA cult leader obsessively started targeting Greenland for, um, "acquisition," is their vast deposits of invaluable minerals...and how easy Donald thought it would be to bully the autonomous Danish territory into getting whatever he wants. Well it turns that's not gonna happen, as Greenland has just signed a lucrative, 30-year mineral deal with a French-Danish mining consortium. Better luck next time, Donnie.

Proven winner Chris Pappas announces bid to keep crucial New Hampshire Senate seat blue
Chris Pappas for Senate: Now that Senator Shaheen is retiring, Chris Pappas is aiming to make history by becoming the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. Senate and keep a vitally important Senate seat in Democratic hands. Rep. Chris Pappas has served New Hampshire for 20 years and has a proven track record of taking on the big fights– from battling Big Pharma to lowering drug prices to facing off with predatory companies that target veterans — while winning election after election in one of the swingiest districts in the country. If we're to have any chance of derailing Trump's appalling agenda of cruelty, chaos, and corruption, we need to retake the Senate, we need to protect this must-win seat from whichever MAGA extremist tries to snatch it away. Will you help jump-start Chris Pappas' campaign with a donation?

GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville is expected to announce run for Alabama governor, associates say
Oh, good. Sentient jockstrap and man who was once good at coaching football Tommy Tuberville has his dim-witted sights set on another office. The world's dumbest American senator just might become the world's dumbest American governor, as deep-red Alabama seems destined to endure the continued curse of abysmal, self-defeating governance a good while longer.

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GOP congressman tells Fox News, "I don't drink out of a straw, brother — that’s what the women in my house do"
In these most dire days of our dwindling democracy, it's comforting to know the hard-hitting journalists over at Fox News are down in the trenches covering and uncovering the stories that matter most to Americans. We may not have a republic for much longer, but at least we have diet Tucker Carlson and his intrepid gotcha-gang marauding the halls of Congress and keeping things real. Proving his Real Tough Guy™ bona fides, Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett assured Watters' man-on-the-street sidekick Johnny Belisario that he never drinks from a sissy straw, because that's obviously something only women and girly men do. Whew. The republic stands to fight another day!

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Mahmoud Khalil finally allowed to hold one-month-old son for the first time
It took intervention from a federal judge after a month of stonewalling to make a simple meeting between detained Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and his newborn baby happen, as the Trump regime fought tooth and nail to stop Khalil from holding his son for the first time, claiming that it was a "security risk" and that he could simply meet his child through a plexiglass wall. Just needless, spiteful cruelty from an administration that thrives off inflicting pain and suffering. Khalil's wife, Noor Abdalla, traveled over 1,500 miles to the Louisiana detention center where Khalil is being held — WITHOUT CHARGE simply for protesting for Palestinian human rights. "This is not just heartless," Abdalla said of the government’s position. "It is deliberate violence, the calculated cruelty of a government that tears families apart without remorse. And I cannot ignore the echoes of this pain in the stories of Palestinian families, torn apart by Israeli military prisons and bombs, denied dignity, denied life."

Disarray at Department of Veterans Affairs imperils patient care, internal documents reveal
The Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system, has been plunged into crisis amid canceled contracts, hiring freezes, resignations, layoffs, and other boneheaded moves by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE crusade, internal agency documents obtained by The Guardian show. The documents paint a grim picture of chaos across the department’s sprawling network of 170 VA hospitals and more than 1,300 outpatient clinics, which serve 9 million US military veterans. In response to a detailed list of findings from The Guardian, Trump's VA press secretary and hapless man giving Jedi mind tricks a try Peter Kasperowicz argued the conditions described didn't actually represent a problem. Support the troops, amirite?!

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GOP lawmakers plot to kick millions off their healthcare
Care Can’t Wait: Lawmakers are coming for Medicaid — the program that covers more than 1 in 5 Americans. We’re talking kids, seniors, people with disabilities, caregivers, and millions of everyday folks who rely on it just to get by. The people who literally keep households running are being shut out of basic health coverage. Without Medicaid, essential doctor visits, medications, and basic care is out of reach for so many. Click here to tell your reps it’s time to fix that mess and DEMAND they take action to protect our healthcare!

Protesters mob Trump golf course guests ahead of exclusive, $1.5 million-per-plate crypto dinner
Some 100 protesters gathered outside Donald Trump’s National Golf Course club in Virginia ahead of a secretive dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency — with spots reportedly costing over $1.5 MILLION to ~~bribe~~ dine with the president. Holding signs reading “Stop Crypto Corruption,” “America is not for sale,” “Grift Gala,” as well as brandishing a large gold coin featuring a large image of Trump’s scowling face, the demonstrators shouted “shame, shame, shame” as the presidential motorcade arrived. The pay-to-play event was advertised last month as “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION” in the world, and literally involved a competition to buy access to the president by purchasing the most $TRUMP crypto currency. Around 80 percent of the meme coin’s supply is conveniently controlled by the Trump Organization and its affiliates.

Ex-aide hits Nancy Mace with blackmail allegation after nude pics shown to Congress
A former aide made explosive claims about Rep. Nancy Mace and the nude photos — include those of herself — she voluntarily entered into the public record on the House floor. The congresswoman's former political adviser Wesley Donehue testified in a deposition that Mace planned to use the photos she found on her boyfriend's phone as leverage to get him to give her two properties. Donehue said the MAGA lawmaker loved to play "the victim card" and constantly talked about sex, according to The Daily Beast. “Nancy talks about her sex life in a way that I’ve never heard a client or a woman talk,” said Donehue, a corporate and political strategist who has known Mace for years. “It’s like every conversation would devolve into what’s going on in her sex life." Flashback to when Mace brought up her sex life at the National Prayer Breakfast. Donehue said in the filing that Mace asked him to inform her ex-boyfriend Patrick Bryant that she intended “to use all the information that she found as leverage to gain 100 percent ownership” of a pair of homes they shared in Washington, DC, and South Carolina’s Isle of Palms. This is called blackmail, and it absolutely tracks.

It's literally called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and represents one of the largest wealth transfers TO wealthy people in US history
Should it pass in the Senate, the gargantuan GOP budget bill that just cleared the House by a single vote will add TRILLIONS to the national debt, transfer obscene amounts of "wealth" from the lower- and middle-classes to the rich, strip healthcare from MILLIONS of vulnerable Americans, expand a ban on gender-affirming care, give women a thousands bucks a pop in the form of "Trump accounts" to encourage them to have more babies, and — why the f*ck not — make it easier for people to buy gun silencers for their beloved boomsticks. Seriously. What the hell are we doing here, people?

New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it
In newly leaked and deeply disturbing audio, Wall Street bozo Frank Bisignano told a town hall with Social Security managers that he didn't actually know what the job was when it was offered to him by the Trump administration. "So, I get a phone call and it's about Social Security. And I'm really, I'm really not, I swear I'm not looking for a job. And I'm like, 'Well, what am I going to do?' So, I'm googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great googlers on the East Coast...I'm like, 'What the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?'" Pretty obvious this guy was NOT put in charge of Social Security to make sure it functions efficiently.