Trump regime revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll international students

Source: WBUR [US state media]

“The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. The school called the decision ‘unlawful.’ The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it had terminated Harvard’s certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. In a letter to the university, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Harvard of cultivating a ‘unsafe’ campus that fosters antisemitism. ‘It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments,’ Noem said in a statement. ‘Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.’ Harvard will no longer be able to enroll students with specific nonimmigrant statuses next school year.” (05/22/25)

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/22/trump-administration-revokes-harvards-ability-to-enroll-international-students

Thomas L. Knapp

America’s Credit Is Falling — and the Government Is Still Digging Deeper Into Debt

Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy

“America’s debt-addicted government just lost its triple-A credit rating from Moody’s, as it previously had from fellow rating agencies S&P and Fitch. Many in Washington shrugged the move off as minor or as unfair treatment of the Trump administration. The truth is more sobering: a flashing red signal that the United States is no longer seen as a ‘perfect’ credit risk and that politicians should stop pretending economic growth alone can bail us out. Yes, the mess is real, and it’s because habitual deficit financing—the very disease fiscally-minded Founding Father Alexander Hamilton warned against—has become business as usual.” (05/22/25)

https://reason.com/2025/05/22/americas-credit-is-falling-and-the-government-is-still-digging-deeper-into-debt/

Thomas L. Knapp

US Initial Jobless Claims Decline to Lowest Level in Four Weeks

Source: Bloomberg

“Applications for US unemployment benefits fell to a four-week low, adding to evidence that the job market remains healthy in the face of growing uncertainty tied to trade policy. Initial claims decreased by 2,000 to 227,000 in the week ended May 17, roughly in line with forecasts, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The period includes the government’s survey week for its monthly employment report. Continuing claims, a proxy for the number of people receiving benefits, rose to 1.9 million in the previous week.” (05/22/25)

https://archive.is/FFpX2

Thomas L. Knapp

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s poisonous “slavery” claims reveal his true loyalties

Source: New York Post
by Adam B Coleman

“When in doubt, progressives will always default to weaponizing historical black plight — the lifeblood of their political arguments. No one wields dead black people more enthusiastically than a progressive ideologue bent on clotting common-sense political discussions. Leftists like Ras Baraka repeatedly repurpose our racial identity to throttle the beating heart of American prosperity. In a recently surfaced campaign-trail video, Baraka — current mayor of Newark, NJ and aspiring governor — angrily compared US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the slave-catchers of the distant past. ‘The attack on immigrants … they want to know why we can relate to that: Because we was undocumented too!’ Baraka proclaimed.” [editor’s note: The comparison is apt – TLK] (05/21/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/05/21/opinion/newark-mayor-ras-barakas-poisonous-slavery-claims-reveal-his-true-loyalties/

Steve Trinward

Idiot pol moves to expel another idiot pol from Congress for elbowing gang member

Source: Axios

“Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Wednesday she is filing a resolution to expel Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) from Congress after the Justice Department charged her with allegedly assaulting law enforcement. The resolution is a long shot — and Mace isn’t yet forcing a vote on it — but Republicans seem intent on punishing McIver and two other House Democrats who were involved in a scuffle with ICE officers. … Mace said in a press release she would introduce an expulsion resolution but let the House Ethics Committee consider it, rather than forcing a House floor vote on it.” (05/22/25)

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/lamonica-mciver-expel-congress-nancy-mace

Thomas L. Knapp