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Karoline Leavitt for the loss:
OOPS: Karoline Leavitt said on record that Trump's meeting with top buyers of his crypto coin isn't buying influence because it's on his "personal time". But SCOTUS says he's only immune for his crimes during "official acts" – not personal ones. She F**KED him.
— Ron Stonebear Shields (@stonebear4747.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T03:54:37.313Z
Sen. Josh Hawley is a winner! 🏆
2. You mean the guy
Who put up his fist in solidarity on January 6 then scurried like a rat after the breach?
13. Gee Josh, maybe start a Go Fuck Me account for your state.
I'm sure you can get away with pocketing half the proceeds too.
"We won with young. We won with old. *We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated."
*No he didn't. College-educated and college-aged voters overwhelmingly favored Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, exit polls show. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/11/08/men-and-white-people-vote-differently-based-education
And here is Cheeto Mussolini walking his ignorant undereducated talk while trying to increase the numbers of those he professes to love.
These Are the U.S. Universities Most Dependent on International Students
By Emily BadgerAatish BhatiaAsmaa ElkeurtiSteven Rich and Ethan Singer
Updated May 24, 2025, 8:31 a.m. ET
The Trump administration’s threat to block Harvard from enrolling international students would remove more than a quarter of the university’s student body, a share large enough to rock its campus and, potentially, its tuition revenue.
The move, frozen within 24 hours on Friday by a federal judge, also highlights the risk other universities face from an administration that has shown deep hostility toward higher education. N.Y.U., Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Carnegie Mellon have even larger international student shares than Harvard does.
This metric that once reflected their international renown — and financial strength — now looks like a vulnerability.
Schools with the most international students
As a share of full-time undergrad. and grad. students in fall 2023
The share of international students studying at these colleges and across the United States has been growing for the past two decades as rising incomes in countries like China and India have produced more families looking to educate their children in America.
Domestic forces have played a role, too: Public research universities in particular have turned to international students, who commonly pay full price for tuition, to help compensate for declines in state funding for education.
“We have all this debate about trade deficits with China right now,” said Gaurav Khanna, an economist at the University of California, San Diego, who has studied these shifts in higher education. “That’s a deficit in goods. But when you think of services — like higher ed services — we have a big surplus.”
Higher education is, effectively, a major American export — and one where the foreign students consuming it do so in American communities, also spending money on housing, groceries and books there. More than 1.1 million international students contributed about $43 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-24 academic year, most of it on tuition and housing, according to an analysis by NAFSA, a nonprofit association of international educators.
U.S. students, by contrast, often receive financial aid directly from universities or other federal programs. And at public universities, many pay lower in-state tuition. As a result, foreign students can end up contributing more than one and a half times as much as their American counterparts in tuition dollars, said Mirka Martel, head of research, evaluation and learning at the Institute of International Education.
Another way to look at this is that the higher tuition paid by international students helps subsidize lower costs for U.S. students. At some public universities, international students pay a tuition rate that’s even higher than regular out-of-state tuition.
For universities, all of this means that a decline in international students could have serious financial consequences, beyond disrupting classrooms, research and the next generation of workers in the United States. And even without threats as grave as the one Harvard now faces, colleges and universities were already bracing for a decline in international students amid the Trump administration’s cuts to federally funded research and aggressive immigration enforcement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/upshot/harvard-trump-international-students.html
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More Like Big UGLY Bill, AMIRITE?!?!?
Friday, May 23rd, 2025
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal | 0 comments
https://showercapblog.com/more-like-big-ugly-bill-amirite/
With the passage of the GOP’s reconciliation bill in jeopardy, House Republican deficit hawks held fast to their principles, ultimately resulting in fiscally responsible legislation that balances the budget for the first time in nearly…hang on, that’s not right.
With the passage of the GOP’s reconciliation bill in jeopardy, House Republican moderates held fast to their principles, defending their most vulnerable constituents from devastating cuts to programs they rely on for their veryyyyyyyyy nope, that’s not it either.
Okay. Let’s take one more crack at this:
With the passage of the GOP’s reconciliation bill in jeopardy, House Republicans of all ideological stripes briefly emitted a variety of theatrical squawks before capitulating at the first hint of pressure from their Fashy Daddy, who, in their defense, does control a massive mob of demonstrably violent psychopaths.
Shit, the only member of the entire dang caucus who actually believes anything is Thomas Massie, and he’s out of his fucking mind. https://ky.aflcio.org/news/massie
And sure, the One Enormous, Pus-Swollen-and-About-to-Burst Bill adds trillions to the debt while stealing health care and food assistance from millions, but thanks to the billions in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, Harlan Crow should be able to give Clarence Thomas a real nice Xmas this year. Three dolls at the very least.
As is the custom, the marketing strategy for this latest shit sandwich relies heavily upon big, fat, stupid lies. Karoline Leavitt, for example, claimed the bill saves $1.6 trillion, and since she’s filled the Briefing Room with drooling weirdos who’d rather ask about the “Clinton body count” than anything occurring in actual reality, the Children of the Candy Corn may well go on believing this crap right up until the hospital in their rural community closes.
So now the bond market is freaking out, and oh look, Grampa’s firing up his trade war again, so there goes the Dow. Goodness knows where we’re supposed to find all these hundreds of billions of dollars to super-size ICE or to build that “Golden Dome” to protect us from all the missiles no one is launching.
I’d say we could tap into some of that $10 trillion in investments from the Dotard’s recent trip to the Middle East, but of course that’s all fake, too. https://www.factcheck.org/2025/05/trumps-growing-exaggeration-of-u-s-investments/
Deploying those hospitality instincts honed by decades in the hotel industry, Off-Brand Orbán ambushed another head of state in the Oval Office, this time South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Yeah, the way we do diplomacy now is Stephen Miller prints out a couple memes, lies to his boss about what they mean, and snickers in the back of the room while Donnie Dumbshit bleats about “white genocide.” And then we get a few days of headlines about, like, Easily Duped President Causes International Incident Over Totally Fake Shit (Yes, Again).
At the risk of sounding judgmental, MAGA Nation’s response to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis forces me to question the sincerity of their loudly professed devotion to Christian doctrine. Which is funny, because I was questioning it just the other day, when they were all pitching fits over the “woke Marxist Pope.” Oh, and that time they elected an adjudicated rapist president.
Seems Elon Musk finally learned that while money can’t buy love, it’ll get ya a heapin’ helpin’ of the opposite if you’re not careful. Retreating from Washington in defeat, Musk announced that he’s giving up political spending, instead devoting his resources to building an AI that can figure out how to get people to buy cars from a mass murderer of children.
I think we need to order a round of cognitive tests for the wingnut SCOTUS majority, who can’t seem to stop themselves from enabling authoritarian power grabs, this time granting Trump’s “emergency” request to fire the heads of independent agencies. Like, has the decade of increasingly violent lawlessness been too subtle for y’all? And even if it has, couldja at least stop refueling the flamethrowers these creeps have trained on our Constitution? Maybe? Please?
Failed congressional candidate Joe Kent, now working as Tulsi Gabbard’s chief of staff, took it upon himself to doctor some intelligence reports because those spoilsports at the National Intelligence Council wouldn’t give Tangerine Idi Amin the excuse he wanted to deport makeup artists to foreign gulags.
Naturally, Joe’s in line for a promotion to head the National Counterterrorism Center, where he’d be free to interpret those reports howsoe’er he pleased, killjoys be damned. Sleep tight.
Devastating tornadoes killed dozens, but I guess Trump’s FEMA was washing its hair that night, because they sure as shit didn’t show up for any disaster relief. Josh Hawley couldn’t even join the partisan slap fight during the Noem hearing (more on that in a minute) because he needed that time to beg for aid.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/josh-hawley-begs-trump-administration-fema-aid-missouri-1235343815/
In saner times, they’d call this Trump’s Katrina, and it’d be a massive scandal, with wall-to-wall coverage, particularly as these communities suffer while he parties with the lucky winners of the Memecoin Bribe Sweepstakes, but I suppose, boiled frogs that we are, no one really expects competency or decency anymore.
Oh, and he’s still denying FEMA aid to North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene? Which apparently merits barely a mention in the national news media? Man, I gotta get me one of them personality cults.
ANYWAY. Kristi Noem. Homeland Security Secretary. Constitutional Scholar. Poet.
Alllllll over the news this week, taunting deported migrants and Ivy League universities, doling out polygraph tests during paranoid meltdowns; how does she even find time for those fascistic photo shoots?
Her Latin may be a bit rusty, however. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/kristi-noem-habeas-corpus/
I think it would be cool if the nation’s most powerful law enforcement officials possessed a rudimentary knowledge of, or even interest in, our most fundamental rights, don’t you? Big part of why I vote Democrat.
The Turd Reich yet again escalated its war on Harvard, banning the university from enrolling international students. I figure we’re about two weeks away from stories about Hegseth losing $60 million jets in the Charles River.
…or perhaps crashing them into Asbury Park, NJ, now that Bruce Springsteen has been declared an enemy of the state. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/trump-springsteen-golf-ball-video-rcna208242
As it happens, I got invited to the Signal chat where they’re planning the Boss’ arrest and deportation (I used to cat-sit for Kid Rock’s meth dealer), and I think it’s going down soon. Someone using the handle “DefinitelyNOTPete” just posted, “Meet me tonight in Atlantic City, warfighters.”
Looks like th’Deep State™️ got to Patel and Bongino, who’ve enthusiastically joined the Epstein cover-up like common sheeple and are no doubt shuttling Ghislaine Maxwell between extradimensional pizza parlor basements even as we speak. Man, at this rate, JFK Jr.’s NEVER coming back.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/kash-patel-dan-bongino-epstein-death-conspiracy-theories-rcna207785
Maybe somebody should do a wellness check on Nancy Mace? She’s still awful, of course, but perhaps sharing naked pictures of yourself during an official hearing isn’t the healthiest choice.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195701/nancy-mace-accusation-blackmail-nudes-congress
My biggest concern about the $5 million federal payout to loser rage cult martyr Ashli Babbitt’s family is that it could touch off a wave of copycat terrorism, with MAGA parents nudging their subpar offspring towards radicalization and violence for personal profit.
I see Alina Habba has decided to try her hand at political persecution, lobbing some bullshit charges at Rep. LaMonica McIver, after grudgingly dismissing the even bullshittier case against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. I haven’t seen Jesse Watters this excited since he last indulged in the forbidden pleasure some men call “soup” (in private, of course), because he’s apparently forgotten what a comically bad lawyer Habba is.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/19/judge-sanctions-trump-habba-clinton-00078700
Incidentally, turns out Jesse has a brother in eggshell flimsy masculinity: Congressman Tim Burchett, who shares his debilitating fear of (ominous music) drinking from straws.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/republican-tim-burchett-straws-fox-news-watters-rcna208822
Yeah, guys, Jesse Watters is manly, and Republicans care about the deficit, and habeas corpus means whatever the heck you want it to. Sure. Whatevs.
Gonna drink my beers through a straw this weekend, just cuz.
You fucking simpleton, it was a reasonable decision to pass bills that helped the most people.
By the way how did those tax cuts for the wealthy help out Trump's base of voters? And why aren't you upset that he's not letting those cuts expire?
Now to another thing Trump COULD have done but instead.......
May 21, 2025 6:00 AM CT
Losing NOAA’s Natural Disaster Data Will Make Storms More Devastating for the Poor
Mark Faber surveys the damage left behind from a large tornado that destroyed his house, garage and other structures in Bennett, Co. on May 19, 2025.
Helen H. Richardson—MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty Images
byJeremy Ney
Ney is the author of American Inequality and was previously a macro policy strategist at the Federal Reserve
Severe storms and towering tornadoes killed at least 28 people across the Midwest and South from May 17 to May 18. The last tornadoes to cause these types of mass casualties were in 2021, killing 93 people in Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kentucky while inflicting $4.5 billion in damages. More billion-dollar disasters are laying waste to American cities each year, but soon the public will have no idea how bad these damages really are.
On May 8, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired.” As part of the Trump administration’s focus on killing programs associated with “climate,” this irreproducible source of information for taxpayers, media, and researchers will soon no longer be able to track the devastating cost of natural disasters. But low-income communities—who are at the greatest risk of these disasters—are about to feel the biggest blowback.
https://time.com/7287017/noaa-data-storm-poor-communities-essay/?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-daily-spotlight&_bhlid=ed380b74b06769ea631028e1f6e75cb647e7d061
The number of natural disasters that cost over a billion dollars has increased more than sixfold since 1980. The chart above uses available NOAA data to show a meteoric rise in catastrophic events, largely due to severe storms like the ones currently hitting the South and Midwest. From 1980 to 2000, 96 disasters caused more than $546.3 billion in damages. In the next 20 years from 2000 to 2020, these figures rose to 244 events and more than $1.95 trillion in damages—marking a 154% increase in the number of billion-dollar disasters and a 257% surge in costs.
Every state has now experienced a billion-dollar natural disaster, but the severity and frequency of these are rising, largely due to two significant shifts: First, the U.S. is building far more expensive properties. Even though the NOAA data is inflation adjusted, the cost of buildings, their density, and their interiors have skyrocketed.
Wealth in risky coastal counties doubled from 1980 to 2020, largely driven by soaring home prices. Even low-income neighborhoods have much more expensive buildings due to costly regulatory reviews, as Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson point out in Abundance. Second, the U.S. is building in more disaster-prone areas.
Homes are increasingly built in regions where the wildfire season is 105 days longer than it was in 1970, half the U.S. population now lives in towns where 100-year floods are twice as common as they were just a few decades ago, and most of the southwest—the fastest growing part of the U.S.—has been under a drought advisory for the last 20 years.
The dangers of summer
The loss of the NOAA data comes at a particularly dangerous time of the year when hurricanes, floods, and wildfires are about to explode. Summer is the worst time for the nation’s deadliest natural disasters. Nearly half of all billion-dollar disasters from 1980-2024 have occurred between May and August, according to the NOAA data still available. Severe storms inundate communities in May (as we’ve just seen), droughts sear the nation in June, and then wildfires burn the arid land in July through August. Fourteen of these monumental disasters hit the U.S. last summer that cost the U.S. $41 billion and killed 108 people. This will be the last time that we’ll know these values for the foreseeable future.
The indirect costs of these storms that hit in summer are even harder to calculate. According to the U.S. Farm Bureau, natural disasters in 2024 caused $20.4 billion in crop losses due to freezes, droughts, and fires, nearly half of which was uninsured. These losses aren’t just bad for farmers, they raise food prices across the country.
Roads may be destroyed, which causes severe disruptions to the supply chain. If one store shutters, for example, several others may follow suit. Long-term health impacts of backed-up sewage and toxic chemicals can leave communities struggling for decades. Student GPAs fall by 0.3 points for every natural disaster that hits a community and those students become 10% less likely to enroll in STEM courses due to the more challenging workload.
Flood risk is 21% higher in low-income neighborhoods (median household income below $55,000) versus high-income neighborhoods. Homes in low-income areas are 29% more likely to be destroyed by wildfires due to poor structural conditions like infrequent roof repairs, as well as much further access from emergency services like fire departments that can’t respond in time.
Natural disasters are concentrated in the lowest income communities in the South, Appalachians, and Midwest
The rich move away while the poor have to stay
It’s a vicious cycle that the most at-risk communities in America—with the lowest incomes, home insurance rates, and test scores—are the ones that get slammed by storms over and over again. In 2020, A team of researchers from Princeton and UCLA analyzed all natural disasters in the U.S. over a 90-year period, combining data from NOAA, the American Red Cross, and FEMA.
They looked not just at the state-level data, but at the county level to understand what was happening in specific communities. They found that after a natural disaster “the rich move away from disaster-prone areas, while the poor are left behind…showing that these trends may worsen inequality in the U.S.” When those disasters strike again in flood zones, in the paths of hurricanes, and in the line of wildfires, the only people left are the people least prepared to manage the fallout.
Not only do natural disasters hit low-income communities the hardest, but they also push people further into poverty. The Princeton and UCLA team found in the county-level data that when a super severe storm hits (defined as 100 or more deaths), poverty in the area increases by one percentage point. Rich people were able to leave, but the poor did not have the funds to restart elsewhere.
“Natural disaster exposure risk could become another cause of rising inequality between the rich and the poor. Our study suggests that areas that do not adapt to natural disaster risk will become poorer over time,” wrote the Princeton and UCLA team. Researchers from the Federal Reserve confirmed these findings. They found that 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, families whose homes had flooded had lower credit scores and lower rates of home ownership, driving massive divides in New Orleans between poverty and prosperity.
Dozens of researchers have found that homes in formerly redlined areas are among the most at-risk areas for climate disasters. A 2023 report from the Federal Reserve found, “Neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s-1940s by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation face disproportionately higher risks of both current and future flooding and extreme heat.” On top of that, those homes tend to have worse infrastructure to manage those events, lacking proper drainage, reinforced foundations, and structurally sound roofs.
Bouncing back from a billion-dollar loss is nearly impossible
After billion-dollar disasters come, jobs wash away, savings disappear, home values plummet, school days tick by without attendance, and communities fall further and further behind. In one global study of natural disasters over a 30 year period, researchers found that annual household incomes fell by 21.5% and took almost a decade to recover. After a natural disaster, low-income families in particular take two to three times longer to financially recover compared to their wealthier counterparts.
Recovery efforts are often inequitably distributed. In FEMA’s own 2021 analysis of 4.8 million aid registrations submitted by disaster survivors between 2014 and 2018, they found that the poorest renters were 23% less likely than higher-income renters to get housing aid. Moreover, the poorest homeowners received about half as much to rebuild their homes compared with higher-income homeowners (disparities that researchers say cannot be explained by relative repair costs). And lastly, FEMA was about twice as likely to deny housing assistance to lower-income disaster survivors because the agency judged the damage to their home to be "insufficient."
Federal aid from natural disasters can be the difference between life and death for impoverished households. “When a hurricane damages your home, a clock starts ticking. Every day without stable shelter makes it more likely that the blow dealt by the storm will unleash a cascade of problems,” explained NPR’s Ailsa Chang. “Children miss school, adults are unable to work, older adults stop taking life-saving medication. Mold and heat exposure threaten to make everyone sick”
In 2019, the head of FEMA, Peter Gaynor, shared that the agency’s financial responsibility had become “unsustainable” as costs had risen. “The only way we can survive as a nation,” Gaynor said, “is to set aside pre-disaster money and build state and local capacity.”
Developers now build closer to shorelines, deeper into wildfire-prone forests, and nearer to floodplains. Extreme heat and cold kill far more older adults, young children, and those with chronic medical conditions than ever before. Without knowing the costs of these disasters, the U.S. government will fail to provide the proper financial compensation to these impacted families. And without this information, America’s most vulnerable communities have the most to lose.
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