Trump's Biggest "Fuck You" Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World

[Zorro]

He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Friends,

Yesterday, Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, notified Harvard University that “effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked.”

Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students. Existing foreign students must transfer to another university or lose their legal status.

This could affect more than a quarter of Harvard’s student body.

Noem said she did this because of the university’s “failure to comply with simple reporting requirements.”

Rubbish. There was nothing simple about the trove of information Noem demanded from Harvard — including the coursework of every international student and information on any student visa holder who had been involved in “illegal” activity — information beyond what Harvard is legally allowed to share with the government.

We are in deep authoritarian fascist territory, friends.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-told-the-ed-school-graduates

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Well gee whiz! Trump didn't have to do that to make

Oxford, Cambridge, and Heidelberg look good.

Our loss, their gain.