It’s like if the USA was a house, Donald Trump and his goons are cancelling all the utilities without realising (1) that in a month the water will be shut off and the entire house will start smelling like shit.
1. or probably without caring, it’s easy to misattribute malice for stupidity when the actions being taken are THIS malicious but that’s what’s going on. I don’t necessarily think Donald Trump is this stupid but I think he is just very very malicious. Though at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter whether he is stupid or malicious or both, the consequences of what he is doing won’t change depending on intentions.
The end of the post-WW2 American era has arrived, and looking at the state of the opposition, it’s not coming back. The courts have essentially executed a constitutional change which will have far reaching impact.
The smart move now is to figure out what that means to you and your family. Trump is a narcissist with obvious limitations. The true threat is a more organized sociopath, backed by the rulings of a young, craven federal judiciary, and what monstrous stuff is truly possible.
Everything Nixon did is legal now, and no doubt worse stuff is happening.
“The Fulbright Program's mission is to bring a little
more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more
compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the
chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace
and friendship.” — Senator J. William Fulbright
Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-boa...
Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications, at Least for Now: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/study-abroad/2025...
Association of International Educators warns students won’t want to come to the US https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/association-international-ed...
Trump's draft 2026 budget in May would have cut its funding by 93%. In June, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the whole board, resigned in protest, because the Trump administration was meddling and trying to remove funding for certain foreigners and to add new inspections for scholars who were wrong in some unspecified way. Fortunately, the funding got back into the draft bill in mid-July.