Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Rants And Raves -- Adulting In The Room -- May 28, 2025

Locator: 48705R&R.

Finally, some adulting in the room: the Trump administration will take a sledgehammer to visas for Chinese students. 

More importantly, Senator / SecState Marco Rubio looking good. More and more it looks like the next presidential campaign is Marco Rubio's to lose. Over four years he will learn a lot from the master. President Trump has an eagle eye, laser-focused, on China, the EU, Apple, Harvard. One may want to google: usc chinese students trump visas "southern california."

Finally, some adulting in the room: the timing of this cannot be coincidental. The fraudster was fired May, 2025. 

This case had been pending for four years; the professor has been fighting it since the discovery. Trump is in office less than six months. The fifth-highest paid professor at Harvard is fired for fraudulent papers that she had authored or co-authored over ten years. It appears it took Trump's election to get this case resolved. Link at wiki but juicier stories everywhere else.
Grapevine, TX: two days ago an 18-y/o destined for the  USAF Academy was killed while kayaking on Grapevine Lake. 

Alleged perator of the hit-and-run jet ski fled the scene with a male accomplice. So many eyewitnesses, etc., that it took less than 48 hours to capture them both. It turns out that both the alleged operator of the jet ski that killed the kayaker and her accomplice (not on the jet ski at the time) were in the states illegally. They were from ... drum roll ... Venezuela. My hunch: authorities are going to sweep up at least another dozen illegal Venezuelans among their circle of friends, if nothing else, harboring fugitives from the law.
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Caitlin Clark
: WNBA, sidelined for two weeks due to thigh muscle spasm (NOS). Will miss four games. Anticipation: huge drop-off in television ratings for WBA. We'll see. "Stephen A" of "Get Up" says he is eagerly looking forward to those ratings. Memo to self: check back in about June 14, 2025.