Harvard Wins Injunction Against Trump Admin's Student Visa Ban

A federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of President Donald Trump’s proclamation that bars foreign nationals from entering the United States through Harvard’s student exchange visa program.

District Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard’s request for an injunction to extend a block on enforcement of the June 4 proclamation while litigation is ongoing.

Trump stated in his proclamation that the Chinese Communist Party and other U.S. adversaries are trying to “take advantage of American higher education by exploiting the student visa program for improper purposes and by using visiting students to collect information at elite universities in the United States.”

The proclamation also pointed to a rise in crime rates at Harvard in recent years, alleging that the university had failed to discipline certain categories of conduct violations on campus.

In a 44-page memorandum, Burroughs stated that the proclamation did not establish any connection between the high crime rates at Harvard and the presence of foreign students.

“The proclamation does not state, for example, that the rise in crime is correlated with a rise in the percentage of international students of Harvard, nor does it cite any evidence whatsoever that international students are committing these crimes, statistics which, presumably, would be available to the federal government if they exist,” she wrote.

Burroughs said the case centers on core constitutional rights to freedom of thought, expression, and speech, which she said must be safeguarded as they serve as “a pillar of a functioning democracy and an essential hedge against authoritarianism.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvard-wins-injunction-against-trump-admins-student-visa-ban

DoE Declares U.S. Southeast Grid Emergency To Avert "Blackouts"

A massive heat dome is scorching the eastern half of the U.S., triggering widespread grid stress. The week began with emergency alerts across the Mid-Atlantic, including a multi-hour blackout in New York City's Queens borough as power demand surged. Now, the Southeast grid is under similar tight conditions. The Trump administration has declared a power emergency as millions blast air conditioning.

On Tuesday morning, the Department of Energy issued an emergency order under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act to prevent blackouts in the Southeast U.S. amid surging demand due to extreme heat. The order allows Duke Energy Carolinas to operate fossil fuel power generators at maximum capacity from early this morning through Wednesday, overriding 'green' rules to maintain grid stability and prevent a rolling blackout.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/doe-declares-us-southeast-grid-emergency-avert-blackouts

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"You're Welcome": Pennsylvania Boasts About Saving 'Green' Maryland From Near Power Grid Collapse

Pennsylvania State Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York) wrote in a late Monday Facebook post that the state's surplus electricity supplies were exported to Maryland during Monday's peak demand surge, as temperatures in the region approached 100°F. She credited Pennsylvania's stable power grid with preventing a blackout crisis in "our 'green energy' neighbor - Maryland." As we've reported on several occasions, far-left climate Marxists running Maryland have mismanaged the grid, which now teeters on the verge of a Spain-style blackout disaster if outside energy imports are not secured.

"Just a friendly note to our "green energy" neighbor - Maryland: You're welcome," Sen. Phillips-Hill wrote in the post.

She said, "During this heat wave, Maryland consumers demand a lot more energy than it generates. If it was not for Pennsylvania - it would be lights out and air conditioning off," adding, "This is another reminder that Maryland should work on supporting (and not shutting down) baseload energy generation rather than require farmers in Southern York County to give up pristine farmland to construct more transmission lines."

Not even two weeks ago, a top official at Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), a local utility with 1.3 million electric customers and 700,000 natural gas customers, warned that rolling power blackouts could soon become a regular feature in the state due to a rapidly alarming mismatch between total power capacity on the grid and soaring demand.

As per The Baltimore Sun:

Regular rolling blackouts could become reality for Baltimore-area residents if a lack of energy supplied to the power grid remains unaddressed, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Vice President Electric Operations Steven Singh warned.

BGE has worked during the last two decades to lessen the number of short-term loads shed events, Singh said, but rolling blackouts — during which power is disconnected from some segments of the community when the grid remains viable — could be implemented if power demand continues to exceed supply.

"It's a huge concern," Singh said. "It's a clear and present issue."

At a recent round table at the University of Maryland … We have a supply and demand issue."

Singh also shared larger concerns with energy shortages that may result as the energy transition away from coal-fired power plants continues, and electric vehicle ownership grows. He said one factor that impacts the region is an increase in data centers — reliant on huge, power-hungry server infrastructure.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youre-welcome-pennsylvania-boasts-about-saving-green-maryland-power-grid-collapse

Israel’s moral collapse: Strategy doesn’t require dead children

You don’t stop a nuclear program by deliberately targeting families. You just abandon the idea that anything is off-limits.

The recent revelation that Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Sadati-Armaki was killed along with his entire family – his wife, two daughters, and son – in an Israeli airstrike should stop even hardened strategists in their tracks. This wasn’t just a precision strike. It was an execution of a household.

Sadati-Armaki was not a senior official. He was a mid-level scientist—an engineer working within Iran’s nuclear framework. That role may have made him a target in the logic of modern conflict. But nothing, not even that logic, can justify killing his children in their own home.

This wasn’t an isolated incident. On June 13, at least five other nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes across Tehran: Fereydoon Abbasi, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ahmadreza Zolfaghari Daryani, and Seyed Amir Hossein Feghhi. Their credentials tied them to Iran’s nuclear program. All had played some role, technical or administrative, in Iran’s nuclear development. None were combatants. Most were academics. Some had already retired from state positions.

Crucially, they weren’t alone. In multiple reported cases, family members died alongside them. Wives. Daughters. The daughter of a senior official.

These were not errant missiles landing in crowded urban spaces. These were targeted strikes on homes, in residential areas, at night, when families were together. This isn’t the fog of war. It is its deliberate weaponization. The children didn’t make enrichment policy. The spouses didn’t oversee uranium labs. But they died because of proximity—because they were related to someone deemed dangerous.

To call this “collateral damage” is cowardice. When decision-makers approve a strike on a home, knowing who sleeps inside, the outcome is no longer an accident. It is a choice.

Some argue that in an asymmetrical war, deterrence must be personal. But this is not deterrence—it’s liquidation. It suggests that no civilian life adjacent to state infrastructure is worth preserving. It sends the message that not even scientists’ families will be spared, as if moral limits are luxuries we can no longer afford.

This is not a defense of Iran’s nuclear posture. It is a defense of the basic principle that families—children—cannot be combatants. If we abandon that line, we are not winning anything. We are declaring that fear is stronger than law, that vengeance is smarter than diplomacy.

Killing scientists’ families doesn’t dismantle programs. It doesn’t prevent future threats. It only makes peace more remote and retaliation more likely. What we normalize now, others will imitate later.

This is not strength. It is strategic and moral collapse. And if this is where warfare is headed, then everyone—regardless of nationality—should be deeply, urgently afraid.

https://www.rt.com/news/620409-killing-scientists-families-iran/

UK announces joint drone-production with Ukraine

Prime Minister Kier Starmer has hailed a “massive step forward” in British military assistance for opponents of Russia

Speaking in London on Monday after a meeting with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer hailed a “first of its kind” deal that represents a “massive step forward” in military assistance for Kiev. Zelensky described the development as “historic.”

Moscow has long described the UK as a key driver of the ongoing hostilities.

Neither leader disclosed specific details of the initiative, but both indicated that Ukrainian defense manufacturers stand to benefit from British battlefield technologies.

Zelensky was in the UK this week to meet with Starmer and speak at an event hosted by the Chatham House think tank. Zelensky mentioned production of “long-distance drones” during his speech. One such kamikaze drone hit a residential tower near Moscow early Tuesday morning.

Russia has accused the UK of being directly involved in Ukrainian drone operations, particularly naval drone attacks targeting Crimea. Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted that Britain is also “100% involved” in Ukrainian intelligence operations, including those Moscow categorizes as acts of terrorism.

“It is obvious that all this is being done by the Ukrainian side, but it would have been helpless without the support… from the British,” Lavrov said.

In April, The Times reported that British troops have been present in Ukraine since 2022, the year the conflict escalated. The report stated British forces played a key role in deploying French-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles supplied to Kiev.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who oversaw the UK’s early and extensive involvement in the conflict, has referred to the Ukrainian military as “our proxies” in interviews, as did some other Western former and current officials.

https://www.rt.com/news/620424-starmer-zelensky-drone-production/

Trump: I'm not happy that Israel is going out now. There was one rocket that I guess was fired overboard. It was after the time limit, and it missed its target, and now Israel's going out. These guys got to calm down. Ridiculous.

I didn't like plenty of things I saw yesterday. I didn't like the fact that Israel unloaded right after we made the deal. They didn't have to unload, and I didn't like the fact that the retaliation was very strong. But in all fairness, Israel unloaded a lot, and now I hear Israel just went out because they felt it was violated by one rocket that didn't land anywhere. That's not what we want, I'll tell you. And I'm telling you, I'm not happy about that, Israel either.

All I do is play both sides. I'm going now, as you know, to NATO. Some of you are going with me, and I think it's going to be successful. We'll see. I'll let you know.

Reporter: Talking about the new dawn in the Middle East that you managed to achieve last night, you know, the region is going to a new place. Can you tell us what's your future plan for Gaza, for the hostages?

Trump: Well, we have to have Israel calm down because they went on a mission this morning. I got to get Israel to calm down now.

Reporter: You urged both sides not to violate the ceasefire, but reports coming from the region suggest that the sides accuse each other of violating the ceasefire.

Trump: I think they both violated it. I don't think— I'm not sure they did it intentionally. They couldn't rein people back. I don't like the fact that Israel went out this morning at all, and I'm going to see if I can stop it. So, as soon as I get away from you, I'm going to see if I can stop it. Okay?

Reporter: How confident are you that Iran's nuclear capabilities have been demolished?

Trump: I think it's been completely demolished. I think the reason we're here is because those pilots, those B-2 pilots, did an unbelievable job. And you know, the fake news, like CNN in particular, they're trying to, you know, they're trying to say, “well, I agree that it was destroyed, but maybe not that destroyed.” You know what they're doing? They're really hurting great pilots that put their lives in the line. CNN is scum, and so is MSDNC, they're all. And frankly, the networks aren't much better. It's all fake news, but they should not have done that. Those pilots hit their targets, those targets were obliterated, and the pilots should be given credit. They're not after the pilots. They're after me.

Reporter: Do you believe that Iran could rebuild its nuclear program?

Trump: Iran will never rebuild its nuclear. From there? Absolutely not. That place is under rock. That place is demolished. The B-2 pilots did their job. They did it better than anybody could even imagine. They hit late in the evening, it was dark with no moon, and they hit that target with every one of those things, and that place is gone. But when I see CNN all night long, they're trying to say, well, maybe it wasn't really as demolished as we thought. It was demolished. You take a look at the pin pricks, and you see. That place is gone. And I will say, I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s. I think that MSDNC ought to apologize. I think these guys really— these networks and these cable networks are real losers. You really are. You're real losers.

You're gutless losers. I say that to CNN because I watch it. I have no choice. I got to watch that garbage. It's all garbage. It's all fake news. But I think CNN is a gutless group of people, and the people that run it— nobody even knows it's been sold so many times— but the people that run it ought to be ashamed. MSDNC, a guy named Brian Roberts, he heads it. He's a disgrace. He's a weak, pathetic disgrace.

Reporter: Israel said that Iran violated the peace agreement. Do you believe that Iran is still committed to peace?

Trump: Yeah, I do. They violated it, but Israel violated it too. Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, Okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour, just drop everything you have on them. So, I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either, but I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land, I'm not happy about that. We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*ck they're doing! Do you understand that?

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Former Harris Lawyer Now Works for a President She Called ‘Unfit to Hold Office’

A lawyer who worked for Kamala Harris’ Senate office and President Joe Biden’s National Security Council now works in President Donald Trump’s administration as an ostensibly non-political staffer in the Department of Defense, even though she wrote an op-ed calling Trump “unfit to hold office.”

While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in ostensibly nonpolitical, career positions. The Office of Personnel Management tracks when political appointees transition to career positions—a process often referred to as “burrowing in” to the bureaucracy—and Samantha Goldstein did so in 2023.

Goldstein went from senior counsel at the Office of Legal Policy in the Department of Justice to attorney-advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the DOJ.

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A lawyer who worked for Kamala Harris’ Senate office and President Joe Biden’s National Security Council now works in President Donald Trump’s administration as an ostensibly non-political staffer in the Department of Defense, even though she wrote an op-ed calling Trump “unfit to hold office.”

While presidents appoint more than 3,000 people for political positions, the federal government directly employs roughly 2.3 million people, most of whom serve in ostensibly nonpolitical, career positions. The Office of Personnel Management tracks when political appointees transition to career positions—a process often referred to as “burrowing in” to the bureaucracy—and Samantha Goldstein did so in 2023.

Goldstein went from senior counsel at the Office of Legal Policy in the Department of Justice to attorney-advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the DOJ.

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OPM approved her move on Jan. 15, 2023. Goldstein received a pay bump from $110,460 annually to $127,942 annually.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Goldstein left the DOJ in July 2024 to serve as deputy legal advisor on Biden’s National Security Council until February, when she joined the Department of Defense as associate deputy general counsel.

Goldstein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2013, and clerked for two U.S. appeals courts: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She interned with the left-leaning NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 2016 and served as a special counsel for Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., in 2018. Between these two positions and before she joined the Justice Department, Goldstein worked at the firm O’Melveny & Myers. Legistorm confirms this history.

During her second stint at O’Melveny, Goldstein wrote a Washington Post op-ed with Walter Dellinger, a partner at O’Melveny who had worked in the Clinton administration. (Trump fired Dellinger’s son Hampton, who had served as the special counsel in the Office of Special Counsel, earlier this year, sparking a legal battle.) In that op-ed, Goldstein and Dellinger insisted that Trump is “unfit to hold office.”

“In the face of an unprecedented attack on American democracy by a hostile foreign power, Donald Trump and those who worked for him both as a candidate and a president failed to defend the United States,” they wrote regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into accusations of collusion between Trump and Russia. “For this alone, he is unfit to hold office.”

Golstein and Dellinger wrote that the Mueller report “demonstrates that the president and his closest aides violated … fundamental duties imposed by their oaths of office,” namely the duty to protect and defend the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/23/former-kamala-harris-attorney-who-wrote-trump-is-unfit-hold-office-now-works-defense-department/

Palantir VS. The World: What Does Palantir Actually Do?

The pervasive influence of CIA cut-out Palantir Technologies has spread across the world, swiftly embedding itself in the heart of the American government. Here we take a look at the deeper role of this Big Tech / intelligence behemoth.

In case you hadn't noticed, Palantir is everywhere these days.

That's right, everyone's least-favourite deep state intelligence cutout is suddenly all over the newswires.

Investopedia is touting Palantir's record-high stock price.

The New York Times is reporting on Palantir's new contract to create an IRS "mega-database."

People are hitting the streets to protest Palantir's creepy surveillance technologies.

Heck, Palantir's Chief Technical Officer has even taken to the pages of The Free Press to brag about joining the US Army as part of the Army Reserve's new "Executive Innovation Corps" of tech nerds and businessmen.

As a Corbett Reporteer, you'll be well-placed to understand how odd this sudden influx of attention paid to Palantir is. After all, for the past decade the only place you were likely to see anything at all about this data-mining surveillance behemoth was on Unlimited Hangout or The Last American Vagabond or The Conscious Resistance or The Corbett Report or other websites in the independent media space.

So, what's going on? Why is Palantir suddenly the subject of such scrutiny? And what does that mean for the future of Palantir and the future of humanity?

Let's find out.

What Is Palantir?

If you caught How Palantir Conquered the World, then you're already up to speed on what Palantir is and why we should be so concerned about this deep state asset masquerading as a government contractor.

But in case you didn't read that important article, here's a one-sentence summary:

Palantir, named after the magical seeing stones in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is a swamp-dwelling intelligence cutout that provides panoptic surveillance and data mining software that tracks everyone and everything on behalf of the absolute worst elements of the deep state.

That about covers it. But for those who require more detail, here's the slightly bigger picture:

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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/deep-state/palantir-vs-the-world-what-does-palantir-actually-do

Democrat Al Green Files Article of Impeachment Against Trump over Iran Strikes

Rep. Al Green (D-TX) on Tuesday filed an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for failing to seek authorization from Congress before he bombed nuclear sites in Iran.

Green’s resolution alleged “abuse of presidential powers by disregarding the separation of powers — devolving American democracy into authoritarianism by unconstitutionally usurping Congress’s power to declare war.”

“President Trump’s unilateral, unprovoked use of force without congressional authorization or notice constitutes an abuse of power when there was no imminent threat to the United States, which facilitates the devolution of American democracy into authoritarianism,” the Texas Democrat continued.

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EVs are so popular that the government has to steal my money to help you buy one.

They paint electric vehicles as the unstoppable future. Wall Street is enthusiastic. Automakers are investing in gigafactories. Yet here we are in mid-2025, watching these cars stall on dealer lots unless taxpayers kick in billions.

Your money makes the drive happen.

Since January, Washington has issued over $2 billion in point-of-sale EV tax credits, assisting more than 300,000 clean vehicles so far. The credit caps at $7,500 per vehicle, but Treasury figures show 90% of that benefit ends up with upper-income buyers. Think affluent households using your tax dollars to subsidize luxury rides.

Prices remain elevated. In May, the average EV transaction landed at $57,734, which puts it $9,644 above the typical gasoline model priced at about $48,090. Inventory tells the rest. EVs linger on lots for 111 days, compared with roughly 70 days for gas cars. That bloated supply forces automakers to slash production and rob profits just to keep showrooms moving.

At the brand level the cracks are visible. Tesla slashed prices to maintain momentum. Ford throttled back F-150 Lightning output. GM pushed its Ultium rollout further. Rivian still bleeds around $38,000 per vehicle, while Lucid loses hundreds of thousands on each car sold. All of them depend on your subsidies to stay afloat.

Industry projections still predict EVs could make up 10% of U.S. new vehicle sales in 2025, with hybrids adding another 15%. But that forecast rests on fragile legal scaffolding. House Republicans intend to kill the $7,500 credit by year-end, including the $4,000 used-EV credit. Senate Republicans moved faster, proposing a rollback 180 days after passage and an annual EV fee to repair roads. Remove government support and the entire structure starts wobbling.

The result? You and I end up funding a luxury-vehicle boom for wealthy families, often buying second or third cars. That burden shows up in national debt, higher taxes and interest costs. When interest rates spike or subsidies disappear, those EVs lose value and so does the mortgage you help underwrite.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/evs-are-so-popular-that-the-government-has-to-steal-my-money-to-help-you-buy-one/

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