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“This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped feeding the crocodile.”

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Jonathan Turley;

On May 28, 2025, Rubio shocked many of our allies by issuing a new visa restriction policy that bars foreign nationals deemed “responsible for censorship of protected expression” in the U.S.

The new policy follows a major address by Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich challenging our European allies to end their systematic attacks on free speech. Vance declared, “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people that elected me and elected President Trump.”

At the time, I called the speech “Churchillian” in drawing a bright line for the free world. Rubio’s action is no less impressive and even more impactful.

Pushback

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A Manhattan court has ruled against Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs as a result of a lawsuit brought against the US government by importers affected by the tariffs.

A three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade, a relatively low-profile court in Manhattan, stopped Trump’s global tariffs that he imposed citing emergency economic powers, including the “Liberation Day” tariffs he announced on April 2.

The order halts Trump’s 30% tariffs on China, his 25% tariffs on some goods imported from Mexico and Canada, and the 10% universal tariffs on most goods coming into the United States. It does not, however, affect the 25% tariffs on autos, auto parts, steel or aluminum, which were subject to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act – a different law than the one Trump cited for his broader trade actions.

Update by Kate: The order didn’t last long.

Art Of The Deal

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National Post- Trump says Canada’s Golden Dome membership costs $61 billion — or free as 51st state

In a post to Truth Social, he said the cost to join in the “fabulous Golden Dome System” — the multilayered missile defence program to counter foreign threats to America, even those coming from space — would be US$61 billion should Canada choose to remain “a separate, but unequal, Nation.”

But join the U.S. as its “cherished 51st state” and protection from the defence program will cost Canada “zero dollars.”

“They are considering the offer,” Trump wrote.

New Rules

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Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won’t allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead.

That seems to be the case today, although this may have accelerated a project that would have started soon anyway. After a federal court issued a stay that allows Harvard to continue enrolling foreign students, the Trump administration paused the entire program. Embassies and consulates have been ordered to stop conducting necessary interviews to process those applications until new vetting standards are put into place…

Now That I Have Your Attention

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Telegraph- Trump announces 50pc tariffs on EU

“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with,” he wrote.

“Our discussions with them are going nowhere! Therefore, I am recommending a straight 50pc tariff on the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025. There is no Tariff if the product is built or manufactured in the United States.”

Welcome Home, Chickens

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@visegrad24;

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says Trump is considering to broaden his ban on Harvard enrolling international students to other universities as well in an escalating row with the academic world about antisemitism and pro-CCP currents.

Trump today revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, effective immediately.

This action, led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, terminated Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification, which allows universities to issue F-1 and J-1 visas for foreign students.

As a result, Harvard can no longer admit new international students, and its nearly 6,800 current international students—comprising about 27% of its student body—must transfer to other institutions or risk losing their legal status in the U.S.

The decision stems from an ongoing dispute between the Trump administration and Harvard, primarily over allegations that the university fosters antisemitism, violence, and anti-Americanism on campus, as well as claims of coordination with the Chinese Communist Party.

Update: HHS’s Civil Rights Office (@HHSOCR) finds that @Columbia violated Title VI “by acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students”.

47: Regulating The Regulators

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Bill Shipley: THIS, dear readers, is how you begin to lift the nail-studded boot of the “Administrative State” off the necks of the citizenry

On May 9, 2025, President Trump took a huge step in addressing what he called the “over-criminalization” of federal regulations. He signed an Executive Order requiring — within the next 365 days — every agency or department of the Executive Branch must provide to the Office of Management and Budget a Report that lists of all criminal regulatory offenses that are enforceable by the agency/department; the range of penalties that may be applied to violations; and whether the regulation creates “strict liability” or does it require “actual knowledge” by the violator. This Report must be posted on the agency/ department webpage, and it must be updated annually to ensure its accuracy. The prosecution of any person under any regulation not published in the Report shall be disfavored. The head of each agency/department must consider whether a regulation is included in the Report before making a criminal referral to DOJ for prosecution based on a violation of a regulation.

In addition, future rule-making by agencies or departments should strive to draft regulations requiring actual knowledge by the alleged violator of the regulated conduct. Any new regulation providing for “strict liability” without actual knowledge must be submitted to OMB for special approval before it can go into effect.

47: Most Favored Nation

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@RapidResponse47;

@POTUS on Most Favored Nation prescription drug pricing: “We are going to pay the lowest price there is in the world. Whoever is paying the lowest price, that is the price we’re going to get — so we’re no longer paying ten times more than another country.”

More: On accusations that signing an executive order implementing Most Favored Nation prescription drug pricing is “price control,”

Mr. Carney Goes to Washington

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Dan Knight- Carney in Washington: A Test of Leadership, Failed

At the center of the meeting? Tariffs. Brutal, unapologetic tariffs. Twenty-five percent on cars, steel, and aluminum. Ten percent on oil. These weren’t symbolic gestures. These were real hits—economic body blows designed to protect American industry and workers. And Carney? He came begging for relief.

He leaned hard on the talking points: Canada is America’s largest customer, the two economies are integrated, half of Canadian-built cars are American in content. Trump didn’t flinch. When asked if he’d lift the tariffs, his response was classic Trump: “No… Just the way it is.” That’s it. No spin. No apology.

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