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#statedepartment

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MissConstrue

Here's the official #StateDepartment notice about requiring #visa applicants (and soon holders) to the United States saying you MUST turn all your social media accounts to PUBLIC.

This is absolute madness. Do not comply. Do Not Come to the United States. The government will attack you. We have gulags. Literally, concentration camps where the living conditions are beyond horrific.

Please, there are thousands of fantastic universities everywhere else. Canada, Europe, Asia...anywhere but here. Please, for your own safety, and the safety of everyone you have ever talked to online, DO NOT COMPLY.

#uspol #danger #USVisa #USTourism #tourism #USA #DoNotComply

state.gov/releases/office-of-t

www.state.govTechnical Difficulties
PrivacyDigest

You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your #SocialMedia Public to Get a #Visa

The #Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to #surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The #StateDepartment recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for government review
#privacy

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a VisaThe Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for...
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beSpacific

While #Trump tries to completely dismiss #JeffreyEpstein’s child sex ring scandal as a Democratic “scam,” his administration has quietly axed key office related to investigating #humantrafficking. #WhiteHouse hacked 1,353 positions from #StateDepartment gutting parts of the agency that don’t align with #MAGA values,.Those include offices focused on promoting #democracy, ending #genocide, quelling political #extremism, and combating #humantrafficking. newrepublic.com/post/198080/st

The New Republic · State Department Chooses Wild Time to Cut Human Trafficking OfficeThe move comes as Donald Trump is fending off outcry over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
RonSupportsYou

Rep. Joaquin Castro: "Trump is firing 1,300 of our dedicated diplomats at the #StateDepartment. These are committed public servants who represent the United States and advance our nation’s values. Many have received years of training, learned many languages, and have dedicated their lives to public service. This is a reckless and shortsighted move that will diminish and hurt our standing on the world stage."
#diplomacy #politics #Trump #WorstPresidentEver

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cs

Friend who is in IT at #DoS says five people on his team received #RIF notices. By 5pm yesterday, all of their email was bouncing. It is rough. The loss of talent is heartbreaking. I am not sure how long it will take us to recover as a nation. This will not increase the country’s security or standing in the world. #DeptOfState #StateDepartment

Dennis A

#DOGE #StateDepartment
Completely lawless and illegal destruction and chaos. Entire departments were fired, even ones that have many active programs and grants they're overseeing. All of it legislated by the United States Congress. They can not arbitrarily end those programs.

State Department enacts widespread layoffs, cutting 1,353 staff as part of reorganization

"The involuntary staff reductions include 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service employees, accor..."
cbsnews.com/news/state-departm

www.cbsnews.comState Department to start layoffs in coming days, cutting U.S. staff by 15%The State Department is planning to lay off hundreds of U.S. staff, part of the Trump administration's plan to slash the size of the federal workforce.
BakersRelay

#TheGremlinZoo #StateDepartment #UN #Trumpisms

From AP.com: US issues sanctions against UN investigator probing abuses in Gaza

apnews.com/article/francesca-a

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, talks to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, July 11, 2023. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
AP News · US sanctions UN investigator Francesca Albanese for her stance on GazaThe Trump administration has announced it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. It's the latest effort by the U.S. to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza. The State Department’s decision Wednesday to sanction Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, comes after a recent U.S. pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post. Albanese, an Italian human rights lawyer, has been vocal about what she has described as the “genocide” by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza. Both Israel and the U.S. have strongly denied that accusation.
janggolan

"I just feel that you are not taking this seriously, and you think this is a glamour posting that you're going to live a nice life in Singapore," Duckworth concluded.
rawstory.com/tammy-duckworth-t
"You are not currently prepared for this posting, period, and you need to shape up and do some homework." #statedepartment

Raw Story · 'You need to shape up!' Dem senator shreds 'unprepared' Trump nomineeBy David Edwards
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beSpacific

#SupremeCourt Clears Way for Mass #Firings at #Federal Agencies. The #Trump administration had asked the #justices to block a lower #court’s ruling that paused the largest phase of the president’s efforts to #downsize the #government. nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/poli #democracy #Treasury #HHS #SCOTUS #KetanjiBrownJackson #dissent #DOGE #Musk #maga #fascism #firings #layoffs #RIF #HHS #StateDepartment #executiveorder #federalworkforce Executive Order federalregister.gov/documents/

The case represents a key test of the extent of President Trump’s power to reorganize the government without input from Congress.
The New York Times · Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Administration’s Mass Firings of Federal WorkersBy Abbie VanSickle
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