5️⃣ Student Visa Freeze: A War On Intelligence

Trump ordered US embassies worldwide to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for all foreign students, expanding comprehensive social media screening to every international applicant. The economic carnage: 1.1 million international students contribute $44 billion annually and support 378,000 American jobs. California faces $6.4 billion in losses, Massachusetts $3.9 billion, Texas $2.5 billion.

Harvard has 33% foreign students who pay 3-6 times what domestic students pay. Dean's educator friend confirmed it's "virtually impossible" to replace this revenue. But Dean nailed the real target: Trump represents "stupid hillbillies" who resent intelligence itself - this is warfare against smart people, not security policy.

4️⃣ Food System Collapse: Deporting the People Who Feed America

The numbers should terrify everyone: 73% of agricultural workers are immigrants, over half undocumented. The food and agricultural sector is worth $1.53 trillion annually - Trump's deportations threaten $730 billion of that production. Farmers spend over $30/hour on H-2A workers who must leave families for 8 months, but say there's "flat out nobody" else willing to do the work.

Dock workers report 40% layoffs because nothing's coming into the country. Dean's warning: "When you can't feed your family, you take up arms" - we're "three months away" from even MAGA supporters turning violent when their children starve.

3️⃣ Trump’s Golden Dome Delusion

Trump tweeted that Canada is "considering" becoming the 51st state for his "Golden Dome" system, but Dean's sources in Carney's orbit say they "all laugh" at every Trump statement. The Golden Dome is "metaphysically impossible" according to physicists and defense experts.

Carney's real response: Military partnerships with EU, $1.5 trillion in defense spending, complete independence from US military by July 1st. Canada is building agreements with France, UK, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine - becoming the "Western drone capital of the world." The king's throne speech made it official: Canada leads the free world now.

2️⃣ Pentagon Wiretapping: Bigger Than Watergate

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal lawyer Tim Parlatore told White House advisers that three fired Pentagon aides - Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll - were exposed through illegal warrantless NSA wiretaps. When advisers reacted with horror at the constitutional violation, Parlatore retracted the claim.

The scandal: A Defense Secretary managing $1 trillion budget and 2+ million troops is so paranoid he illegally surveilled his own staff, then covered it up. Dean called it the "kakistocracy" - rule by the worst people who know they're unqualified.

1️⃣ Putin-Trump Feud: Real or Fake?

Russian Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev threatened World War III after Trump called Putin "absolutely crazy." But Russian-linked senators Rand Paul (who delivered Trump's letter to Putin in 2018) and Ron Johnson (who spent July 4th, 2018 in Moscow) are blocking Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." Elon Musk joined them criticizing Trump's spending.

Lev Parnas told Dean that Putin's mission is complete: Ukraine aid cut, NATO weakened, America isolated. Putin no longer needs his "very performative" asset and is discarding him.

Call Putin's Bluff:

Zev's crucial point: The Stop Russia bill sits in Senate with 80 co-sponsors. Instead of Trump's endless "two weeks" delays, America can impose tariffs on countries dealing with Russian oil TODAY. Call every senator at 202-224-3121and demand they pass this legislation in 48 hours instead of waiting for Putin's puppet to act.

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