Sylvia Chong

Everything is blowing up in Elon Musk’s face | CNN Business All it took was losing $100 billion in three months to make Elon Musk change his tune on government work.

"With Tesla’s continued sales drop, Musk is getting a harsh reminder that he’s not the only one who can wield a pocketbook to send a message."

Damn right he is. And we're gonna keep on sending it. #teslatakedown www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/b...

US citizen. Lawyer. Targeted and harassed at customs on his way home from Spring Break with his family. This is Trump's America. Who do you think is safe if they're targeting US citizen attorneys, folks?

Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Holy f***! Now permanent residents and visa holders are being deported after trying to return to the U.S. from an international trip. Everyone be careful out there. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Yesterday (2/27) was a strange day in Charlottesville. In addition to the stabby guy near UVA that prompted the 2nd shelter-in-place alert THIS WEEK, we were driving S on 29 around 5 and saw a mini-police chase (a little dark grey car that swerved across 4 lanes of traffic into the Staples lot).

assoc vp for student affairs marsh pattie, incidentally, seems to be the university's liaison for threatening students with cops. he also bought into the CRT panic & publicly spouted chud talking points in opposition to anti-racism + queer inclusivity so this is for sure his time to shine

On a U.S. deportation flight of mostly Asians to Costa Rica, half will be minors A flight carrying primarily Asian undocumented migrants, 65 of whom are minors, is expected to land in San Jose, Costa Rica on Thursday afternoon.

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

“Forty-one U.S. senators could use the filibuster to block most legislation that enables the funding of Musk’s companies. With 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and two independents in the Senate, such a push is numerically possible, though politically difficult.“

Agenda for the board meeting. Link: https://bov.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1171/files/2025-02/%2725%20FEB%2021%20SPECIAL%20MEETING%20OF%20THE%20FULL%20BOARD%20BOOK.pdf

Charlottesville:
The UVA Board of Visitors is hosting a “special meeting of the full board” this Friday, Feb. 21 from 9:30-11:30AM to discuss and possibly restrict gender-affirming care at UVA medical facilities for those <19 again despite the executive order being blocked twice in court last week.

I guess I should be happy that Kaine and Warner didn't also vote for brain worm and for drunk nuke codes. Why can't our Democrats stand up for anything while our country is burning?!?

Just found out that my VA senators are PRACTICALLY Republicans re: 47's cabinet nominees: Kaine voted for the dog killer Noem, multimillionaire Bessent, spineless USAID-killing Rubio, and Ratcliffe, and Warner voted for all of these except for Noem. Seriously?!?

Trump administration sued over order banning transgender healthcare for minors Families of transgender children on Tuesday asked a federal court to block U.S. President Donald Trump's order to end all federal funding or support for healthcare that aids gender transitions for people younger than 19.

Lawsuit filed by families of transgender children arguing that the recent EO discriminates against transgender people and exceeds presidential authority.

www.reuters.com/legal/trump-...

Here’s the complaint:
fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

How far did that kowtowing get you, UVA?

So UVA sells out trans and non-binary kids (like mine) on Friday and halts their care to prevent their precious federal grants from being affected, and today, we hear that all of the NSF and NIH funding portals have been shut down anyways, so no one can get to their grant money.