I spoke with @pbsnews.org about the likely economic ripple effects of the US Administration's policy of international student exclusion.

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1/ Last week, three children and a teacher were killed, and another child and teacher were seriously injured in a school shooting in Bend, Oregon. Among those killed was a 5-year-old, the youngest person killed in a school shooting since Education Week began tracking these incidents in 2018. 🧵

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5/ This is also a uniquely American problem. Other wealthy countries experience mental illness, bullying and violence, too. But the U.S. has much greater access to guns. Our child and teen gun death rate is more than 9.5 times Canada’s, which has the second-highest rate among peer countries.

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People come here seeking a Japan that no longer exists. The yakuza are an endangered species. Kabukicho is an adult Disneyland that resembles Times Square The warm welcome for foreigners has traded places with Trump-style xenophobia. The people are poor. Japan is now the Daiso of Asia. 残念🫤

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CBC calls it for the remain side. Now we get to see where the referendum movement metastesizes next — maybe they'll do another road trip! Maybe they'll go to space

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