The Beaverton [Unofficial]Everything Canadian that Albertans will be able to keep after separating, according to Alberta Separatists
BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨💻PassPorts Please! China expands travel restrictions on AI researchers.
Top AI engineers and researchers are being asked to surrender their passports to their employers. China's government has classified frontier AI as a strategic national asset. https://thenextweb.com/news/china-expands-travel-curbs-private-ai-talent
This is similar to what we will see in the Quantum industry as detailed in this TechAptitude post. https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-technologies-and-geo-politics?r=vn8b8
#AI #China #DeepSeek #ExitBans #AITalent #TechAptitude #Quantum #QuantumComputing #TravelBans #Passports #AIResearchers #LLMs #FrontierAI
Evan Centanni (PolGeoNow)Report says #M23 rebel govt in east #DRCongo charges US$50-500 for "entry visas" (very steep by world standards!), and at first wanted to also stamp #passports.
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/05/18/m23-tax-drive-dr-congo-squeeze-aid-groups
#travel #defacto #geography #geopolitics #independence #rebelgovernance @geography @geopolitics @politicalscience #EastAfrica #Africa #Congo #Rwanda
Jason BeetsLast year, Trump signed an executive order preventing transgender, nonbinary, and Intersex Americans from receiving identity documents from the federal government, including passports, that accurately reflect their gender identity.
https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-endless-series-of-outrages.html
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#Trump #News #Politics #LGBT #LGBTQ #Passports #US #USA #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Intersex
Charming Malcontentso wonderful to be in that #London where the only #Murricans one encounters have #passports and didn't marry their cousin
Global News US NewsU.S. wants to revoke passports for unpaid child support, officials say
Although legal precedent permitting revocations has existed for 30 years, governments have typically chosen to deny renewal applications rather than revoke valid passports.
#Trending #USNews #Passport
https://globalnews.ca/news/11840746/unpaid-child-support-us-passports-revoked/
Although legal precedent permitting revocations has existed for 30 years, governments have typically chosen to deny renewal applications rather than revoke valid passports.
#Trending #USNews #Passport
https://globalnews.ca/news/11840746/unpaid-child-support-us-passports-revoked/
Advocate.com [Unofficial]Federal judge baffled by Supreme Court order targeting trans Americans’ passports
William Lindsey 
"Trump is a failed dictator — but he is still president, and he’s propped up by stooges like Blanche who are ready and willing to make good on his most rage-fueled and irrational desires. The next two years, therefore, may be among the most trying of the slow-motion disaster that has been the Trump Era."
#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #TriumphalArch #passports
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"Just as Hitler’s failures led him to resent the German people ever more strongly and destructively, we can expect Trump’s growing frustration to result in ever more nihilistic and destructive actions as his term moves toward its end."
#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #TriumphalArch #passports
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"the two share a late-regime obsession with rewriting history and building monuments to justify their utterly failed rule.
Hence the increasingly frantic effort of a crew of cronies, now being led by Blanche, to validate Trump’s victimhood thesis."
#Trump #MentalDecline #RealityTV #Iran #war #oil #gas #ApprovalRating #ballroom #TriumphalArch #passports
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