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

M23 tax drive in DR Congo puts squeeze on aid groups

The Rwanda-backed rebels have imposed entry visas and demanded taxes on staff salaries and rented properties.

The New Humanitarian

Last 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

An Endless Series of Outrages

  The first two and a half weeks of Donald Trump’s second term have featured a whirlwind of outrageous, chaotic, and horrible decisions....

so wonderful to be in that #London where the only #Murricans one encounters have #passports and didn't marry their cousin
U.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/

Federal judge baffled by Supreme Court order targeting trans Americans’ passports

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/supreme-court-transgender-passports-confusion

"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."

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(continued from /11)

"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."

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New Passport Design Featuring Trump's Face Unveiled by State Department #passports #trump #cartoon #trumppassport #gregkearney #kearney