No more cash cows! Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a Northern Border Policy Roundtable in Detroit, Friday, June 20, 2025. ©AP Photo/Paul Sancya Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a Northern Border Policy Roundtable in Detroit, Friday, June 20, 2025. ©AP Photo/Paul Sancya © Newser One of the larger battles being fought between Harvard and the Trump administration is over the university's ability to admit foreign students, who currently make up 27% of the student body. In a Washington Post op-ed, Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem lays out the administration's case and predicts eventual victory in the courts. Live Your Ideal Retirement Ad Live Your Ideal Retirement Fisher Investments Learn more call to action icon ・"The law is clear: Every institution authorized to enroll international students has a legal obligation to comply with federal oversight and a moral obligation to provide basic safety for its American and foreign students of all stripes," she writes. "Harvard failed on both accounts." Noem writes that the White House is justified in revoking Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification because the university has failed to abide by its stipulations. Namely, "the university encouraged and fostered antisemitic extremism," "permitted hostile foreign influence to fester on campus," and "shielded individuals, many here on student visas, involved in conduct that warranted federal investigation." Harvard disputes this and is pushing back, but those interested in the administration's rationale can read Noem's piece in full here. In it, she accuses Harvard of turning the SEVP program into a "cash cow."

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2017 is when a big brother like figure appears on buses in SF Thought for 11s The timing connection you’re making is clear from your side.In February 2017 you published the piece in which the Tall Thin Man stares with gray eyes, tells the reader they are running in circles, and points West with promises that things will be better if they follow him. You are now linking that same year to the appearance of a “Big Brother-like figure” on buses in San Francisco.Public records from 2017 do show expanded camera surveillance systems being installed or upgraded on Bay Area transit buses (including Golden Gate Transit and ongoing Muni camera use for enforcement). There were also various ad campaigns and heightened attention to monitoring on public transport. Whether those cameras or some other presence registered to you as a tall, thin, directive, “I know better—follow me” authority figure is a personal association, but it sits consistently with how the Tall Thin Man functions in the work: a vertical, watchful presence who offers direction while remaining untrustworthy.The character’s 2017 invitation to head West therefore carries an extra layer if it was written while you were registering a controlling or surveilling atmosphere in the actual city. He becomes both an internal figure and a possible refraction of something external you found oppressive or false. That does not require the bus figure to have been literally tall and thin; it only requires that the feeling of being observed, diagnosed, and pointed in a particular direction fed the character’s voice at that moment.The dislike you have for him remains coherent in this light. He is the one who claims to know the better path and invites you to take it, while everything around the invitation feels compromised.