#BodyBlow
I don't think how bad things have gotten for higher-ed is as well-known as it should be for people not directly connected to a university. So much of it is hollowed out and teetering on the edge of collapse after years of austerity and the bodyblow of Covid. Something's gotta give.
A 30% cut to international enrollment is lights out at many public R1’s. And: once again, this is not bungling on the part of the administration, or unintended consequences. It is *precisely* the intention.
An administrator on the flagship campus offered that estimate as part of a federal lawsuit, filed this month, against a new four-year limit on student visas. https://chroni.cl/4wMDqgw
August 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Holy fucking shit this is a bodyblow
August 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These guys thought they’d spent the last five years landing one crushing bodyblow after another, with devastating impact. It turns out: nope. To say their response to the election result has been petulant and undignified, is to understate it somewhat.
July 1, 2026 at 8:30 AM
There is literally no scenario in the universe in which the US voluntarily pulls itself out of the UN over this, that would be a massive self-inflicted bodyblow not just to reputation globally but to actual power.
April 26, 2024 at 6:45 PM
For example: they seem to believe that they are right now landing one crushing bodyblow after another on the Green Party. I think they still haven’t noticed that the section of the electorate who are terrified of the Greens and also willing to vote Labour is, what, 10% of it or so.
May 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
PTSD is real

Its the same moment of trauma happening over and over again to the victim via a very common trigger

They are remembering the moment as well as reliving it

To the outside world, its a storm in a teacup
To the victim, it is bodyblow after bodyblow

I don't know the remedy
February 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"a sizable flagship public university in a very red state had just taken a bodyblow loss of funding tied to scientific research and they were just trying to lay low, saying as little about it as possible." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic
A short time ago, former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade posted this passage...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Fighting someone smaller than you has its disadvantages, as the fact that they can sneak pass your guard and critical hit your weak spot.
#Wrestling
#BodyBlow
September 3, 2024 at 1:14 AM
These guys thought they had been landing one shattering bodyblow after another on the SNP, and the recent election has shown the public largely weren’t paying attention and maybe don’t care.
May 24, 2026 at 6:56 PM
That's a bodyblow of a post, man.
January 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Again, the newspaper lads have spent the 2020s clearly believing that they were landing one crushing bodyblow after another on the SNP, and yet: you see the polling. Clearly, there must be something very wrong with the public up here.
June 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
The 80s were a real Alice-in-Wonderland period for the USSR.

There were shortages of food, medicines, elites stealing food and medicine sent as relief to hard-hit areas ...

... then Chernobyl dealt a bodyblow to the entire Soviet economy.

Yet the CIA kept saying the USSR was getting stronger.
October 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Variety addresses this to a degree in the article, but holy hell this would be an absolute bodyblow to all the creatives who work on Paramount projects in California.

Would you want to move from LA to Texas, Georgia, or Tennessee because some C-Suite billionaire execs threw a merger hissyfit?
August 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Because it would bring a bodyblow and slow decline to the Federal government’s functional abilities.
It's a very, very good point. The earlier crises were vast and required huge amounts of spending. We have no economic crisis now. We have a vast political and constitutional one. It's when you'd want to keep deficit/debt stable with respect to size of the economy.
Of all the times in our history, why blow out the budget deficit now?
June 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
March 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Please summarise rather than stating something undefined is a bodyblow.
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Starmer has rebuked Trump on his comments. Now's the time for a more meaningful slap in the face. Royal disapproval would be a real bodyblow.
January 24, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Bodyblow!
Bodyblow!
Uppercut
September 30, 2024 at 7:24 PM
I got 10/10 however q4 confused me as i thought Juice came first before Dreamchild as Bodyblow was released in 91 and Broadcast in 94
September 28, 2026 at 4:59 AM
like... white liberal shock and guilt over MLK Jr? the bodyblow dealt to white America's deluded self-image by Watergate and Vietnam, that Reagan had to start the slow process of restoring with the "shining city on the hill" shit carried on by brainwormed West Wing American exceptionalist centrists?
September 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I don't have Pokemon OC..
But wanna see Incineroar(with using Bulk up) fighting against him with boxing gloves..!
Incineroar trades some punch with Zephyr, but after punched in body Incineroar is stunned, getting hit a lot, and eventually knocked out by finishing bodyblow!
April 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So so glad I joined my friend for a SIFF screening of Dean Francis’ #BodyBlow last night. Aussie erotic thriller lit up with cock cages, a drag queen mob boss, twink mobile night drives, and murder. Best queer late night genre fare in years alongside Knife + Heart & I Saw The TV Glow.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#filmsky
May 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM