There is a fee schedule, with designated categories and legal descriptions of each charge. It has not been updated for this new fee (as of the time of this post):
https://www.uscis.gov/g-1055

Payments are checked when people try to enter at a border crossing; without a way to categorize the fee, that will be complicated.

Adding to the mess is the ambiguous language of the 'proclamation' - apparently it does not state whether the fee is only for new applications, or if anyone with an H-1B needs to pay it.

And for $1,000,000, Trump promises expedited visa processing:
https://trumpcard.gov/

Just like the $100K requirement, there is no basis in law that allows Trump to do this.

Also, the $100K payment goes into effect in some time this weekend, even though there's no system set up to track or collect the funds.

But I'm sure Trump will accept checks, as long as they are payable directly to him.

This story is about a "proclamation" Trump signed today; the bill in that link is something else.

https://apnews.com/article/h1b...

Apparently current law only allows H-1B fees for cost recovery, so there is a good chance that Trump's EO will be blocked.

Shit like that is completely in character for Kirk.

On race
        If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

        If you're a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

        Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that's a fact. It's happening more and more.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

        If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

        If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they're coming out and they're saying it for us ... You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

On debate
        We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that's when you get violence. That's when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.
        - Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.

        Prove me wrong.
        - Kirk's challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.

On gender, feminism and reproductive rights
        Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge.
        - Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025

        The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.
        - Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024

        We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024

On gun violence
        I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
        - Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk's conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

On immigration
        America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025

        The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

        The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024

On Islam
        America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025

        We've been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don't care, that's what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025

        Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.
        - Charlie Kirk social media post, 8 September 2025

On religion
        There is no separation of church and state. It's a fabrication, it's a fiction, it's not in the constitution. It's made up by secular humanists.
        - The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

The BLS commissioner serves a four-year term. They do NOT get replaced every time a new administration takes office; Trump's action is unprecedented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The commissioner for the first half of the Biden administration was appointed by Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Institute for Justice is doing the work the ACLU once did.

Had never heard of them; per Wikipedia, they seem to be focused on a subset of issues important to think tanks.

It does not look like they are doing the same work as the ACLU.

And that research if it has merit will go forward in the private sector.
If, and only if, there's potential to turn it into a product in the very near future. Very little basic research is done in the private sector these days; there is no Bell labs equivalent anymore.

I've always found it weird how often Europeans assume that if the government isn't involved it's not happening.
If we're doing simplistic stereotypes, then we could also find it weird how often Americans assume monetization will solve all problems.

Researchers don't just appear out of nowhere; they're not like the laborers you (used to) find in Home Depot parking lots. It takes a long time and a complex ecosystem to give smart people the extensive training and experience needed to contribute meaningfully in areas like this.

The private sector is never going to make those kinds of long-term investments in a significant way. If the government in the US isn't going to part of it, then that research synergy is going to go somewhere else. Probably to China.

An actual peace treaty, ratified by representatives of the people of Ukraine? With actual guarantees and enforcement?

I'd welcome it. And a huge number of people that you would describe as American leftists would welcome it.

But we're absolutely going to fucking bitch about it if Trump comes up with some kind of unilateral appeasement that he pretends is a 'peace treaty', and we'd be fucking right about it. And you should be bitching too if you actually want peace in Ukraine.

If Trump was really interested in brokering a peace deal, he'd start by stating that the US was going to stand by the Budapest agreement and insisting that Russia fulfill their obligations.

Instead he spent today delaying meetings with the EU reps so he could call Putin to get instructions. When he came back he was confused about who he was talking to (he repeatedly asked where the prime minister of Finland was when he was directly across the table from him).

Microsoft does say when Windows 11 support ends. Under the same line you reference there are releases each of which has a defined support period of roughly 2 years. Should Windows 12 be announced, I'm sure the "In support" will itself get an end date which will be the same as the latest release as of that time.

Wow. These are your best specific examples?

The seattletimes.com link is for a letter-to-the-editor complaining about another letter-to-the-editor. Another link is a right-wing radio host talking about a television commenter and what he thinks he heard.

What's next, an "official" Democratic statement from Rando8946780 on Facebook?

This was AI-generated, right? Nobody could think this collection of old-man-yells-at-clouds-style rants is an actual argument.

It is pretty bad when you are more openly racist and sexist than the people you are claiming are racist and sexist.
There's motivated reasoning, and then there's .. this, which is heading into downright delusional.

On one side we have a party that has
  - appointed an unapologetic white nationalist to deport anyone brown-skinned, while bringing in white immigrants from South Africa.
  - appointed a Christian nationalist to fire black generals and replace them with white guys (see: joint chiefs), and who for good measure is renaming military bases after confederate losers.
  - elected a president who, among many other things, consistently refers to black people as "low-IQ individuals".

On the other side we have a party that... what? What specific examples to you have to support your claim?

You need to look again and avoid confirmation of your own bias.

Yeah, I suspect many of your arguments devolve into name calling with conciliatory statements like that. I'm glad someone completely free of bias has pointed out the errors of my ways.

Having an argument about the number of storms, while ignoring effects and intensity, is not a useful exercise. Why does that table, which for some reason appears to be sponsored by some insurance companies, only have category 3s, and not 4s and 5s? It seems like a very selective collection of data.

Study: Ocean warming has intensified recent hurricanes
https://www.climatecentral.org...

"Due to global warming, global climate models predict hurricanes will likely cause more intense rainfall and have an increased coastal flood risk due to higher storm surge caused by rising seas. Additionally, the global frequency of storms may decrease or remain unchanged, but hurricanes that form are more likely to become intense."
https://science.nasa.gov/earth...

Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.10...

This is just from some quick googling. Note that your link only lists category 3 hurricanes.

In the mix were Trump's actions that were in the open (e.g. "Russia if you're listening ..." and then they did what he asked), and they still don't believe that anything was going on. There's an audience that wants to find the "secret" conspiracy, because then they're the special, unique person that actually knows what's happening. Knowing about a public conspiracy isn't as much fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The president of the United States extorted $16 million dollar bribes from CBS and ABC for stories that were obviously covered by the first amendment.

The attorney general of the United States threatened to charge CNN with a crime for publishing a story about a public web site.

The president of the United States threatened to revoke the citizenship of a US citizen for saying mean things about him.

"It's ok now that we're past the BLM wokeness" is a line from someone with a very skewed news diet.