It is May 1st, the first day of Mental Health Awareness Month and what headline did I wake up to? This: Trump admin stops grant funding for school mental health : NPR. The grants came from the Safer Communities Act which was a bipartisan law passed in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting. Republicans…
The titular question has been running through my head a lot lately. I’ve begun to consider the US a failed state or at least very close to being a failed state. I don’t want to say that the Trump regime has done irreparable damage to the US and its institutions, but it’s come pretty close….
I’ve been saying for years that Trump is not a liar. Sadly, I haven’t moved the narrative an inch. But I’m going to take it a step further and say that Trump is actually surprisingly honest. Of course, there are many senses of the word. Meriam-Webster gives nine definitions for the word honest: So, three…
NPR ran a story the other day, Veterans will be hurt by Trump’s back-to-office order for VA therapists, sources say : Shots – Health News : NPR. The gist of it is that there simply is not enough room at the VA offices to bring everyone back. The telehealth provided by the VA will be…
There’s an article on NPR, ‘Segregated facilities’ are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts : Shots – Health News : NPR. It says what you’d expect from the headline. Trump signed an executive order rescinding a Lyndon Johnson executive order from 1965. The specific clause that was revoked says, “The Contractor agrees that it…
I saw a headline on LinkedIn the other day that said 8.9 million Americans work two or more jobs. It said the number is going up, too. I didn’t read the article, so I’m not going to lay this out as an argument where I’m trying to prove some point. I just want you to…
Congress needs to pass a new spending bill before March 14th to avoid a government shutdown. The Republicans have put forward a bill that they think is going to pass, since they control both the House and the Senate. Trump approves of the bill, so we will likely avert a shutdown. The only way we’re…
Donald Trump just signed an executive order making English the official language of the United States. We’ve never had an official language before, at least not formally. Yes, English has always been the de facto official language, but it’s never been the official official language before now. According to NPR, this erases a Bill Clinton…
In Star Trek, the Borg have a saying, “Resistance is futile.” No exclamation point, they say it matter-of-factly. The Borg are a cold, calculating collective. They care nothing for individual life, species, or civilizations. Their goal is to extract whatever they can from whomever they meet and move on to the next victim. They are…
According to WorldAtlas, there are four criteria that make a nation a pariah state. The United States meets all four criteria. “The first category is nations that acquire, own, or utilize weapons of mass destruction with disregard for current international treaties. The second category is nations or governments that support acts of terrorism or terrorist…
