Wow! This is exactly what I have been yearning for! This provides credible information that can be used to guide support. I am less optimistic & as a result my anxiety is through the roof! This helps me maintain a more balanced view.
This is very alarming this constitutional crisis affecting 50 states, hundreds of millions of people, citizens. People are losing their jobs and lives because of extremist decision making ~ and the international deaths due to the cessation of USAID, beyond heartbreaking. A trickle of life sustaining supplies, meds ? 😢🥺😳☹️Teenagers, families, young adults losing sleep nightly over a blossoming constitutional crisis and imminent oligarchy etc … My daughter says peers are crying in school over the politics ~ the racism, uncertainty, loss of LGBTQ rights, the potential loss of education and opportunities for university etc, high costs, sudden economic decline, imperialism of Oligarchs and blatant extreme right dictatorial actions, usurping Congressional checks and balances ~ Congress people having to rally and protest , E with kid in Oval Office stating misinformation…laughing joking etc acting unstable and bizarre -weird WHAT A ROLE MODEL for young people who are worried about their futures ~ these dictatoresque leaders who want to harm the health structure and health systems of millions of people and the environment. Like WHAT on Earth ?! Our teens and young adults in our communities see this for the truly bizarre unstable political situation this is and they’re vocal. They want a stable normal future for themselves and the people of the planet. They want Bird Flu to not upend anything. They want abortion access and bodily autonomy <human rights. They want better covid vaccines and treatments, long covid research. They want primary care doctors, functioning hospitals and they don’t want cancer from environmental toxins and crappy water, air. They want a good nurturing safe environment so we adults need to keep speaking up. Nobody wants Measles or TB or HIV or Drug Resistant Pneumonia or any pathogens or extra viruses because the system failed in a politically weird time. They want ER to be accessible and function ~ no strange government or corporate take overs ~ with D O G E being given ultra power about healthcare funding etc / society is very concerned and our families and communities want stability of healthcare funding and day to day life. Society is very aware of what’s at risk. We need news media to be independent and factual during this unsettling time. Call 📞 Congress regarding concerns ~ activism is key sharing opinions with leadership ~
Headline in today's Boston Globe: "USAID could be worth saving". With this kind of support from the so-called mainstream/legacy media, what hope is there that the average citizen will understand the devastation that is being wreaked on not just the "sh**hole countries" the DTs despise, but on our own?
I really appreciate and agree with your presentation of these developments, and your comments and assessments of the importance of fighting back. Thank you.
I'd like to suggest an important difference in some of the assessments. Particularly the phrase: "Within hours or days, a judge issues a ruling that temporarily puts things back to normal" and the use of the words. "They WON".
It rarely is back to normal. It hopefully is less bad than it was. And the court decisions are often Stays or Hold pending further arguments, which are both really good and also no where near the end of the legal course.
These are just the first skirmishes. The battle is hardly begun. He has just started to flood the field with S***. And for him even a partial or temporary or "headlines only" win, is still a win.
Not until Donald does the perp walk will this battle be over.
Which of these (A- or B-graded) orgs & associations do you recommend volunteering for/donating to? Seems to me the Courts is where we have any chance of fighting back against Trump. Protests are important but the courts are where the impact will be most immediate and effective.
I agree re: Chief Justice Roberts, though he still has but one vote. I've also found it helpful to think of the current Supreme Ct. not as a 6-3 creature but as a 3-3-3 creature. It will be interesting to see what happens when cases get to them.
We need to judge our organizations on how they are now standing up for the people now targeted by the Trump administration: immigrants, Black people whose *any* position that is not medial labor is currently denigrated as "DEI hire", trans people who are such a small minority that they can much less defend themselves than the large group of gay wealthy white men that stood up for HIV treatments in the 80s and 90s.
Thank you for this article on who is stepping up and who is not. The 'news' right now is like a fire hose of 'information' (most is not news or information) and it's so helpful for you to give us the context about what's important on the health care front and also how you are internalizing it with the information you have. Please continue sharing your analysis.
Wow! This is exactly what I have been yearning for! This provides credible information that can be used to guide support. I am less optimistic & as a result my anxiety is through the roof! This helps me maintain a more balanced view.
Thank you! My blood pressure thanks you!
This is very alarming this constitutional crisis affecting 50 states, hundreds of millions of people, citizens. People are losing their jobs and lives because of extremist decision making ~ and the international deaths due to the cessation of USAID, beyond heartbreaking. A trickle of life sustaining supplies, meds ? 😢🥺😳☹️Teenagers, families, young adults losing sleep nightly over a blossoming constitutional crisis and imminent oligarchy etc … My daughter says peers are crying in school over the politics ~ the racism, uncertainty, loss of LGBTQ rights, the potential loss of education and opportunities for university etc, high costs, sudden economic decline, imperialism of Oligarchs and blatant extreme right dictatorial actions, usurping Congressional checks and balances ~ Congress people having to rally and protest , E with kid in Oval Office stating misinformation…laughing joking etc acting unstable and bizarre -weird WHAT A ROLE MODEL for young people who are worried about their futures ~ these dictatoresque leaders who want to harm the health structure and health systems of millions of people and the environment. Like WHAT on Earth ?! Our teens and young adults in our communities see this for the truly bizarre unstable political situation this is and they’re vocal. They want a stable normal future for themselves and the people of the planet. They want Bird Flu to not upend anything. They want abortion access and bodily autonomy <human rights. They want better covid vaccines and treatments, long covid research. They want primary care doctors, functioning hospitals and they don’t want cancer from environmental toxins and crappy water, air. They want a good nurturing safe environment so we adults need to keep speaking up. Nobody wants Measles or TB or HIV or Drug Resistant Pneumonia or any pathogens or extra viruses because the system failed in a politically weird time. They want ER to be accessible and function ~ no strange government or corporate take overs ~ with D O G E being given ultra power about healthcare funding etc / society is very concerned and our families and communities want stability of healthcare funding and day to day life. Society is very aware of what’s at risk. We need news media to be independent and factual during this unsettling time. Call 📞 Congress regarding concerns ~ activism is key sharing opinions with leadership ~
I bounce between the 2 extremes as well. I'd like to grade you: A+++ and that's no grade inflation.
Headline in today's Boston Globe: "USAID could be worth saving". With this kind of support from the so-called mainstream/legacy media, what hope is there that the average citizen will understand the devastation that is being wreaked on not just the "sh**hole countries" the DTs despise, but on our own?
I really appreciate and agree with your presentation of these developments, and your comments and assessments of the importance of fighting back. Thank you.
I'd like to suggest an important difference in some of the assessments. Particularly the phrase: "Within hours or days, a judge issues a ruling that temporarily puts things back to normal" and the use of the words. "They WON".
It rarely is back to normal. It hopefully is less bad than it was. And the court decisions are often Stays or Hold pending further arguments, which are both really good and also no where near the end of the legal course.
These are just the first skirmishes. The battle is hardly begun. He has just started to flood the field with S***. And for him even a partial or temporary or "headlines only" win, is still a win.
Not until Donald does the perp walk will this battle be over.
Which of these (A- or B-graded) orgs & associations do you recommend volunteering for/donating to? Seems to me the Courts is where we have any chance of fighting back against Trump. Protests are important but the courts are where the impact will be most immediate and effective.
I agree re: Chief Justice Roberts, though he still has but one vote. I've also found it helpful to think of the current Supreme Ct. not as a 6-3 creature but as a 3-3-3 creature. It will be interesting to see what happens when cases get to them.
Thank you Jeremy for this excellent summary!
Regarding the American Academy of Pediatrics, I agree with your critique of its refusal to directly critique RFK Jr.'s nomination.
But: I applaud AAP's standing up for immigrant families, as it has long done.
See https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/31154/AAP-president-Federal-actions-on-immigration-will?autologincheck=redirected
We need to judge our organizations on how they are now standing up for the people now targeted by the Trump administration: immigrants, Black people whose *any* position that is not medial labor is currently denigrated as "DEI hire", trans people who are such a small minority that they can much less defend themselves than the large group of gay wealthy white men that stood up for HIV treatments in the 80s and 90s.
In that context, see the American Society for Microbiology's abject self-censoring and obedience in advance, here https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00372-0
Sorry, typo: Black people whose *any* position that is not menial labor is currently denigrated as "DEI hire",
Thank you for this article on who is stepping up and who is not. The 'news' right now is like a fire hose of 'information' (most is not news or information) and it's so helpful for you to give us the context about what's important on the health care front and also how you are internalizing it with the information you have. Please continue sharing your analysis.