People will die, more will get sick, and many will forgo care because of the Trump administration’s assaults on public health over the past year. “A year spent degrading health” – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Two snapshots of a health care system in precipitous decline: First, the latest Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll shows Americans’ number […]

Can we get any worse in the attacks on immigrants whether in the U.S. legally or not? Is there no character or integrity? Apparently not as Kristi Noem’s DHS fast-tracks the deportation of 5-year-old after viral ICE arrest. Taken from The Mirror USA  Not much will stop the fast-tracking effort to deport a 5-year-old Liam […]

 – by New Deal democrat I’m glad I waited a day to write about yesterday’s JOLTS report for December, because I got to read a lot of other commentary on the report, which convinced me to add some additional commentary about the entire JOLTS series.  Let’s start with the fact that it was not “stale” inasmuch […]

It appears SCOTUS will not cross a rogue President even if the actions of the office cause harm to the citizens and the overall nation. Left the house burn down? They are safe and it is only the citizens who will pay. I also suspect there is something else going on here which citizens will […]

I do believe most people do not recognize the magnitude of what the Trump administration is doing. I think of Bradbury writing about the book burnings in Nazi Germany. And then there is the ideological repression of the McCarthy era in the United States. The nation is at it again in a far more reaching […]

Could Trump Really “Take Over” the Midterm Elections? Robert Reich My first thought would be, no he can not do so. I believe the courts would move quickly to block such action. The question should be, would Trump defy the courts? In which can and if he does such, what should we as citizens do? […]

I see where Mussolini wannabe Steve Bannon has been asserting that ICE should swarm election polling places, ostensibly to prevent non-citizens from voting. “During Tuesday’s episode of his War Room podcast, Bannon outlined his vision, which, as I alluded to above, should not necessarily be taken as literal White House policy. But it mirrors concerns […]

Briefly, we have not gotten to the place where the impact of healthcare insurance cuts are going to occur. I suspect the impact will be devastating to many US citizens. July 2025, Republicans led by Trump passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, otherwise known as the budget reconciliation bill. The law, H.R. 1, has […]

More on the Trump administration’s effort to block immigrants from residing in the United States. In this instance, the Trump administration’s Homeland Security Secretary attempts to terminate the temporary protected status of immigrants living legally in the United States. The effort to do so is not gradual. It is an immediate termination of their legal […]

Briefly, just a quick and simple look as what contributes to total US healthcare spending. This is part of a much larger report: “How Has U.S. Health Care Spending Changed Over Time?” I find this part of the report to be interesting. But then, I was a consultant who was looking at throughput analysis. Very […]