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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.

I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

People need to stop pretending the U.S. government isn’t actively rebranding as a white supremacist movement.

🚨 The Trump administration has rolled out a coordinated campaign across departments, using imagery and messaging straight from right-wing and white nationalist circles.

This isn’t subtle.

Yes… and I’m exhausted and cranky.

TRAFFIC ALERT: Vt. Route 100 in Eden closed due to fire Vermont State Police say both lanes of Vermont Route 100 in Eden are obstructed due to a fire incident in the area of the Eden General Store.

Vermont State Police say both lanes of Vermont Route 100 in Eden are obstructed due to a fire incident in the area of the Eden General Store.

Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards.

After Rob Reiner’s murder, Donald Trump used his megaphone not to unite the country but in service of his political grievances, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

“A Supported Death” vs. “A Good Death”: Why Words Matter Why the language we use shapes how we grieve

I've stopped using "good death" language in my work as an end-of-life doula.
If there are good deaths, there are bad deaths. And whose fault are those?
My new Substack post on why "supported death" is what we actually need:
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Even Death Doulas Procrastinate on Their Own End-of-Life Planning Why She's Joining Us at Midnight from England

I have a hard time avoiding procrastination. I follow it everywhere.

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What a line-up of guests for Season 2:

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Wise About Life: A Solstice Gathering Join us for a conversation about life's full arc — birth, death, and the transitions that shape us all.

Winter Solstice is nearly here! Join us as we celebrate the mystery and wonder of birth, death, and the art of dying.
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Patricia M Sears (@patriciamsears) ‘We’ve been taught that asking our elders about their lives, their regrets, their proudest moments, and yes—what they want at the end—is somehow morbid or inappropriate. So we wait. We bookmar...

What truth have I learned as an end-of-life doula? These conversations aren’t just about preserving memories for after someone is gone.

They’re about honoring the fullness of someone’s life while they’re still here to tell it.’ 🌟
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Hide Reply is a miracle of modern social media. Thanks BlueSky.

One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout.

www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women.

The Trump administration has targeted a federal office that oversees a $300 million family planning program for layoffs, raising fears that it is effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women, according to people with knowledge of the events.

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

This is a very good paragraph.

From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

By Nancy A. Youssef

Before it was illegally destroyed by Musk and co., USAID had a budget of $35 billion (in 2024)

Pernicious

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

This is worth reading

I literally wrote earlier today that ICE and CBP are "a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Case in point here:

Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.

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When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
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When we win by having someone else lose, we set up a conflict.
It’s clear, direct but not generative.
But when we win by confronting our fear, everyone benefits.
Often, people who choose to battle others are actually better off looking at their fear instead. - Seth Godin
linktr.ee/pmsears