Rex Shepherd

Study: USAID cuts could lead to 14 million global deaths over the next 5 years New research published in the journal The Lancet warns that cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development could result in 14 million deaths over the next five years.

This is criminally shameful.
“The USAID-funded programs prevented more than 91 million deaths globally, including 30 million children under five years old, according to the study.”
www.fox17online.com/politics/the...

Well, this is what happens when you let old hippies leave the house. We arrived, we made glorious noises, we went home...and took a nap.

Godzilla is always helpful during a speaker swap to prep for tracking new solo music.

YouTube video by electron media group inc. Jasmine Crockett Unleashes Profane Attack on MTG

And this is how things will get done...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1Q...

YouTube video by The Kennedy Center WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE: SOPHIA BROUS & MARC RIBOT - Millennium Stage (March 18, 2018)

Say goodbye to avant garde music at the Kennedy Center. I can’t even imagine what passes for art for a bunch of anti-education, anti-cultural white supremacists.
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It makes my head hurt just imagining it. Every show will be a petri dish of the unvaccinated celebrating their fearful orange leader.

‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America | CNN One nationalist influencer called it “truly gratifying.” Another said he was laughing his head off. And a state-media editorial hailed the demise of what it called the “lie factory.”

So much winning…in China and Russia.
“Beijing announced the creation of a giant media conglomerate by merging three existing state-run networks aimed at overseas audiences to better combine resources. Its name? Voice of China.”
www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/c...

Watson and Edgar resting up to handle another day of chaos courtesy of the orange conman-child and his team of incompetent sycophants.

Chinese People Keep Comparing Trump's Authoritarianism to Mao and Xi Jinping The political atmosphere of modern-day China may seem like it has nothing in common with the United States circa 2025 — but according to some, we have more in common than you'd think. As the New York ...

“We also know that the Cultural Revolution was about dismantling institutions to expand control."

www.yahoo.com/news/chinese...

The DVS Trio - A Night At The Jenks, by The DVS Trio 9 track album

Keeping it weird, having good times making music with good friends.
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Done! I enjoyed that moment...thanks.

The orange man-child is threatened by anyone with true talent and skills.

Never Buy My Self Vol VI, by Rex Shepherd 12 track album

A new set of solo guitar, using a Theremin to create background textures in improvised and composed pieces.
rexshepherd.bandcamp.com/album/never-...

Also, not surprisingly, many of these states have the highest percentage of their population on Medicaid. Voting against there own interests time after time…

‎On Tyranny ‎Politics & Current Events · 2017

Just started, and so far it’s a must read.
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
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Now that he heads a governmental department, could this legally contitute government censorship?

Never Buy My Self Vol. V, by Rex Shepherd 9 track album

Some shameless self promotion, but several titles such as "Electile Dysfunction" and "Farewell to the Republic?" seem pertinent, and the music expresses my constant angst regarding our collective future.
rexshepherd.bandcamp.com/album/never-...

‘Thought crime’ and cancelled elections: how do JD Vance’s claims about Europe stand up? US vice-president told litany of tales of Europe’s rights infringements in speech to leaders at defence gathering

A fact check of Vance’s completely detached from reality, Orwellian, Putin friendly speech in Munich.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

YouTube video by Steve Tabor Bill Frisell and Harmony performing "We Shall Overcome"

We shall overcome.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFi6...

Goodnight everyone. Rest up and be ready to fight another day of orange madness. We will overcome.

Complete. Fucking. Moron.

Judge Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge Susan Crawford is a former prosecutor and current Circuit Court Judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect the rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.

If you can, donate to keep the Wisconsin supreme court from falling into MAGA hands. www.crawfordforwi.com

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

I wonder what the red voting farmers think of this.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in US and Canada CHICAGO — For more than two years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended when a train derailed and spilled more ...

A perfect example of Orwellian doublethink.
In East Palestine, Ohio, Vance blamed Dems for failing to enact legislation to prevent more derailments. Several Republican senators opposed the bill, as did most of their colleagues in the Republican-controlled House.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

“Make America Sick Again” and make China the new leader in medical research.
“We are carefully reviewing this policy change as it contradicts current law and policy. America’s competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers Reducing deaths requires figuring out the cause, not jumping to blame a group that is not responsible.

"Annual deaths from fentanyl nearly doubled from 2019 to 2021 after the government banned most travel (and asylum)."
Backwards policy begets backwards progress.
www.cato.org/blog/fentany...

Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers Reducing deaths requires figuring out the cause, not jumping to blame a group that is not responsible.

"Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers."
www.cato.org/blog/fentany...