Engineers and architects are also on the list of the "no longer professions" and are generally considered male dominated. Maybe it is because the engineers and architects are being replaced by AI?

We all should contact our State and local governments and ask them to boycott these contractors.

Is the highway covered in shrapnel now?

Queen Creek Arizona

Argentina has universal health care. The USA does not have universal health care because we can't afford it. Yet we are sending $40 billions to the Argentina oligarchs. Ironic?

I recall that there was much concern over the fact that the hijackers for 9/11 trained to fly commercial jets with adequate screening of student pilots. Allowing Qatar to have a F15 training facility in Idaho is concerning. How can we be sure their screening of pilots will be adequate?

But if that is all they are going to do, why not next to the USA base in Qatar?

I hope Maria Corina Machado will inspire all of us in the USA to fight for democracy. We need all the inspiration we can get.

I agree that we need to protect our freshwater resources - stop the construction of data centers.

The Trump administration won't release the Epstein files and then tries to send a plane load of unaccompanied children to another country in the middle of the night. Coincidence?

And his "free jet" (one billion dollars!) and his golf trips and his "second White House" at Mara-lago and security upgrades at all his properties like Trump Tower in NYC. He has to be the most expensive president ever in USA history.

Maybe young people need to vote more and vote for their peers more?

Agreed. There is never a "trickle". It is only a trick.