What an embarrassment Trump and Vance are to this country. Schoolyard bullies. The only silver lining I see here is that my mother, 82 and Republican, who voted for Trump, is disgusted by how Zelensky was treated. Her generation remembers communist Russia.

For some context, the entire federal Medicaid budget for 2023 was 871 billion and for food stamps 166 billion. In other words, the proposed Republican budget, which has a chance of passing given Republican control of both seats of Congress, would entirely eliminate Medicaid and food stamps.

Mapquest has a brilliant “Name your own gulf” generator. Here’s mine! Share yours if so inclined…

What is this even? I mean aside from grandiose narcissism…like how are The Chiefs DEI and The Eagles funded by US AID?

Is America Great yet?

“The delivery of rapid tests and malaria drugs into Myanmar, where cases of malaria increased nearly tenfold to 850,000 in 2023…from 78,000 in 2019, has been frozen. Some organizations now have no workers left to distribute the supplies even if they were to arrive.”

Leaving the Paris climate agreement and the World Health organization in one day makes it very clear that the new administration has no care for the well-being of its citizens, only the wealth of its richest.