DrWeb<p><strong>North Carolinians just got Medicaid expansion. Now it’s jeopardized. – The Washington Post</strong></p>Aaron Baptist checks out at the Rural Health Group clinic in Stovall, North Carolina. The clinic relies on Medicaid to serve residents in an area with few health care options. (Matt Ramey / For The Washington Post) <p><strong>As Medicaid cuts loom, North Carolina shows the stakes</strong></p><p>North Carolina was the most recent state to expand Medicaid. Now enrollees face changes demanded by Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.</p> <span class="">Yesterday at 6:00 a.m. EDT, </span>9 min <span class="">By </span><a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/paige-winfield-cunningham/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Paige Winfield Cunningham</a> <p class="">STOVALL, N.C. — Roughly 650,000 people here have signed up for Medicaid since the legislature expanded it 18 months ago — the culmination of a years-long effort in this politically split state. But now they are in danger of losing it under provisions in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.</p> <p class="">In signing that law, Trump approved more than $900 billion in <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/03/big-beautiful-bill-impacts-medicaid-taxes/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">cuts to Medicaid</a> over the next decade.</p> <p class="">Those cuts are colliding with state budget challenges, imperiling the future of Medicaid in states such as North Carolina.</p> A Rural Health Group clinic serves many patients on Medicaid in Stovall. <p class="">Devdutta Sangvai, the state’s top health official, told legislators in a <a href="https://ncnewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Medicaid-Rebase-NCGA-Letter-August-2025_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">letter</a> last week that North Carolina will slash Medicaid payments to doctors, hospitals and other providers starting Oct. 1. He attributed the cuts to the GOP-led legislature declining to fully fund the program. New administrative costs to restrict eligibility under the federal law are among the long-term factors that risk “a fundamental erosion of the NC Medicaid program,” he wrote.</p> <p class="">“Despite careful efforts to minimize harm, the reductions now required carry serious and far-reaching consequences,” Sangvai wrote. He said that reduced rates “could drive providers out of the Medicaid program, threatening access to care for those who need it most.”</p> <p class="">Republican leaders have pushed back, suggesting that health officials could have found less disruptive ways to trim Medicaid spending.</p> <p class="">Cuts to Medicaid affect more North Carolinians than ever before. The state’s Medicaid rolls swelled nearly 30 percent, to 3 million people, after state Republicans dropped their decade-long opposition to expanding the program under the increasingly popular Affordable Care Act and worked with Democrats to broaden eligibility.</p> <p class="">Before that expansion, Medicaid mainly covered people with low incomes who were disabled, had dependent children or were pregnant. But now, in most states, just about anyone earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty threshold ($22,000 for a single person and $44,000 for a family of four) is eligible.</p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/17/north-carolina-medicaid-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">North Carolinians just got Medicaid expansion. Now it’s jeopardized. – The Washington Post</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/17/north-carolina-medicaid-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health-care/" target="_blank">#healthCare</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/medicaid/" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/north-carolina/" target="_blank">#NorthCarolina</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/stovall/" target="_blank">#Stovall</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-washington-post/" target="_blank">#TheWashingtonPost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-cuts/" target="_blank">#TrumpCuts</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
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DrWeb<p><strong>Trump administration flips civil rights mission for schools – The Washington Post</strong></p><p><strong>Under Trump, the Education Dept. has flipped its civil rights mission</strong></p><p class="">The administration is prioritizing allegations that transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages while a backlog of other cases grows.</p> <span class="">Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT, </span>10 min<p></p> <p>Workers leave the Department of Education building during a rain storm in Washington on May 21. (Wesley Lapointe/For The Washington Post)</p> <span class="">By </span><a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/laura-meckler/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Laura Meckler</a> <p class="">The Trump administration has upended civil rights enforcement at K-12 schools and colleges, prioritizing cases that allege transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages, while severe staff cuts have left thousands of other allegations unresolved.</p> <p class="">The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is so short-staffed that some attorneys have as many as 300 cases, making it impossible to devote attention to most of them, current and former employees said.<b> </b>Fewer cases are being closed, and 90 percent of<b> </b>those resolved were dismissed, typically without an investigation, up from 80 percent last year,<b> </b>according to data obtained by The Washington Post.</p> <p class="">The office has a backlog of about 25,000 unresolved cases, up from about 20,000 when President Donald Trump took office, department officials said.</p> <p class="">At the same time, under Trump, the civil rights office <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">has announced</a> investigations of at least 99 schools, often based on news coverage or complaints from conservative groups. As of early August, the administration had launched 27 directed investigations, probes that are opened without an outside complaint, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.283711/gov.uscourts.mad.283711.56.1.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">court filings show</a>.</p> <p class="">These changes define the new tone and mission in the civil rights office, which is aggressively pursuing Trump’s agenda.<b> </b>In choosing its targets, the administration is not just picking different priorities than its predecessors; it’s flipping the interpretation of civil rights law in the opposite direction.</p> <p class="">The Post interviewed 10 current and former employees of the office about the changes and the backlogs. Several spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution.</p> <p class="">Help us report on the Education Department</p> The Washington Post wants to hear from anyone with knowledge of the Department of Education and what is changing at the agency. Contact reporter Laura Meckler by email or Signal encrypted message. laura.meckler@washpost.com or laurameckler.11 on Signal. <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/anonymous-news-tips/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Read more about how to use Signal and other ways to securely contact The Post</a>. <p class="">Under the Biden administration, the Office for Civil Rights focused on ensuring equal opportunity for students of color. Now, the office has opened several investigations into whether programs aimed at addressing inequities amount to illegal discrimination in favor of those students. Forty-five colleges, for instance, are <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">being investigated</a> for working with the PhD Project,<b> </b>a program that has tried to boost the number of Black, Hispanic and Native American students who earn doctorates in business.</p> <p class="">In another example, last year the civil rights office required a New York school district to stop using its <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/nyregion/school-mascots-trump-civil-rights.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“Redskins” mascot</a>, saying the moniker<b> </b>may have created a hostile environment for Native American students. <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/secretary-mcmahon-visits-massapequa-high-school-announces-finding-school-mascot-probe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">This year,</a> the same office found it is against the law to ban the mascots, calling it an attempt to erase the history of Native American tribes.</p> <p><span class="">End of carouselUnder the Biden administration, the Office for Civil Rights focused on ensuring equal opportunity for students of color. Now, the office has opened several investigations into whether programs aimed at addressing inequities amount to illegal discrimination in favor of those students. Forty-five colleges, for instance, are <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">being investigated</a> for working with the PhD Project,<b> </b>a program that has tried to boost the number of Black, Hispanic and Native American students who earn doctorates in business.</span></p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/18/trump-education-department-civil-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump administration flips civil rights mission for schools – The Washington Post</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/18/trump-education-department-civil-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/biden-administration/" target="_blank">#BidenAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/civil-rights/" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/department-of-education/" target="_blank">#DepartmentOfEducation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/schools/" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-washington-post/" target="_blank">#TheWashingtonPost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Alien: Earth – Podcasts – via Spotify</strong></p> <a href="https://drwebdomain.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FireShot-Webpage-Capture-120-Alien_-Earth-–-The-Official-Podcast-I-Podcast-on-Spotify-open.spotify.com_.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">FireShot Webpage Capture 120 – ‘Alien_ Earth – The Official Podcast I Podcast on Spotify’ – open.spotify.com</a><a href="https://drwebdomain.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FireShot-Webpage-Capture-120-Alien_-Earth-–-The-Official-Podcast-I-Podcast-on-Spotify-open.spotify.com_.pdf" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Download</a> <p>aLIEN: EARTH Web site… <a href="https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/alien-earth/podcast" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/alien-earth/podcast</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JMzdaH0NMoXMUehWcKzmS?si=af52a8e725fb479c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JMzdaH0NMoXMUehWcKzmS?si=af52a8e725fb479c</a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6VKREpEoACWnQB2FP7UPwn?si=896016000aec446c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6VKREpEoACWnQB2FP7UPwn?si=896016000aec446c</a></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/alien-earth/podcast" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/alien/" target="_blank">#Alien</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/alien-franchise/" target="_blank">#AlienFranchise</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/alien-earth/" target="_blank">#AlienEarth</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/film/" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/films/" target="_blank">#Films</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/movies/" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science-fiction/" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/spotify/" target="_blank">#Spotify</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/television/" target="_blank">#Television</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Opinion | American history can be painful. The Smithsonian should embrace it. – The Washington Post</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/18/smithsonian-mamdani-rubio/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p> <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion</a><p></p> <span class="">Letters to the Editor</span> <p><strong>Good foreign policy depends on good information</strong></p><p class="">Readers also discuss a new way to address Confederate memorials, socialism in New York City and the Smithsonian.</p> <span class="">Today at 4:58 p.m. EDT, </span>8 min<p></p> The Smithsonian Castle (Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post) <p>Regarding the Aug. 13 news article “<a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/12/rubio-human-rights-reports/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Rubio recasts beliefs with cuts to human rights reports</a>”:</p> <p class="">I oversaw the production of the State Department’s annual <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports-bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">human rights reports</a> from 2009 to 2012. For almost 50 years, thousands of career diplomats have participated in the compilation of these reports, which have become the most comprehensive and reliable public assessment of human rights conditions in almost 200 countries.</p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5495621/state-department-human-rights-reports-slashed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mandated by Congress in the 1970s</a> to inform decision-making about foreign aid and trade policies, the reports have become an indispensable resource. Global leaders use them to assess risks where they conduct business. Immigration judges in the United States and elsewhere rely on them when evaluating asylum claims. Civil society activists turn to them for credible information when they operate in places where publishing criticism of government actions leads to official reprisals. Journalists and representatives of humanitarian organizations use them to orient themselves as they begin working in complex environments.</p> <p class=""><strong>All of these benefits are now being jeopardized by the Trump administration’s decision to slash the comprehensive nature of these reports and to dramatically politicize their content. Good foreign policy depends on good information. That begins with thorough, independent accounting of the state of human rights everywhere.</strong></p> <p class="">Weakening this foundation risks blinding us to them. Once the credibility of our reporting is lost, it will be extraordinarily difficult to rebuild.</p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/18/smithsonian-mamdani-rubio/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion | American history can be painful. The Smithsonian should embrace it. – The Washington Post</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/american-history/" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/human-rights-report/" target="_blank">#HumanRightsReport</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/mandated-by-congress/" target="_blank">#MandatedByCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/rubio/" target="_blank">#Rubio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/smithsonian-institution/" target="_blank">#SmithsonianInstitution</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-washington-post/" target="_blank">#TheWashingtonPost</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/u-s-state-department/" target="_blank">#USStateDepartment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Seeing Things – Trump’s Adoration Of Putin – by Liza Donnelly</strong></p><p> </p><p>The above drawing was bought by <em>The New Yorker</em> during the Iraq war, I think, but they never ran it.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/18/us/trump-zelensky-ukraine-putin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump said after the meeting with Putin in Alaska last week that Ukrain</a>e would have to make concessions because Russia was a more “powerful” country. He obviously does not understand the importance, and power, of a free, fairly elected democracy.</p><p>He is obsessed with what he preceives as power, and he wants it.</p><p>Today, following the disastrous “summit” in Alaska last Friday, Ukrainian President Zelensky came to the White House to meet with Trump, and he was accompanied by many European leaders: French President Macron; Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz; Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain; Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister; President Alexander Stubb of Finland; NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte; and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm. Solidarity in support of Ukraine.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/russia-attacks-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia-ukraine.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Russia attacked Ukraine hours </a>before Zelinsky’s meeting with Trump. Ten people killed, including a child.</p><p>Trump and Zelinsky had a press conference in the Oval Office before their meeting. Because Trump has stacked the WH press pool with pro-Trump reporters, the whole thing was a sham. Trump answered softball, flattering questions and talked about whatever he wanted to. He meandered around a lot of topics from “crime” in DC and how “even Democrats are calling me to thank me,” supposedly they had dinner out in the city and it felt safe. One reported asked about voting in the US and how Trump wants to get rid of mail-in ballots and machine voting; Trump said, “a little off-topic, but…” and then continued to rant about his plan to change how we vote in the US (he can’t do that). What he did say about the war was vague. He blamed the war on Biden, whom he said was stupid even 20 years ago. Trump said he’s ended six wars. It was nauseating to listen to.</p><p>I really hope something comes of this, but I’m not holding my breath. Putin will not agree to give back all the territory he has stolen. Zelinsky should not have to give anything to Russia, they are a sovereign nation. They were invaded. Trump will only do what Putin wants.</p><p>It’s rather amazing how we are seeing Trump’s complete adoration with Putin. The “summit” last week, which I did not write about, was full of clear body language from Trump as to his worship of Putin, beginning with clapping on a red carpet (!) as Putin arrived. His social media posts today about “leading a movement” to get rid of mail in voting came after he met with Putin. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/18/us/trump-news#trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">From the NY Times:</a></p><p>“Trump’s latest comments came after he said that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had discussed the issue during their summit on Friday in Alaska. Mr. Trump said in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/trump-hannity-interview-fox-news.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">an interview with Fox News</a> that the Russian leader <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/politics/trump-putin-common-ground-biden.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">had agreed with him</a> that the 2020 election had been rigged in favor of Mr. Biden. “He said, ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting,’” Trump quoted Mr. Putin as saying.”</p><p>The Constitution vests the power to set the “times, places and manner” of elections with states, and it gives only Congress the ability to override state laws on voting.</p><p>Anyway, my guess is that this is another distraction to stop the press from talking about Epstein. However, I am happy to see the NY Times has an article today:</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/republicans-epstein-files.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Republican’s Bid To Help Trump Move Past Epstein Falls Flat.</a></p><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/trumps-adoration-of-putin?publication_id=595083&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=1gx2e" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s Adoration Of Putin – by Liza Donnelly</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/trumps-adoration-of-putin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/liza-donnelly/" target="_blank">#LizaDonnelly</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/seeing-things/" target="_blank">#SeeingThings</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/substack/" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>Gabrielle-Roy Library in Quebec City Named IFLA/Baker & Taylor Public Library of the Year 2025 (via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ifla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ifla</span></a></span>) <a href="https://www.ifla.org/news/winner-announced-for-the-ifla-baker-taylor-public-library-of-the-year-award-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ifla.org/news/winner-announced</span><span class="invisible">-for-the-ifla-baker-taylor-public-library-of-the-year-award-2025/</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
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DrWeb<p><strong>Gene Collier: Fear and loathing at the Library of Congress | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</strong></p>Framalicious / Shutterstock<p>1</p><p><strong>Gene Collier: Fear and loathing at the Library of Congress</strong></p><p>By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, gcollier@post-gazette.com</p><p>Aug 17, 2025, 1:00 AM</p><p>Within the broader American consciousness, the Library of Congress comfortably occupies a position of towering anonymity, effortlessly and still purposefully avoiding the news cycle, sometimes for decades at a stretch.</p><p>Though it profiles as the staggeringly vast national deposit of knowledge, history, culture, and raw data, the Library’s habitual users tend to regard it with an esteem bordering on romance. With physical coordinates adjacent to the nation’s halls of power, the scholars and researchers and everyday Americans who visit frequently feel the intellectual weight of the place in the Thomas Jefferson Building’s main reading room, where you sit among some 70,000 volumes below the soaring coffered dome designed by sculptor Albert Weinert.</p><p>In the lantern of the dome is the mural known as Human Understanding, depicted as a female lifting from her eyes the veil of ignorance.</p><p>Yeah, well.</p><p><strong>Not a great year for thinking institutions</strong></p><p>It’s not been a great year for the Library of Congress, just as it hasn’t been a great year for the Kennedy Center, just as it’s about to become a dreary year for the Smithsonian, three institutions targeted by the Trump administration on what you might call suspicion of discomfiting ideology.</p><p>Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, the first woman and first African American to attain the position, was fired in May in a two-sentence email from the White House. It did not include the courtesy of an explanation, perhaps as her dismissal was simply inexplicable.</p><p>“We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people,” was the way White House press jouster Karoline Leavitt presented it to reporters. “There were quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.”</p><p>Oh please. The Library of Congress is essentially a research facility. Kids who aren’t 16 can’t do research on site. The argument over what kind of material does and doesn’t belong there was settled in the 1800s, centuries before diversity, equity, and inclusion became a ubiquitous MAGA boogeyman.</p><p>“It’s puzzling,” the fired Hayden said charitably to CBS Sunday Morning, “how things like inclusion are seen as a negative.”</p><p>But she knew what’s behind all this. Knows what the point is: “I think it’s to diminish opportunities for the general public to have free access to information and inspiration.”</p><p>Two months after Hayden walked the plank, things started disappearing from the Library’s web site, specifically the portion that contained the Constitution of the United States. A coding error was blamed, and the missing portions were restored, so there’s no point in identifying the parts that temporarily vanished.</p><p>Like that would stop me.</p><p><strong>Disappearing the Constitution</strong></p><p>Away from the Constitution went the part about foreign emoluments, which prohibits the president from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatsoever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State,” so I’m sure that had nothing to do with fact that in May, Trump accepted a $400 million airplane from the Qatari government.</p><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gene-collier-columns/2025/08/17/library-congress-trump-collier-column/stories/202508170058" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gene Collier: Fear and loathing at the Library of Congress | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/pittsburgh-post-gazette/" target="_blank">#PittsburghPostGazette</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
Robin Riley<p>I can't wait to celebrate the re-opening of the Petaluma Library next week! Sneak peek (gift link): <a href="https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/petaluma-library-renovations-reopening/?utm_source=article_gift&utm_medium=copy-link&ac=YXJ0aWNsZS1zaGFyZQ==&ah=gz1A5Z5lBv8y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">petaluma360.com/article/news/p</span><span class="invisible">etaluma-library-renovations-reopening/?utm_source=article_gift&utm_medium=copy-link&ac=YXJ0aWNsZS1zaGFyZQ==&ah=gz1A5Z5lBv8y</span></a></p><p>It's good times in the Sonoma County Library system, between this, other renovations, and progress toward the Roseland Library.</p><p><a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/SonomaCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SonomaCounty</span></a> <a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/Petaluma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petaluma</span></a> <a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/SFBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SFBA</span></a> <a href="https://social.riley.pub/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a></p>
CoinOfNote<p>A couple of followers were quite interested in last week's E-Sylum article on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authors</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> and <a href="https://historians.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> on <a href="https://historians.social/tags/coins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coins</span></a>..... And this week they posted an update to it! Here it is: <a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n33.html#article12" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n3</span><span class="invisible">3.html#article12</span></a></p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Numismatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Numismatics</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CoinCollecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoinCollecting</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newsletter</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Collecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Collecting</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/numismatics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>numismatics</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Young San Franciscans aren’t drinking at bars. They’re at the library</strong></p> <a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion </a><span class="">//</span><a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Emily Hoeven</a> <p><strong>Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library</strong></p> <p><strong><em><strong>Is it any surprise that young people like me are forgoing moody bars for free books when a glass of wine can set you back $20?</strong></em></strong></p> <span class=""><span class=""><span class="">By </span><span class=""><a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/emily-hoeven/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emily Hoeven</a></span><span class="">, </span></span><span class="">Opinion Columnist, </span></span><span class="">Aug 16, 2025</span> <p>San Francisco Main Library, photographed in 2023. The library’s marketing and community engagement teams have made concerted efforts to capture the attention of millennial and Gen-Z audiences.</p> <p><span class="">Stephen Lam/The Chronicle</span></p> <p>It’s no secret that young people in San Francisco <a class="" href="https://sfchronicle.com/sf/article/aging-bars-nightlife-20335735.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">don’t frequent bars and nightclubs</a> the way they once did.</p> <p>This has left many perplexed. If the city’s <a class="" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san-francisco-20somethings-exodus-20178534.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dwindling population of 20-somethings</a> isn’t drinking and dancing, what are they doing?</p> <p>This 20-something has spent much of her time this summer at the San Francisco Public Library. And based on my observations, plenty of other young adults have, too.</p> <p>No, we aren’t geeks. The library is cool.</p> <p><strong>To start, it’s a free third space — a perk that cannot be overstated in this ridiculously expensive city.</strong></p> <p>I recently visited the Chinatown library shortly before it closed at 8 p.m. There was barely an empty seat in the house. And it was impossible not to notice the sizable number of young adults.</p> <p>Is it any surprise we’d forgo a moody bar when a glass of wine can set you back $20 these days?</p> <p>Meanwhile, the library’s marketing and community engagement teams have made concerted efforts to capture the attention of millennial and Gen-Z audiences.</p> <p>Their smart gamification strategy is working.</p> <p>The library offers a tote bag as a prize for completing its Summer Stride program — which challenges residents to complete 20 hours of reading from <a class="" href="https://sfpl.org/summer-stride-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">June through August</a>.</p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/library-book-san-francisco-20759794.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Young San Franciscans aren’t drinking at bars. They’re at the library</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/library-book-san-francisco-20759794.php" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/20-year-olds/" target="_blank">#20YearOlds</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/bars/" target="_blank">#Bars</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/california/" target="_blank">#California</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/drinking/" target="_blank">#Drinking</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/education/" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/hanging-out/" target="_blank">#HangingOut</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/san-francisco/" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/san-francisco-chronicle/" target="_blank">#SanFranciscoChronicle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/san-francisco-public-library/" target="_blank">#SanFranciscoPublicLibrary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump’s D.C. crackdown: Hundreds protest outside White House : NPR</strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/national/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">National</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Hundreds march to White House to protest Trump’s D.C. crackdown</strong></p> <span class="">August 16, 2025 </span><span class="">9:03 PM ET</span> <p class="">By <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/935764762/brian-mann" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Brian Mann </a></p><p class="">,</p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.npr.org/people/g-s1-23120/chandelis-duster" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Chandelis Duster </a></p> <p>Hundreds of protesters march to White House on Aug. 16, 2025. <span class="">Brian Mann/NPR </span></p> <p>WASHINGTON — Hundreds gathered peacefully in the nation’s capital on Saturday afternoon to protest President Trump’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5498666/trump-is-taking-over-d-c-police-and-sending-in-the-national-guard-locals-are-furious" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">attempted takeover</a> of the city’s police department and deployment of National Guard units alongside federal agents.</p> <a class="" href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-5505271/three-republican-led-states-to-send-hundreds-of-national-guard-troops-to-washington" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/national/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">National </a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-5505271/three-republican-led-states-to-send-hundreds-of-national-guard-troops-to-washington" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Three Republican-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington</a></strong></p> <p>Starting with a rally in the northwest neighborhood of DuPont Circle, protesters chanted, “Shame” and “Trump must go now!” while demanding an end to the “crime emergency” that Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/declaring-a-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">declared in an executive order on Monday</a>.</p><p>Protesters later marched to the White House, continuing to chant, as D.C. Metropolitan Police officers and National Park Service police looked on from a distance.</p> <a class="" href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5501528/federal-police-takeover-washington-dc-teenagers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/law/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Law </a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5501528/federal-police-takeover-washington-dc-teenagers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Teenagers in Washington, D.C., say the federal police takeover makes them feel unsafe</a></strong></p> <p>Mason Weber of Maryland told NPR he attended the march because he was concerned that the deployment of troops is a “serious ethical and legal breach.”</p><p>“The most concerning thing about it is there’s been no check and balance of the systems of power,” Weber said. “Congress, if it comes to it, we expect to authorize it for longer.”</p> <p>A protester stands in front of Metropolitan Police Department officers and National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 16, 2025. <span class="">Brian/Mann </span></p> <p>The demonstration took place two days after Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to appoint <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/nx-s1-5502824/trump-administration-names-head-of-the-dea-to-be-washington-d-c-s-police-chief" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator</a> Terry Cole as an “emergency police commissioner” who would assume full operational control over D.C. police. Trump officials backed off that effort on Friday after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit in federal court.</p><p>“The hostile takeover of our police force is not going to happen — a very important win for home rule today,” Schwalb told reporters late Friday.</p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504861/trump-dc-protest-federal-takeover-white-house" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump’s D.C. crackdown: Hundreds protest outside White House : NPR</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504861/trump-dc-protest-federal-takeover-white-house" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/dc-crackdown/" target="_blank">#DCCrackdown</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/national-public-radio/" target="_blank">#NationalPublicRadio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/npr/" target="_blank">#NPR</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/protests/" target="_blank">#Protests</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/white-house/" target="_blank">#WhiteHouse</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Military Powers & the Senate Parliamentarian – GovTrack.us</strong></p> <ol><li><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/posts" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">News From Us</a></li><li>Analysis and Commentary</li></ol> <p><strong>Military Powers & the Senate Parliamentarian</strong></p> <p>Aug. 15, 2025 · by Amy West</p><p>Hi all,</p><p>So we still have your questions and have not forgotten about them!</p><p>In fact, a post that we’d originally intended to post last week or possibly the week before is still in limbo because of a disagreement in-house about how to approach the question. So if you ever feel like you should already understand everything about Congress, be assured that even folks who think about Congress all the time don’t necessarily agree on what they understand or how to say it.</p><p>In the meantime, we’re going to take two other questions that are a little bit simpler.</p><p><strong>When can the military be used domestically?</strong></p><p>If you thought this had a cut and dried answer, you would not be alone. One thing that this administration is making clear is that, if it can be litigated, then the answer is <em>not</em> cut and dried. We addressed this in <a href="https://substack.govtrack.us/p/the-law-president-trump-used-to-deploy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The law President Trump used to deploy the National Guard, and what might happen next</a>. For what it’s worth, the trial in Los Angeles over whether the administration’s deployment of military in June violated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Posse Comitatus Act</a> is ongoing. Both sides rested this week, but <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-guard-los-angeles-deployment-trial-day-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the judge hasn’t issued a ruling yet</a>.</p><p><strong>What’s the deal with the Senate Parlimentarian?</strong></p><p>Conveniently, the Bipartisan Policy Center has already answered this question.</p><p>In their post <a href="https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/what-is-the-role-of-the-senate-parliamentarian/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">What is the Role of the Senate Parliamentarian?</a> they note that</p><ul><li>the position is relatively new, having only been formalized in the early 20th century</li><li>the position is advisory only, meaning that Senators can ignore the recommendations from the Parliamentarian and</li><li>that because the Senate is an ongoing body, in which rules carry over from Congress to Congress, most of the change to rules comes in changes to precedents, of which the Parliamentarian keeps track.</li></ul><p>With respect to item two above, Senators mostly follow the Parliamentarian’s advice. This has generally been most likely when reconciliation bills are in process. However, this year, the Senate Republican majority chose to ignore the Parliamentarian’s advice or bypass her role in two different ways that may mean new precedents in the Senate if Democrats act similarly when they next have control of the chamber.</p><p><strong>Regulatory Waivers</strong></p><p>The first case was about regulatory waivers issued to the state of California during the Biden administration. The Government Accountability Office and the Parliamentarian both agreed that the waivers did not fall under the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10023" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Congressional Review Act</a> rules for overturning regulations.</p><p>If the Senate had followed the Parliamentarian’s advice, then they could not have voted to overturn the waivers because such a vote would need a 60 vote passage for one or more procedural votes. The only way to overturn those waivers was to rely on a simple majority, which the Senate Republicans have.</p><p>So, <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/22/congress/senate-nixes-california-emission-standard-waiver-00365205" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Senate Republicans voted instead on a slightly different question about whether the waivers fall under the Congressional Review Act</a>. That vote passed and the waivers were overturned. <em>Technically</em> they didn’t ignore the Parliamentarian, but <em>functionally</em> they definitely did.</p><p><strong>How to count deficit effects</strong></p><p>The bulk of the reconciliation bill passed this year focused on making the tax cuts in a 2017 bill permanent. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/business/republican-policy-bill-budget.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">But reconciliation bills are not supposed to add to the federal deficit</a>. So, to make the tax cuts permanent and meet reconciliation requirements, the bill would have to raise <em>lots</em> of revenue in some other way or the Senate majority could change how they count.</p><p><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-are-budget-baselines-and-what-do-they-have-to-do-with-reconciliation-in-congress/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Senate majority decided to change how they count</a>. There is the “current law baseline” which estimates about a $4 trillion dollar increase to the federal deficit versus the “current policy baseline” which estimates little or no increase to the deficit. The difference between the two approaches is that under current law, the tax cuts expire and estimates are created accordingly while under current policy the tax cuts are assumed to be extended in which case they make no difference to future deficits.</p><p>If the Senate Budget Committee had stuck to the current law baseline, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/business/republican-policy-bill-budget.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">then the tax cuts would be subject to review under the Byrd rule by the Parliamentarian</a> and probably most would have been ruled as ineligible because of how much they’d add to the deficit. By deciding in committee that the analysis would based on current policy though, Senate Republicans bypassed an otherwise thorny situation in which they might have to jettison provisions because of cost or ignore the Parliamentarian repeatedly.</p><p>Like with the regulatory waivers, the Senate majority didn’t <em>directly</em> challenge the Parliamentarian. Instead, they used other procedural maneuvers to bypass having to go to the Parliamentarian at all.</p><p>That said, for the remaining provisions in the reconciliation bill, the Parliamentarian did do a review and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250703202342/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/upshot/senate-republican-megabill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.QdEi.oia9tReDLQFk&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">items she advised violated the rules were ultimately pulled</a>. So the Senate majority didn’t completely ignore the Parliamentarian; just on the things they cared about the most: overturning regulatory waivers promoting electric vehicles and retaining tax cuts.</p> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/posts/531/2025-08-15_military-powers-the-senate-parliamentarian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Military Powers & the Senate Parliamentarian – GovTrack.us</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/posts/531/2025-08-15_military-powers-the-senate-parliamentarian" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/domestic/" target="_blank">#Domestic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/govtrack/" target="_blank">#GovTrack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/govtrack-us/" target="_blank">#GovTrackUs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/opinion/" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/parliamentarian/" target="_blank">#Parliamentarian</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/u-s-senate/" target="_blank">#USSenate</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
David W. Jones<p>Yes, libraries rule! 😁</p><p>Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library</p><p><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyhoeven/article/library-book-san-francisco-20759794.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyh</span><span class="invisible">oeven/article/library-book-san-francisco-20759794.php</span></a></p><p>> Is it any surprise that young people like me are forgoing moody bars for free books when a glass of wine can set you back $20?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>If I believed in a heaven it might be an empty library 😁 <br>Which of course means the hum of old monitors is the choir of angels 😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/libraries" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>libraries</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/librarians" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>librarians</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookbubble" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookbubble</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/LibraryMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibraryMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Librarians</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humour</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Bookworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookworm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Bookwyrm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookwyrm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BookLove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookLove</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
InfoSecSherpa<p>February. Taking a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> away from a community since February. FFS. Stop pwning <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a>. </p><p>"Fort Bend library website targeted by cyberattack to be fully restored by September, county officials say</p><p>Patrons have been unable to log into their accounts and use the online catalog for months after a cybersecurity attack in February."</p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/fort-bend/2025/08/15/528767/fort-bend-library-website-targeted-by-cyberattack-will-be-fully-restored-in-september/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">houstonpublicmedia.org/article</span><span class="invisible">s/news/fort-bend/2025/08/15/528767/fort-bend-library-website-targeted-by-cyberattack-will-be-fully-restored-in-september/</span></a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump-Putin summit starts on red carpet, ends in confusion</strong></p> <ul><li></li></ul> <ul><li><a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Newsletters</a></li></ul><ul><li><a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/events" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Axios Live</a></li></ul> <span class="">Axios </span> <span class="">12 hours ago – <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/world" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">World</a></span> <p><strong>Trump-Putin summit starts on red carpet, ends in confusion</strong></p> <p>By <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/authors/dlawler" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="">Dave Lawler</span></a></p> Caption: Trump and Putin kick off the summit. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images <p>Friday’s <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/trump-putin-press-conference-summit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">summit in Alaska</a> began as a superpower spectacle, then abruptly ended without any indication of what was achieved or where things go from here.</p><p><strong>Why it matters:</strong> President <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump</a> didn’t get the <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-putin-summit-sanctions-consequences" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ceasefire he came for</a>, or the public commitment he wanted from <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/putin-trump-summit-first-visit-us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Vladimir Putin</a> to meet next with <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/13/zelensky-trump-putin-summit-ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Volodymyr Zelensky</a>. The leaders scrapped a planned lunch and departed early — but not before both declared the meeting a success.</p><p><strong>Between the lines: </strong>It’s not hard to see why Putin likely left <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-putin-summit-alaska-military-base-jber" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Anchorage</a> satisfied. Images of Trump applauding as he walked down the red carpet were beamed back to Russia, and around the world.</p><ul><li>“They spent three years telling everyone Russia was isolated, and today they saw the beautiful red carpet laid out for the Russian president in the U.S.,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova noted.</li><li>For now at least, Putin seems to have reset a relationship with Trump that had been splintering. Their brief joint press conference was short on substance but long on mutual praise.</li><li>And Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that new oil sanctions for Russia — which were imminent until Putin proposed the meeting — were now probably off the table for a few weeks.</li></ul><p><strong>The other side: </strong>Trump insisted that progress was made on a number of issues, though not on the “biggest” one, without offering any specifics.</p><ul><li>En route to Alaska, Trump told Fox “I won’t be happy” if Putin doesn’t agree to a ceasefire.</li><li>But afterwards, Trump said he <em>was</em> happy. “I think the meeting was a ten,” he told Hannity.</li><li>Still, Trump was somewhat downbeat during the joint appearance. While Putin claimed an unspecified “agreement” had been reached, Trump brushed that off and said “we didn’t get there.”</li></ul><p><strong>Friction point: </strong>The inconclusive outcome might be most vexing to the party that was <em>not</em> in the room.</p> <ul><li>While Trump warned of “very severe consequences” for Putin ahead of the summit if clear progress was not made, he pivoted to pressuring <a class="" href="https://www.axios.com/world/axios-explains-ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ukraine</a> once it was over.</li></ul> <ul><li>Trump told Hannity it was now “up to President Zelensky to get it done,” and later said “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not.”</li></ul> <p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/16/trump-putin-summit-failure-ukraine-ceasefire" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump-Putin summit starts on red carpet, ends in confusion</a></em></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/alaska/" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/axios/" target="_blank">#Axios</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/european-nations/" target="_blank">#EuropeanNations</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/putin/" target="_blank">#Putin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/summit/" target="_blank">#Summit</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/travel/" target="_blank">#Travel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/ukraine/" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times</strong></p><blockquote> Opinion,<p></p><p class="">Guest Essay</p> <p><strong>How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness</strong></p> Aug. 12, 2025 <span class="">A Manhattan Project development site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1944. </span><span class=""><span class="">Credit…</span><span>Chicago History Museum/Getty Images</span></span> Listen to this article · 7:42 min <span class=""><a href="https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/24318293692180" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Learn more</a></span> <p class=""><span class="">By </span><span class="">Garrett M. Graff</span></p> <p class="">Mr. Graff is a journalist, a historian and the author, most recently, of “<a class="" href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Devil-Reached-Toward-the-Sky/Garrett-M-Graff/9781668092392" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Devil Reached Toward the Sky</a>: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb.”</p> <a class="" href="https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20250813/trump-manhattan-project/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">阅读简体中文版</a><a class="" href="https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20250813/trump-manhattan-project/zh-hant/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">閱讀繁體中文版</a> <p class="">The 80th anniversary last week of the atomic bombings that helped end World War II came at a most peculiar time. That is in part because we can’t mark that anniversary without also noting the astonishing Manhattan Project that built atomic weapons.</p><p class="">The Manhattan Project was a towering achievement, one of the great stories of human effort and accomplishment. Yet the Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the culture of research that the Manhattan Project and World War II bequeathed us, a culture that propelled American prosperity.</p><p class="">At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths. The very elements that made the Manhattan Project such a success are today under assault. With devastating cuts to science and health research, the administration is turning its back on a history of being powered and renewed by the innovation and vision of immigrants. What America may find is that we have squandered the greatest gift of the Manhattan Project — which, in the end, wasn’t the bomb but a new way of looking at how science and government can work together.</p><p class="">That the Manhattan Project happened is itself a minor miracle. For nearly two years, the U.S. military seemed to want nothing to do with the effort of inventing an atomic bomb.</p> <p class="">From 1939 to 1941, a ragtag group of mostly Jewish refugee scientists from Hitler’s Europe, including Albert Einstein, approached the government and met with military officials. The scientists educated them on the discovery of nuclear fission, its implications for war and their fears that Hitler would develop an atomic bomb first.</p><p class="">The military brushed them off. “The colonels kept rather aloof,” the physicist Eugene Wigner recalled after one such meeting in October 1939, as Hitler took Poland. “They were friendly, they smiled, but they never expected to see a working atomic bomb in this world.”</p><p class="">One of those colonels told Wigner and Edward Teller, dismissively, that he would award $10,000 to whoever could develop a death ray and prove it by killing a goat — the implication being he imagined that project more likely than a bomb that unlocked the power of the fundamental building block of the universe.</p> </blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/trump-manhattan-project.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/trump-manhattan-project.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/books/" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/manhattan-project/" target="_blank">#ManhattanProject</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/movies/" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/oak-ridge/" target="_blank">#OakRidge</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/oppenheimer/" target="_blank">#Oppenheimer</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/reading/" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/the-new-york-times/" target="_blank">#TheNewYorkTimes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
DrWeb<p><strong>Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/exclusive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Exclusive</a> , <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/investigations/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Investigations</a></strong></p><p><strong>Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit</strong></p><p>Updated August 16, 20251:56 PM ET</p><p>By <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/1108416123/chiara-eisner" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Chiara Eisner</a></p>President Donald Trump, right, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)<a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.</p><p><a href="https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/26052867-trump-putin-summit-documents/?embed=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Eight pages</a>, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.</p><p>At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/nx-s1-5502460/trump-putin-alaska-summit-ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><u>leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened</u></a>, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel’s public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.</p>Pictures of two documents about the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska that were found in a public hotel printer in Anchorage. NPR<p>The first page in the printed packet disclosed the sequence of meetings for August 15, including the specific names of the rooms inside the base in Anchorage where they would take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial present.</p><p>“POTUS to President Putin,” the document states, “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”</p><p>On Saturday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly dismissed the papers as a “multi-page lunch menu” and suggested leaving the information on a public printer was not a security breach. The U.S. Department of State did not respond to requests for comment.</p><p>Pages 2 through 5 of the documents listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members as well as the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The list provided phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including “Mr. President POO-tihn.”</p><p>Pages 6 and 7 in the packet described how lunch at the summit would be served, and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that the luncheon was to be held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”</p><p>A seating chart shows that Putin and Trump were supposed to sit across from each other during the luncheon. Trump would be flanked by six officials: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to his right, and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff to his left. Putin would be seated immediately next to his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, and his Aide to the President for Foreign Policy, Yuri Ushakov.</p><p>During the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/nx-s1-5502460/trump-putin-alaska-summit-ukraine" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">summit</a> Friday, lunch was apparently cancelled. But it was intended to be a simple, three-course meal, the documents showed. After a green salad, the world leaders would dine on filet mignon and halibut olympia. Crème brûlée would be served for dessert.</p><blockquote></blockquote><p>Continue/Read Original Article Here: <em><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer : NPR</a></em></p> <p>Original article: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">View source</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/2025/" target="_blank">#2025</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/alaska/" target="_blank">#Alaska</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/america/" target="_blank">#America</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/donald-trump/" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/health/" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/history/" target="_blank">#History</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/libraries/" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library/" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/library-of-congress/" target="_blank">#LibraryOfCongress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/national-public-radio/" target="_blank">#NationalPublicRadio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/npr/" target="_blank">#NPR</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/politics/" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/putin/" target="_blank">#Putin</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/resistance/" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/science/" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/summit/" target="_blank">#Summit</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump/" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/trump-administration/" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://drwebdomain.blog/tag/united-states/" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a></p>
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