"I am not asking for special treatment. I am asking to be treated as a person -- with attention, dignity, and the care any human deserves when in distress. What I have experienced looks less like institutional safety and more like a system that has allowed indifference to calcify into policy. Procedures matter only when they protect people; otherwise they become instruments of neglect. Since arriving in the SHU, I've been stripped of almost everything that helped me weather this chapter. Phone calls with loved ones have been cut off. Emails to family have been blocked. Visits -- rare, sacred windows when a person can feel human again -- have been taken away, twice a month and on holidays, as if punishment were protection. I sometimes feel the life leaving my body, a slow leaking of hope." -- former Republican Congressman George Santos
Hospitals and healthcare clinics across the US have been announcing layoffs, service cuts, and closures in the weeks since Republicans passed a budget law that's estimated to slash spending on Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion over the next decade. Monday reporting by CNN highlighted that Augusta Medical Group is closing three of its rural clinics in Virginia. The company said in a statement earlier this month that the closures were "part of Augusta Health's ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for healthcare delivery." read more
The United States and Canada scrambled multiple aircraft to track Russian military planes flying near Alaska on Wednesday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that its aircraft tracked two Tupolev Tu-95 four-engine strategic bombers and two Sukhoi Su-35 air defense fighters in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canadian command, said it dispatched an E-3 Sentry surveillance plane, four F-16 Fighting Falcons and four KC-135 aerial tankers to intercept the Russian aircraft, which remained in international airspace. read more
According to a new report from the New York Times, the damage done to the Social Security Administration is extensive and deep, with offices woefully understaffed, calls going unanswered and remaining employees barely hanging on. As the Times' Tara Siegel Bernard reported, DOGE "sent the agency into a state of upheaval, while Mr. Musk and his lieutenants spread false claims of widespread fraud," adding, "shrinking the staff, before making technological improvements, has made an already difficult situation worse, particularly for Social Security's most vulnerable beneficiaries, many field staffers, legal advocates and researchers said." read more
A federal immigration officer who was captured on video pushing a woman to the ground outside an immigration court in New York City has been relieved of his duties while an investigation is conducted, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. In a statement Friday, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin called the conduct of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer "unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE." "Our ICE law enforcement are held to the highest professional standards and this officer is being relieved of current duties as we conduct a full investigation," McLaughlin added.
Nice try, stinky. Now release the Trumpstein Files.