Vance cozies up to Germany's far-right, scolds E.U. leaders for not engaging with extremists

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President Kennedy created USAID in response to the book Ugly American. Americans were seen as being out of touch in other countries. USAID created friendships with other countries and prevented them from succumbing to totalitarian influences. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/p...

Although political leaders are discounting identity as politics, important decisions are identity-based - Dr. Hideko Sera, APA Board of Directors

From Katharine McGuire, APA Chief Advocacy Officer

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Systemic racism is hard to accept for those who believe in individual agency. They believe that their privilege is earned. And that being a good person (“I’m not racist”) is sufficient to dismantle racism.

Most of the fentanyl that comes into the U.S. from Mexico is brought by U.S. citizens, not migrants. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This pictogram by Yang Liu depicts parties in Germany on the left and in China on the right. I have often felt the isolation in the left side in White spaces. In my own parties, I try to include everyone. craftymemories.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

When I was a preschooler, my mother taught me and my sister that “me first” was wrong. We should share and think of others. The “America First” people apparently never learned this lesson.

The Quakers have a long history of political activism, including sponsoring my Japanese American mother to work in Pennsylvania to leave a WWII internment camp www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

When the Trump government failed to track COVID cases in 2020, Johns Hopkins developed a COVID tracker. If the CDC continues to be muzzled, I hope research institutions will fill the public health void.

Beautiful Oregon Coast sunset

What would it take for evangelical Christians to abandon Trump? Abandoning their religion and church? And what would make evangelical Christians even consider abandoning Trump or religion?