Covid vaccines are increasingly hard to find. I hope Secretary Kennedy changes his tune and offers clear guidance about its availability and coverage.

The state of Florida not requiring children to be vaccinated will result in needless illness and death. It will cause a spike in measles and pertussis which can be fatal. Utterly backwards policy.

Donald Trump called the covid pandemic a hoax and once suggested injecting bleach as a cure. But he generally let the scientists develop a vaccine that worked. Now his HHS Secretary is restricting access to the Covid boosters and casting doubt on the effectiveness of the vaccine.

Judges keep finding that Donald Trump has illegally withheld research funding in an attempt to punish and coerce our leading universities. Harvard is the latest example.

India is the world’s largest democracy and a counterweight to China. Trump managed to blow up years of work bringing India closer to the US by his 50% likely illegal tariffs.

It was a bit terrifying to watch RFK Jr who is not a doctor or trained in public health think he knows more than the AMA and Association of Pediatricians.

The powerful voices of the women abused by Jeffrey Epstein need to be respected. It is incumbent on Trump and the GOP to release the DOJ files.

Conspiracy theorist RFKJr who is neither a doctor nor public health expert is destroying the CDC , one of the Crown Jewels of our government. Disgraceful.

Republicans are practicing reverse Robin Hood. Raising taxes at people in lower income levels under $30,000 a year and cutting taxes for billionaires and the biggest corporations.

There are more guns than people in the US. Another deadly school shooting and all some politicians offer is thoughts and prayers. Stop voting for these pro gun politicians who think gun rights are more important than young lives.

The Founders built check and balances into our Constitution. The Fed by law is an independent agency. His purported firing of Lisa Cook appears illegal. What will the supposed conservatives on the Supreme Court do if the case reaches them?

The Trump Administration claims the aim is to make America healthy again. Meanwhile there is no restriction of dangerous chemicals and reduced inspections of meat producers for salmonella poisoning.

Firing high ranking and experienced women from the military is both sexist and incredibly short sighted.

There can be no peace deal in Ukraine unless Putin returns the children his troops kidnapped there and return them to their families.

Donald Trump is pressuring our esteemed Smithsonian Museums to rewrite our past. But you cannot erase the truth of our history whether positive or negative.

The reckless destruction of medical research by the Trump Administration will haunt our country for years.

Donald Trump loves the spotlight so he made President Zelensky sit with his back to the camera and have to pivot to answer a question.

After his embarrassing meeting with Putin, one can hope Trump stands with the democratic allies in NATO and supports Ukraine.  www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In another demonstration of Donald Trump wasting your tax dollars, the Washington Post reports the Administration is now paying 154,000 federal employees full salary and benefits not to work.

While it pales in comparison to his destructive policies, ruining the Rose Garden and gilding everything in the White House in faux gold makes it look like a dictator’s ostentatious palace.

Donald Trump continues his war on California. He sent the military to Los Angeles for no reason, his ICE agents are chasing farmworkers through fields, and now he demands a billion dollars from our great public university UCLA.

The anti science bias against medical innovation will cost our country and our citizens dearly.

Trump and the GOP constantly campaign that crime is out of control. In fact as this FBI report reported, violent and property crime last year was at its lowest level since the 1960s. This fact should be more broadly known by our citizens.

Since we are all affected by the microplastics everywhere, the least that should be done is to ban the known toxic chemicals in some plastics. Right now the plastics treaty is being negotiated and the Trump Administration is on the wrong side of history.

The White House was rebuilt in 1812. It has classical Federal architecture designed with timeless dignity and elegance. Donald Trump has already torn up the beautiful Rose Garden and now wants to add a gilded ballroom. The USA doesn’t have a king and we don’t need a palace.

If the US government can’t provide truthful and factual information for the public and instead produces propaganda to please certain politicians, trust is forever eroded.

Trump and his GOP cronies deliberate sabotage of the clean energy industry to help fossil fuel donors is breathtakingly shortsighted.

Donald Trump and Texas GOP are pushing an anti democratic mid decade redistricting because they are desperate to avoid accountability from voters in 2026.

Microplastics are everywhere, in the air, and our bodies. This horrifying thought should force us to reduce plastic use wherever possible.

The jobs numbers were horrible so Trump fired the messenger. People are struggling with rising costs and Trump proposes a huge ballroom at the White House. For what? For whom? He says private donors. The money could be spent on something to benefit the American people.

The attack on our universities, the lack of respect for education and expertise, the attack on medical research to keep us healthy, what purpose does it serve? It makes our country weaker.

Privatizing Social Security and ending Medicare are the twin goals of right wing Republicans like Trump and his cronies.

Donald Trump didn’t attend the Kennedy Center in his first term and is not known as a big supporter of the arts. Now the GOP which he controls want to replace the Kennedy name with his instead. Seriously?

The independence of the Justice Department has been one of the hallmarks of our democratic republic. Donald Trump has severely compromised it.

Climate scientists sounded the alarm in the 1980s about climate change. When I understood the threat, my foundation made a grant to an organization called The Environmental Defense Fund. 40yrs on, the threats are more apparent than ever as 200 million Americans now live under a severe heat warning.

Trump is in Scotland playing golf and promoting his golf courses on our money to a tune of $10,000,000. His mother and two of his three wives were immigrants but his Administration is busy arresting gardeners, cooks, and maids.

Why is Donald Trump appearing on television so much? Is this all a reality show and showbiz for him?

Before Trump was even elected in 2016, we could see his behavior was aligned with a condition called the “disowned self” which means a person who can’t see their own flaws, but projects them onto others. In 2025, it seems that he’s still doing that. With Trump, it’s always projection.

Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy began against windmills. Now he is decimating the US renewable energy capacity and costing jobs. Is it all just to reward his fossil fuel supporters?

The Supreme Court has ignored our history and precedent and allowed Donald Trump to rewrite the rules and laws of our democratic republic.

The first time I met Gary Smith was in 1963 when I appeared on the Judy Garland Show. He had just become the series producer. Then in 1971, he and his directing partner Dwight Hemion produced a Burt Bacharach television special that I sang with Burt on.

I love dogs. Donald Trump apparently does not. But banning a former honorable public servant, who spent decades serving our country, from attending a ceremony of a dog he sponsored is the height of pettiness.

The GOP Justices on The Supreme Court do less interpretation of constitutional law and more the practice of conservative politics.

Another year around the sun honey. Happy birthday. Bee xo. 🎂

This Trump/GOP government shows little compassion for our people. Ending healthcare for millions, cutting disaster relief, the ICE raids, the divisive rhetoric are hallmarks of cruelty rather than kindness towards those who live here.

Cutting vital services for the public like the weather service and disaster response is the most short sighted policy imaginable. The federal government should ensure public safety not dismiss it as too costly.

Donald Trump promised only “the best people" would serve in his Administration. His current Cabinet begs this question. It would seem they were picked more for blind loyalty than experience or competence.

As climate scientists have predicted, the world will face bigger storms, more drought/wildfires because of climate change. We are seeing this now and the US needs more meteorologists not fewer at the National Weather Service and better early warning systems. Both missing in the deadly Texas floods.

One can hope that Trump has had a real change of heart and he is willing to help Ukraine resist the Russian invasion.