June is Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness Month. Nearly 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's. Behind each of them is a family... usually an unpaid caregiver who didn't plan for this and wasn't trained for it. www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-culture...

Portsmouth caregiver shares hard-won advice for families facing brain disease

Katie Brandt became a full-time caregiver at 29. Now, she’s helping Rhode Island families understand what comes after an Alzheimer’s or dementia diagnosis

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37 million Americans are unpaid family caregivers. For dementia caregivers, that's 92 hours a month, often for years. Federal help is stalled. Medicaid is being cut. Families are on their own. Penn LDI has the full picture. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

America’s Caregiver Crisis is Burning Out Millions of Families

In the U.S. health care system, long-term care for adults who cannot live independently is largely provided through unpaid labor by friends and family members. During 2024, about 37 million Americans…

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Nearly 13 million Americans are providing unpaid dementia care right now. Most didn't plan for it, weren't trained for it, and can't afford to stop. Value of the care? $446B. Human cost doesn't have a number. alzheimerslab.com/7-4-million-...

7.4 Million Americans Are Living With Dementia Right Now — What It Really Means For You And Your Family | AlzheimersLab

Learn what it means that 7.4 million Americans are living with dementia, how it affects families, and practical steps you can take to manage care and plan ahead.

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"...for others who deal with dementia and seizures, not having hemp products can mean the difference between living at home and entering a facility, or turning to 'more dangerous treatments.'" -- Dr. Dustin Sulak, @bostonglobe.com , April 5, 2026

Hemp-derived cannabinoids are getting regulated out of reach for the people who need them most, just as the research is starting to show why they do.

Congress is treating all hemp-derived cannabinoid products as if they exist for the same reason. They don't. The conversation around recreational products and the conversation around low-dose therapeutic products for seniors and caregivers are not the same conversation.

Just watched an interview about The Enemies Project—where people with opposite beliefs sit down to connect, not clash. It gave me real hope. Worth checking out: www.enemiesproject.org 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oOu...

BREAKING: the heroes at Susman Godfrey sue the Trump administration over the illegal retaliation against them They have more integrity in their pinky finger than these other firms that have been capitulating have in their entire partnerships And kudos to the team at Munger for representing them

One of two things is happening. They don’t understand what’s happening. They want it to happen. Pick your poison

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last yr.

In any other administration, the president would already be huddled with advisors trying to stave off collapse

NEWSFLASH: At least 12 members of Congress are flying Appeal to Heaven flags outside their offices. Great reporting from @marabim.bsky.social tracking Congress & January 6th symbolism. The ATH flag is a symbol of Christian supremacy & political-spiritual warfare. baptistnews.com/article/a-vi...

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Laurence H. Tribe@tribelaw.bsky.social · last yr.

Firing a DOJ lawyer for admitting a government error when the lawyer’s duty to the court requires exactly that admission is about as wrong as anything can be. Only in the lawless, topsy-turvy world of Trump and Vance is such absurdity imaginable. Yet here we are! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Marco Rubio’s bodyguard was arrested in Brussels, Belgium because the hotel wouldn’t open the bar for him? This administration is a disgrace.

The stupid coup's stupid energy policy--coal is just a dirty, expensive, moribund way to make electricity, and it's also some kind of symbolic Ye Mannehood of Olde stuff that the right gets all sentimental about, while screwing over actual coal miners.

Scott Waldman@scottpwaldman.bsky.social · last yr.

At his coal promotion event at the White House, Trump just said he will use the major law firms he bullied into providing $150 million+ in free legal services to fight state and local government regulations on coal pollution.

Thinking about this in light of the story about Bongino having a security detail and wondering how many jobs in this administration that wouldn’t typically merit bodyguards are getting them due to the whole destroying countless lives thing.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · last yr.

Just saw Stephen Miller outside Tysons Mall getting into a car with his security Told him to his face that he's hurting American families. He didn't look up and his security told me I need to keep moving. I was with my son and holding a Lego bag. These men are weak, cruel cowards.

Crockett: "If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let's talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump's golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we're not getting anything in return for that ... he decided he was going to golf instead of receiving four heroes."

DHS secretary Kristi Noem, wearing a $50,000 Rolex, talks about arresting dirtbags while aiming rifle muzzle dangerously close to ICE officer's head

It is darkly hilarious that the US lacks a compulsory national identification card (closest we have is SSN, which is not supposed to be used for ID - says so right on the card) because people go bonkers over privacy and other items, yet this is going on behind the scenes right now:

Trump and DOGE Are 'Trying to Get Around' Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info

Donald Trump and DOGE want access to the personal data and information of nearly everyone in the country, including legal and undocumented immigrants.

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Fox was created to get Republicans elected, not to inform their viewers.

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · last yr.

Brian Kilmeade blamed USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement) for unfair trade practices. Donald J. Trump proudly replaced NAFTA with USMCA in Oct. 2018. The agreement went into effect in July 2020. I provide receipts. USMCA is Trump's trade deal.

Christian nationalism opposes public assistance to the poor, unless the money passes through church coffers, denies the science that human contributions to greenhouse gases causes global warning, opposes gun regulation, favors privatization of schools.

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And also, it’s nonsense

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last yr.

Let's be clear that this thing Trump just said about having no trade deficits with any country would be far more radical, more disruptive, and more expensive, than every single leftist dream you have ever heard put together, including Medicare for All, Guaranteed Housing, and Universal Basic Income.

It’s not like they do anything, tho…

Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · last yr.

The Senate is about to go on a multi-week recess with the markets plunging by the most since COVID.

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth"

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.

Stunning note from Mizuho, comparing tariff policy to Chernobyl Gorbachev’s gov’t “was built on power and lies and could not admit mistakes .. Admitting the disaster to the world, even if it was the right thing to do, would show weakness. “We are all along for the ride, no matter how dangerous..”

Wow, the biggest Tesla bull, Dan Ives, just slashed his target on the stock by 43%, citing a brand crisis caused by Musk and Trump's trade policies. To all those who showed up at protest nationwide or turned in your Tesla, thank you! Take a bow.

All it took was over 800 cases and 2 dead kids…

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

What Cory Booker did wasn’t just about breaking a record or standing up for democracy—it hits different for Black folks. Strom Thurmond spoke for 24 hours to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Cory Booker, a Black man, shattered a segregationist’s legacy—and flipped the script. @booker.senate.gov

This seems like a bad idea

Reporters and human rights groups say the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media have put dozens of journalists at risk, especially those who defied authoritarian regimes to help fulfill the U.S. mission of delivering uncensored news.

Foreign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump's cuts

Reporters and human rights groups say the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for Global Media have put dozens of journalists at risk, especially those who defied authoritarian regimes to help fulfill the U.S. mission of delivering uncensored news to parts of the world under

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The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff