Author: Carma Henry

       A federal appellate court order has effectively ended the popular Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program. The likely effect will be an increased financial strain on 7 million borrowers who used the program to keep their monthly student loan repayments affordable and manageable.

THE AFRO — “The risks facing women in rural communities is due to hardship in receiving routine screenings and also access for treatment if conditions/diseases arise.  Also, in rural areas there are few specialists,” Dr. Sonya Buchanan, a preventative medicine physician and Meharry Medical College graduate, told the AFRO.

In a world increasingly shaped by technology, Stephen Heiman has never lost sight of the power of human connection.

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is calling for swift action on the Wartime Anti-Profiteering and Relief Act (WAR Act), legislation designed to protect American families from soaring energy prices and rising costs of living driven by global instability and the U.S.-Israel-Iran war.

   There exists within the foundation of American democracy a sacred promise—one that transcends politics, personalities, and power. It is a promise sworn not to a king, not to a president, not to a party, but to an enduring framework of law and liberty: the U.S. Constitution. Every general who rises to command within the United States military swears an oath to support and defend this Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This oath is not ceremonial. It is not symbolic. It is a binding moral contract that demands courage not only in battle—but in judgment.

Is No Kings Becoming A Movement And Will You Be A Part Of It?

    The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides put forward positions not subject to actual bargaining. On the US side, according to JD Vance:

    Should the United States be bound by international law? Donald Trump doesn’t think so nor does his defense secretary. Last January President Trump told the New York Times, “I don’t need international law.” According to Pete Hegseth, “We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” Not only has “no quarter” been considered a war crime since the 1899 Hague Convention; it violates the United State War Crimes statute which has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Hegseth has dismissed such concerns as “stupid rules of engagement.”  Nor is it likely that the Trump administration would prosecute him for following the orders of the President.

    In the wake of President Trump’s monstrous nuclear threat to obliterate Iran’s civilization, calls for his removal from office are rising, understandably. Doing so via the 25th Amendment, which would require Vice President J.D. Vance and the spineless supine sycophants in the Cabinet to certify Trump unfit for office, is the longest of long shots, though U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a former Constitutional law professor and ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, notes the amendment mentions the ability for Congress to establish its own mechanism to remove an incompetent chief executive.

    We are living in an Upside Down moment, and the danger is no longer metaphorical. You don’t need to have watched Stranger Things to recognize that the threat is real, not lurking in another dimension. It’s prowling in the White House, and no blinking lights are spelling out SOS.