Author: Carma Henry

       The Board OK’d  the move unanimously for a second time, despite a still-pending lawsuit alleging that the public college violated Florida’s Sunshine Law during its first vote in September.

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The signs were visible to anyone willing to look. Clinics running out of medicine, health workers sent home in silence, and governments bracing for a wave they could no longer afford to stop.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The battles over the Affordable Care Act were never only about policy or the price of insurance. They were never simply arguments about federal subsidies, individual mandates, or the markets that hold the system together.

       About 1.6 million Americans have been removed from Medicaid during the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term, according to new numbers from the health research group KFF, per Newsweek.

   Authentic ignorance” is not mere lack of knowledge — it is the arrogant refusal to learn, combined with the reckless confidence to lead a nation while knowing nothing of consequence. When this condition infects an ordinary mind, it produces confusion. When it infects a President, it produces catastrophe. And yet, a chilling parallel emerges: Artificial Intelligence, if not regulated, will become even more dangerous than authentic ignorance — because it can replicate misinformation on a scale, without conscience, limits, or accountability.

       That was the opening image delivered by the Pentagon in early September: a tightly edited video of a U.S. military aircraft obliterating an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean. It was released with cinematic timing, framed as a bold success in the Trump administration’s newly intensified campaign against “narco-terrorists.” But the more Americans have learned about what followed, the killing of two dazed, shipwrecked survivors in a second strike, the more the narrative has begun to disintegrate.

The Right Fight

– The headlines this month about White men, college admissions, and the fallout from ending affirmative action startled a lot of people. Stories of declining enrollment and shrinking opportunity for young White men were treated as if they had materialized out of nowhere.

  Football season is winding down and in the coming weeks bowl games and college football playoffs will begin. In some respects, football is a year-round sport. The playing stops but the recruiting of prospective college student-athletes never does.

        For those of us who have not forgotten the regime changes, interventions, and “limited engagements” that never stay limited, it is obvious that the United States is drifting toward a dangerous precipice in Venezuela. The November 24th decision to designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization is not a routine sanctions update. It is a major escalation.