*** “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” [ Jesus Christ – John 13:34 ]
1- – “The Human Toll of Trump’s Aid Cuts” [ Nicholas Kristof; New York Times; 6/11/25]
– – “Children who are citizens deported” [ Marc Levy; Associated Press; 4/27/25 ]
– “”Head Start Under The Budget Gun…Trump administration’s planned spending cuts threatens to end 60-year old program that provides care for 800,000 kids” [ Jenny Gold, Kate Sequiera: Los Angeles Times; 4/27/25 ]
– “As markets fell, Trump played golf”. [ Dan Diamond; Washington Post; 4/8/25 ]
*** “City sidewalks busy sidewalks; Dressed in holiday style, in the air; There’s a feeling of Christmas; Children laughing; People passing meeting smile after smile…” [ “Silver Bells” ]
2]. – “Trump blames Reiner for his own death”. [Michelle Price; Associated Press; 12/16/25}
– “Top Aide Says Trump Has ‘An Alcoholic’s Personality'” [ Peter Baker; New York Times; 12/17/25 ]
– “Weather lab to be dismantled…White House calls the research center a source of ‘climate alarmism”. [ Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer; New York Timres; 12/18/25 ]
– “Heating Costs Rising Near 10% This Winter…Bills going up as government cuts aid to states to help low-income residents”. [ Ivan Penn; New York Timers; 12/18/25 ]
***. “If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming after you, and you don’t do it, you are wasting your time on this earth.” [ Roberto Clemente, beloved HOF baseball player. An annual Roberto Clemente Award is given to a player deemed to be a positive public asset ]
3] “Donald Trump’s single greatest character flaw as a leader and human being is his complete and total lack of empathy.” [ Omarosa: “Unhinged”; Trump first term official ]
*** “There’s no Christmas like a home Christmas with your Dad and Mother Sis and Brother there; With their hearts humming at your home commin’ and that Merry Yuletide spirit in the air’.” [“There’s No Christmas Like A Home Christmas” ]
4]. – “The Trump administration ..[said].. the Smithsonian is too focused on “how bad slavery was.” [Kelsey Ables; White House threatens Smithsonian funds amid content review”; Washington Post; 12/22/25 ]
– “White House aid cuts hamper food shelves” [Trey Newes; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/24/25 ]
– “FDA firings decimate teams on med devices, disease, food safety”. [Christina Jewett; New York Times; 2/22/25 ]
– “Trump, Musk and Cruelty to Poor Kids” [ Gene Nichol; The Progressive Populist; 4/1/25 ]
*** ‘So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in the world.” [ Isadora Duncan ]
5]. – “Trump Promised lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them” [ New York Times; Editorial; 11/23/25 ]
– “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job'”. [ Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25 ]
– “Black Friday spending shows widening economic divide”. [ Abha Bhattarai; Washington Post; 12/10/25 ]; [Lower-and middle-income Americans have been hit hard by rising costs…For the first time, the top 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all spending..” ]
– “Launching Affordability Tour, Trump Mocks Affordability” [ Matt Viser; Washington Post; 12/11/25 ]: [“Trump …returned to a comment he made easrlier in his presidency, saying that Americans needed to go without.” ]
*** “Here we come a-caroling, among leaves so green, here we come a-wandering, so far to be seen; Love and joy come to you, and to you, and to you glad Christmas too, and God bless you and you, a Happy New Year, and God send you a Happy New Year.” [ “Here We Come A-caroling” ]
6] ‘…Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests..” [ niece Mary Trump: “Too Much and Never Enough” ]
***. “In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.” [ Senator J. William Fulbright. ]
7]. – “Domestic violence services at risk” [Briana Bierschbach; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/25/25 ]
– “Consumer agency is ordered to stop work”. [ Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 2/10/25 ]
– “Vets are becoming face of Trump’s cuts, Dem’s fight”. [ Stephen Grover; Associated Press; 3/25/25 ]
– “Farmers are out millions after Trump freezes USDA funds”. [. Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur; Washington Post; 2/11/25 ]
***. “People who love people, are the luckiest people in the world. We”re children needing other children, and yet letting grown-up pride hide all the need inside, acting more like children than children.” [ Barbara Streisand; “People” ]
With Justice For All 