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"...the United States faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, below the projected need for an aging population.

That could have lasting effects on care, particularly in states like Iowa with significant rural populations. Experts say the problem has been building for a while, but the effects of the pandemic accelerated the shortages by pushing many doctors over the edge into early retirement or other fields."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/covid-shortages-doctors-nurses-iowa-rural-hospitals-burnout-health-workforce/

The admin on Friday will announce that it's moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as "," that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting Trump's agenda.

By stripping protections from about 50k people — roughly 2% of the federal work force — Trump is continuing his far-reaching effort to *trim the federal bureaucracy* & make it more answerable to him.


https://www.axios.com/2025/04/18/trump-federal-workers-schedule-f-firings

"Around 250 doctors at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) have been certified as the first unionized resident and fellow physicians in Minnesota, according to union officials.

The physicians are represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents, a local of the Service Employees International Union (CIR/SEIU)..."

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/hennepin-county-physicians-certified-union-minnesota-seiu/

details how may have taken sensitive data

In the first days of March, a team of advisers from 's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.

The small, independent federal agency investigates & adjudicates complaints about unfair practices.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

admin overrode staff to list immigrants as dead

A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.

Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/

Wow.

An article that spoke to me soul.

“Every generation has had hobbies, hobbyists, and negotiations of the line between leisure and labor. It is part of who we are, figuring out how to live in a capitalist society. But our current, millennial iteration of hobby energy has been shaped not only by the precarity and optimizing impulses of our youth, but also by the realities of our transition into middle age: under the long, lingering shadow of Covid, amidst the rise of local and global fascism and totalitarianism, dependent upon yet resentful of digital technologies, caught in intensive parenting spirals that feel impossible to escape, assailed by personalized advertising, terrified of financial collapse, convinced we’ll work until we die, overburdened with debt, paralyzed by climate change, terrified by massive steps backwards in womens’ and trans rights, and everyday witnesses to genocide.”