The Daily Ripple

01/07/2025

People lose services, wealthy get wealthier, and tens of thousands of people lose their jobs.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday jammed through a major package advancing President Trump’s tax priorities, paid for by a host of cuts to the social safety net, including Medicaid and food assistance.…

01/07/2025

GOP sells out American people. "You'll get over it" and "Everyone Dies".

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a move that would erode the social safety net and cause a spike in the number of uninsured Am…

01/07/2025

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/1/al_baqa_cafe_gaza

We speak with American neurosurgeon Dr. Abdul Basit Khan in Gaza, where he is volunteering at the Nasser Hospital. He describes treating patients with blast injuries and gunshot wounds from Israeli attacks, all while coping with a lack of basic medical supplies and widespread hunger. “Food insecur...

01/07/2025

Music Review - "Late Bloomer"-Kelly's Lot (Lee Zimmerman) https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/art-music/cat-blog-reviews-lee-zimmerman/143-music-review-late-bloomer-kellys-lot-lz

01/07/2025

Music Review - "Late Bloomer" by Kelly's Lot (Grant Britt) https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/art-music/cart-reviews-grant-britt/141-music-review-late-bloomer-by-kellys-lot-gb

01/07/2025

Music Review - Late Bloomer- Kelly's Lot (Eleni P Austin)
https://thedailyripple.org/index.php/art-music/cat-blog-reviews-eleni-p-austin/142-music-review-late-bloomer-kellys-lot-ea

01/07/2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/30/pentagon-satellite-weather-data-hurricane-season/84415765007/

Hurricane experts have already raised alarms about the effect the Trump administration's slashing of science budgets could have on hurricane research.

01/07/2025

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/jun/how-medicaid-snap-cutbacks-one-big-beautiful-bill-trigger-job-losses-states

The budget bill recently passed by the House of Representatives reduces federal funding for Medicaid by $863 billion and for SNAP by $295 billion over 10 years.

01/07/2025

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

01/07/2025

01/07/2025

In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree Sunday withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of landmines.

President Volodymyr Zelensky: “This concerns all those countries which border Russia. Anti-personnel mines are the instrument which often cannot ...