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Trump administration to shut down LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. The Trump administration says the move will "focus on serving all help seekers."
Trump administration to shut down LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. The Trump administration says the move will "focus on serving all help seekers."
“The Trump administration will shut down the national LGBTQ youth suicide lifeline in 30 days.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced Tuesday that the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth services, also known as the “Press 3 option,” effective July 17.
The agency said it will "no longer silo LGB+ youth services" — notably removing the "T" representing the trans community in the acronym — to "focus on serving all help seekers, including those previously served through the Press 3 option."
The Press 3 option rolled out as a pilot program in 2022 in a government contract with the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ people. Those in need of help would call 988 and be given the option to “press 3” to connect with counselors trained to assist people up to the age of 25.
The Trevor Project was initially the sole provider of the youth specialized service, and is now one of seven centers that make up the LGBTQ Youth Subnetwork.
It came about under legislation signed by President Donald Trump during his first term that acknowledged disproportionately high suicide rates among LGBTQ youth.…”
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“… When asked for comment about that proposed cut, Rachel Cauley, a spokesperson for the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, told NBC News the proposed budget wouldn’t “grant taxpayer money to a chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by ‘counselors’ without consent or knowledge of their parents.”Trump administration to shut down LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. The Trump administration says the move will "focus on serving all help seekers."
Trump administration to shut down LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth service line starting July 17. The Trump administration says the move will "focus on serving all help seekers."www.nbcnews.com
“The Trump administration will shut down the national LGBTQ youth suicide lifeline in 30 days.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced Tuesday that the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will no longer utilize its LGBTQ youth services, also known as the “Press 3 option,” effective July 17.
The agency said it will "no longer silo LGB+ youth services" — notably removing the "T" representing the trans community in the acronym — to "focus on serving all help seekers, including those previously served through the Press 3 option."
The Press 3 option rolled out as a pilot program in 2022 in a government contract with the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ people. Those in need of help would call 988 and be given the option to “press 3” to connect with counselors trained to assist people up to the age of 25.
The Trevor Project was initially the sole provider of the youth specialized service, and is now one of seven centers that make up the LGBTQ Youth Subnetwork.
It came about under legislation signed by President Donald Trump during his first term that acknowledged disproportionately high suicide rates among LGBTQ youth.…”
That term, "radical gender ideology," is one that has been adopted by conservatives and the Trump administration to describe transgender people and the trans rights movement, which it considers harmful to children.“
sringwal
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(Inwardly panicking) - “Everything is fine.”
1moretimeagain
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I wish they had announced the stake was for sale.
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Flashback - Feb 2025
'People will starve' because of US aid cut to Sudan
Sudan conflict: USAID cut hits people 'screaming from hunger' - BBC News
Nearly two million people who have relied on community kitchens for food have lost this lifeline.www.bbc.com
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The freezing of US humanitarian assistance has forced the closure of almost 80% of the emergency food kitchens set up to help people left destitute by Sudan's civil war, the BBC has learned.
Aid volunteers said the impact of President Donald Trump's executive order halting contributions from the US government's development organisation (USAID) for 90 days meant more than 1,100 communal kitchens had shut.
It is estimated that nearly two million people struggling to survive have been affected….”
Flashback - April 2025
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.www.nytimes.com
“…The stark consequences of Mr. Trump’s slashing of U.S. aid are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has set off a staggering humanitarian catastrophe and left 25 million people — more than half of the country’s population — acutely hungry.
… Last year, the United States gave $830 million in emergency aid, helping 4.4 million Sudanese, the United Nations estimates. That was far more aid than any other country provided. But after Mr. Trump halted that lifeline in January by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, the effect in Khartoum was devastating.
… The Trump administration has said that lifesaving aid is exempt from the cuts. In an email, a State Department spokesman said that the United States was still helping four million people inside Sudan, as well as 3.8 million refugees in neighboring countries.
But on the ground, aid groups say the flow of American money stopped for almost two months and has resumed only in fits and starts, if at all.
The U.S.A.I.D. officials who once helped make the payments have been fired. A work force of about 10,000 is being reduced to about 15 positions, leaving the American chain of assistance mired in chaos, delays and uncertainty.…”
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Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.“…
Foreign medical residents often serve as the frontline caregivers at busy safety-net hospitals in low-income communities. Normally the residents begin work on July 1. Orientation programs for some of them already started this week.
Now some of those hospitals are racing to prevent staffing shortages.
“If international medical graduates can’t start their medical residencies on time on July 1, the ramifications are so far-reaching that it is really unconscionable,” said Kimberly Pierce Burke, executive director of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers.
Senior residents leave hospitals in June and go on to start their careers, she noted. Hospitals rely on new residents to replenish their ranks. “If they don’t come on July 1, that leaves a hole in the patient care team,” Ms. Burke said. “Who’s going to pick up the slack?”
On May 27, the Trump administration suspended new interview appointments for foreign nationals applying for J-1 visas. The visas, for participants in cultural or educational exchange programs, are used by most medical residents arriving from overseas.
On Wednesday, the State Department lifted the pause on visa appointments, according to an official who spoke anonymously to discuss an internal policy change. It was not immediately clear how many, or how quickly, physicians could be granted their visas.
The process now includes “enhanced social media vetting,” intended to ferret out potential security risks, the official said.…”
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The American medical system relies heavily on physicians from other countries. One in five U.S. physicians was born and educated overseas, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
New doctors from other countries account for one in six medical residents and specializing fellows at U.S. teaching hospitals. In 2024, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates sponsored more than 15,500 doctorsfrom over 150 countries to fill residency or fellowship training spots at 770 hospitals.…”
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U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants
The State Department is restarting the processing of visa applications from students and visiting scholars, but is screening for “hostility” toward the United States.“… Applicants will be screened for perceived “hostility” toward the United States, and they will be asked to make their social media accounts “public” for the review, State Department officials said on Wednesday.
All applications for F, M and J nonimmigrant visas, which are for scholarly exchanges and research, will be reviewed, the officials said.
Consular officers at missions overseas are being told to look for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the United States.” The State Department did not provide further details on how officers would define that criteria.…”
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Dude…
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The D.N.C. Is in Chaos and Desperate for Cash
Under its new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power.“…Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the party’s financial commitments to every state, and even to far-flung territories like Guam.
Fellow Democrats are grumbling that Mr. Martin, who quietly accepted a raise after taking the post, has been badly distracted by internal battles. So far, they say, he has been unable to help unite his party against Republicans, who control the federal government.
A protracted and public fight with David Hogg, the 25-year-old activist turned D.N.C. vice chair who blindsided party officials with a plan to challenge incumbent Democrats, made things worse. The clash included the leak of embarrassing audio of Mr. Martin questioning his own role and ended in Mr. Hogg’s unceremonious exit this month.
That was soon followed by the news that two of the country’s most influential labor leaders, who represent a combined 3.2 million workers, were also leaving the D.N.C. Both questioned the party’s direction under Mr. Martin.…”
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The party is hollowed out, ideologically confused, and hemorrhaging trust. Not just from voters but from labor, donors, and even its own officials. The Hogg debacle and labor exits should be flashing red lights, folks.