Episode 57DHWT  June 19 2025  Williamsburg Virginia  Enslaved Black Children were educated here

1  Headlines     2 Assassination of Democrat Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband    Opinion   The Problem of the Christian Assassin    3 Juneteenth    Civil Rights    Enslaved children learned at this school    On Juneteenth This Williamsburg Schoolhouse Finds a New Life   4 Medicine and Science    Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U S Hospitals    5 Trump Actions    NATO    Trying to Satisfy Trump NATO Is Running Into Difficulties    6 Trump Budget Cuts    Health and Life    Gun Control Weakened    Justice Dept    to Cut Gun Sale Inspectors by Two Thirds as It Moves to Downsize A T F    7 Trump Budget Cuts    Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut in 8 Years Unless Congress Acts    8 Assassination of Democrat Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband    X posts of Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah   The X posts of A US senator after the Minnesota shootings were horrific and predictable    9 Juneteenth    Civil Rights    Democrats No Kings demonstrations sizes in 2025 compared to the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior March on Washington in 1963    Were the No Kings protests the largest single day demonstration in American history?    10 Wisconsin    Trump Budget Cuts on Research in areas including Medicine and Science    The University of Wisconsin at Madison    The real costs of research funding cuts    Main Content

1A Headlines  The New York Times  June 19 2025       2 Assassination of Democrat Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband    Opinion   The Problem of the Christian Assassin   The New York Times    Belgium    Belgian Nonprofit Papy Boom Is Helping Retirement Home Residents Hit the Clubs   The New York Times    Climate Change    U S  Heat Wave Forecast  When High Temperatures Will Affect You   The New York Times     Democrats   New York    Mamdani Narrows the Cuomo Lead in N Y C Mayor Race New Poll Finds   The New York Times     Democrats    New York    The Mamdani Comment on Intifada Motto Fuels Tension in Race for Mayor   The New York Times    Democrats    Opinion   A Progressive Future Depends on National Identity   The New York Times     Democrats    New York    Opinion   The Cuomo Candidacy Is a Symptom of a Bigger Democratic Problem   The New York Times     France     History    In Paris   A New App Explores the French Revolution   The New York Times     Human Interest    Dan Storper Founder of Putumayo World Music Label Dies at 74   The New York Times     Human Interest    They Asked ChatGPT Questions    The Answers Sent Them Spiraling      The New York Times     Iowa    Trump Actions    A Trump Executive Order Could Affect Ukrainian Refugees in Iowa   The New York Times     3 Juneteenth    Civil Rights    Enslaved children learned at this school    On Juneteenth This Williamsburg Schoolhouse Finds a New Life   The New York Times     LBGTQ Rights    Trump Administration Will End the Trevor Project Work With National Suicide Hotline   The New York Times     Medicine and Science    An Illustrated Guide to Inflammation in The Body   The New York Times     4 Medicine and Science    Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U   S    Hospitals   The New York Times     Medicine and Science    This new slang term is inaccurate and trivializes the negative effects of Smoking Cigarettes    Cigarette smoking directly causes lung cancer    High sugar intake is not as directly linked to cancer as cigarette smoking is linked to cancer    What Is a Fridge Cigarette  A New Term for Diet Coke Gains Traction     The New York Times     Medicine and Science    Trump National Institute of Health Cuts  Trump N I H Cuts disputed in lawsuits by Democrats are what this judge is fast tracking to trial    William G Young a Reagan Appointed Judge Is Fast Tracking Trump to Trial   The New York Times     Russia    China Is Hacking Russia to Steal War Secrets   The New York Times     Russia    No Sting No Mercedes  A Russian Expo Shows Cost of Divorce With the West   The New York Times     5 Trump Actions    NATO    Trying to Satisfy Trump NATO Is Running Into Difficulties   The New York Times     6 Trump Budget Cuts    Health and Life    Gun Control Weakened    Justice Dept    to Cut Gun Sale Inspectors by Two Thirds as It Moves to Downsize A T F   The New York Times     7 Trump Budget Cuts    Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut in 8 Years Unless Congress Acts   The New York Times     Trump Tariffs    How the Trump Trade War Has Whipsawed the Port of Los Angeles   The New York Times     1B Headlines   The Guardian  June 19 2025       8 Assassination of Democrat Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband    Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah   The X posts of a U S Senator after the Minnesota shootings were horrific and predictable    The Guardian     Democrats    The anti Trump camp was in disarray    How has No Kings managed to unite it    The Guardian     9 Juneteenth    Civil Rights    Democrats No Kings demonstrations sizes in 2025 compared to the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior March on Washington in 1963    Were the No Kings protests the largest single day demonstration in American history?    US news   The Guardian     Ukraine war briefing  Russia can defend itself says Putin as North Korea sends more soldiers   Ukraine   The Guardian     1C Headlines  Other  June 19 2025     10 Wisconsin    Trump Budget Cuts on Research in areas including Medicine and Science    The University of Wisconsin at Madison    The real costs of research funding cuts     UW–Madison

2 Assassination of Democrat Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband    Opinion   The Problem of the Christian Assassin      Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 19 2025     On Saturday morning Americans woke up to horrifying news    According to a federal criminal complaint  a man named Vance Boelter had stalked four Minnesota lawmakers and then attacked two of them State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman killing Hortman and her husband and wounding Hoffman and his wife    Boelter made lists of Democratic Party officials and abortion rights activists     Right wing figures online tried to identify him as a Democrat or even a radical leftist    But additional research carried out rapidly dispelled that notion    The roommate of Boelter identified him as a Trump supporting Republican and Boelter voted in the 2024 Republican primary     And he was not just a Republican    He was also a 1990 graduate of the Dallas based Christ for the Nations Institute and engaged in missionary activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he delivered sermons that soon appeared online     Boelter was not just a political assassin he was a Christian assassin and connected to one of the most radical religious movements in America    Christ for the Nations opened its doors in 1970 and was founded by James Gordon Lindsay of the New Order of the Latter Rain    Elements of Latter Rain are part of a movement called the New Apostolic Reformation or N A R which places emphasis on miracles and on direct revelations from God    The New Apostolic Reformation and its close cousin the independent charismatic movement house the most radical Christian Trumpists    They see Trump as divinely destined to save America from the godless left and its political party the demoncrats who are doing the bidding of Satan here on earth     Americans evangelicals often comparing Trump with other flawed figures from scripture whom God used to accomplish his purposes whether it is King David   who committed adultery and murder   or King Cyrus the Persian king who allowed the people of Israel to return to Jerusalem after exile    Prophecies around Trump have taken a much darker turn    Jehu prophecy     Jehu is an obscure and vicious ancient king of Israel whose chief claim to fame was overthrowing the house of Ahab ordering the execution of Queen Jezebel the wife of the king   killing the sons of King Ahab  and piling their heads outside the city gates    A leader named Cahn says that God called Jehu to make his nation great again  Cahn said  Jehu came to the capital city with an agenda to drain the swamp    The vengeance of Jehu becomes the vengeance of Trump    Allusions to the most violent passages of scripture are common in independent charismatic circles    Last year in the lobby of Christ for the Nations of a sign stated   Everyone ought to pray at least one violent prayer each day    A CBS YouGov poll helped the writer of this article understand why Trump is politically resilient and politically vulnerable    A majority of Americans like many of the Trump objectives but they do not like his methods    Democrats win when they contest the Trump methods but Democrats lose when they contest at least some of the Trump objectives   This gap between approval for the Trump goals and disapproval of the Trump methods helps explain why he has been elected twice and why his approval sagged so quickly at the beginning of both terms    It also demonstrates why Democrats have not been able to build an enduring majority in spite of the Trump relentless aggression and overreach    If a majority of the American people believe that only the Republican Party shares their objectives they will keep giving it a chance even when Trump fails or when Trump is erratic or when Trump is corrupt    

3 Juneteenth    Civil Rights    Enslaved children learned at this school    On Juneteenth This Williamsburg Schoolhouse Finds a New Life   Enslaved Black Children Were Educated Here    Now the Public Can Learn the History    Beginning on Juneteenth a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 19 2025 The building with a forgotten past sat on the campus of William and Mary for nearly a century    It served as the home of the military science department at the college in Williamsburg Virginia and before that a dormitory for women    But its story is even older    In 2020 researchers discovered that it was not just a facet of the historic campus but a rare artifact in the history of Black life in colonial America    About 250 years ago the unassuming structure housed the Williamsburg Bray School making it the oldest known building where enslaved and free Black children were formally educated    Since the discovery the Bray School has been fully restored    It will open to the public on Thursday Juneteenth in Colonial Williamsburg where it was relocated in 2023 to be preserved    Researchers point to one student Isaac Bee as an example of resilience and resistance    After attending the Bray school he was moved to another plantation and decided to flee    A runaway ad seeking his return dated 1774 described  Bee as 18 or 19 years old    The ad noted something else   He can read!    

4 Medicine and Science    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    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times      June 18 2025     Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten patient care at hundreds of hospitals that depend on medical residents recruited from overseas    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 2025    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 cannot start their medical residencies on time on July 1 2025 the ramifications are far reaching     Senior residents leave hospitals in June and go on to start their careers Hospitals rely on new residents to replenish their ranks    If they do not come on July 1 2025 that leaves a hole in the patient care team    This year there were about 40000 residency positions offered through the national match system but only 28000 graduates of U S medical schools    An insufficient number of residents in hospitals could cost hospitals Medicare funds tied to graduate medical education    The noncitizen international medical graduates who make it to U S training programs are well trained   well qualified  and motivated

5 Trump Actions    NATO    Trying to Satisfy Trump NATO Is Running Into Difficulties    A plan to increase military spending at the level Trump wants is becoming clearer as are its shortcomings    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times      June 19 2025     Beyond projecting military strength and pledging unity a more pressing theme has emerged for the NATO summit next week    Keep Trump happy    As leaders prepare to meet for the annual forum starting on Tuesday U S allies have watered down their public support for Ukrainian membership and drafted a policy communiqué as short as five paragraphs to keep the American leader on board    The meeting itself in The Hague will open and close in under two days a timeline designed to keep it devoid of drama    No one wants to say no to Trump said an analyst for Europe for the Eurasia Group    Asked on Wednesday whether the Iran Israel war would prompt him to skip the meeting  Trump told reporters that he still planned to attend    In any case his influence is certain to loom over the gathering    It has already driven an effort by the secretary general of NATO Mark Rutte to increase military spending by each of the 32 members of the NATO alliance to meet a figure suggested by  Trump    Trump has demanded it be raised to 5 percent of the gross domestic product G D P of each country up from the current level of 2 percent     Rutte has proposed widening the definition of military spending to help meet that objective    The new benchmark would include 3 point 5 percent of G D P on core defense spending   weapons capabilities   and troops   and the rest on what NATO calls defense and security related investment including in infrastructure and resilience    In the weeks since  the Mark Rutte idea gained steam its details and shortcomings have become clearer according to officials and experts    The timeline to increase spending may be different for everyone and officials are confused about the requirements    Even if countries do allocate the sums European and even American defense industries may not be able to absorb the money or deliver in a timely fashion    And while NATO countries generally agree it is past time to spend more on security in Europe   where officials believe a militarized Russia might be tempted to test the alliance within years   some nations already struggle to reach the existing target on military spending    They are unlikely to meet the Trump demand soon if ever    Like  Rutte other world leaders have sought ways to get the most out of their dealings with Trump and avoid unpredictable problems    At the Group of 7 summit this week the newly elected prime minister of Canada and host of the event Mark Carney deployed a mix of flattery and discipline    Yet Trump still disrupted the gathering   departing early to address the Iran Israel war     Rutte hopes to avoid such an outcome    Trump is making a fake demand for more spending and they are giving him a fake response the analyst said    He called the Rutte plan clever because it lets Trump get what he wants and he can brag about it      6 Trump Budget Cuts    Health and Life    Gun Control Weakened    Justice Dept    to Cut Gun Sale Inspectors by Two Thirds as It Moves to Downsize A T F    Justice Department to Cut Two Thirds of Inspectors Monitoring Gun Sales   The move is part of the Trump effort to defang and downsize the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives known as A T F    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times      June 18 2025    The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives A T F is considering merging the A T F and the Drug Enforcement Administration    It follows a rollback of Biden era regulations aimed at stemming the spread of deadly homemade firearms along with other gun control measures    The department plans to eliminate 541 of 800 investigators determining whether federal dealers are following federal law and regulations intended to keep guns away from traffickers   straw purchasers   criminals and those found to have severe mental illness    The reductions would reduce the A T F capacity to regulate the firearms and explosives industries by approximately 40 percent in the fiscal year starting in November 2025   The cuts are needed to meet the White House demand that A T F cut nearly a third from its budget of $1 point 6 billion    The cuts would effectively end the A T F role as a serious regulator of gun sales if the Trump cuts are not reversed by the White House or Congress    These are devastating cuts to law enforcement funding and would undermine the ability of the A T F to keep communities safe from gun violence said the president of Everytown for Gun Safety a nonprofit advocacy group    This budget would be a win for unscrupulous gun dealers and a  setback for state and local law enforcement partners of A T F     A small percent of the 100000 or so dealers   collectors and manufacturers monitored by the A T F are inspected in any given year and some licensees can go nearly a decade without facing routine regulatory scrutiny    The inspections are a target of Republicans as an intrusion into gun rights    But A T F officials law enforcement groups and gun control activists see routine monitoring as a safeguard against abuses     Some retail outlets are sources for criminals and straw purchasers paid to buy guns    In April the 10000 employees of the A T F were handed off from the F B I director to the Army secretary Daniel Driscoll who had been told he was being given the assignment a few days before and Driscoll was not happy with that       7 Trump Budget Cuts    Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut in 8 Years Unless Congress Acts    Social Security Finances Erode Further and Could Spell Benefit Cuts   The key program for retiree benefits in the nation continues to see financing shortfalls    Unless Congress acts those shortfalls could lead to payment cuts in eight years        Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 18 2025     The Social Security program faces a longstanding financing shortfall that if left unaddressed would slash millions of dollars from the crucial monthly benefit payments to retirees in just eight years    The deteriorating financial outlook for the retirement program which supports roughly 61 million Americans  was released in its annual trustees report on Wednesday    It is now expected to run out of money nine months earlier than previously projected which means benefits could be reduced by 23 percent if Congress does not act to bolster the program    That puts the Social Security Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund which pays retiree and survivor benefits on schedule to be depleted in 2033 or when the 59 year olds of today turn 67 in eight years   At that time the program will have enough revenue coming in to pay only 77 percent of total scheduled benefits    The most recent setback was driven largely by a policy change known as the Social Security Fairness Act  which took effect in January and increased benefits for about 2 point 8 million government and public sector workers    But there were other factors Government actuaries now assume that the birthrate will remain lower for longer while projecting that workers compensation would weaken over time as they capture a lower share of the economic output of America    Older Americans nationwide consistently say that the future of Social Security and Medicare are the issues they care about most and they stand ready to hold politicians across party lines accountable to strengthen these programs for the long term    8 Assassination of Democrat Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman and her husband    X posts of Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah   The X posts of a U S Senator Mike Lee of Utah after the Minnesota shootings were horrific and predictable    Mike Lee knows better than to turn tragedy into disinformation    But outrageousness has become the name of the game     Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The Guardian     June 19  2025     On Sunday Republican senator Mike Lee went online to share his reaction to the horrible shooting over the weekend of two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses    This is what happens Lee wrote in a since removed post on X    When Marxists do not get their way    Accompanying this ugly unfounded comment was a photo of the suspect in the shooting Vance Boelter wearing what appears to be a latex face mask    As if that was not enough Mike Lee posted another picture of Boelter under the caption Nightmare on Waltz Street an apparent reference to the Minnesota governor and former Democratic nominee for vice president Tim Walz    During the 2024 campaign Republicans accused him of being soft on crime and mishandling the riots after the murder of George Floyd    So why not suggest that he is somehow to blame for the shootings? Shameful    Lee has dishonored the institution in which he serves and he knows it    Republican Senate leaders should censure their colleague    If they do not they will further shred whatever dignity is left in that body    Lee did what his partisan supporters expect him to do    Give no quarter    Be on the offensive    Push your point    These are the rules even when a tragedy occurs    In fact it increases the opportunity for free publicity that people like Lee crave    But let us be clear    While we can understand the forces that might explain why Lee turned tragedy into disinformation that does not mean we should accept or forgive him for doing so    In the kind of constitutional republic that James Madison imagined and  current US Senator from Utah Mike Lee once praised   tragedies like the murders in Minnesota should bring out the best in our leaders    This duty to do their best during a tragedy existed when James Madison wrote about it  and remains today  to remind us of our shared humanity during national tragedies and reminds us that actions should not be taken during those times that deepen our political divides    9 Juneteenth    Civil Rights    Democrats No Kings demonstrations sizes in 2025 compared to the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior March on Washington in 1963    Were the No Kings protests the largest single day demonstration in American history? Depending on who you ask between four and six million people showed up for No Kings and according to one theory this could be a turning point   RAWSEP View  Ranking by size of demonstration 20 million people demonstrating for Earth Day in 1970 is first   followed by No Kings at up to 6 million people at the demonstrations on one day    The March on Washington in 1963 drew about half a million people  but the impact was large and the March led by Martin Luther King Junior could be said to have been a turning point in the Civil Rights movement     Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization     The Guardian    June 19 2025     The scale of the No Kings protests over the weekend is now becoming clearer with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest ever single day protests in US history    Working out exactly where the protest ranks compared to similar recent events has been a project of a data journalist who runs the Substack Strength in Numbers calculated turnout between four million and six million which would be 1 point 2 to 1 point 8% of the US population    This could exceed the previous record in recent history when between 3 point 3 million and 5 point 6 million people showed up at the 2017 March of Women to rally against the Trump misogynistic rhetoric     Morris estimated the No Kings Day protest turnout in two steps    First his team gathered data at events for as many locations as possible defaulting to tallies published in local newspapers    Where that was not available they relied on estimates from organizers and attendees themselves      He then estimated the attendance in each unreported protest would be equal to the medium of the attendance in places where data did exist    The Strength in Numbers tally remains unofficial and he hopes that researchers will build on his data when they conduct more studies    But his estimation is similar to that made by the co founder of Indivisible the progressive non profit that organized the event    He estimated that five million people across the globe took to the streets    If 1 point 8% of the US adult population showed up to protest it sends a signal to other people that you can stand up too    The 1963 March on Washington where Dr Martin Luther King Jr made his famous I have a dream speech was at the time one of the largest protests in history with up to a half a million people in attendance    It was dwarfed in size by the first Earth Day protests in 1970 in which 20 million people helped spark the creation of the Environmental Protection Act    At the time this was about 10% of the US population possibly the largest we will ever realistically see Organizers and attendees of No Kings feel invigorated enough to continue the demonstrations with another round of coordinated protests to fall on 17 July 17 2025  the five year anniversary of the death of John Lewis the congressman and civil rights leader    But they admit there are limits to these events    We are not going to win if a lot of people show up at a protest one day an organizer said    We need people actually taking democracy seriously and that is not going to be done through a top down action    It has to be done from the bottom up    When pro democracy movements succeed it is because of a broad based ideological diverse geographically dispersed grassroots organizing not just mobilizing    10 Wisconsin    Trump Budget Cuts on Research in areas including Medicine and Science    The University of Wisconsin at Madison    The real costs of research funding cuts With proposed changes to NIH support critical health research at UW– Madison would be at risk    Here is why      Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization     The University of Wisconsin Madison    May 19 2025     Research at the University of Wisconsin Madison drives innovation saves lives creates jobs supports small businesses and fuels the industries that keep America competitive and secure    It makes the U   S    and Wisconsin stronger    Federal funding for research is a high return investment that is worth fighting for    A woman began traveling to the University of Wisconsin Madison campus last year to receive brain scans and blood draws not as a medical patient but as a research participant    She is part of an potentially transformative study aimed at better understanding Alzheimers disease and related dementias    A mother of five in her 70s the woman was motivated because of her family history with dementia    She witnessed the struggle of her father in the years prior to his death    The woman wants to help UW Madison researchers find effective treatments for dementia and perhaps even a cure if not for her dad then for all future patients changed by the diagnosis    The university funds much of the research itself along with some assistance from private research foundations and other philanthropic sources    Still without indirect funding from the Federal Government it is easy to imagine how a research study falls apart quickly    Consider what could happen to the safe efficient and productive experience for a study participant like the woman participant for the Dementia study    There may not be staff available to schedule or shepherd her through her visit    The PET machines might break down due to a lack of maintenance    The digital brain scans and other sensitive health data could be lost corrupted or stolen by a bad actor    And there may not be enough money to purchase and power the freezer storage needed to preserve the blood samples    The UW Madison research enterprise would not collapse overnight from diminished NIH funding of indirect costs but the small compounding effects and long  term consequences could be devastating    Potentially life saving research would become slower and less ambitious    And the true cost would fall on those waiting for the next medical breakthrough who would have to wait even longer