BeyondGeography
BeyondGeography's JournalTrump's health cuts leave 'huge void' in Buffalo, New York - and patients fearing lack of care
“They made me focus on my strengths,” Buckley said. “I believe my therapists helped me find a different way to bring meaning and purpose to my life.” But in August, Buffalo Therapy Services’ parent group – Kaleida Health, the largest healthcare provider in western New York – revealed that it would in effect close two of the clinic’s locations, in part due to colossal healthcare funding cuts included in Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending legislation, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Buffalo Therapy Services wasn’t the only casualty: Kaleida also announced plans to shutter a freestanding surgery center and a family planning center. Many patients treated at these facilities now say they have nowhere else to go. The two clinics are technically still open, but not offering clinical services to patients.
… Signed into law this summer, Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act – as the legislation known as HR 1 is more colloquially known – extends tax cuts from Trump’s first term while ripping at the US social safety net. Over the next three years, the US government will slash more than $1tn in federal healthcare funding by making it more difficult for some people to obtain insurance through the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s signature piece of legislation, and shrinking the number of people eligible for Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income people, among dozens of other changes.
Ultimately, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 10 million people will lose health insurance due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That dramatic drop, experts say, will not only keep people who rely on Medicaid from accessing care, but also imperil providers’ ability to offer services and stay open. Entire communities could lose access to healthcare.
Much more at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/19/healthcare-cuts-clinics-buffalo?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
'Where was any grown up in the White House?' Joe stunned by Trump's 'disgusting' Reiner post
?si=ezMimzKBb7gLi7uHSteve Schmidt REACTS to Donald Trump's vile slurs against Rob Reiner and his wife
?si=lBW8-ReCwP3rLtbiAn accurate comment on our absurd present
From Climate Injustice by Fredericke Otto:
“Imagine a city. a country where a group
of powerful people go around causing
indirect but catastrophic harm
to thousands of people. These people aren’t
on the run, and they don’t hide…And
yet nobody does anything.”
Never Trumper Joe Walsh: "Any Democrat running for President in 2028 must pledge to tear down Trump's ballroom."
And Steve Schmidt spells out why this should be the single issue that unifies every part of the anti-Trump coalition:
The Democracy Crisis Underneath America's Affordability Crisis - Zohran Mamdani (interviewed by Heather Cox Richardson)
?si=r-RCr8GH692cgFHoFamily of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
Source: The Guardian
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September. The petition marks the first formal complaint over the airstrikes by the Trump administration against suspected drug boats, attacks that the White House says are justified under a novel interpretation of law.
…The complaint was filed by Pittsburgh-based human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik. “On September 15, 2025, the United States military bombed the boat of Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina,” the filing says, “which Mr Carranza was sailing in the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia. Mr Carranza was killed in the process of this bombing.”
Kovalik identified Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, as the perpetrator, based on Hegseth’s own statements. “From numerous news reports, we know that Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, was responsible for ordering the bombing of boats like those of Alejandro Carranza Medina and the murder of all those on such boats. Secretary Hegseth has admitted that he gave such orders despite the fact that he did not know the identity of those being targeted for these bombings and extra-judicial killings,” the filing goes on.
…Carranza, 42, appears to have been killed in the second strike of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign, on 15 September. The administration has publicly disclosed 21 strikes on alleged drug boats. Carranza’s family says he was a fisher who would often set out in search of marlin and tuna.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/trump-caribbean-drug-boat-attack-complaint?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
IHIP News: Trump's FRAUD "Peace Plan" UNCOVERED! He's COLLUDING with RUSSIA to get RICHER!
?si=gbVzhRGKpbVcGg53Both of the wounded DC Guardsmen have died (or not)
https://x.com/wvgovernor/status/1993782336056357214?s=20On edit, the Governor of West Virginia is a moron:
https://x.com/wvgovernor/status/1993788043971502534
January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse
Source: The Guardian
A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and was pardoned by Donald Trump earlier this year has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida, according to local authorities.
The man, identified as 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson, was taken into custody in August in Tennessee and extradited to Florida where, according to arrest records, he faces charges of lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor.
…A probable cause affidavit alleges that in July, the Hernando county sheriff’s office received a report that “two juveniles had fallen victim to lewd and lascivious acts over a many-month span.” The report states that officers spoke with the mother of one of the children, who said that she discovered that Johnson, who was described as her ex-boyfriend who formerly lived in the house, had been sending “inappropriate” Discord messages to her son. The woman said she asked her son about the messages and also asked if Johnson had “done or said anything inappropriate” to which she said her son told her “that between April 1 2024 and October 2024” Johnson had “molested him three times”, beginning when he was 11 years old.
The report also alleges that Johnson told the child that “he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6er’” and that he would be “putting him in his will to take any money he had left over”. Investigators state that “this tactic was believed to be used to keep” the child “from exposing what Andrew had done to him”. Investigators state that “this tactic was believed to be used to keep” the child “from exposing what Andrew had done to him”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/january-6-rioter-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-crimes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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