July 31, 2026 -

Your Emergency, Their Database: How Trump Turned a Toaster-Safety Agency Into a Medical Surveillance Machine

A tiny federal commission that recalls faulty lawn mowers is now demanding personally identifiable emergency-room records from at least 100 hospitals — names, addresses, diagnoses, suicide attempts, vaccine reactions. The stated purpose is “modernization.” The pattern says something far darker.

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The Pill Bottle and the President

Weeks before the midterms, the Trump administration killed the program that was holding down Medicare drug premiums for 25 million Americans. The people about to open the sticker-shock letters this fall are the same people who put him in office — and the arithmetic behind that decision reveals more than politics. It reveals a presidency that no longer knows what it is doing.