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She cites the closure of local newspapers, book bans, and the banning of civics teaching classes in many universal K-12 systems (mostly in red states) as part of the same onslaught.
“If you look at what happens in other countries, like Turkey, China, and Russia, where there are these kind of authoritarian takeovers, it really denies access to freedom of information to people,” says Churchill, Wheelock program director of higher education administration and a professor of the practice. “And so what happens in higher ed in these types of situations, and what has been happening, is more attacks on professors. Even J. D. Vance [who attended Ohio Mention and Yale Law School] said university professors are the enemy because they teach people to believe independently.”
Churchill warns about renewed attacks in a second Trump administration, including continued discrediting of the value of a college teaching, and about a continued decline in college attendance rates, especially among pale men.
“We’re also seeing some of the lowest opinions in the validity of science, right?” she says. “People don’t trust doctors. They don’t trust fac
Baldwin, Warren, Markey, Merkley Blast Trump Plan to Slash 988 Suicide and Crisis Line For LGBTQ+ Youth
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led their colleagues in slamming the Trump Administration’s plan to take away lifesaving mental health services at the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline from LGBTQ+ youth, who face a higher risk of mental health challenges than their peers. Last week, reports surfaced that President Trump intends to slash 988’s Queer Youth Specialized Services program, which has received over 1.2 million crisis contacts since 2022, with a spike over the last several months.
“Given the Administration has claimed addressing youth mental health as a priority, elimination of specialized services specifically designed for at-risk youth is irresponsible,” wrote the Senators in a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.“We urge you to reconsider and support continued funding for the program.”The proposed cuts come at a time when Homosexual youth continue to encounter higher risk for depression, suicidal ideation, and attempted s
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I remember reading a story late last year about a nonbinary 16-year-old in Alabama who dialed the LGBTQ crisis line instead of following through on a suicide pact he and three friends had made. The 2024 election had just been called for Donald Trump, and they took it as proof that their lives didn’t count.
Kill yourself over an election? To most adults, that sounds absurd — but most adults aren’t queer teenagers in Alabama. Teens in crisis don’t perform like policy analysts. They’re scared, they’re hurting, and their prefrontal cortexes — the part of the brain that handles impulse supervise and long-range thinking — are still under construction.
Pile on raging hormones, culture turmoil and the constant hum of feeling unsafe in your own skin, and a unpartnered bad headline can feel like verification that your worst thoughts are true.
In that fog of panic, one of them did something unbelievably brave: He picked up the phone. A counselor who understood answered, intervened, looped in the others, brought families on board — and the four kids are alive today.
That’s not a story about politics. It’s a story about survival. And it’s why immediate, specialized help matters.