Despite creating one of the most successful (and delicious) brands of all time, Ben Cohen has never thought of himself as a businessman.A huge crowd of New Yorkers and local elected officials gathered in the city’s Christopher Park on Thursday to see the LGBTQ+ Pride flag raised at the Stonewall National Monument days after the Trump administration had it removed. But local LGBTQ+ people have been left wondering how long it’ll stay up, as the Trump administration issued a statement denouncing the re-raising.
The New York Daily News estimated that over 2,000 people spilled onto the streets around the Greenwich Village park across from the historic Stonewall Inn, where the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights kick-started in June 1969. Many held Pride flags of their own and signs reading “You can’t erase our history.” At one point, the crowd chanted “raise the flag.”
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As the Associated Press notes, the Pride flag has flown for years over the National Park Service-run monument, the first in the nation to honor the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
But on Monday, the National Park Service removed the rainbow flag in accordance with new guidance issued by the Trump administration in January. A spokesperson for the agency told Gay City News that a government-wide guidance now mandates that “only the U.S. flag and other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags are flown on NPS-managed flagpoles, with limited exceptions.”
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“Any changes to flag displays are made to ensure consistency with that guidance,” the spokesperson added.
The removal sparked immediate outrage in the LGBTQ+ community as well as local officials, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York state Sen. Erik Bottcher (D), and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
On Tuesday, Holyman-Sigal vowed that he and other elected officials would re-raise the Pride flag in Christopher Park this week. New York City Council speaker Julie Menin told the New York Times that she and other lawmakers had sent a letter to the National Park Service demanding the flag’s restoration. And on Thursday, the city council passed a resolution urging Congress to respect the history of the Stonewall monument, according to The Guardian. The flag was restored the same day.
“We have brought the flag back to a sacred site,” Holyman-Sigal told the Times Thursday.
“Stonewall is a sacred site in this city,” Menin said. “It is sacred ground for civil rights and sacred ground for the LGBTQ community.”
According to the Times, officials initially raised the original rainbow flag designed by artist Gilbert Baker, which includes eight stripes, below the American flag flying in Christopher Park. But several activists briefly removed the flag before hoisting it alongside the stars and stripes.
“We won’t let Trump erase LGBTQ+ history. Stonewall was a rebellion. Stonewall was a beginning. Today, Stonewall is a call to action once again,” U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who was among those at Thursday’s flag raising, said in a statement. “I’m proud to be at Stonewall today as we re-raise the Pride flag. It’s flying once again.”
The Pride flag removal represents the Trump administration’s latest attempt to rewrite the history of the Stonewall monument. Last February, the National Park Service (NPS) removed all mentions of transgender people from its website for the monument in compliance with the president’s executive orders prohibiting any federal recognition of trans people in any aspect of civic life. In June, the agency reportedly banned both the trans and the Progress Pride flags from being displayed at the monument. Both moves were seen as a blatant effort to erase the trans community’s pivotal role in the 1969 uprising.
The Times noted Thursday that it remains unclear how long the Pride flag will be allowed to fly in Christopher Park. In a statement, the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, called the flag restoration a “political stunt” and a “distraction” from what it described as the city’s failures in response to this year’s winter storms.
“Today’s political pageantry shows how utterly incompetent and misaligned the New York City officials are with the problems their city is facing,” the statement read, according to local ABC affiliate WABC.
“They’re probably gonna take it down again, maybe,” New Yorker Joyce Burstein told the Times on Thursday, “but it’ll just go back up.”
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The first reported cases of what would be known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) included five white men and two Black men, one from Haiti and the other from Los Angeles.
Though HIV was a mystery and researchers had little information on what caused it, let alone which communities it impacted most, that lack of knowledge didn’t prevent the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) from erroneously inferring that Black Haitians were at greater risk for contracting HIV. By the time the CDC began collecting racial statistics on the disease, Black people already made up 26% of all AIDS cases within the United States, even though they only made up 13% of the national population.
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Misinformation prevented the world from realizing that HIV didn’t discriminate based on gender, race, nor sexual orientation. Yet, 1980s conservatism and society’s lack of knowledge around HIV created a lethal stigma towards the LGBTQ+ and Black communities.
As of 2023, Black men and women experienced the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses among all races and ethnicities. With growing disparities in healthcare, socioeconomic standing, and housing, the Black community continues to be disproportionately impacted today, no thanks in part to the Trump administration.
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Black HIV activists and community leaders must continue to learn from the past in order to secure a better future.
In January, Congress rejected the House Republicans’ last-ditch effort to annihilate $1.7 billion distributed to critical HIV care, treatment, and prevention programs in the final fiscal year funding bill. Efforts like President Trump’s Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative and the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Program budget were seemingly saved from the administration’s September 2025 budget cuts.
But that win has occurred amid the Trump administration’s cut of funding for dozens of HIV studies and $600 million in public health grants to track and prevent HIV; congressional Republicans’ ending of healthcare subsidies, which will leave millions of Americans without healthcare coverage; and the administration ending suspending the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), all of which threaten to worsen care for the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S. and 40.8 million people living in the U.S. globally.
Even worse, these communities are left even more vulnerable due to the administration’s removal of data revealing the pandemic’s impact.
When Dr. Aishah Scott, assistant professor of health sciences and Black studies at Providence College, told LGBTQ Nation that when she wrote a microsyllabus last year on HIV/AIDS and Black activism, “A lot of the data points that I reference[d] from the CDC, if you click them now on that website, it goes to ‘page not found.’ The CDC’s had so much data wiped from its website that it’s making it difficult for people to even know what’s going on.”
Dr. Scott’s scholarship examining the intersections of race, medicine, and public health will culminate in her upcoming first book, Respectability Can’t Save You: The AIDS Epidemic in Urban Black America. Her work is a reminder that even in the midst of our medical, political, and social advancements, HIV still haunts “Black America” — and that Black HIV activists and community leaders must continue to learn from the past in order to secure a better future.
Black Americans already have a torrid history with the U.S. healthcare system, marred by racism in medical research, as seen in the U.S. Public Health Service’s untreated syphilis study at Tuskegee, implicit bias in regard to patient care, and socioeconomic hindrances preventing access to healthcare and insurance. Other social determinants of health, such as housing, are closely linked to HIV prevention since people living with HIV who are experiencing housing instability are more likely to delay treatment, less likely to access care, and are left navigating increased medical costs and limited incomes — an estimated 31.6% of houseless people are Black.
“Within the Black community, the issues that leave folks at risk for contracting HIV come down to these social determinants of health in a very fundamental way,” Dr. Scott stated. “Something that really shocked me when I was doing dissertation research: Every HIV advocate that I spoke with brought up housing as HIV prevention, every single one. I think that when we think about social determinants of health within ‘Black America’ and HIV housing, affordable housing is really a key factor.”
These same socioeconomic disparities have lain heavily on Black America like a weighted blanket since HIV’s emergence. During the height of the AIDS epidemic, these glaring disparities gave rise to Black community-centered HIV groups, Black-centered conferences to advocate for change, and the return to the “Black Church,” the epicenter of Civil Right movements.
These three historic developments still center Black HIV advocacy today and provide a possible blueprint as Black communities continue to advocate for prevention, care, and survival.
While the HIV epidemic raged on in the background of the 1980s, Black HIV activists called upon white-led HIV activist groups to establish minority outreach programs. Organizations, like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), followed suit. However, division in supporting Black-centered efforts arose in HIV activist leadership, with some favoring HIV activism’s focus on sexuality rather than race.
White-led organizations honed in on gaining access to HIV treatment, Black activists fought for intersectional care, racial equity, and socioeconomic support. And when Black activists called out these inequities within the leadership of white-led organizations, the response was either apathy or criticism about the Black community’s presumed lack of support for the white community’s welfare, according to HIV historian Dan Royles.
“Avoidance of these root causes was intentional because addressing socioeconomic disparities meant dismantling the structures that maintain the economic sustenance of white supremacy,” Dr. Scott told LGBTQ Nation, who added that the AIDS epidemic also raised the issues of “respectability politics” — the adherence of dominant cultural norms within marginalized communities in an attempt to combat stereotypes and mitigate discrimination — something Dr. Scott calls “a problematic tool of resistance within Black American fellowship.”
To combat this, Black activists and advocates — such as Dr. Rashidah Hassan, Sandra MacDonald, Wesley Anderson, Bishop Rainey Cheeks, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Prem Deben, Reggie Williams, Aundrea Scott, Archbishop Carl Bean, and Howard Morris — mobilized to address the lack of medical research around HIV treatment, prevention, and proper care left on the Black community by the Reagan Administration.
Their efforts and those of many more activists established organizations in 1980s and the ’90s resulted in the rise of Black-led HIV organizations like Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues (BEBASHI) in Philadelphia, Black and White Men Together and the Black Coalition on AIDS (now Rafiki Coalition) in San Francisco, Us Helping Us in Washington, D.C., Gay Men of African Descent in New York City, the Black AIDS Institute, and the Minority AIDS Project in Los Angeles.
While the government, media, and mainstream HIV advocacy groups ignored the harsh realities of HIV’s impact on the Black community, these organizations offered HIV education, outreach, direct services, and intersectional care to Black Americans, while advocating for research, housing, and employment programs as well.
By 1987, HIV was the third-leading cause of death for Black men, fifth for Black women ages 25 to 34, and ninth for Black children between up to age 14. Simultaneously, the crack cocaine epidemic ransacked communities of color, with researchers discovering connections between crack cocaine use and HIV infections in women of color.
What rose from this growing epidemic came the first National Conference on AIDS in the Black Community in Washington, D.C. (now the U.S. Conference on HIV/AIDS) in 1987. The conference brought over 400 activists, educators, and healthcare providers to the nation’s capital to address the needs of Black Americans navigating HIV/AIDS.
Conference sessions became platforms for the Black community to stress the need for intersectional and culturally competent HIV education and care, discuss the role of intravenous drug use as a catalyst in heterosexual HIV transmissions, call out the lack of media representation in Black and LGBTQ+ outlets covering the HIV epidemic, and push for Black churches to respond to the growing infection rates.
“Existing AIDS organizations, which have grown out of the predominantly white gay movement of the ’60s and ’70s, have been very effective in serving their communities,” activist Craig Harris stated, in regard to the conference. “Similarly, it is time for both traditional and newly established Black political, social, and health organizations to do the necessary outreach to our own communities which are at risk.”
If they’re not going to do it [prevention for gay men of color], then goddamn it, we can do it ourselves. We’re not crippled! We have power.
Black HIV/AIDS activist Reggie Williams
What started as a 15-minute lunch meeting at the conference between Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and activists of color, including Gil Gerard, Suki Ports and Archbishop Carl Bean, transformed into a 2.5-hour conversation on how to address HIV/AIDS’ impact on communities of color. That same discussion covered Koop’s upcoming “Understanding AIDS” report, which acknowledged that HIV didn’t just impact Black and queer people and was the only report to be mailed en masse to Americans in 1988, aside from tax and census forms.
The same year as the National Conference on AIDS in the Black Community, not a single person of color was invited to partake in the American Public Health Association’s first session on AIDS.
Instead, Craig Harris, a Black, gay activist living with HIV, stormed the session stage, famously shouting “I will be heard!” Harris took the microphone from then San Francisco health commissioner Dr. Merv Silverman and used the moment to advocate for the plight of communities of color in their fight against HIV/AIDS.
Harris, along with several other activists, including Gerard and Ports, formed the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), an organization dedicated to responding to the HIV epidemic’s impact on people of color through advocacy, education, and care.
Harris’s sentiment echoed that of Reggie Williams, who said, “If they’re not going to do it [prevention for gay men of color], then goddamn it, we can do it ourselves. We’re not crippled! We have power.”
In 1988, Williams and other board members of the queer anti-racist group the National Association of Black and White Men Together submitted a proposal to the CDC’s National AIDS Information and Education Program for a $200,000 grant to launch the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention, a national organization dedicated to developing HIV education and service programs by and for gay and bisexual men of color in local chapters nationwide.
The NMAC recruited R&B/Soul singer Patti LaBelle, one of the few recording artists to publicly discuss HIV/AIDS in the media during the 1980s, as a spokesperson. NMAC placed her front and center of their 1989 “Live Long, Sugar” campaign, along with four HIV-positive men and women of color, capitalizing on her popularity with Black gay men and Black women to steer traction towards seeking HIV/AIDS education and care.
LaBelle wouldn’t be the only Black celebrity to take a stand against HIV and as infection rates continued to rise within the Black community, and media coverage started to reflect this.
NBA legend Magic Johnson, gay tennis trailblazer Arthur Ashe, and NWA rapper Eazy-E became tabloid fodder after publicly sharing their HIV status. Whereas music groups, like Salt-N-Pepa and TLC, used their popularity and artistry to create songs, like “Let’s Talk About Sex” and “Waterfalls,” to address safer sex practices and HIV. Even Essence, a lifestyle magazine that catered to Black women, featured activist Rae Lewis-Thornton, a Black woman living with HIV, on the cover. But her magazine feature carried a terrifying truth.
“A lot of the folks who were living with HIV, in this moment, that were Black women [were] not middle-class Black women,” Dr. Scott told LGBTQ Nation. “These are low-income, working-class, Black women who are not necessarily having access to the same resources as a Rae Lewis-Thornton. [She] finds out she has HIV because she’s working in politics in DC. She’s hosting a blood drive as an event and she’s immediately connected to resources.”
However, this is in stark contrast to what happened to Russelle “Rusti” Miller-Hill, an HIV advocate Dr. Scott interviewed for her research article, Erased by Respectability: The Intersections of AIDS, Race, and Gender in Black America. While Lewis-Thornton received resources upon her HIV diagnosis, Miller-Hill’s experience reflects that of countless Black women who lacked access to proper HIV care and were subjected to systemic inequities that left them overlooked during the height of the HIV epidemic.
“[Miller-Hill] was a woman who found out that she was living with HIV when she was getting ready to enter a drug treatment program in New York,” Dr. Scott said. “She went to [the] New York City Department of Health. They basically ran a finger down the list and was just like, ‘Positive,’ turned around and left her to her own devices.”
“She ends up not going into the drug treatment program, spiraling back into her addiction, and ends up incarcerated within the next three years, and then has to navigate living with HIV incarcerated as a woman,” Scott added, pointing to the fact that women, drug users, and incarcerated people continued (and continue) to be marginalized even as public attention increasingly focused on the epidemic’s impact upon Black people.
While HIV infection rates continued to rise, Christian adherents, who historically have been urged by their religious leaders to care for those impacted by epidemics, drew a line in the sand between faith and compassion. This allowed for religious leaders, like Rev. Jerry Falwell, to use the lack of education around HIV and the growing stigma connected to gay men to instill fear in the congregation.
Falwell also used his political organization, the so-called Moral Majority, to oppose HIV research and reduce the epidemic to a “gay problem.” Falwell and the religious right fervently denounced the queer community, while the Black church, or rather the collective of Black Christian congregations that constituted it, took a more apathetic approach.
During the 1950s and ’60s, the Black church became synonymous with combating racial injustice, serving as the headquarters for the Civil Rights movement. However, HIV’s association with homosexuality and its stigmatization within the Black church community garnered disapproval from the pulpit, hindering the Black church’s involvement in the fight against HIV, even with queer members in its congregations.
“The Black church was not as active, and they did not take the helm the way they were supposed to when it came to HIV and AIDS in black America,” Dr. Scott stated. “I’ll put that out there first. But also, their response was reflective of the respectability politics that were happening from the federal government down.”
In the 1980s, we’re seeing the rise of mass incarceration, crack epidemics. And when you look at Black church leaders in this moment, that’s what they’re talking about… HIV was not being framed as an issue of Black America in the 1980s.
Dr. Aishah Scott, assistant professor of health sciences and Black studies & author of an upcoming book on Black HIV activism
This particular stigma was reinforced by respectability politics, which most notably impacted Black Americans with middle-class aspirations in discussing HIV, which was associated with homosexuals, drug users, and poor people — community members that were not considered as part of “the American Dream.”
“This was being marketed as a disease that was impacting gay, predominantly white men. It was still being called GRID [gay-related immune deficiency] in the media for a significant period of time, which is why this was a disease that people just immediately associated with gay men,” Dr. Scott said.
“In the 1980s, we’re seeing the rise of mass incarceration, crack epidemics. And when you look at Black church leaders in this moment, that’s what they’re talking about,” she continued. “They are responding to what is being framed as the issues of Black America of the day — but HIV was not being framed as an issue of Black America in the 1980s.”
With Black religious leaders turning a blind eye and white queer-led HIV activist groups decentering communities of color, the Black queer community sat at the center of an unjust and extremely vulnerable intersection. However, religious figures, such as Bishop Rainey Cheeks, founder of Washington, D.C.’s Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc.; and Archbishop Carl Bean, founder of the Minority AIDS Project (MAP) in Los Angeles, developed HIV care programs in response to rising infections.
Cheeks’ organization leaned into offering holistic care, support groups, and HIV-prevention programs for individuals living with HIV in the nation’s capital. MAP partnered with celebrities and politicians to raise funds for the organization to provide HIV education, testing, and social services for the Black community in the City of Angels.
But the same could not be said about all Christian churches. While Black HIV activists and community leaders established organizations in response to the growing threat, Pernessa Seele led the charge to mobilize the Black church.
A South Carolinian immunologist, Seele helped congregations navigate theological challenges with responding to HIV and developing Black community-focused outreach programs, including her own organization Balm of Gilead. Seele’s nonprofit sought to serve as a bridge between congregations and public health by leveraging community planning and faith-based services to address health disparities, such as HIV.
“When you think about grassroots [HIV] organizations, those folks were very active members of their church, and a lot of their faith is honestly what led them to do this work,” Dr. Scott stated. “Those organizations largely became the bridges, in most cases, for the Black church to be able to be taught the language they needed to engage with people living with HIV in a meaningful way.”
In response, Seele mobilized religious leaders to implement the Harlem Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, including congregations in creating public health HIV awareness strategies to support the Black community.
The initiative expanded into what is now the National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS, which incorporates over 10,000 churches worldwide. Along with organizations, like the NAACP, creating faith-based public health initiatives, the Black church has maintained an active fight in the battle against HIV.
The Black church has since evolved in its approach, using different tactics to alleviate the socioeconomic disparities that play a role in exacerbating the HIV epidemic. Now, more Black congregations offer support in areas of education, housing, and healthcare equity, all of which can be found at the root of the HIV epidemic in Black America.
As history proves, Black Americans have had to continuously fight to be seen and heard since the rise of the HIV epidemic. These intergenerational efforts sowed seeds that, when harvested, will lead the Black community towards a future with HIV no longer in it.
“I think there’s going to be a lot of rebuilding that is going to have to happen in terms of HIV and AIDS outreach, activism, awareness campaigns, funding structures, and surveillance efforts, after we transition to the next administration,” Dr. Scott said.
February 7 marked the 27th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Created in 1999, the observance day highlights the continued disproportionate impact of HIV on the Black community as well as the community’s united engagement, education, and empowerment efforts to finally end the epidemic.
If anything is apparent from the history, it’s that Black activists, medical professionals, politicians, and community leaders will need to continue to advocate for better HIV prevention, treatment, and education for Black Americans, especially in the midst of all the setbacks from Trump’s second presidency.
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In the latest episode of the Hackaday Podcast, editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by discussing the game of lunar hide-and-seek that has researchers searching for the lost Luna 9 probe, and drop a few hints about the upcoming Hackaday Europe conference. From there they’ll marvel over a miniature operating system for the ESP32, examine the re-use of iPad displays, and find out about homebrew software development for an obscure Nintendo handheld. You’ll also hear about a gorgeous RGB 14-segment display, a robot that plays chess, and a custom 3D printed turntable for all your rotational needs. The episode wraps up with a sobering look at the dangers of industrial robotics, and some fascinating experiments to determine if a decade-old roll of PLA filament is worth keeping or not.
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James Grech, the CEO of Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the country, gave Donald Trump an award this week, a bronze trophy that looked like a coal miner with a pick and a headlamp, at a ceremony attended by several Republican members of Congress, Cabinet members, and coal industry executives.
The award, which was created for Trump this year, had a name: “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.” Trump – who has no dignity and no capacity to even pretend like he has dignity anymore – accepted it with glee.
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For the coal company that gave it to him, it was a good trade. Make up an award, pay a trophy shop a couple hundred dollars to make a shiny trinket, and, in exchange, receive $175 million in government money to upgrade coal power plants.
Trump likes awards because they temporarily fill an enormous hole in his soul, one that his family members have discussed in the past. The cavernous aching inside that makes him so pathetically desperate for external validation has its roots in the neglect he suffered in early childhood.
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This is just the latest in the list of fake awards Trump has been given by wealthy and connected people who know he’s an egocentric simpleton who will fall for this trick.
FIFA, the soccer organization, gave him a “Peace Prize” last year. Apple, the corporation, presented him with a glass-and-gold award as he exempted the company from a tariff. The Nixon Foundation last year gave him the “Architect of Peace Award,” and Republicans try to give him awards and nominate him for prizes to curry favor with the GOP’s leader.
He even stole the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup trophy from Chelsea F.C. last year, and it’s reportedly on display at either Trump Tower or the Oval Office.
Foreign countries also know how to play him. Israel gave him two awards so far in his second term – the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor and the Israeli Prize – while several other countries, including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, have given him awards. It’s such an easy way to manipulate him that it would frankly be a dereliction of duty for the leader of any organization or government to not give him some made-up prize if the body they lead needs something from him.
This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism. Donald is not simply weak. His ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be. He knows he has never been loved.
psychologist (and the president’s lesbian niece) Mary Trump
And then there’s the Nobel Peace Prize, which he coveted so much that he even said he was willing to invade Greenland to exact revenge on the Scandinavians who refused to give it to him. Last year’s recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump, possibly hoping he would leave her in charge of the Latin American nation after he invaded and deposed its previous leader. However, once Trump got what he wanted from Machado, he left her out in the cold.
Most adults would be ashamed to accept an award that was duly bestowed on someone else. While, as children, they may have cried when another kid got to blow out the candles on their birthday cake, most grown-ups would consider it condescending to be given a prize for nothing.
But Trump accepts all these fake participation trophies, like a 4-year-old being told that he’s special for the first time in his life.
Something is deeply wrong with Trump, and it’s not just his recent cognitive decline. As Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Professor Bruce Davidson said in a recent media appearance, it’s likely that whatever Trump has going on in his head is just disinhibiting him, making him “more like [he was] beforehand.” This yearning for awards and prizes has likely always been lurking in Trump’s mind, but he had some control over it in the past, at least to maintain appearances.
Trump’s out niece, Mary Trump, has a theory about just that, which she laid out in her 2020 book, Too Much and Never Enough. She wrote about her family, calling Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, a “high-functioning sociopath,” whose cruel parenting limited her uncle’s ability to feel emotions.
She also wrote about a tragedy the president faced as a toddler. When he was just two-and-a-half, his mother was hospitalized for a year, and he was left alone a lot of the time. His father, the “sociopath,” wasn’t very caring for his son.
Mary Trump, who is also a clinical psychologist, wrote that this period of early childhood is “the most crucial developmental period in any young child’s life,” and her uncle was severely neglected in this moment. Mary Trump says that her uncle has “psychological and emotional problems.” And her grandmother, Donald Trump’s mother, continued to be ill throughout her uncle’s childhood.
“So he never felt safe, he never felt loved, and I think if you start from that kind of deficit and you never find somebody to fill in the gaps or to heal you, then you are at the mercy of anybody who may find you of use,” Mary Trump wrote.
“Nothing is ever enough,” she continued. “This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism. Donald is not simply weak. His ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be. He knows he has never been loved.”
Dr. Kirk Honda, a marriage and family therapist, professor, and podcaster, discussed Mary Trump’s book and provided some more explanation on the psychological theory behind her analysis of how the neglect Donald Trump suffered may be linked to his emotional neediness today.
“People with narcissistic personality disorder typically were treated like this when they were young,” he said, noting that he is simplifying current theory on narcissism. “They were neglected. When you’re emotionally neglected as a child, you have this choice that you have to make. You say, ‘Well, it’s either my fault or it’s their fault.'”
“For people who decide, ‘You know what? It’s their fault. It’s not my fault I’m being neglected, it’s their fault,'” he continued, “the benefit of this approach is that you still maintain some level of self-esteem, or at least a three-year-old’s version of self-esteem. But the con is that now everyone’s an idiot to you, everyone’s stupid, and you can’t depend on other people.”
This leads to the belief that a person is very independent, they need no one and actually can’t rely on anyone since others won’t be there for them, and that they’re superior to others. But that belief is fragile and requires constant validation.
“If other people believe I have a self, then I can believe that I have a self,” Honda continued. “But I have to constantly make sure everyone understands that I am awesome and that I have a self because that’s the only way to distract me from the fact that when I look inward, I don’t see anything.” Narcissists, when they stop trying to get validation and look inward, “it’s terrifying. I’m broken, meaningless, I’m empty, there’s nothing there.”
This is also why narcissists are very worried about other people getting more validation than they get, because it’s a threat to the idea that they are strong and everyone else is weak. That observation seems relevant when it comes to Donald Trump and the prizes he covets; there is no prize he clearly wants more than the Nobel Peace Prize, which his rival, the one person he constantly compares himself to – Barack Obama – won in 2009.
While Trump may have been the victim of his parents back when he was a toddler, he’s 79 years old now, beyond just “an adult,” and he definitely has the resources to find better ways to address his brokenness.
Instead, he’s the most powerful person in the country, inflicting his mental health issues on the rest of us.
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Judge Boasberg got his vindication in the frivolous “complaint” the DOJ filed against him, and now he’s calling out the DOJ’s bullshit in the long-running case that caused them to file the complaint against him in the first place: the JGG v. Trump case regarding the group of Venezuelans the US government shipped off to CECOT, the notorious Salvadoran concentration camp.
Boasberg, who until last year was generally seen as a fairly generic “law and order” type judge who was extremely deferential to any “national security” claims from the DOJ (John Roberts had him lead the FISA Court, for goodness’ sake!), has clearly had enough of this DOJ and the games they’ve been playing in his court.
In a short but quite incredible ruling, he calls out the DOJ for deciding to effectively ignore the case while telling the court to “pound sand.”
On December 22, 2025, this Court issued a Memorandum Opinion finding that the Government had denied due process to a class of Venezuelans it deported to El Salvador last March in defiance of this Court’s Order. See J.G.G. v. Trump, 2025 WL 3706685, at *19 (D.D.C. Dec. 22, 2025). The Court offered the Government the opportunity to propose steps that would facilitate hearings for the class members on their habeas corpus claims so that they could “challenge their designations under the [Alien Enemies Act] and the validity of the [President’s] Proclamation.” Id. Apparently not interested in participating in this process, the Government’s responses essentially told the Court to pound sand.
From a former FISC judge—someone who spent years giving national security claims every benefit of the doubt—”pound sand” is practically a primal scream.
Due to this, he orders the government to work to “facilitate the return” of these people it illegally shipped to a foreign concentration camp (that is, assuming any of them actually want to come back).
Believing that other courses would be both more productive and in line with the Supreme Court’s requirements outlined in Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 145 S. Ct. 1017 (2025), the Court will now order the Government to facilitate the return from third countries of those Plaintiffs who so desire. It will also permit other Plaintiffs to file their habeas supplements from abroad.
Boasberg references the Donald Trump-led invasion of Venezuela and the unsettled situation there for many of the plaintiffs. He points out that the lawyers for the plaintiffs have been thoughtful and cautious in how they approach this case. That is in contrast to the US government.
Plaintiffs’ prudent approach has not been replicated by their Government counterparts. Although the Supreme Court in Abrego Garcia upheld Judge Paula Xinis’s order directing the Government “to facilitate and effectuate the return of” that deportee, see 145 S. Ct. at 1018, Defendants at every turn have objected to Plaintiffs’ legitimate proposals without offering a single option for remedying the injury that they inflicted upon the deportees or fulfilling their duty as articulated by the Supreme Court.
Boasberg points to the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying that it’s ridiculous that the DOJ is pretending that case doesn’t exist or doesn’t say what it says. Then he points out that the DOJ keeps “flagrantly” disobeying courts.
Against this backdrop, and mindful of the flagrancy of the Government’s violations of the deportees’ due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose. The Court will thus order Defendants to take several discrete actions that will begin the remedial process for at least some Plaintiffs, as the Supreme Court has required in similar circumstances. It does so while treading lightly, as it must, in the area of foreign affairs. See Abrego Garcia, 145 S. Ct. at 1018 (recognizing “deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs”)
Even given all this, the specific remedy is not one that many of the plaintiffs are likely to accept: he orders that the US government facilitate the return of any of those who want it among those… not in Venezuela. But, since most of them were eventually released from CECOT into Venezuela, that may mean that this ruling doesn’t really apply to many men. On top of that Boasberg points out that anyone who does qualify and takes up the offer will likely be detained by immigration officials upon getting here. But, if they want, the US government has to pay for their plane flights back to the US. And, in theory, the plaintiffs should then be given the due process they were denied last year.
Plaintiffs also request that such boarding letter include Government payment of the cost of the air travel. Given that the Court has already found that their removal was unlawful — as opposed to the situation contemplated by the cited Directive, which notes that “[f]acilitating an alien’s return does not necessarily include funding the alien’s travel,” Directive 11061.1, ¶ 3.1 (emphasis added) — the Court deems that a reasonable request. It is unclear why Plaintiffs should bear the financial cost of their return in such an instance. See Ms. L. v. U.S. Immig. & Customs Enf’t (“ICE”), 2026 WL 313340, at *4 (S.D. Cal. Feb. 5, 2026) (requiring Government to “bear the expense of returning these family units to the United States” given that “[e]ach of the removals was unlawful, and absent the removals, these families would still be in the United States”). It is worth emphasizing that this situation would never have arisen had the Government simply afforded Plaintiffs their constitutional rights before initially deporting them.
I’m guessing not many are eager to re-enter the US and face deportation again. Of course, many of these people left Venezuela for the US in the first place for a reason, so perhaps some will take their chances on coming back. Even against a very vindictive US government.
The frustrating coda here is the lack of any real consequences for DOJ officials who treated this entire proceeding as a joke—declining to seriously participate and essentially daring the court to do something about it. Boasberg could have ordered sanctions. He didn’t. And that’s probably fine with this DOJ, which has learned that contempt for the courts carries no real cost.
Unfortunately, that may be the real story here. Judge gets fed up, once again, with a DOJ that thumbs its nose at the court, says extraordinary things in a ruling that calls out the DOJ’s behavior… but does little that will lead to actual accountability for those involved, beyond having them “lose” the case. We’ve seen a lot of this, and it’s only going to continue until judges figure out how to impose real consequences for DOJ lawyers for treating the court with literal contempt.
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A new ruling from the U.K.’s highest court, following their decision last year that trans women are not women under the law, has made the already confusing legal aftermath “completely incoherent,” according to a leading trans rights organization in the country.
This week, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled on a case that challenged the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim code of practice in the wake of last year’s ruling that the legal definition of a woman under the country’s 2010 Equality Act is based on “biological sex.”
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The EHRC has been embroiled in controversy ever since, over issues like the use of bathrooms by trans people. That initial code of practice was criticized on all sides as confusing and tossed out in October. But the court addressed it in this case brought by the Good Law Project, which challenged it.
Even as the EHRC is revising guidance, the court weighed in on what was and was not permissible in their last attempt at a code of practice for employers, service providers, and others affected by the ruling.
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Justices agreed that workplaces must provide single sex bathrooms on the basis of sex assigned at birth, which would prohibit a trans employee from using a restroom that aligns with their gender identity.
But service providers — everyone from restaurants and bars to hospitals and government facilities — may allow trans customers to use restrooms matching their gender.
Service providers should be “guided by common sense and benevolence” rather than be “blinkered by unyielding ideologies” when providing bathroom facilities, The Independent quoted one justice.
The double standard has heads spinning across the pond.
“The legal situation for trans people, employers, and service providers is now completely incoherent,” a spokesperson for the Trans Solidarity Alliance said. “What bathroom a trans person can use in a pub may now depend on whether they are there as an employee or for a drink.”
The justices additionally ruled that in an office or other workplace settings, employers may provide gender-neutral bathrooms for use by all staff, including trans employees.
But “it is unclear how trans people without access to gender neutral facilities will be able to do their jobs,” Trans Solidarity added.
Absent those facilities, trans staffers are in the awkward position of outing themselves using a bathroom that doesn’t align with their gender, while they “may have been using gendered facilities without issue for years.”
“The High Court has clarified that trans people should not be forced to use facilities in line with their birth
“We must be allowed to transition and move on with our lives with privacy, not be outed every day at work.”
In a passage that portends continued controversy surrounding their ruling, the court said on Friday that it was “fanciful” to suggest that the law seeks to regulate “every possibility that can arise” when providing facilities.
The notion that a person or employer was required to “police” the use of toilets “reveals the application of a ‘logic’ so strict that it is divorced from reality and from any sensible model of human behavior.”
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No system is immune to failure. The compromise between reducing failures and improving adaptability is a recurring problem in robotics. Modular robots exemplify this tradeoff, because the number of modules dictates both the possible functions and the odds of failure. We reverse this trend, improving reliability with an increased number of modules by exploiting redundant resources and sharing them locally.
Now that the Atlas enterprise platform is getting to work, the research version gets one last run in the sun. Our engineers made one final push to test the limits of full-body control and mobility, with help from the RAI Institute.
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Announcing Isaac 0: the laundry folding robot we’re shipping to homes, starting in February 2026 in the Bay Area.
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In a paper published in Science, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Stuttgart have discovered that the secret to the elephant’s amazing sense of touch is in its unusual whiskers. The interdisciplinary team analyzed elephant trunk whiskers using advanced microscopy methods that revealed a form of material intelligence more sophisticated than the well-studied whiskers of rats and mice. This research has the potential to inspire new physically intelligent robotic sensing approaches that resemble the unusual whiskers that cover the elephant trunk.
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We’re giving humanoid robots swords now.
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A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo lets people collaborate with groups of robots to create works of art inspired by music.
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We usually take fingernails for granted, but they’re vital for fine-motor control and feeling textures. Our students have been doing some great work looking into the mechanics behind this.
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This is a 550-lb all-electric coaxial unmanned rotorcraft developed by Texas A&M University’s Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory and Harmony Aeronautics as a technology demonstrator for our quiet-rotor technology. The payload capacity is 200 lb (gross weight = 750 lb). The noise level measured was around 74 dBA in hover at 50-ft making this probably the quietest rotorcraft at this scale.
Harvard scientists have created an advanced 3D printing method for developing soft robotics. This technique, called rotational multimaterial 3D printing, enables the fabrication of complex shapes and tubular structures with dissolvable internal channels. This innovation could someday accelerate the production of components for surgical robotics and assistive devices, advancing medical technology.
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Lynx M20 wheeled-legged robot steps onto the ice and snow, taking on challenges inspired by four winter sports scenarios. Who says robots can’t enjoy winter sports?
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NGL right now I find this more satisfying to watch than a humanoid doing just about anything.
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At Mentee Robotics, we design and build humanoid robots from the ground up with one goal: reliable, scalable deployment in real-world industrial environments. Our robots are powered by deep vertical integration across hardware, embedded software, and AI, all developed in-house to close the Sim2Real gap and enable continuous, around-the-clock operation.
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You don’t need to watch this whole video, but the idea of little submarines that hitch rides on bigger boats and recharge themselves is kind of cool.
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Learn about the work of Dr. Roland Siegwart, Dr. Anibal Ollero, Dr. Dario Floreano, and Dr. Margarita Chli on flying robots and some of the challenges they are still trying to tackle in this video created based on their presentations at ICRA@40 the 40th anniversary celebration of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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IEEE TryEngineering is celebrating 20 years of empowering educators with resources that introduce engineering to students at an early age. Launched in 2006 as a collaboration between IEEE, IBM, and the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), TryEngineering began with a clear goal: Make engineering accessible, understandable, and engaging for students and the teachers who support them.
What started as an idea within IEEE Educational Activities has grown into a global platform supporting preuniversity engineering education around the world.
In the early 2000s, engineering was largely absent from preuniversity education, typically being taught only in small, isolated programs. Most students had little exposure to the many types of engineering, and they did not learn what engineers actually do.
At the same time, industry and academic leaders were increasingly concerned about the future of engineering as a whole. They worried about the talent pipeline and saw existing outreach efforts as scattered and inconsistent.
In 2004 representatives from several electrical and computer engineering industries met with IEEE leadership and expressed their concerns about the declining number of students interested in engineering careers. They urged IEEE to organize a more effective, coordinated response to unite professional societies, educators, and industry around a shared approach to preuniversity outreach and education.
One of the major recommendations to come out of that meeting was to start teaching youngsters about engineering earlier. Research from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering at the time showed that students begin forming attitudes toward science, technology, engineering, and math fields from ages 5 to 10, and that outreach should begin as early as kindergarten. Waiting until the teen years or university-level education is simply too late, they determined; it needs to happen during the formative years to spark long-term interest in STEM learning.
TryEngineering emerged from the broader Launching Our Children’s Path to Engineering initiative, which was approved in 2005 by the IEEE Board of Directors. A core element of the IEEE program was a public-facing website that would introduce young learners to engineering projects, roles, and careers. The concept eventually developed into TryEngineering.org.
The idea for TryEngineering.org itself grew from an existing, successful model. The NYSCI operated TryScience.org, a popular public website supported by IBM that helped students explore science topics through hands-on activities and real‑world connections.
At the time, the IEEE Educational Activities group was working with the NYSCI on TryScience projects. Building a parallel site focused on engineering was a natural next step, and IBM’s experience in supporting large‑scale educational outreach made it a strong partner.
A central figure in turning that vision into reality was Moshe Kam, who served as the 2005–2007 IEEE Educational Activities vice president, and later as the 2011 IEEE president. During his tenure, Kam spearheaded the creation of TryEngineering.org and guided the international expansion of IEEE’s Teacher In‑Service Program, which trained volunteers to work directly with teachers to create hands-on engineering lessons (the program no longer exists). His leadership helped establish preuniversity education as a core, long‑term priority within IEEE.
“The founders of the IEEE TryEngineering program created something very special. In a world where the messaging about becoming an engineer often scares students who have not yet developed math skills away from our profession, and preuniversity teachers without engineering degrees have trepidation in teaching topics in our fields of interest, people like Dr. Kam and the other founders had a vision where everyone could literally try engineering,” says Jamie Moesch, IEEE Educational Activities managing director.
“Because of this, teachers have now taught millions of our hands-on lessons and opened our profession to so many more young minds,” he adds. “All of the preuniversity programs we have continued to build and improve upon are fueled by this massively important and simple-to-understand concept of try engineering.”
From the beginning, TryEngineering focused on educators as the keys to its success, rather than starting with students. Instead of complex technical explanations, the platform offered free, classroom-ready lesson plans with clear explanations about engineering fields and examples with which students could relate. Hands-on activities emphasized problem‑solving, creativity, and teamwork—core elements of how engineers actually work.
IEEE leaders also recognized that misconceptions about engineering discouraged many talented young people—particularly girls and students from underrepresented groups—from pursuing engineering as a career. TryEngineering aimed to show engineering as practical, creative, and connected to real-world needs, helping students see that engineering could be for anyone, not just a narrow group of specialists.
By simply encouraging students and educators to just try engineering, doors are open to new possibilities and a broader understanding of the field. Even students who ultimately choose other career paths get to learn key concepts, such as the engineering design process, equipping them with practical skills for the rest of their life.
During the past two decades, TryEngineering has grown well beyond its original website. In addition to providing a vast library of lesson plans and resources that engage and inspire, it also serves as the hub for a collection of programs reaching educators and students in many ways.
Those include the TryEngineering STEM Champions program, which empowers dedicated volunteers to support outreach programs and serve as vital connectors to IEEE’s extensive resources. The TryEngineering Summer Institute offers immersive campus‑based experiences for students ages 13 to 17, with expanded locations and programs being introduced this year.
The IEEE STEM Summit is an annual virtual event that brings together educators and volunteers from around the world. TryEngineering OnCampus partners with universities around the globe to organize hands-on programs. TryEngineering educator sessions provide free professional development programs aligned with emerging industry needs such as semiconductors.
To mark its 20th anniversary, TryEngineering is celebrating with a year of special activities, new partnerships, and fresh resources for educators. Visit the TryEngineering 20th Anniversary collection page to explore what’s ahead, join the celebration, and discover 20 ways to celebrate 20 years of inspiring the next generation of technology innovators. This is an opportunity to reflect on how far the program has come, and to help shape how the next generation discovers engineering.
“The passion and dedication of the thousands of volunteers of IEEE who do local outreach enables the IEEE-wide goal to inspire intellectual curiosity and invention to engage the next generation of technology innovators,” Moesch says. “The first 20 years have been special, and I cannot wait to have the world experience what the future holds for the TryEngineering programs.”
Don Lemon arrived at the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse flanked by his attorneys and husband. His arraignment on Friday unfolded before U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas L. Micko, the same judge who weeks earlier had rejected the Trump Department of Justice’s attempt to move forward with criminal charges against the journalist. He pleaded "not guilty." The circumstances surrounding the case have turned it into a national test of press freedom.Secretary of the Departmeny Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem fired a pilot over a blanket but then immediately regretted her decision when she needed the pilot to fly her home, so she reinstated them.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Noem has been flying around the country in a luxury 737 MAX jet with a private cabin in the back and rumored affair partner Corey Lewandowski (both Noem and Lewandowski are married to other people). DHS is leasing the jet and is trying to buy it for $70 million.
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The Journal reports that Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate staffers and question their loyalty, even giving them lie detector tests.
In one incident, Noem and Lewandowski were forced to switch to a different plane because of a maintenance issue. When they got to the second plane, they saw that Noem’s blanket hadn’t followed them over, so Noem and Lewandowski fired their U.S. Coast Guard pilot.
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“The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination,” the Journal reported. “They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.”
DHS is not commenting on the matter and just vaguely said that Noem “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.” Noem denies having an affair with Lewandowski.
During the Biden administration, Republicans spent years raging at former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for supposedly flying around the country in a “private jet,” even though they were referring to FAA aircraft, which are publicly owned and therefore are the opposite of “private.” In reality, Buttigieg usually flew commercial.
Fox News even once showed a picture of him in a small economy-class seat on a commercial flight as the Fox host scolded him for sleeping instead of working.
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