The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday by Katherine Eban

There are so many reasons to be outraged by the idiotic zealots in current White House administration swinging wrecking balls blindly at the federal government. Maybe nothing galls me quite as much as the transparent truth that the heartless people who are implementing all this gravely dangerous change don’t have the slightest idea — or any evident inclination to correct their ignorance — what these various agencies do. Writing for Vanity Fair, Katherine Eban details the decimation of the offices that protect public health, which was, in my estimation, a infuriatingly underreported story by the mainstream media this past week. Strengthen your stomach examples she cites of the medical terrors that might not be addressed moving forward.

Silencing Radio Merely Fortifies Great Firewall by Li Yuan

Here’s another example of the executive branch’s astounding malpractice. Gutting Voice of America radio does immense damage to advancing the interests of the United States elsewhere in the world and empowers the nation’s adversaries. Li Yuan writes about the value of Voice of America by citing personal experience as a resident of China who found escape from her country’s propaganda by listening to broadcasts that were able to transcend otherwise fortified borders. This blithe destruction of vital government services and initiatives is the direct result of giving unchecked authority to dim-witted, empathy-free individuals who have lived their privileged lives utterly free from grappling with the consequences of their damaging actions. This article is published by The New York Times.