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Biden, breaking his silence, slams Trump on Social Security cuts Trump has repeatedly disparaged his predecessor since taking office. Biden has not spoken out publicly — until now. Updated April 15, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. EDTtoday at 8:30 p.m. EDT

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  By  Meryl Kornfield  and  Naftali Bendavid CHICAGO — Former president Joe Biden, in his first public comments since leaving the White House, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of Social Security, saying sweeping cuts to the program’s staffing have left beneficiaries uncertain whether they will receive their payments. “In fewer than 100 days, this administration has done so much damage and so much devastation. It’s breathtaking that it could happen so fast,” Biden said, though he never mentioned Trump’s name during the speech. “They’re taking a hatchet to the Social Security Administration, pushing out 7,000 employees, including the most seasoned officials.” Biden added: “People are now genuinely concerned for the first time in history — for the first and only time in history — that their Social Security benefits may be delayed or interrupted. They’ve gotten it during wartime, during recessions, during the pandemic — no matter what they got it. But now, for...
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad Since Trump took office, the park service -- an agency charged with preserving American history -- has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow Today at 8:01 a.m. EDT

  Article By  Jon Swaine  and  Jeremy B. Merrill  of the Washington Post My first thought on seeing that title is WTF!!  Here's the article minus the very damning pictures: For years, a National Park Service  webpage  introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman. “The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage,” the page began. Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races. The introductory sentence is gone, too. It has been replaced by a line that makes no mention of slavery and that describes the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the ...
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