{"id":27018,"date":"2025-12-01T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=27018"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:04:03","slug":"feel-better-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/feel-better-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Better &#8212; Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26435\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thoryn-420x544.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thoryn-420x544.png 420w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thoryn-768x995.png 768w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thoryn.png 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>Step by slimy step, President Trump has made us numb to his crudeness and cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>On Air Force One recently, Trump cut off Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg News journalist, pressing him about the release of Epstein files that could further implicate Trump in the lurid mess. Stabbing his finger at her face, the President of the United States snapped at Lucey: \u201cQuiet! Quiet, piggy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t need to read the column \u201c<i>Piggie Gets Polite<\/i>\u201d by Maureen Dowd in the November 22 New York Times. Though engagingly written, it told me nothing new. It\u2019s easy to spend precious time probing the latest \u201ccan you believe it\u201d cruelty. Instead, try to temper your news addiction and turn your attention to an issue \u2013 any issue \u2013 where you can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>We already know enough to act.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Pick something in this newsletter or in your community and get moving. The democracy you save will be your own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step by slimy step, President Trump has made us numb to his crudeness and cruelty. On Air Force One recently, Trump cut off Catherine Lucey, a Bloomberg News journalist, pressing him about the release of Epstein files that could further implicate Trump in the lurid mess. Stabbing his finger at her face, the President of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/feel-better-make-a-difference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feel Better &#8212; Make a Difference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1313,42,1934,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-commentary","category-community-organizing","category-democracy","category-politics","category-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27020,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27018\/revisions\/27020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}