Daily Dose, May 29, 2025
Our media diets often lack healthy context. Share the articles below to flood the body politic with nutritious facts.
We’ve all had that experience in the grocery aisle—do we choose the healthy option or the less healthy one? Our food comes with nutrition labels to help guide our decisions about what we consume. But when it comes to our media diets there are no labels. This is dangerous because the quality of our media consumption impacts the health of our society. Without any information nutrition labels our MAGA friends and colleagues end up feeding on a diet of toxic propaganda while everyone else does the best they can with highly processed news meant to go down easy. In this environment, the cancer of fascism metastisizes. The Daily Dose is an immune boost for the American mind that replaces the toxic option with key nutrients like Vitamin C(ontext) and Vitamin F(acts) to boost levels of Vitamin D(emocracy).
Instead of the toxic propaganda option…
Donald Trump Is Fighting Campus Anti-Semitism and University Sponsored Terrorism
Consume the healthy context version…
Trump’s University Attacks Are A Political Strategy That Makes America Weak, Less Healthy, More Poor
Trump’s crackdown on elite universities like Harvard is a calculated political strategy to punish institutions seen as liberal strongholds. The administration aims to coerce ideological conformity on campuses nationwide while also scoring points with its base. MAGA financial backers like the Heritage Foundation have long wanted to destroy academia and these attacks help serve that goal.
The Trump administration’s aggressive revocation of visas for foreign students threatens America’s innovation pipeline by driving away talent essential to scientific and technological breakthroughs. These students have long fueled U.S. research and economic growth. Their absence will weaken America’s global leadership in science and technology. The policy is self-defeating and undermines future advances that benefit all Americans.
Vitamin C(ontext)
Harvard researchers developed checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, now used to treat at least 12 types of cancer, benefiting hundreds of thousands of patients annually
Harvard studies led to the development of pacemakers and defibrillators
Harvard Medical School scientists developed therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease and dementia
Harvard’s international students contributed about $384 million to the local economy last school year
In fiscal year 2024, Harvard directed $1.6 billion in spending to Massachusetts-based companies and organizations, supporting local economies through construction, supplies, and services
The Harvard Six Cities study established a link between air pollution and reduced life expectancy, leading to stricter air quality standards and improved public health outcomes across the U.S.
Healthy Ingredients To Share On Social Media
Money, Lies & God Trump's Attack on Harvard
Inside Higher Ed The Launch of the Long Game
New York Times Chinese Students Are Frustrated With U.S. Visa Bans: ‘What Now?’
Washington Post The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are
Harvard In The Community Economic & Social Impact
Harvard University Research Funding
Wikipedia Harvard Six Cities Study
Instead of the toxic propaganda option…
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Is Patriotic Economic Relief For Working Americans Fed Up With ‘Woke’ Energy Policy
Consume the healthy context version…
GOP Tax Bill Skyrockets Your Energy Costs, Eliminates 800,000 Jobs, Destroys The Environment
The Project 2025 inspired “One Big Beautiful Bill Act" recently passed in the Republican-led House of Representatives. It aims to destroy many green energy initiatives.
The bill will have a more negative affect on Republican districts that have more to lose from cancellations of clean energy investments. Though the attack on green policies is designed to energize Trump’s base, the legislation harms working-class Americans by eliminating well-paying jobs in the renewable energy sector.
The rollback of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act aligns with the interests of fossil fuel lobbyists and MAGA campaign donors. It absurdly frames clean energy as “woke” waste and emphasizes deregulation in spite of harms to the environment that will be felt by all Americans.
By stalling U.S. progress in global clean tech markets the bill cedes leadership to China and Europe.
Vitamin C(ontext)
The bill proposes:
Eliminating tax credits for electric vehicles, wind, solar, and nuclear energy projects.
Ending subsidies for energy-efficient home upgrades.
Undermining $522 billion of pending clean energy investments.
These changes will:
Result in the loss of over 830,000 jobs by 2030.
Increase household energy bills by more than $230 by 2035.
Lead to an annual increase of 260 million metric tons in emissions by 2035
Healthy Ingredients To Share On Social Media
The Guardian Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn
Reuters House budget bill effectively halts US clean energy boom
Financial Times Trump’s tax bill poses existential threat to US green hydrogen industry
What other stories are you seeing this week that deserve the Daily Dose treatment? Drop them in the comments section below!
Environmental Toxins Report
Disinformation runs rampant on social media. Over 60% of influencers do not fact check any information before sharing it and 1 out of every 5 U.S. adults gets their news and information from social media influencers. By highlighting pieces of disinformation that I find while doing my work I aim to remind you that you must remain ever-vigilant in an increasingly post-truth society.
I came across this AI generated video from an acccount on TikTok purporting to show a massive protest in New York City. The video was posted 3 days ago and my research revealed there was no such massive protest that took place in New York City at any time even within the last month. A closer look at the video shows obvious signs of it being fake. The flags move unnaturally, as do the people on the sidewalk. Some of the Palenstinian flags are not even the right colors. When you click through on the account, all of its other posts are AI generated videos that attempt to either depict real world protests against Israel and Donald Trump or on the ground conditions in Gaza. It’s all fake. Stay vigilant, friends. And if you do click through on the account below, be sure to report it and block it.
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Brian
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Love how this came together!