I've Taken Antidepressants For 20 Years. Here's What's So Terrifying About RFK Jr. Targeting Mental Health Medication.
And in our conservative Christian circles, where mental health issues were seen as a result of not having enough faith, taking medication was actively disparaged. And antidepressants did help, until several years later when a doctor (who wasn’t a psychiatrist) convinced me I should go off medication. Therapy on its own wasn’t working because the depression felt so oppressive. Taking medication for mental illness already holds a fair amount of stigma. Many people already feel ashamed for taking medications for their mental health; many more may not even consider medication as an option for fear of being judged or stereotyped as crazy or weak.
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March 05, 2025 13:38 UTC
Trump Abruptly Walks Back His Directive To Fire Thousands Of Federal Employees
“Please note that, by this memorandum, OPM is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions regarding probationary employees,” reads the updated OPM guidance. This is almost certainly a factor in the Trump administration’s decision to suddenly revise its OPM guidance. But the judge’s ruling last week has resulted in some federal agencies scrambling to rehire people they just fired. The National Science Foundation, for one, is trying to reinstate 84 employees it fired as part of OPM’s directive. “The government has not followed any of those [rules] in terminating employees to date, to include the mass firing of probationary employees,” Wilson said.
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March 05, 2025 04:00 UTC
Trump's Ukraine Aid Freeze Raises Stakes For Volodymyr Zelenskyy
LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Trump administration on Monday announced it is suspending U.S. aid to Ukraine in an effort to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into a negotiation with the U.S. on ending the war — a long-standing demand of Donald Trump. Advertisement“The problem is I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy and I don’t think you’d be a tough guy without the United States,” Trump told Zelenskyy on Friday. AdvertisementIt should come as no surprise that the recently announced aid freeze has been welcomed by the Kremlin. “We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively,” Zelenskyy said. AdvertisementAgainst this backdrop, Klain said he will be watching Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress closely.
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March 04, 2025 22:47 UTC
National Weather Service Worker Reminds ‘We Are Here To Protect Lives’ After Mass Firings
A worker at the National Weather Service is warning of the devastating impact recent mass firings at the agency could have when the next natural disaster strikes. Thousands of federal workers have already been fired since President Donald Trump took office. ADVERTISEMENTThat includes perhaps crippling a critical government service tasked with keeping the public informed of dangerous weather events. “Everything people see on TV or hear from The Weather Channel, all that information comes from the National Weather Service,” the employee said. “There’s so many different parts of the National Weather Service, and everyone is essential to making sure it can function,” the source said.
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March 04, 2025 17:50 UTC
'Most Mortifying Moment Yet': Jimmy Kimmel Exposes Trump's 'Humiliating' Experience
Jimmy Kimmel said President Donald Trump’s disastrous Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week was “about as embarrassing as it gets.”“This might’ve been Trump’s most mortifying moment yet, and this is a guy who suggested we inject bleach into our bodies,” Kimmel said. Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy in a meeting held in front of reporters and broadcast on television. “Even his aides said they hadn’t seen Trump yelling at a foreigner like that since the last time Melania locked him out of the bedroom,” Kimmel cracked. The scene was “so humiliating,” Kimmel said, that Trump’s allies had to rush to claim otherwise on TV, with one Fox News personality saying he should get the Nobel Peace Prize. “Let’s give him the Heisman too while we’re at it.”He added that siding with Trump is now basically the same as siding with Putin.
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March 04, 2025 15:01 UTC
Trump's Long-Threatened Tariffs Against Canada And Mexico Are Now In Effect
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s long-threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico went into effect Tuesday, putting global markets on edge and setting up costly retaliations by the United States’ North American allies. Following Canada and China, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that Mexico will respond to 25% tariffs imposed by the United States with its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. The Canada and Mexico tariffs were supposed to begin in February, but Trump agreed to a 30-day suspension to negotiate further with the two largest U.S. trading partners. The American president has injected a disorienting volatility into the world economy, leaving it off balance as people wonder what he’ll do next. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she’s “very concerned” about the tariffs going into effect because of her state’s proximity to Canada.
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March 04, 2025 14:32 UTC
Patrick Schwarzenegger Jumps To The White Lotus' Defence After Criticism Over This 1 Change
Patrick Schwarzenegger on the set of The White Lotus season three Fabio Lovino/HBOWhen the award-winning anthology series premiered back in 2021, its distinct opening song became a surprising earworm as the weeks went on, which was only exacerbated when it was remixed for season two. Speaking to Radio Times, Patrick defended composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s decision to rework the titles in such a dramatic way. Cristobal Tapia de Veer via Associated PressAdvertisementCristobal has received two Emmys for his work on The White Lotus’ opening title music and its wider score. Back in 2023, he opened up about his hopes for his next White Lotus theme, and claimed he’d taken inspiration from traditional East Asian instruments – as well as some other less orthodox places. In his Radio Times interview, Patrick also claimed that Cristobal was inspired by “funeral” music, which played into some of the show’s wider themes.
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March 04, 2025 09:21 UTC
Here's What Kieran Culkin Actually Said In His Censored Oscars Acceptance Speech
Here's What Kieran Culkin Actually Said In His Censored Oscars Acceptance SpeechThe always-unfiltered Kieran Culkin got this year’s Oscars off to a very chaotic start when he dropped an F-bomb during the ceremony. “I love your work,” Culkin told his former on-screen brother. I didn’t mean to!”i love being parasocial about jeremy strong and kieran culkin pic.twitter.com/mG2zNPu7Gf — leyla 🍒 (@LeylaCardenas28) March 3, 2025The sound was dipped during the US broadcast of the Oscars, but it aired uncensored during ITV’s live stream. I love you!”Kieran Culkin’s Best Supporting Actor acceptance speech at the #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/VZtdDFbXAY — Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 3, 2025Click here for the full list of winners from this year’s Oscars.
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March 03, 2025 03:07 UTC
Elon Musk Suggests U.S. Withdrawal From NATO And United Nations
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March 02, 2025 21:16 UTC
Trump Again Demands Federal Workers List Accomplishments
LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe Trump administration sent another obnoxious email to federal employees ordering them to list their achievements from the previous week, making clear it intends for the bureaucratic memo exercise to be a new weekly ritual for more than two million workers. Part II.” Like the previous one, it instructed employees to “please reply to this email with approx. After OPM originally ordered employees to list their week’s accomplishments, the agency later walked back its demand and said replying was voluntary. AdvertisementBut that advice was undermined by Trump himself, who said publicly Monday that workers could be punished for not replying to OPM. Support HuffPost Already contributed?
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March 02, 2025 16:49 UTC
Russian State Media Detailed The Day BEFORE The SET UP Trump and Putin Planned on Zelenskyy
Russian Lawmakers on Russian State TV Detailed Trump and Putin’s Planned Attack on ZelenskyyThe day BEFORE the Zelenskyy meeting Russian lawmakers on Russian state TV said that Trump has embraced a new world order with Russia, their worldviews are aligned, and detailed the attack that Trump and Putin planned to do on Zelenskyy the next day. Russian state TV said it was no coincidence that Trump was parroting Putin after their 90 minute call. Here are Quotes from the Russian State TV Show:Popov pointed out that Trump is strangling America’s friends and allies. “State Duma member Oleg Morozov on 60 Minutes, a state TV show. When Zelenskyy refused, Trump and Vance followed Russia’s wish to attack, undermine, and call for Zelenskyy to resign.
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March 02, 2025 16:16 UTC
'SNL' Trashes Trump And Vance's 'Disrespectful' Zelenskyy Takes In Cold Open
LOADING ERROR LOADING“Saturday Night Live” clowned President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance over their fixation on respect and gratitude during a contentious White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In the show’s cold open, Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) thanked Zelenskyy (played by Mikey Day) for dressing like “casual Star Trek” to the Oval Office before pushing the Ukrainian president to say sorry to Russian President Vladimir Putin. As Zelenskyy tried to calmly respond to Trump, Vance (played by Bowen Yang) had an over-the-top reaction to the lack of thanks from the Ukrainian president. Later in the cold open, Trump began to lecture Zelenskyy about not wearing a suit to the meeting, reflecting a real-life ask by pro-Trump reporter Brian Glenn. Who shows up to the White House in a T-shirt and jeans like a garbage person?” asked Johnson’s Trump.
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March 02, 2025 12:52 UTC
Trump's Federal Hiring Freeze Could Backfire, History Shows
Under Trump’s executive order, agencies won’t be able to fill most vacancies for 90 days, though military, national security and immigration enforcement roles are exempted. The freeze won’t be lifted at the government’s tax-collecting agency until the Treasury secretary and White House officials agree it’s “in the national interest” to do so. An immediate hiring freeze is a flashy way to signal that you’re serious about cutting the size of the federal government, which Trump claims to want to do. AdvertisementOne of the biggest problems, the GAO found, was that government-wide hiring freezes are “arbitrary” and “not based on sound analyses” of the workforce. Matt Rourke via Associated PressAdvertisementThe GAO’s estimation of hiring freezes hadn’t changed much by the time of Trump’s first presidency.
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January 21, 2025 19:07 UTC
Brutalist Director Brady Corbet Responds To Intense Backlash Over The Film's Use Of AI
Director Brady Corbet is defending The Brutalist after it was revealed that artificial intelligence had been used to make some of the Hungarian dialogue delivered by its English-speaking cast sound more authentic. AdvertisementEarlier this month, Adrien won a Golden Globe for his performance, and is widely expected to receive an Academy Award nomination. Corbet also snagged a Golden Globe for best director. Advertisement“Hearing Brody used AI to change aspects of his voice sort of reminds me of when my favourite baseball player would get busted for steroids. “Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy.
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January 21, 2025 18:48 UTC
Donald Trump Inauguration Blunder Has Stephen Colbert Asking: 'Is He Really President?'
Donald Trump Inauguration Blunder Has Stephen Colbert Asking: 'Is He Really President?' President Donald Trump’s second inauguration provided plenty of comic fodder for “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Monday. “Now when the ceremony was going to be outside, he was going to put his hand on the Bible. “If he doesn’t touch the Bible, is he really president?”“I mean, who did touch the Bible?” Colbert asked. It clearly believes in a strong border.”ADVERTISEMENTWatch the first part of Colbert’s monologue here:And the second part here:Related...
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January 21, 2025 17:25 UTC