Archive for September 2025

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears. Above: A tank drives through Beijing after the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

An unidentified 40-to-50-year-old patient is seen in this photo. Anyone with information that could help identify him or connect him to loved ones is urged to call the hospital’s social work department:
– Nathalie Rivera, Clinical Social Worker — 323-409-7546 (M–F, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.)
– Los Angeles General Medical Center Department of Social Work — 323-409-5253
– After-hours inquiries (5 p.m.–8 a.m.) — 323-409-6883
– Weekend on-call (8 a.m.–5 p.m.) — 323-409-5254

After the Istanbul concert, however, the band’s promising future seems to now be a thing of the past. The public prosecutor’s office is investigating them for “indecent and immoral acts” and “exhibitionism,” with the stage show said to have “violated and offended the feelings of shame, morality and the moral values of society.” In addition, it’s claimed the women have a bad influence on children and young people…. Oktay Saral, chief adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called the band members “immoral, shameless, demonic creatures” in a Turkish post on X and demanded legal action to prevent them from “further alleged exhibitionist acts.”

Patients in specialized psychiatric care face a variety of social risks that are intertwined, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland published in Nordic Social Work Research. Social risks tend to accumulate among the most vulnerable segments of the population. They include, for example, financial difficulties, housing challenges and violence.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health joined Indigenous scholars, community leaders and practitioners from around the world at the 7th International Indigenous Voices in Social Work Conference in August at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Above: Aimee Chung, Theresa Kreif, Lynette Paglinawan, Halaevalu FO Vakalahi and Meripa Godinet.

In just one cross-country trip, a single private jet, the Gulfstream IV, emits nearly double the CO2 that the average American emits in an entire year. Owning and flying in a private jet is a reckless behavior in times of climate crisis, and the billionaire, private jet–owning class are conspicuous carbon consumers…. Right now, the United States has more private jets than the next top ten countries combined, and 71 percent of all private jet flights take place in North America. Private jet growth in the United States is projected to rise by $270 billion in new jets over the next decade, encouraged by… billion-dollar tax cuts, which included a 100-percent write-off on all private jets—in addition to the fact that private jets are already taxed at a rate forty times less than commercial flights.

Several Northeastern states and America’s largest city have been collaborating since early 2025 and today formally announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, a voluntary regional coalition of public health agencies and leaders, brought together to share expertise, improve coordination, enhance capacity, strengthen regional readiness, and promote and protect evidence-based public health.

Conservative Christian teachings are often key in how tradwife influencers explain their view of gender roles.