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An Australian Aboriginal community with only 8 fluent speakers left has launched a mobile phone game to help reconnect their youth with the tongue of their ancestors. The game allows you to help preserve a wetland nature reserve where the community lives, with almost 100 words and phrases in the Nyiyaparli language. Numbering around 400 […] The post Play These Mobile Games Designed to Help Save Dying Aboriginal Language and Culture appeared first on Good News Network.

Disapproval of the state of the economy is widespread today, despite many indicators improving since the start of the year. The reality is that most Americans’ financial situation deteriorated so much under the Joe Biden administration that there’s a long way to go before this affordability crisis is resolved. Fortunately, there are ways to speed up the process. Perhaps the best illustration of where most Americans are economically today, and where they’ve been, is to look at real, meaning inflation-adjusted, average weekly earnings. This tells us not only how much the average American makes each week, but what those weekly paychecks can actually buy. In the first eight months of the Donald Trump administration, real average weekly earnings rose about 1%—a modest improvement, to be sure, but clearly a step in the right direction. People’s incomes rose faster than prices, so they could afford a higher standard of living. But we need some perspective to understand why people are still so deeply dissatisfied with the economy. In the four years before Trump returned to the White House, real average weekly earnings fell 4% because inflation during the Biden administration far outpaced wage growth. That means the good progress made thus far this year only reversed about one-quarter of the losses from the prior four years. The average American is still worse off than he or she was before Trump left office. Housing is another valuable illustration of the affordability crisis plaguing families, particularly those who don’t already own a home. Under the Biden administration, the monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced home more than doubled in less than four years. This fact alone bifurcated America into a kind of two-tiered society, separating us into those who are lucky enough to buy a home before costs exploded, and those who may be forced to rent for the rest of their lives.In short, the American Dream steadily turned into a nightmare of unaffordability as the price of necessities like housing hit stratospheric levels. None of this diminishes the strides the Trump administration has made to slow inflation and even lower some prices on consumer staples, like eggs or gasoline. But just because the economy is moving in the right direction doesn’t mean years’ worth of damage has all been undone. It took a while to get into this mess, and it’ll take a while to fix everything. While this is valuable context for understanding the current political situation, it doesn’t help struggling families put food on the table, gas in the tank, or pay the rent. But the good news is that much more can be done to quickly provide relief and end this affordability crisis. The Trump administration is already rolling back overregulation, and those efforts should be accelerated. Just as imposing excessive regulation adds costs for American workers, consumers, and businesses, so too will rolling back that overreach provide relief in the form of lower costs. Regulatory costs are often “hidden,” meaning consumers have no way of identifying what percentage of a product’s or service’s cost is from regulatory burdens. But those costs are nonetheless quite large, estimated at over $2 trillion annually. Repealing just some of this burden would quickly provide billions of dollars in relief to families. Likewise, the Trump administration could tailor its tariffs more finely to avoid consumer goods or industrial inputs that cannot feasibly be made here, like he did earlier this week for coffee and bananas. Those tariffs are more likely to be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, so reducing or eliminating them reduces prices instead. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the Department of Government Efficiency needs to be put on steroids so that it can make drastic cuts to the federal budget. In just a few months, DOGE managed to find billions of dollars in abuse, corruption, fraud, and waste throughout the federal budget—despite being blocked at every turn by bureaucrats and rogue judges. If the DOGE team were truly given carte blanche, they would undoubtedly save taxpayers billions of dollars more each year. That’s important because these savings would reduce government spending and therefore borrowing. With the government borrowing less money, there’s less upward pressure on interest rates. Lower interest rates would reduce financing costs for millions of Americans on mortgages, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, and more—providing much-needed relief. The Biden administration left a full-blown affordability crisis for Trump, and he has been working to douse the flames. But the fire isn’t out yet—only contained. It’ll take a herculean effort to extinguish the inferno, but it can be done. Originally published by The Washington Times. The post How We Can Finally Overcome the Affordability Crisis appeared first on The Daily Signal.

While many health care associations support the experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically described as “gender affirming care” for minors, most doctors in Florida agree with the public to support laws protecting kids from these “treatments,” a new study finds. “We see that a strong majority of doctors believe sex-change interventions should be prohibited for minors,” Ian Kingsbury, director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, told The Daily Signal. The study, provided to The Daily Signal, shows that most doctors in the Sunshine State also reject racial preferences in admissions and the theory of racial concordance—that patients receive the best care from a doctor or nurse of their own race. Opposition to racial preferences and “gender-affirming care” contradict the positions of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Endocrine Society—medical groups that ostensibly represent doctors. Yet the doctors’ positions align with the general public in Florida, according to another survey Do No Harm commissioned as part of the report. “This overlap in opinion is no coincidence, but a clear call to re-center medicine around common sense and sound science,” Kingsbury said. “We cannot allow harmful ideologies pushed by woke activists to sully the integrity of medicine any longer. Instead, we must reinstitute excellence and integrity within our medical organizations, schools, and hospital systems.” Do No Harm advocates for removing contested ideologies, such as transgender ideology and critical race theory (the notion that America is systemically racist and requires fundamental change to root out racism), from medicine in order to focus on quality. ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ When a doctor diagnoses a minor with gender dysphoria (the painful and persistent identification with the gender opposite the child’s sex), “treatment” first consists of “social transition,” encouraging peers to treat a boy as a girl or vice versa; then to drugs to delay puberty, which in other contexts are used for chemical castration of sex offenders; then to cross-sex hormones to make males appear female or vice-versa; and finally to surgeries to remove healthy sex organs and replace them with facsimiles of the opposite sex’s organs. Documented side-effects of cross-sex hormones include higher risks of cancer, blood clots, and death. Even advocates for gender-affirming care have written—in applications to receive federal funding for research—that there is no definitive proof that these grotesque interventions have positive outcomes for young patients. The Department of Health and Human Services reviewed the evidence for these interventions and found “extremely weak evidence” for benefits to counter the downsides. The Results While the health associations mentioned above oppose laws to protect minors from transgender interventions, both rank-and-file doctors and the general public in Florida supported them. The survey asked doctors and the general public: “Florida has passed legislation that prohibits medical professionals from providing sex change interventions, such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery, to individuals under 18. To what extend to you support or oppose that law?” Most doctors (66%) said they “strongly support” (55%) or “somewhat support” (11%) such laws, while only 11% said they “somewhat oppose” them, and less than a quarter (23%) said they “strongly oppose” them. This support echoes that of the general public, 60% of whom said they strongly (49%) or somewhat (12%) support such laws. Both groups also supported a policy that would “require that trans athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth.” Three-quarters of doctors said they “strongly” (64%) or “somewhat” (11%) support such a policy. Similarly, most Floridians (76%) agreed, saying they “strongly” (59%) or “somewhat” (17%) support it. Doctors and the general public also agreed that the increase in diagnosis of gender dysphoria among minors should be a source of concern. In asking about this issue, Do No Harm cited two reports: a Reuters report that 15,172 minors (ages 6-17) had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2017 and another survey finding that 42,167 kids had been diagnosed with it in 2021. The survey asked doctors and the general public whether the increase should be “a source of concern,” a “cause for celebration” or neither. Most doctors (64%) said it should be a source of concern, while only 1% said it should be a cause for celebration, and 35% said neither. Almost half of the public (49%) said it should be a concern, while 3% said it should inspire celebration and 47% said neither. Racial Questions The survey asked doctors and the general public whether this statement was true or false: “Patients have better health outcomes when they are of the same racial or ethnic background as the doctors who treat them.” Most doctors (69%) said the statement was false, as did most of the public (78%). The survey also asked about college or university admissions. Most doctors (68%) agreed that “applicants should be admitted solely on the basis of merit, even if that results in few minority students being admitted.” Most of the public (59%) also agreed. The survey was conducted from May 24 to June 2, 2025 and included 736 licensed Florida physicians and 600 Florida voters. The post Rank-and-File Doctors Oppose ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Minors, Contrary to Medical Associations, New Study Finds appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Everybody has a diagnosis these days.Not just adults — kids too. It doesn’t matter if you're 8 or 38, there's someone somewhere waiting to explain away whatever's different about you. Perhaps you find your work excruciatingly boring and hard to care about precisely because it is excruciatingly boring and hard to care about.It's not a quirk of your personality or a flaw in your character or a wound in your soul. It's a illness. Never mind that the symptoms are vague or the evidence that it's a discrete medical condition are lacking — a pharmaceutical cure will fix it. Just pop this pill, and you will be like everyone else. Isn’t that what you want?All the rageAll the kids these days have ADHD or autism. Which often makes me wonder if any of them do. Or if these conditions exist at all. Autism certainly seems real in its extreme forms, but I am not at all convinced that it's at the far end of a continuum. I don’t really think being a little “on the spectrum” is a thing. Those people are just a little weird and need stronger guidance on how to get on in life.I have a friend who was an engineer at Google. He told me half the people he worked with claimed to be “on the spectrum,” and according to him, it was all bull. They didn’t have medical problems; they had personal problems. They were guys who never learned how to interact normally, so they just ended up being kind of weird and rude. As for ADHD, it's so obscenely overdiagnosed that it's essentially fake at this point. The market has been so oversaturated by ridiculous and erroneous diagnoses that whenever I hear about another kid with ADHD, it tells me more about the doctors and the “system” and less about the kid. Boys will be boysAre some kids better at sitting down at a desk for three hours at a time? Sure. Are more girls than boys better at doing it? Yes. Is there a gender factor here when it comes to diagnosis? Absolutely. Boys don’t learn the same way girls do. But much of modern education ignores this fact. So when boys fidget or get bored, it gets chalked up to ADHD. This is more or less common knowledge by now. So the only thing a boy being diagnosed with ADHD tells me is that he doesn't get enough recess.Of course, there are extreme cases. There are kids who genuinely don’t seem to be able to focus at all. Something like actual ADHD exists in a small number of boys, but that doesn't negate the broader truth: Instead of seeing people as individuals with different strengths and weaknesses, we decide to overmedicate when someone isn’t exactly like everyone else. My mom worked with special ed kids. Some of them had mild disabilities, some more extreme. In some cases, it was clear they would need supervised care their entire lives. But in other cases, it wasn't clear just what, if anything, was wrong — besides a certain learned helplessness reinforced by doctors and parents.Pill and chillNowadays ADHD diagnoses aren’t just for kids; adults are getting in on it too. Believe it or not, an increasing amount of men and women, especially women, in their 30s and 40s are discovering that they too have ADHD — a discovery that inevitably “explains everything.” My wife sees reels on Instagram all the time, along with ads selling various solutions.What's that? You couldn’t focus at your computer, clicking on an excel spreadsheet, sending pointless emails for seven hours at a time? Shocking. No, you don’t need ADHD medication. You need to do something else with your life. Perhaps you find your work excruciatingly boring and hard to care about precisely because it is excruciatingly boring and hard to care about.Overmedicalization and overdiagnosis is a deep problem in our society. Not just because the result is an increase in prescription drug use, but because the individual human being is lost or suffocated a little bit at a time. Everyone is different. Everyone has skills, and everyone has weaknesses. Everyone learns in a different way, and everyone focuses on different things too. RELATED: Drugged for being boys: The TRUTH behind the ADHD scam Blaze MediaFree agencySome people are just a little awkward, a little weird, a little absent-minded, or a little dry. Sure, they should try to meet society halfway in some reasonable sense — but that happens through early teaching, parental guidance, community expectations, and personal effort, not through a pill you pop every day. For most of the 20th century, we relied far more on those nonmedical supports.All the pill-popping flattens our individualism and undercuts our own agency as humans. It presupposes that one cannot make oneself better, one cannot work to act right, and that one doesn’t have any control. This is a lie. Yes, of course, there are people who suffer with truly debilitating problems who need medication, and they should get that medication. But it is a small fraction of the population. Most people can make themselves better when they set their minds to it. Don’t get me wrong. I'm not anti-psychiatry. I'm not into alternative medicine or any of the hippie stuff. I’m not denying that there are people with problems who are helped most effectively with medication. I’m thankful for the blessings of modern medicine and the advancements we continue to see every year. But we have a problem with overdiagnosis in our country. We have a problem with losing sight of the individual. We have a problem with people who want to give up their agency and turn it all over to a pill, and we are worse off because of it.

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