Tuesday Links – 18 August 2026

Food Stamp spending is on a path to exceed the Biden baseline.

HHS, Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine”

Capital punishment for Bruce the dog. A California court ordered euthanization for an Anatolian Shephard accused of biting three people, including a child, and knocking over a man pushing a wheel chair. Supreme Court appeal was too late.  (NYT)

Street medicine: More than 150 programs across the country provide medical care to people sleeping outside — on sidewalks, in encampments, under overpasses. (NYT)

Four million children in the United States are caring for an adult family member who is sick or disabled or old.