It’s the weekend at the end of spring break — always a bit of a bummer, unless you’re a parent itching to get the kids back into school. I’ve been there. I feel for you.

The Lund Report, an online news site that covers health issues in Oregon, beat the Gazette-Times to an important story about Samaritan Health Services: The dominant player in the mid-valley health scene has formally notified its bank that, due to financial losses, it likely violated its bond terms. Samaritan CEO Doug Boysen told The Lund Report that it’s now looking at options that include a potential merger or bringing in outside partners. “I believe that health care is unsustainable right now in the state of Oregon,” Boysen said — and it’s true that the majority of hospitals in Oregon reported financial losses last year. It’s also becoming increasingly clear that something is fundamentally broken in the U.S. system of health care. In the meantime, Samaritan also is working to incorporate Stayton-based Santiam Memorial Hospital — and, as the Gazette-Times story noted, Boysen himself is resigning this year. Samaritan may announce its new CEO in a couple of months. To be fair, the G-T credited The Lund Report with breaking the story, but it didn’t provide a link.

Are you feeling left out because you weren’t included in National Security Adviser Michael Waltz’s chat messaging about the U.S. air strikes in Yemen? Well, fortunately for all of us, one of the members in the chat on Signal was Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who shared most of the details in with us in this riveting story about a jaw-dropping demonstration of incompetence. After the administration ludicrously claimed that the texts didn’t contain classified information, Goldberg had the green light to post many of the actual texts, and did so. Many Republicans, by the way, have been claiming that this intelligence gaffe was no big deal, but I’m pretty sure that if something like this had occurred in a Democratic administration, they would have felt differently. Hats off to those Republicans who have spoken the truth about the incident.

Got plans to visit Europe — or, really, any other global destination — this year? Be prepared to answer for America under the Trump administration, as this Associated Press story by Laurie Kellman reports. (It’s a particularly tricky bit of business for members of a U.S. group called Republicans Overseas — who knew such a thing existed?) By the way, it’s worth reading this story all the way to the end; Kellman pulls off a particularly nice closing touch.

The treatment of Japanese-American Oregonians during World War II is yet another blot on the state’s spotty record of race relations. Now that the Trump administration has invoked the Alien Enemies Act to revoke protection status for Venezuelan immigrants living legally in the United States, Darrell Ehrlick, the excellent Montana journalist who edits The Daily Montanan website, thought it would be timely to visit a relic of the last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked — the Heart Mountain museum on the Wyoming site of one of the nation’s largest World War II detention camps. (The Daily Montanan, by the way, is the States Newsroom website that serves Montana — it’s that state’s version of the Oregon Capital Chronicle, which is where I noticed the story.)

Maybe you don’t need another example of the petty cruelties the Trump administration’s federal cutbacks are inflicting on the vulnerable. But here’s another one: There’s a federal program in the Department of Education called TRIO — it’s actually a suite of programs intended to help disadvantaged college students earn degrees. A new decree from the department says that no TRIO money can go to students who don’t have permanent legal status. As Alex Baumhardt reports in this Oregon Capital Chronicle story, less than 2% of Oregon college students lack permanent legal status. Oregon receives about $17.5 million a year in TRIO funding. And in a nice bit of perspective-setting, Baumhardt writes how that amount is less than taxpayers have paid for Donald Trump’s seven trips so far this year to Mar-a-Lago.

That cruelty seems to be hard-wired into many of the social media posts from the White House, Charlie Warzel argues in this piece from The Atlantic — and the people responsible for the posts know what they’re doing, he writes.

When a minor in the custody of Oregon’s child welfare system dies, the state assembles what’s known as a Critical Incident Report Team, charged with investigating the incident and determining what went wrong so that problems in the system can be addressed. So when a 17-year-old who had been living in a Eugene hotel died by suicide last summer, the team prepared a report on the incident. Now, though, an independent organization says that the state’s report on the incident was misleading and, in some places, inaccurate. Lauren Dake of OPB has the story.

“Gigil” is among the 42 new words that was added this week to the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s a Tagalong word that means feeling overwhelmed by cuteness — like, I don’t know, like when you’re watching a baby elephant frolic.

Speaking of words: It’s fashionable these days to quote George Orwell (actually, it’s never really been out of fashion). But what would Orwell himself think of these days? An essay by Matthew Purdy from The New York Times Magazine probes that question — and the answers are more nuanced than you might think. Let’s give the final word this week to Orwell himself: “(S)uch a thing as ‘the truth’ exists.”

We’ll see you back here next week.