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Lies purposefully spread on social media forced this Warrant Officer to get her family a security detail... people are freaking NUTS. WTF. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Since 2001, more than 6,000 U.S. veterans have died by suicide each year. Our new report explores the current landscape of veteran suicide prevention, the evidence for those activities, and what the next generation of effective programs might look like: www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

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Beautiful day www.axios.com/2025/04/17/p...

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Known for his efforts to gut VA - his failures and misdeeds proliferate

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Pentagon removes 54th Massachusetts from Army records as 'DEI hires' open.substack.com/pub/duffelbl...

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I hope this throws Hegseth into a hissy fit. Not just a woman, but a woman of color - someone he wants to banish from the military - finished Best Ranger, something Hegseth could never do himself despite his alpha bro bluster

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convicted felon and current President Donald Trump officially declared war on the country’s veterans Monday, citing “military favoritism” and “disrespect toward those of us who dared to stay home.” open.substack.com/pub/duffelbl...

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Happy spring y’all

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Secretary Hegseth, the standards didn’t change for women — we met them thehill.com/opinion/nati...

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Recently started an MST group therapy cohort at VA and the therapist acknowledged this possibility www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

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The nice lady was going to give you $25K toward a down payment. Now you get nothing but higher interest rates. YAY!

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If there was any doubt DOGE is a scam motivated purely by malice and cruelty, this report from WSJ should remove it. nymag.com/intelligence...

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“the ‘n-word’ is absolutely, completely off limits... exceptions are authorized, such as if the CO has a really funny joke to tell. But ...begin by asking his subordinates whether they’re snowflakes. Oh, & no jokes about senior officer infidelity or alcoholism. That’s just mean.”

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Demonstrating military values of honor, integrity, and personal courage. Upholding the Constitutional promise of free speech. "Our parents are actively fighting for our country for us to be able to have these rights" <3

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VA provides high-quality, culturally competent, evidence-based direct care. Read this piece about what MAGA wants to foist on veterans: making VA more reliant on the same profit-based system that is failing military families spectacularly.

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Veterans: do you get care from VA? NYT wants to know if your care has been affected since Trump took office

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"Trump administration’s budget cuts threaten the long and historic funding growth for DoD-supported breakthrough science, risking America’s global dominance in a tech-driven economy and undermining future payoffs" like those that led to GPS and blood banks

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Hot on the heels of the BEST YEAR EVER processing claims bc of Biden admin improvements, SECVA Collins wants to slash the VA workforce (even as the number of claims submitted increases) for ... more ... efficiency? Cool cool cool.

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So, explain it for us non-lawyers ... these firings may actually be illegal, but the orgs who sued to find out don't deserve to ask? (groups didn't have adequate standing to sue / no ruling on merits)

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Listened to an NPR story this morning about Trump cuts to federal funding for universities. A libertarian said they were "chaotic, disruptive, and unfair" but that's fine because there's a lot of waste at universities and this will drive efficiency. Idle musing: 1/

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Me: Can you guarantee that you'll still have a job for the duration of this treatment? VA therapist: Uh... I have to be honest, no. Also, with return to office, it may not always be possible for me to guarantee your privacy; I may be required to work in a converted cubicle. Cool cool cool

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I mean, once could also ask. some hard questions about the wisdom of allowing random pills and powders produced with basically no government oversight from being sold to troops, but whatever on that issue, amirite

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Return to office mandate is taking a toll on employees, damaging VA’s ability to recruit & retain a strong workforce, reducing institutional knowledge & expertise, and will hurt veterans & their access to care

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Like many Virginians, I was looking forward to enjoying our National Parks this spring, but now, because of Trump-Musk firings, they’re facing more limited hours and reduced staffing. Trashing our National Parks is short-sighted and bad for our economy. www.axios.com/local/richmo...

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Sudden, arbitrary personnel decisions at VA are placing thousands of researchers and tens of millions of dollars of ongoing research at risk and threatening the future of a $2 billion research enterprise that extends back more than 80 years #DOGEbags #MAGA #resist

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Former recruit's mom: "Do not send your daughters into the military, because the way it's structured right now, there are predator men in there who will go after these women, & there's nothing to stop them, & there is no punishment, & the military is not held accountable in any way."

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EFFICIENT!

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Ronin was celebrated on "April 4, which happens to be both International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action and World Rat Day" Sorry I didn't get you anything for World Rat Day. I was distracted.

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MAGA does not want Americans to know our history. We will not be erased. #resist

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Don’t believe the lie that republicans are better for the economy

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Oh so federal safety regulators matter Huh Hope nobody fires them

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The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

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