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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...

NEW: Under Trump, mental health care for vets is getting squeezed

VA is bleeding shrinks & *not replacing them*

One told me she's so overloaded her sessions can be *16 mins*

She's had to online sessions w/ 35 vets

How is that therapeutic? It's not, she said

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I think the average American's appetite for a war of revenge under Bush was a lot higher than one of prevenge under Trump. Especially when two weeks in we're at the "everyone has to sacrifice other than the billionaires getting richer off this" phase.

Tennessee Republicans gerrymandered the state to carve up metro Nashville into three different congressional districts, and this is the result -- a large Muslim community whose own "representative" is now endangering them.

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Some Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship The Trump administration will expand the power of government attorneys to initiate court proceedings for veterans “unable to make their own health care decisions.”

The Trump administration will give government attorneys expanded power to initiate legal guardianship for veterans “unable to make their own health care decisions.” This could force homeless veterans and those at risk of homelessness into involuntaty institutional c...

TAT: [Weakening civil rights]

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One of the things I think people should grapple with is the easy description of “Peak Woke” as haughty moralism, only to then describe the “race science” of the right as a secret thrill. Feels like the “woke” people knew about the race science, but even in these mea culpas, it can’t be said.

What Raleigh tax payers shouldn't bear:
Iran Boondoggle
ICE funding
The culture of grift in the federal administration

What Raleigh tax payers should always be open to:
Affordable Housing
Reliable Public Transit

Over 100 Latino Christian leaders say Trump adviser Samuel Rodriguez’s reach is misrepresented The letter’s signers say they were prompted to speak out because of the damage the Trump administration’s immigration policies have done to Latino communities.

From @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social, a story that sounds like inside baseball, but is actually kind of a big deal heading into the midterms:

Over 100 Latino Christian leaders say Trump adviser Samuel Rodriguez’s reach is misrepresented religionnews.com/2026/03/11/l...

I reviewed Lio Min’s debut Beating Heart Baby, a queer YA romance set in perhaps the most intense high school marching band in Los Angeles.

Getting featured in the Billy Penn newsletter - it's a dream come true! Still feeling all the good feels from our collab with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Tonight (or actually this evening if you prefer)! Come on over to Blackbird Books and Coffee for Yas Zine

#OtD 12 Mar 1990 the Capitol Crawl took place when disabled people got out of wheelchairs and crawled up the steps of the US Capitol. They were protesting the stalling of the Americans with Disabilities Act banning discrimination against the disabled stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1252...

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. n.pr/4ul3y2p

We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say If regime holds, control of enriched uranium may be ultimate measure of US-Israeli success, insiders say * Middle East crisis – live updates Israel did not have a realistic plan for regime change when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could drive a popular uprising driven by “wishful thinking” rather than hard intelligence. Iran has now survived nearly two weeks of bombing raids and the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Trump is publicly contemplating ending an increasingly costly war. Continue reading...

We attacked Iran with no clear plan for regime change, Israeli security sources say

This is the entire budget of NASA's Planetary Science Division for *four years*

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.

Amazing. Amazon is forcing employees to use its AI tools to speed up work and it’s slowing them down www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library ABC, Meta, Paramount and X reportedly agreed to pay at least $63 million in settlements with the president. The original fund was dissolved last year.

Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library.

Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money.

Three guesses on where it's gone.

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As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

Another high profile Democratic federal Congressional candidate has retweeted neo-Nazi Stew Peters. That's two in two weeks. This time it's Dr. Annie Andrews, who is running for Lindsay Graham's Senate seat in South Carolina.

Government officials using armed forces to harass a disfavored population and attempt to force them to leave a location is kind of the core unit of fascism.

“A Manlius pediatrician who caters to vaccine skeptics is now facing 21 criminal felonies, accused of repeatedly using bogus vaccination records to enroll her son in two Syracuse-area elementary schools.”

A 3 colour risograph print using blue, yellow and fluorescent pink ink featuring a raccoon. It is walking across some grass covered in flowers, dragging a grocery back which is spilling out food. We see the words TORONTO in bright yellow letters above the critter.

Quick little 3 colour risograph I printed today - I will be hiding these around a park in Toronto tomorrow for Art & Found Day!

Huh. No shit.

V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

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🚨 The Trump admin just gave VA lawyers power to initiate FORCED GUARDIANSHIP over homeless veterans — stripping them of legal autonomy and forcing them into institutions. Nearly 33,000 veterans are unhoused in America. This is despicable.
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Development of CPS Safety Plan Can Serve as Model for Other School Districts: Study Nearly two years after CPS removed police officers from campuses and implemented a new holistic approach to school safety, officials believe that shift could serve as a replicable model for school dis...

Study: Nearly two years after Chicago Public Schools removed police officers from campuses and implemented a new holistic approach to school safety, officials believe that shift could serve as a replicable model for school districts across the country.

Here comes Gundlach.

Naturalized Nigerian / Unnatural tracks Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún on an English scholar in Nigeria; new works from Luke O’Neil

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the life of the British-born scholar David Jowitt and his explorations of Nigerian English. "In 2023, a few months before his death, he finally became a Nigerian citizen, fulfilling a long-held dream." flaminghydra.com/issue-520/#e...

The fear, reluctance and uncertainty in their eyes.

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

A federal tool to identify noncitizens on voter rolls keeps making mistakes.

“This is not ready for prime time,” a county clerk in Missouri said. “And I’m not going to risk the security and the constitutional rights of my voters for bad data.”

With @texastribune.org

Balcony solar is taking state legislatures by storm In more than half of U.S. states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of DIY solar systems.

In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo