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Digital Trauma

@rubyu235.bsky.social

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Combat Wounded, Twice. Shot, Drowned, and Blown Up. Veteran of 2 Foreign Wars. Heavily decorated. Honorably Retired. MBA/MHA. Disappointed in America. This Machine Destroys Faschists.

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Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

Elections in Texas are coming soon. Frequent use of constitutional amendments to codify tax policy that belong in ordinary lawmaking. Reduced fiscal flexibility for future legislatures and shifts power toward elites. It’s populist framing masking long-term erosion of democratic adaptability. (1/13)

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2h

The worst way this happens is that someone does something they should not have and they ask you to cover for them.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2h

It would depend on the circumstances, your composure, and your reputation. When the stakes are high and opinions differ, dialoguing with respect and candor are important.

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Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 4h

Hah yes it can be perilous to your career. Generally speaking though, you find that the professionalism of these experts means that it’s not like the movies, you just have to have the intestinal fortitude to say sir, that would be a violation of my own personal values and the values of the force.

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Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 5h

Behind those dead beady eyes are his is deader, more beadier eyes.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 5h

Also everyone has a boss and that boss can usually countermand orders but seniors chop that up in private.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 8h

Bro, all you gotta do is see the way every single American is given a drivers license with little to no training to understand that they approach their politics with the same amount of preparation as operating a killing machine.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 8h

They don’t know shit, and neither did I until I took a college course on healthcare policy that included it.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 8h

That doesn’t typically happen and they aren’t usually like overt orders like, you there do this… they get an operations order, here the situation, here’s what you’re looking for, here’s what you have…

To refuse an order, you would simply go to them and say, we can’t do that with an explanation.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 8h

It also makes him a pirate

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Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

Here are your choices, pick one: You can afford to eat, house your family, or care for your health, also you can’t afford none of them because they’re not mutually exclusive.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna need the AI of Mike Johnson learning the Epstein secrets like he’s Dr. Strange in the magical studying montage.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile the VA community care office receives someone else’s medical records with the request for treatment for me and that’s somehow just an oopsie.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

These are the same people who will argue about what their baby mama does with their child support payments.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn’t do much good to buy food if you can’t afford power to refrigerate, water to boil, or gas to cook.

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Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

They’re asking the right questions and it’s a real problem. Tell them to focus on what they bring into the world and not what others take from the world.

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Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

Imprison Trump in it and charge admission with tomato vendors just outside… not soft ones, green ones.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

We’re always talking about how the previous generations pulled up the ladder and here’s how it happens staring up all in the face.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are going to lose the midterms not because of the current administration, but because of republicans. Do not get lulled into thinking the entire apparatus isn’t responsible when they absolutely are.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

It’s confusing even for MHA’s and professors of health administration. You aren’t alone.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

Early America had its own political rebels: the *Tertium Quids*. Disillusioned Jeffersonians, they rejected the new VP system & party tickets after 1804—warning that tying the presidency to party loyalty would corrupt the republic. The first anti-establishment revolt.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

Ya know, we didn’t get the 12th amendment until a need to reform became clear after the election of 1800 between Jefferson and Burr resulted in a tie, spurring the push for the Twelfth Amendment.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry this isn’t more coherent, I’m dealing with a personal emergency and I’m distracted. The point is that these physicians are not what you would picture as your GP… these are strict men, with serious backgrounds in medicine. These are the type of people whose names you find in text books.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

BAMC cancelled the annual Retiree Appreciation Day due to funding.

Digital Trauma @rubyu235.bsky.social · 2d

That rule has not been implemented as a settled law. A federal district court (Eastern District of Texas) in July 2025 vacated the rule, finding that the CFPB exceeded its authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). (2/2)