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House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing
May 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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History always has a lesson.
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
VA mental health therapists’ script: ‘I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality’ : Shots - Health News : NPR
April 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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1. EXCLUSIVE

The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them

As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles

It is an unethical and likely illegal practice
Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles
As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health coun...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The emails have started to go out asking federal workers to justify their jobs by what 5 things they did last week at work. We have until 11:59 pm EST to reply or it’s considered automatic resignation.
Feds must answer email on what they did last week — or lose jobs, Musk says — The Washington Post
Musk says on X that feds must explain what they did last week — or resign
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February 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
From this mornings NY Times:
“Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina conceded
that what the administration is doing “runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense.” But, he said, “nobody should bellyache about that.”’

Guess he won’t defend his oath to the constitution
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM