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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of…
www.propublica.org
August 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders.

Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…
www.propublica.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I often wonder who writes these on behalf of Pumpkin Palpatine because I don’t believe for a minute the word atrophied has ever been in his vocabulary.
If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat.

In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
May 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Orgs estimate that hundreds of veterans have been deported by ICE over the years. Countless veterans remain stranded abroad, living as exiles from the nation they fought for. Alex Murillo is one of those deported veterans, writing for Prism.
prismreports.org/2025/04/07/d...
Deporting veterans betrays America’s promise
ICE does not report the veteran status of deported people, but organizations estimate hundreds of veterans have been deported over the years
prismreports.org
April 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Google is once again deemed a monopoly — this time in ad tech www.wired.com/story/judge-... with @peard33.bsky.social
Google Is Once Again Deemed a Monopoly, This Time in Ad Tech
The future of Google's advertising business is at stake after a federal judge found the company illegally monopolized parts of it.
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Trump’s plan to gut the VA will leave thousands of veterans without access to the health care they need, and will devastate an entire workforce.

I was proud to join nurses in San Diego to stand up for our veterans.
April 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Went out and bought a small fortune of butter and threw it in the freezer.
April 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The “Wheel of Time” on @primevideo.bsky.social is almost unwatchable. Forcing commercials in a program not written for it is so disruptive to the story.
March 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.

First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.

Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
March 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Having a good day for my brackets so far. Was wrong about High Point & VCU upsets, but clocked McNeese and Drake. #marchmadness
March 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Whew! Glad the #cyclones pulled out the W against Princeton. Bring on Michigan! #marchmadness
March 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Tough way to lose for the Vinyl, but what a great series for the inaugural season of #unrivaled! Now it’s time for March Madness and the @wnba.bsky.social.
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
But honestly I just want a great @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social game because last night was LIT.
Since the Laces didn’t make it, I’m pulling for Vinyl in the first #unrivaled Championship.
March 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Since the Laces didn’t make it, I’m pulling for Vinyl in the first #unrivaled Championship.
March 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Honestly, @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social is so enjoyable to watch. I’m still in awe of the Vinyl upset.
March 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The Vinyl were 🔥🔥🔥!! This #unrivaled game was amazing.
March 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey @schatz.bsky.social this you? Thanks for selling out the American people, especially our Veterans. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.

"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
March 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:
March 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I really wish the NWS could move to @bsky.app instead of X. It’s the only reason I keep my X account and weather access should be more available to people.
March 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” said Sen. Ron Wyden about Schuler’s appointment. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.”

By @peterelkind.bsky.social
Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the…
propub.li
February 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM