Charity Cay

@charitycay.bsky.social

I am an introvert trying to stay engaged in an extroverted world. Also, I have never been able to whistle. Please, be kind. 🙂 🐝⛈️🌈🪺🦊🍷⚖️🧿☮️☯️♉

Planned cuts to disability compensation for tinnitus and sleep apnea are on a path to be implemented by the VA — with the savings going back to the U.S. Treasury — unless Congress moves swiftly to pass major legislation that would redirect the dollars to pay for new benefits.

Major veterans package edges closer to a House vote

The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act bundles together more than 60 veterans bills, including the Major Richard Star Act.

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America is union made, and working people make our country strong. Happy 250th Independence Day from America’s unions!

Happy 4th of July. America is union-made | AFL-CIO

Every second, $6,000 in fossil fuel subsidies are handed out globally. That’s $5 trillion/year. Renewables? Barely a fraction. We have 6–7 years to halve emissions. The industry has zero years of conscience. Share if you’ve had enough. 🌍✊

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Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

I beg “No Kings” Americans to discuss a general strike. Break your economy. You can’t be serious about ending this regime while you keep spending disposable income and propping up the economy as a consumer. You wanna break it? Stop buying new things. Repair things. Buy used. Don’t eat at chains.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project