The Army is scaling back the legal resources it offers soldiers going through the disability evaluation process, limiting the support they'll receive as review boards determine whether they are fit to serve or should receive medical retirement benefits. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:

Army scales back legal services for soldiers in disability evaluation process

The disability evaluation process determines whether soldiers can continue to serve or whether they should receive medical retirement benefits.

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Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting | CNN Politics

The Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 new wounded and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes last weekend.

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They are trying to take our health data. HIPAA be damned www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

Trump's personnel agency says it will remove some identifying info as it sweeps up medical records

The Office of Personnel Management said it will "pseudonymize" medical records it collects on more than 8 million people — federal workers and retirees, and their family members.

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For the end (maybe) of #theDogefikes I have a court filed list of who they decided to keep. If you are on this list and were RIFed, they lied to the court and you have full redress. Check it over!

Don’t think having an Undersecretary of Nat. Resources & Environment who “buzzed” Forest Service workers (Boren), a Sec. of Ag. who calls valid Forest Service law enforcement “lawfare,” or an OMB director who wishes to put the federal workforce “into trauma” (Vought) helps. Watch the consequences.

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Forest Service workers taken hostage, held at gunpoint in remote NorCal trailer, feds say

I tried to tell Medusa my joke but only got a stoney reception.

Professor Amanda Sturgill@drsturg.bsky.social · 2w ago

I didn't want to tell Sisyphus my joke, but he kept pushing.

It’s your right and your obligation to call out corruption and abuse.

Everything is irrelevant. There is only Jimothy.

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ALT: jimothy

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As RM @repmarktakano.bsky.social said, “Instead of cutting veterans’ benefits, we should focus on honoring the contract. I ask my Republican colleagues to do the right thing, sign the discharge petition so combat-injured veterans no longer have to wait for the benefits they are owed.”

There has been a lot of misinformation being shared regarding the "Take Care of America's Veterans Act", so let us demystify it for you. We will start with the name; it should be called the "Taking Benefits from America's Veterans Act".

JFC!! Wouldn't this be considered gender affirming care? We're now going to have a military that's hopped up on testosterone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency

US defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the ‘right testosterone levels’

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Todd Blanche: We are keeping America safe. Murders are down. Renee Good. Alex Pretti. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

We stand with the 50+ organizations who oppose the Taking Benefits from America’s Veterans Act. This is the second attempt to pass this horrendous package. We cannot let Republicans take away the benefits veterans have rightfully earned.

Trump & Republicans, protectors of free speech according to Speaker Johnson in this morning's presser demand an investigation into the VFW for hurting their feeling with cartoons. VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars is definitely a bastion of antifa, & un-American behavior www.rawstory.com/amp/mike-bos...

GOP demands investigation into veterans group for 'politically charged' satire

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VFW, our nation’s top veteran advocacy group, called out MAGA for trying to cut veterans benefits for disabled veterans. The response from House Republicans has been one of the most disgraceful and cowardly things I’ve ever seen.

The ongoing battle between some Republicans and the VFW reflects the larger controversy around a new VA bill.

VA Benefits Bill: Republicans Demand Investigation of Major Veterans Group

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The VFW represents over a million veterans who served with honor. Investigating them over a political cartoon isn't oversight, it's retaliation for backing the Major Richard Star Act ending the wounded veteran tax.

PSA: If you're taking an SSRI and it's helping you: don't stop it suddenly because of a politician's comments. Abruptly stopping antidepressants can cause withdrawal symptoms and relapse. If you're thinking about making a change, talk with your healthcare professional and make a plan. 💚

Congress is trying to help veterans by taking money from veterans. #Veterans #VABenefits #PublicPolicy #Leadership #Advocacy www.dav.org/learn-more/n...

DAV condemns congressional proposal to cut disability benefits for 1.5 million veterans

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Chocolate covered pretzels with a side of questionable ethics and/corruption isn’t gonna fix our issues, Frankie 😒😒😒 Keep the fucking pretzels, we need more staff, we need our telework options back, and maybe more than a 1% pay raise. Outside of that, eat the pretzels yourself, and fuck off 🖕🖕🖕

The Social Security Chief Keeps Sending Staff His Daughter's Pretzels

Staff say the gesture isn't increasing morale, but it is raising ethics questions.

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I spoke to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He said, in a weak but firm voice, "Access to health care shouldn't belong just to Senators. It is a basic human right."

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes this morning. He said, in a weak but firm voice, "this really is all my fault, American democracy would be just fine if I had allowed Merrick Garland to get confirmed to SCOTUS, can you imagine how much trouble I would have saved on so many levels?"

PUBLIC NOTICE: “The story of Trump’s presidency is the story of the most powerful man on earth bellowing and whining and spewing gouts of punitive bile because of unbelievably petty shit.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Trump appointees are planning to propose a rule that lets 14- and 15-year old children work MORE hours, no doubt at the behest of businesses facing labor shortages. This is according to the DOL regulatory agenda that was published on Friday so you wouldn't notice. www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eA...

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Alt: Citywok Southpark: let's go child labor!

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Tell Williams doesn't have an active bluesky presence so I'm going to share this with you. I couldn't agree more. We believe victims, even, & especially, when it isn't convenient. SA crosses all socioeconomic & political divides. I will not be an apologist for sexual assault. Integrity matters.

DOGE didn't "self-delete" over the weekend, they were all absorbed into National Design Studio, under Joe Gebbia. They are still around and still very much breaking things and making bad decisions.

Inaction is an action. Silence in the face of injustice is consent to the oppressor. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu put it: "​If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." But the elephant surely does.

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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"The Tommy Tuberville Foundation’s treasurer couldn’t say whether the senator had kept his promise. 'Coach has to live with that himself, I know what he said and I know what he promised — me and the people heard that,' he said. 'I’m not trying to cover for him'....” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville hedges on whether he kept his campaign promise to veterans

All of the available evidence leaves little doubt that the GOP senator simply did not do what he said he would do.

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Air Force Major Jason Watson, 20-year active duty veteran, wore his uniform to the Capitol steps July 1 holding a sign reading "Impeach Convict Remove." He was arrested. His defense fund raised $139,000. Watson: "The greatest threat to our Democratic Republic is not a foreign one. It is domestic."

Donate to Support Major Jason Watson’s Stand For Democracy, organized by DOOR, LLC

Help support Major Jason Watson’s heroic act of civil disobedience on 7/1 at the US Capitol in pursuit to IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE the tyrannical government. Al

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