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VoteVets | Stop Elon Musk's War On Veterans
youtube.com/watch?v=_gOksDg9BS

'"It feels like #veterans are being personally attacked by #ElonMusk"

"I did not put my life on the line for some #tech bro billionaire from #SouthAfrica to come in here and try to destroy our country"

And our #Congress person does absolutely nothing.

Stop Elon's war on Veterans now!"

[There are also videos for specific Congress people:
youtube.com/@votevets/videos ]

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Veterans Group Wants to Make Elon the Supervillain of the Midterms

A new ad campaign from VoteVets goes after vulnerable House Republicans by turning the spotlight on DOGE.
thebulwark.com/p/veterans-grou

"The #ads all feature the same roundtable of #veterans sharing their struggles after losing #employment because of #DOGE cuts...

it features #Musk throughout, incl the now infamous scene of him wielding a chainsaw on stage at #CPAC."

Forget #autopen: even President Fragile Ego Tinyhands knows that's bullshit. It's a distraction. This administration is:

➡️ Killing children and adults in the 100s of 1000s by terminating #USAID's work with #AIDS patients overseas

➡️ Turning its back on America's allies while cuddling up to #Russia, a throwback #fascist regime with expansionist ambitions and #nuclearweapons

➡️ Abandoning heroes who courageously worked with American troops in #afghanistan leaving them to die at the hands of the #Taliban

➡️ Stranding #refugees who'd already been promised a place in America after deep #security and#medical vetting, even pulling them off of planes as they headed to the US

➡️ Treating #veterans as disposable while destroying the administrative state (about 1/3 of whose employees are vets) that keeps us all safe

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60 Minutes - Newsmakers
What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration

"...I just felt like, well, there's usually two responses to something. You can complain about it, or you could do something about it. I chose the latter within seconds. And it was the easiest decision ever.....
With the active-duty Marines ordered to stand down, Equity Arc reached out to retirees who answered the call from everywhere, former band members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Westpoint, the Naval Academy and the Marines....The original Marine Band concert would have been seen by hundreds. Here, tonight, these musicians are being heard by millions...."

youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1Sn

As @laffy likes to say, irony is dead.
"The booing incident prompted a retort from Grenell: “It troubles me to see that so many in the audience appear to be white and intolerant of diverse political views. Diversity is our strength.”

You know what troubles me? concentrations camps. & if diversity is our strength, why delete medal of honor recipients who aren't white men? The computer programming instruction says deimedalofhonor.

#Diversity
#Equity
#Inclusion
#Veterans
#USPol

US judge orders #Trump admin to reinstate thousands of fired workers

A California federal judge on Thurs ordered 6 US #FederalAgencies to reinstate thousands of recently-hired employees who were fired as part of Trump's purge of the federal workforce.

The ruling made by US Dist Judge William Alsup in San Francisco during a hearing applies to the Departments of #Defense, #Veterans Affairs,#Agriculture, #Energy, #Interior & the #Treasury.

#law #DOGE #Musk
reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-

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Veteran Chains Himself Outside White House to Protest Trump and Musk

The 80-yr-old veteran said #DonaldTrump and #ElonMusk are “killing veterans.”
newrepublic.com/post/192559/ve

"locked himself to a metal post... a pipe around his hands reading “King #Trump and Pres #Musk are killing #veterans”...

he & his fellow veterans “are marshaling on [March] 14th at noon & marching all over the country to say one simple thing: Veterans will not stand for this any longer.”"

The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”

The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire, wide-reaching and deadly,” an advocate for Black veterans said.

propublica.org/article/veteran

ProPublicaThe Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
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A Navy vet was given ‘weeks to live’ in 2020. Now his cancer treatment is at risk.

Navy veteran Kyle Lewis, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 #cancer in 2020, says federal research cuts means he can no longer access his experimental cancer treatment, which has been saving his life
taskandpurpose.com/military-li

Task & Purpose · A Navy vet was given ‘weeks to live’ in 2020. Now his cancer treatment is at risk.Due to federal research cuts, Navy veteran Kyle Lewis says he won't be able to receive the cancer treatment that saved his life.