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Screenshot of email from the Department of Veterans Affairs that reads: "#VetResources is a weekly newsletter for Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors. Connect with Secretary Collins on X. As you may be aware, funding for some government agencies, including portions of the Department of Veterans Affairs, expired at midnight this morning. President Trump opposes a lapse in appropriations, and on September 19, the House of Representatives passed, with the Trump Administration's support, a clean continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands."

Not just to employees. Anyone who gets this newsletter had this arrive unsolicited in our inbox yesterday.

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

249 years ago, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. It hits differently this year for so many, but we will keep fighting for it. ✊

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Judge in the lower federal courts are trying to play a role that are not used to, trying to wake up the public to what's going on, while remaining true to their constitutional role.

Can’t shake the thought that having all this matériel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law.

Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬

"WhAt OtHeR ReAsON cOuLd It bE?!!!!"

The cognitive dissonance of a car with multiple 47 campaign stickers, Xtian religious symbols, and an "I ❤️ the Constitution" bumper sticker. Oh, sweetie.

It's wild to see that the anti vaccine experts of 2020 are also the pro tariff experts of 2025. Such vastly different fields of study rarely overlap with such confidence.

That Louisiana ICE Detention Center could now form a pretty credible US university, given all of the scholars that have been sent there.

No evidence House Speaker Mike Johnson is on Grindr A TikTok user alleged he had screenshots of Johnson corresponding with another person on the gay dating app.

www.snopes.com/news/2025/03...

I would love this as much as anyone if it was true, but it looks suspicious.

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...

Arresting someone without charge, explanation, or due process to silence dissent is unconstitutional. This type of thing happens in dictatorships, not America.

You don’t have to agree with Mahmoud Khalil to defend his rights—if his freedoms can be taken by the Trump administration, so can yours.

What happened to Zelenskyy yesterday was victim blaming at an epic level. Every girl/woman on the planet, past, present, future knows how it feels. We've experienced this. I had to stop watching because of the rage I felt. It was triggering to say the least. I'm surprised they didn't ask him what he

This is probably the most accurate take.

This is as shocking and unexpected as Trump immediately embracing the Project 2025 playbook that he disavowed during his campaign. As incomprehensible and unlikely as the billionaire who funded the campaign pulling the puppet strings now. I mean, really, who could foresee any of this?

(1/?) "Broader legal precedence holds that just following orders, colloquially known as the "Nuremberg defense" as it was used unsuccessfully by senior Nazis to justify their actions under Adolf Hitler, doesn't absolve troops."

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I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.

I am not a Vet, but I spent years helping to represent Veterans with disability claims. There is no better feeling than being able to tell my MST/PTSD client that, in addition to getting money that will change their lives, someone in the system *believes* them. You are humans, helping humans.

It is my sincerest hope that the state AGs start prosecuting these doggies soon.

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

This.

The Alliance for Retired Americans filed a lawsuit against Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary for disclosing information and treasury data to DOGE.

A hearing on the restraining order is at 3:00.

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Murphy: "The reality is this could get dystopian very quickly. If you were to start speaking ill of Elon Musk on social media, Musk might be able to stop or delay your tax refund, or your mom's Social Security benefit, in part because we have no window into what's happening at Treasury right now."

My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”

1. Take a breath. Eat. Sleep. Cuddle your human and fur babies.
2. Focus. Find your issue and get to work. What you do matters. Even small actions done by millions can change things.

Hello friends. Let’s start this morning off with a pep talk.
The overwhelm, confusion, and fear you’re feeling is what they want you to feel. They want you helpless, hopeless, and paralyzed. Do not take their intimidation and do not give them your joy.

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.