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Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.

Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.

DEADLOCH SEASON 2 TRAILER, I REPEAT DEADLOCH SEASON 2 TRAILER

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Omg high praise indeed!! I’ll take it ❤️

Thank you!! I heard Em Beihold’s Brutus and Hot Goblin and they wouldn’t leave me alone until I made them about Merlin characters 😆

YouTube video by Otsanda Morgana Pendragon | I wish I had your life

Once again I come to you with a new (mostly lighthearted) bbc merlin fanvid to another Em Beihold song. This time it’s the song Brutus and it’s all about Morgana and some of her relationships:

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

@discord.com This you?

Hey @discord.com this is a TERRIBLE idea. You’re going to alienate your most devoted users and drive us to alternate platforms.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

message from MN

The US is manufacturing a famine in Cuba.

This is not a natural disaster - it made by the US.

✍️ Urge the World Central Kitchen to feed Cuba & break their silence while the US uses hunger as a weapon.

www.codepink.org/wck

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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension.

Public pressure works.

If enough people speak up, a life may be saved.

Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

@newrepublic.com
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Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

I've done threads about Pizza Lucé recently and not just about ordering brownies from them. They got a lot of hate on Facebook for closing for the strike & their social media person handled it well. They sent me a gift card after my husband died & I told them what their food had meant to us. ❤️ 🧵

oh come ON

what unholy horseshit is this?

20 infants detained by ICE!!!

JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

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Today is February 1st. The fact that @governorwalz.mn.gov and @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social have not called for or supported an eviction moratorium to help our friends and neighbors who can't go to work because they are hiding out of fear is cruelty, plain and simple.

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something.

Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

Important to understand that:

Normal people hate Trump.
Normal people hate ICE.
Normal people hate fascists.
Normal people hate secret police executing people in the street, shooting priests in the head with pepper balls, and kidnapping little kids with Spider-Man backpacks and bunny hats.

Blessings on @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Abolish ICE. Shut down the concentration camps. Impeach Noem, Trump, and everyone else responsible.

This is Georgia Fort's website — the independent journalist also arrested today for covering the anti-ICE protest, along with Don Lemon. Donations to her page support her journalism — and I'm sure now her legal defense for doing that journalism.

Liam and all the kids in those horrible facilities need to go home. Still upset these places weren't shut down years ago and even more angry now.

Sir, we have not once taken inspiration from you. Sign the request for the eviction moratorium, back some actual rent support, then resign.

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56