Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of…

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.

At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.

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Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

The phrase "en route to golf course" adds so much to the headline.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So he's going to order the kidnapping and disappearing of the most vulnerable Americans.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

We're going to give alaska back to Russia aren't we

It's gonna be like a B12 shot isn't it

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Bill Cassidy’s Failure on Vaccines America is facing the consequences of the senator’s readiness to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the benefit of the doubt.

Cassidy, a physician, pledged to work closely with Kennedy, presumably to stop him from doing stuff like this. In fact he had no power to do so and rarely speaks up about Kennedy at all. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Raskin: "The first thing that everybody needs to regard is that you don't need a top level legal-political strategy session with the highest government officials in the land in order to release the file, which is what Donald Trump said for years he wanted to happen."

remember that time bill clinton said hello to loretta lynch at an airport?

Ok but remember that time Obama wore a tan suit

The difference between Texas Democrats leaving the state and House Republicans fleeing D.C. is a perfect example of what separates the two parties.

This is the guy who knows what the real BLS numbers are.

NEW. U Mass Poll.

Trump approve/disapprove: 38%/58% (cf. April, 44/53).

How much have you read, seen, or heard about Jeffrey Epstein?
A lot 36%
Some 41%
Not much 19%
Nothing 4%.

Trump administration hiding important information on Epstein? Agree 63%. Disagree 15%.

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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Liberation Day Lite

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

he is right that those numbers are not thought to be achievable

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns.
He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network
www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

If there was one thing everyone was talking about this week it was Hillary's email server.

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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Are you joking

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.

Zucchini boats

This is a fake quote

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

very interesting thing just happened: EWR had a complete ground stop due to “thunderstorms” despite no storms in a 200 mile radius. The only flight to leave from EWR in that window? Air Force One.

sure looks like Donald Trump just shut down EWR for 4 hours so he could watch a soccer game!

They are still looking for flood victims in Texas.

Moving scene - tears, hugs, and cheers - inside the State Dept HQ last night, as diplomats gathered in the lobby to clap out their laid off colleagues, some of which have served for decades 👇🏻