Jessie Schneider

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Proud to live in NM

🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that intended to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives, but she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!!

Veterans Administration therapists forced to provide mental health counseling in open cubicles As part of the Trump administration's frenzied push to end remote work arrangements for federal government workers, the Veterans Administration (VA) is forcing therapists to provide mental health…

Trump / Elon / MAGA do not care about veterans, VA employees, privacy, ethics, or the law.

VA plans to lay off as many as 83,000 employees this year A leaked memo released Tuesday called for VA to slash its workforce to 2019 levels that were in place before millions of veterans became newly eligible for care.

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading "This Is Not Normal" before another member rips it out of her hand.

This is not normal.

Did you see opportunities for LCSWs? I'm a VA SW with 20+ years of experience and very curious. I have my husband and 2 kids too to consider.

Oh I wish LCSWs were on this list...

Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted While controversy swirls around last week's mass firing of 1,000 Department of Veterans Affairs' employees, a far greater threat to veterans' health care is going completely unnoticed.

The number of times I've heard "The VA is safe," "Veteran care is a bipartisan issue." Nothing is safe, we need to wake up to that. This is all Project 2025. VA care is NOT SAFE.
I'm not okay. (You do have to sign up to read this article but it's free)

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@searchlightnm.bsky.social is hoping to connect with people in New Mexico who have lost their jobs at: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.

Reach me at alex@searchlightnm.com. Please RT.

Hanna and I painted some snakes to welcome the Lunar New Year. I read somewhere that it is considered "a less desirable year" in the Chinese calendar.

Huh.

For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings.
Clicks are currency friends
@thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company
www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...

I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.

Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

I got a new tattoo this evening (thank you Sue at Happy Tattoo, Albuquerque). This is for my mom, and for me. ❤️

These two coordinate well with each other.

Thoughts and prayers denied as not medically necessary.

Right after this picture, Mike got up to get some water and she bolted away, sure this was the moment of her death.

Finally found something worthy of my first post here. Say hello to Juniper aka June aka Junebug. She believes we are going to murder her at any moment despite having never done anything but feed her and occasionally try to pet her.

Love Albert