House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing

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History always has a lesson.

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VA mental health therapists’ script: ‘I cannot guarantee complete confidentiality’ : Shots - Health News : NPR

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There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The damage will
Never be fixed from this.

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This is illegal. The workers should contact the IG office and file a whistle blower complaint. Or contact a federal employee lawyer.

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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 coun...

1. EXCLUSIVE

The Veterans Administration is requiring therapists to return to the office full time, but does not have enough space for them

As a result, they are forced to provide mental health counseling to veterans in open cubicles

It is an unethical and likely illegal practice

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Feds must answer email on what they did last week — or lose jobs, Musk says — The Washington Post Musk says on X that feds must explain what they did last week — or resign

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The emails have started to go out asking federal workers to justify their jobs by what 5 things they did last week at work. We have until 11:59 pm EST to reply or it’s considered automatic resignation.

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From this mornings NY Times:
“Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina conceded
that what the administration is doing “runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense.” But, he said, “nobody should bellyache about that.”’

Guess he won’t defend his oath to the constitution

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