Meghan

ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

Today, two local men were either seized by the Department of Homeland Security or abducted by imposters, but there seems to be no way to know which is the case, because both have the same MO. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

Read this article. This is what's happening. This is what the media isn't reporting.

Trump's policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans, sources say The Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest providers of mental health care in the U.S. Its integrated care model means patients are already feeling the cuts and changes that are underway...

“going to work everyday feels like…working on the Titanic. ‘Half the people on the boat are still in the ballroom partying and 25 percent of them are actively telling me I'm hysterical’”

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

“In Newspeak there is no word for ‘Science’.”

I helped a veteran quit smoking.

Battered by Cuts and Firings, VA Employees Describe Serving Veterans Under ‘Invisible Cloud of Dread’ Cuts to resources and staff at Veterans Affairs will harm provider moral and veteran care, employees say.

Save VA!
🔬VA employs ~ 5k researchers - impacting vets *and* public.
🏥 VA legal mandate = backup healthcare system; during COVID, VA = public ICU beds
🩺 70% of all docs (>1k psychologists) complete some of their training at VA

thewarhorse.org/va-employees...

black student enrollment at the university of virginia barely cracks 7 percent and that is too much for glenn youngkin and his toadies www.baconsrebellion.com/uva-board-di...

Why VA mental health workers feel Elon Musk's emails are psychological warfare Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.

www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...

I am so very sorry for your loss. I didn’t realize that this had happened to you! Truly heartbreaking. 😢

Trump Comes for Single People How Trump, Musk, and DOGE are hurting single people

I fear this is just the start

VA Research Funding Slashed Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut.

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan

prospect.org/health/2025-...

Our site sent out instructions for answering the questions about our leadership. I think they are concerned that people will respond re: Trump and DOGE.

And yes, having a hard time finding the motivation to do my TMS trainings on waste, fraud, and abuse and information privacy and security.

Please read and share our statement re: Meta's hateful conduct policy! It is signed by several clinical psych organizations.

div12.org/announcement...

I just finished Johanna Reiss’s A Hidden Life. Now I’m rereading 1984 (the last time was in 2017).

RFK 's plan to make America healthy again? Round up people with mental health conditions in camps Kennedy wants to replace standard psychological care with unpaid labor on "wellness farms"

RFK's not-so-veiled threat to take mental health drugs away is even worse than it looks at first blush.

He wants to replace these medications with labor camps.

This fits with the larger, eugenics-informed Trump/Musk agenda.

www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

Letter From a Federal Worker This is a heartbreaking letter that a federal worker has asked me to share with the public.

NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

VHA healthcare provider here, generally freaking out.

How opioid deaths tripled in Philly over a decade − and what may be behind a recent downturn After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something may finally be working − but what?

Buprenorphine cuts opioid withdrawal, cravings, and overdose risk by 50%—yet only 1 in 4 who need it get it. A family medicine provider examines the access gap in Philadelphia - and how some progress is being made. https://buff.ly/4b1e5pX
Ben Cocchiaro, Drexel University #opioids

My eOPF file has been in the print queue for over a week. I think it’s supposed to give me the option to “View,” but the only one I have now is “Delete.” Any ideas?

AI can't replace healthcare workers because AI could never have depression

Same!

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

This comes up all the time with my patients who have hearing loss and/or tinnitus. Then the social withdrawal-depression cycle gets going as well. Thank you for doing this important work!

Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’ The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.

Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”

Reddit's r/FedNews is on fire.

MAGA is revenge of the mediocre on the meritorious — Trump's war on federal workers proves it "I will not be pushed out by two billionaire trust fund babies"

MAGA is revenge of the mediocre on the meritorious.

The war on federal workers — who makes MAGA types feel shame by being decent, smart people — is just the latest example.

www.salon.com/2025/01/31/m...

A guide to the first-day executive actions on the federal workforce Plus, what you can do now

www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/dear-civil...

A cute black lab/pit bull dog looking up expectantly with a friendly smile

Cody, the world’s sweetest dog

Thank you for doing this work! (From a psychologist who has OCD and has dealt with some of these concerns.)