Every VA medical center has severe staffing shortages, audit finds All of the Veterans Health Administration’s 139 facilities reported lacking workers, and reports of severe shortages increased 50 percent from the previous fiscal year.

It turns out that mass firing civil servants across the government leads to worse service for American veterans and hardworking families.

Rather than slashing staff at the VA, the administration should be investing in additional care for those who served.
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'Highest 2 Lowest' is a fun ride, even if old-school opulence tempers the bite Spike Lee's latest collaboration with Denzel Washington — their first in nearly 20 years — reimagines a 1963 story about a wealthy businessman. In this version, Washington plays a music executive and Jeffrey Wright plays his chauffeur.

Spike Lee's latest collaboration with Denzel Washington — their first in nearly 20 years — reimagines a 1963 story about a wealthy businessman. In this version, Washington plays a music executive and Jeffrey Wright plays his chauffeur.

YouTube video by One Million Rising Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission - July 16

One thing we have going for us is access to excellent anti-fascist resources.

I recommend listening to these One Million Rising sessions in the car or on a walk. There's a strategy, and we just need to make ourselves part of it.

Local police don’t hide their faces. State troopers don’t. Sheriffs don’t. Even the FBI, unless it's a special tactical operation, and even then... they wear uniforms and ID. Why should ICE be the exception?

Consider this ‘defence’; if a murderer is in a school, it is justified to blow up that school and kill the children not to neutralise any threat or to achieve any military objective but purely to punish the murderer.

@zekeemanuel.bsky.social: “The other thing that I'm really worried about is we canceled the contract for developing an mRNA vaccine against flu, H5N1, that could cause a pandemic. $600 million, $2 per American as an insurance policy against the future…RFK Jr. canceled that contract.”

ICE IS trying to break our solidarity with one another.

It. Won’t. Work.

“A grandmother planning to document ICE arrests at the San Diego courthouse instead became the story Tuesday after video of her own arrest began circulating.”

"'We are the federal government, and if we choose to take power away from a governor or away from a mayor, this is the new normal.' And my response is, I've seen this movie before. It used to be called a coup, and it happens in other countries."

@mayor.lacity.gov‬ on the feds in LA:

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts.

Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

No, you’re not crazy.

They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

Food & ag groups blast ‘destabilizing’ tariffs, seek exemptions: ‘We urge the White House to reconsider’ Trump's tariffs "risk destabilizing the economy and undermining the goals of bolstering domestic manufacturing and growth" says RILA.

Ag groups on the tariffs "it is a shit show"

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This is what organizing over 1,200 events in a few weeks looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Join the more than half a million of us who will be taking to the streets tomorrow to stand up against Trump’s unprecedented power grab: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Ga. jurors award $2.1 billion verdict against Bayer in Roundup lawsuit The jury called for $2 billion in punitive damages, but previous multibillion-dollar verdicts over Roundup were drastically reduced on appeal.

A Georgia jury found pharmaceutical and agricultural products giant Bayer liable for more than $2 billion in damages to a plaintiff who argued Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, the latest hit in a series of legal fights over the herbicide glyphosate.

Not the oath they took

Tonight! We’ll hear from researchers and longtime labor organizers focused on private equity and tech finance to better understand what’s driving the administrative coup of the US gov’t.

Two Republican-held districts have the most Coloradans on Medicaid. This same story is playing out across the country.

TRANSLATION: Trump voters chose hate—and forgot they rely on Medicaid. Oops.

This temporary halt allows the Office of Special Counsel to further investigate their claims of unlawful termination.

If you have been fired, take action now! File an appeal within 30 days by submitting your case online or by mail to protect your rights.

The anti-Trump resistance begins to wake in earnest After an initial period of stunned confusion, protesters are packing meetings, states are suing, and Democrats are preparing for a budget showdown.

Little by little, after an initial period of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to President Donald Trump is beginning to wake up.

CALL NOW: Tell your Republican Representative You Don’t Want To Pay The Price For Their Billionaire Tax Breaks

Last night, 217 of the 218 House Republicans voted to take your money and give it to billionaires. If you’re represented by a Republican, they need to hear from you TODAY — tell your GOP representative that you don’t want to pay the price for their billionaire tax breaks. 👇

‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention Healthcare workers are protected under international law yet hundreds were detained during the war. Now, some of Gaza’s most senior doctors have spoken of the violence and abuse they say they faced * More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons…

‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention

More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture Senior doctors claim they were subjected to months of physical abuse, as UN calls for release of those still detained * ‘No rules’: Gaza’s doctors say they were tortured, beaten and humiliated in Israeli detention At least 160 healthcare workers…

More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli prisons amid reports of torture

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Identify. Educate. Mobilize. Montserrat Girmay #nabe2025

#nabe2025 Inaugural Multilingual Education Hall of Fame

Multilingualism for a united global society is under attack.. We are the midwives of the next generation of multilingual learners. Dr. Machado Casas #nabe2025

Multilingualism for a united global society is under attack.. We are the midwives in f the next generation of multilingual learners. Dr. Machado Casas #nabe2025

Dr. Brian Johnson of Atlanta Public Schools. Welcome to Atlanta during a critical time. #NABE2025

175 language represented here. #NABE2025

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