#veterans — Public Fediverse posts

Among the many things that Donald Trump is guilty of, add this: #StolenValor. By posting this phony picture to his Truth Social account, draft dodging Donald Trump pretended that he was in the United States #military and that he was awarded many combat ribbons.
#veterans #UnearnedMedals #VeteransDay

⛔️⚠️Americans no longer an ally or friend: NATO trains to hunt nuclear submarines without US forces for first time (more) https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/nato-trains-to-hunt-russian-nuclear-submarines-1788635219.html #Ukraine #Press #Kyiv #Odesa #Lviv #Kharkiv #Kherson #Berlin #Brussels #France #Germany #UK #US #PACE #CoE #Paris #London #Media #News #Headlines #VOTE2026 #Republicans #USA #Democrats #USArmy #USNavy #USAF #Veterans #USMC #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #StopZelenskyCorruption

Veterans News, September 6, 2026 – Scranton Times-Tribune https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/797911/ #Baseball #LackawannaCounty #LocalNews #LuzerneCounty #MajorLeagueBaseballDraft #MLB #MLBDraft #news #pennsylvania #ThingsToDo #uncategorized #veterans

Veterans News, September 6, 2026 – Scranton Times-Tribune https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/797911/ #Baseball #LackawannaCounty #LocalNews #LuzerneCounty #MajorLeagueBaseballDraft #MLB #MLBDraft #news #pennsylvania #ThingsToDo #uncategorized #veterans

Support our Veterans. 🇺🇸

🍁 First weekend of September, and back at the New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston serving brunch ☕️ alongside dedicated volunteers and staff.

📸Pictured with Che, the Dining Room Coordinator.

⏰Can’t make it out to volunteer? You can still support:

➡️ Give directly at https://nechv.org
📣 Share this post — helps spread awareness

Grateful to all veterans for your service.🇺🇸

#veterans #Boston #homelessness #supportourveterans #volunteer #recovery #hope #community #giveback #nonprofit #mentalhealth

Support our Veterans. 🇺🇸

🍁 First weekend of September, and back at the New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston serving brunch ☕️ alongside dedicated volunteers and staff.

📸Pictured with Che, the Dining Room Coordinator.

⏰Can’t make it out to volunteer? You can still support:

➡️ Give directly at https://nechv.org
📣 Share this post — helps spread awareness

Grateful to all veterans for your service.🇺🇸

#veterans #Boston #homelessness #supportourveterans #volunteer #recovery #hope #community #giveback #nonprofit #mentalhealth

Support our Veterans. 🇺🇸

🍁 First weekend of September, and back at the New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston serving brunch ☕️ alongside dedicated volunteers and staff.

📸Pictured with Che, the Dining Room Coordinator.

⏰Can’t make it out to volunteer? You can still support:

➡️ Give directly at https://nechv.org
📣 Share this post — helps spread awareness

Grateful to all veterans for your service.🇺🇸

#veterans #Boston #homelessness #supportourveterans #volunteer #recovery #hope #community #giveback #nonprofit #mentalhealth

Support our Veterans. 🇺🇸

🍁 First weekend of September, and back at the New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston serving brunch ☕️ alongside dedicated volunteers and staff.

📸Pictured with Che, the Dining Room Coordinator.

⏰Can’t make it out to volunteer? You can still support:

➡️ Give directly at https://nechv.org
📣 Share this post — helps spread awareness

Grateful to all veterans for your service.🇺🇸

#veterans #Boston #homelessness #supportourveterans #volunteer #recovery #hope #community #giveback #nonprofit #mentalhealth

Support our Veterans. 🇺🇸

🍁 First weekend of September, and back at the New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston serving brunch ☕️ alongside dedicated volunteers and staff.

📸Pictured with Che, the Dining Room Coordinator.

⏰Can’t make it out to volunteer? You can still support:

➡️ Give directly at https://nechv.org
📣 Share this post — helps spread awareness

Grateful to all veterans for your service.🇺🇸

#veterans #Boston #homelessness #supportourveterans #volunteer #recovery #hope #community #giveback #nonprofit #mentalhealth

The healthcare change that has some veterans furious
By Tom Lowrey

Jacqui Lambie's emotional moment in the Senate taps into veteran fury over a government change to healthcare access.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-21/veterans-healthcare-change-sparks-fury/107060900

#Veterans #FederalGovernment #FederalParliament #DefenceForces #HealthPolicy #TomLowrey

Thursday, August 20, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/thursday-august-20-2026/

This week's Weekly Focus planner is up. 13 things happening around Arizona between August 17 and 23, sorted by how much time each one actually costs you, from two five-minute phone calls at the top to a full Saturday at the bottom. Number 12 puts you in a room with a US Senator, and five of the thirteen come with food.

https://azadvocacyhub.ghost.io/weekly-focus/?ref=mastodon

#Arizona #ArizonaPolitics #Veterans #ElectionProtection #VotingRights

AL.com: VA says AI helps staff serve veterans faster, answers 53,000 questions since April. “The AI tool, VA ChatEHR, uses VA procedures, policies and training materials to answer medical staff questions about workflows and navigation of the Federal EHR, said Alan Greilsamer, a communications executive with the department, in a news release on Aug. 4.”

Commissioner leading defence force reform wants to 'hold people to account'
By Laura Lavelle

The woman tasked with changing the culture of the defence force knows there have been 50 inquiries and 750 recommendations already. She isn't naive to the task that lies ahead of her.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/penny-mckay-defence-commissioner-exclusive/107024154

#DefenceForces #Army #FederalGovernment #Veterans #LauraLavelle

Um, looks like #USGovt is looking to imprison more folks -- #shoplifters! Like, parents who can't afford food for their kids because of #TrumpsWar ! #Homeless folks, #veterans , #protestors -- they are all on the *list* too!

Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters

A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response.

by Sam Biddle
August 7 2026, 7:17 a.m. ET

"To counter the purported national scourge of 'organized retail crime,' a bill moving through Congress would deliver the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented policing powers, granting even more authority to what experts say is an already lawless ICE."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/07/congress-ice-shoplifting-theft-surveillance/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/gMIHt

#USPol #DetentionCenters #HungerGames #DefundICE #DefundDHS #WarOnIran #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #CORCA #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

Friday, August 7, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/friday-august-7-2026/

I never thought about this before, but of course there were many years when most of the male athletes in professional sports were recent war veterans. Here was one: Fred Boensch (1920-2000) had a jaw injury from a bullet wound in World War II. He played football upon his return to the US, including a few seasons in the NFL; he used protective masks made of rubber, leather, and iron to prevent further damage to his facial bones. #football #NFL #WWII #dishist #sports #veterans

I never thought about this before, but of course there were many years when most of the male athletes in professional sports were recent war veterans. Here was one: Fred Boensch (1920-2000) had a jaw injury from a bullet wound in World War II. He played football upon his return to the US, including a few seasons in the NFL; he used protective masks made of rubber, leather, and iron to prevent further damage to his facial bones. #football #NFL #WWII #dishist #sports #veterans

I never thought about this before, but of course there were many years when most of the male athletes in professional sports were recent war veterans. Here was one: Fred Boensch (1920-2000) had a jaw injury from a bullet wound in World War II. He played football upon his return to the US, including a few seasons in the NFL; he used protective masks made of rubber, leather, and iron to prevent further damage to his facial bones. #football #NFL #WWII #dishist #sports #veterans

I never thought about this before, but of course there were many years when most of the male athletes in professional sports were recent war veterans. Here was one: Fred Boensch (1920-2000) had a jaw injury from a bullet wound in World War II. He played football upon his return to the US, including a few seasons in the NFL; he used protective masks made of rubber, leather, and iron to prevent further damage to his facial bones. #football #NFL #WWII #dishist #sports #veterans

I never thought about this before, but of course there were many years when most of the male athletes in professional sports were recent war veterans. Here was one: Fred Boensch (1920-2000) had a jaw injury from a bullet wound in World War II. He played football upon his return to the US, including a few seasons in the NFL; he used protective masks made of rubber, leather, and iron to prevent further damage to his facial bones. #football #NFL #WWII #dishist #sports #veterans

'Life-saving' Australian-first veterans court to launch in SA
By Rachael Merritt

The South Australian Veterans Court Pilot Program is an Australian-first initiative which advocates hope will help "break the cycle" of offending.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/sa-veterans-court-pilot-program-becomes-australian-first/106951930

#Courts #Veterans #DefenceForces #DefenceIndustry #MentalHealth #RachaelMerritt

Negative - Veterans March, Melbourne, Victoria, circa 1920

March of veterans of World War I in Melbourne. It appears to show Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, who toured Australia and New Zealand in 1920.
Museums Victoria via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/42294626/source

#AustralianArmy #Ceremonies #Flags #MilitaryForces #Soldiers #WorldWarI #History #MilitaryHistory #Veterans #Marches #Photograph

📣 If You Can Help Them, Don’t Hurt Them

I’m on my way to volunteer at the New England Center and Home for Veterans here in Boston.

➡️ It’s a reminder that when we see someone who may be experiencing homelessness, mental health challenges, or active addiction, we’re seeing a human being. They could be a veteran, someone’s father, mother, son, daughter, grandparent, or loved one — someone who belongs to somebody.

I’ve been homeless before. The only reason I was able to rebuild my life was because people believed in me and gave me hope.

➡️ If you’d like to support the NECHV, they always welcome volunteers, donations, and community engagement at https://nechv.org.

🗣️ At the end of the day, we have more in common than not. If you can help someone, don’t hurt them.

#Boston #veterans #addiction #recovery #ODAAT #housing #homelessness #mentalhealth #hope

Four regional RSLs merge to keep veterans' services going
By Sarah Buchecker

While RSLs across Victoria grapple with declining numbers and increased administration, sub-branches in Sunraysia are forging their own path.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-25/rsl-services-war-veterans-sunraysia-merge-volunteers-mildura/106943290

#Veterans #CommunityandSociety #DefenceForces #RegionalCommunities #History #CommunityOrganisations #WorldWarII #WorldWarI #SarahBuchecker

Not a new thing... Unfortunately.

#Trump pledged to house 6,000 #HomelessVets. His budget funds zero

NPR | By Quil Lawrence
Published May 28, 2026

Excerpt: "Vets' housing construction and delays on the campus go back through four presidential administrations. LA veterans groups won two lawsuits in the past 15 years mandating that the VA immediately build more housing on the campus. The Biden administration appealed a 2024 court ruling and lost. So it shocked veterans groups when the Trump administration appealed that ruling again in February, despite having declared its own intention to build. And when the proposed budget finally came out in April, it included zero dollars to build new housing for any of the 6,000 veterans the president had promised."

Read more:
https://www.wfae.org/united-states-world/2026-05-28/trump-pledged-to-house-6-000-homeless-vets-his-budget-funds-zero

cc: @justbob

#HomelessVeterans #Veterans #VA #VeteransAdministration #Homeless #HousingForVeterans

Friday, July 17, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/friday-july-17-2026/

Dedication of Flag Garden at First Call for Help in Grand Rapids, honors veterans who’ve died by suicide https://www.allforgardening.com/1880129/dedication-of-flag-garden-at-first-call-for-help-in-grand-rapids-honors-veterans-whove-died-by-suicide/ #garden #gardener #gardening #GrandRapids #SuicideAwareness #veterans

#Trump is pushing to institutionalize #homeless people. That may include #veterans

by Quil Lawrence, June 25, 2026

Excerpt: "More than 30,000 U.S. military veterans are homeless, according to the latest government data from an annual one-night 'point in time count.' That number is down significantly in the past decade, which most experts credit to a straightforward combination of robust funding and a philosophy focused on offering housing without prerequisites, called housing first.

"While the Trump administration has promised new housing for vets, President Trump also signed an executive order last year titled 'Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets,' which leans heavily toward institutionalizing #HomelessPeople against their will. This winter, NPR obtained slides describing a proposed #VeteransAdministration plan called '#SafeHarbor,' which would include veterans in that shift to involuntary treatment. Then, in March, the VA put out a memorandum of understanding with the Justice Department about state court guardianship for veterans." [!!!]

@justbob

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/nx-s1-5866754/trump-institutionalize-homeless-veterans

#HomelessVets #HomelessSweeps #Houseless #USPol #Unhoused #UnaffordableHousing
#Housing #PoliceState #Fascism #SilencingDissent #DetentionCenters

Israel Katz’s request to pardon Hebron shooter harms Israel

Defense Minister Israel Katz’s request to pardon Hebron shooter Elor Azaria is a new low in acting purely…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #criminality #DefenseMinistry #ElorAzaria #Hamas #Hebron #Hezbollah #Houthis #ICC #IDF #IDFIsrael #idfveteran #internationalcriminalcourt #Iran #Israel #IsraelIDFNews #IsraelKatz #Palestinian #pardon #Terrorist #TheOctober7Massacre #veterans #Warcrimes
https://www.newsbeep.com/642849/

#thankyou #Democrat #Progressive
#SocialSecurity #medicare #medicaid
#CivilRights #voting #overtime #GIBill
#ACA #veterans #Family #MedicalLeave
#children #disability #minimumwage

Hollow Mockery: Douglass, Jefferson, and 250 Years of a Promise Unkept

Mike Cone

“Your 4th of July is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license . . . your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.”
— Frederick Douglass (1852)

These words still resonate today.

In the wake of our celebration of the 250th birthday of our independence, let us not forget the ugly truths in the birth and history of this nation. To wash over these truths, as our current administration is wont to do, is tantamount to erasing that part of our past which we should strive to learn from, and to better ourselves as a people, to truly become that nation where the words penned by Thomas Jefferson are not just hollow mockery, but true:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These are the unalienable rights bestowed upon us. These rights are not to be infringed upon for any reason, whether it be race, color, ethnicity, religious beliefs or social status. For this to be true, we as a people need to understand and accept that indeed “ALL” men are created equal. In this regard, we have failed as a nation time and time again. There are numerous examples of our nation suppressing the civil liberties of the many throughout our history: chattel slavery, the Tulsa Race Massacre, forced dispossession of ancestral Native American lands, Selma, Alabama, Jim Crow laws, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment, Kent State, the Patriot Act, just to name a few. Hell, even Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War.

My point in all this is we need to do better. It is morally important that we learn from our past and not ignore or erase it just because at times it can be ugly and messy. We need to continue to move forward, toward morality and virtue, because virtue will always prevail.

Our current president is unwilling in this regard. 

President Trump is the converse of morality and virtue and continually seems to move us backward with his version of revisionist history, distorting, altering and even falsifying historical evidence to fit his agenda. He is forever suppressing or attempting to suppress the civil liberties of those who oppose him. He has actively supported and empowered local governments to ban and remove books from public institutions. He has removed or altered exhibits, plaques and monuments from our National Parks, exhibits he terms “inappropriately disparaging to Americans past or living.” These exhibits include the nation’s first executive mansion, which detailed the nine people enslaved by George Washington; the Bunker Hill Monument, to eliminate language he deemed contrary to founding principles; and locations highlighting Japanese American internment and Native American conflicts. He has sent federal troops into our cities in direct defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act. He has allowed his defense secretary, who some call a Christian White Nationalist, to deny high-ranking promotions to senior Army and Navy officers, the majority being women and minorities, and to intervene in a Navy one-star admiral promotion list, removing nine highly vetted officers. The final list of 22 nominees contained zero women and only two non-white officers. Finally, his immigration policies appear to be an obvious attempt to rid the country of Black and Brown people. This is just a small sample of Trump’s penchant for authoritarianism and what this author feels is a deep hatred and disdain for anyone other than his own race. Donald Trump is the ideological antithesis to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

With that said, I was having a conversation with my good friend Nick Allison, an Army combat veteran and fellow Chaos Section contributor, the other day and mentioned my feelings of anger and visceral disgust for our current administration, so much so that I could not find a reason to celebrate our 250 years of independence, particularly as a veteran. I’ll end with Nick’s response:

“You know what? I think we can always find a reason to celebrate, regardless of the current occupant in the Oval Office, because there are always things and ideas and people worth celebrating. This is still a great country with great people and a wonderfully unique experiment in constitutional representative freedom. It gets messy and sometimes runs off the rails, but that’s kind of the whole point of the experiment: we’re a nation of people governing ourselves, which means it’s on us to correct course when things go sideways. Most of human history has been kings, monarchs and strongmen who never had to answer to anybody. Making it 250 years as a self-correcting experiment, messy and beautiful and stupid and wonderful all at once, is reason enough to celebrate. Don’t let one egotistical, narcissistic old man who will be out of office in a couple years, dead within ten, take that away from you.”

Mike Cone is a Marine Corps infantry veteran who served as a mortarman and forward observer in Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines. “Hollow Mockery” is his first piece for The Chaos Section. He lives on Long Island with his wife Cynthia.

I am a federally cleared programmer, turned #whistleblower

I spoke against the #VA and #AccentureFederalServices and pointed out corruption and mismanagement of funds. I fight for the rights of #veterans

I have been persecuted, and homeless since 2023.

I am presently in #Japan , seeking political asylum.

My whistleblower story is here:

https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/

I thought that I would be safe from persecution, once I got to Japan. This turned out to be wrong.

I ran out of the funds I came here with, in February 2026, and have been #homeless here since.

I turned to every refugee assistance I could find: #JAR, #AAR, #RHQ, #FRESC, #UNHCR , the #Shinagawa City Ward Office. They all denied me assistance.

Second Harvest gave me 5 food packages, over two months, each of which lasts 2-3 days.

The #Takanawa #Catholic #Church was feeding me 1 meal a day, though now they have stopped even that.

When I reported to Mr. Takaii, a priest at #Meguro Catholic Church, that I had been abused by a Catholic Charity in #Kona , #Hawaii ( documented in the link above ), he suddenly told me he did not speak any English, though we had met a few times, and had several conversations, and he speaks English fluently.

This is probably because I asked him to respond to my critique of #Christianity in general:

https://rant.li/ashwin/why-i-am-also-not-a-christian

The #corruption at the heart of the Catholic church and Christianity could not be more profound.

The #Pope has condemned #war and called for #peace , and scored cheap #poltical points against #Trump , though he has not called on all #Catholics to resign from the military, and stop participating in war. His apologia are crocodile tears.

I am presently hungry, homeless, and need of medical care.

The Japanese #Immigration Bureau keep asking me why I have "overstayed my visa". I keep responding that while my asylum application is pending, I am not overstaying in Japan. Japan is in violation of #International #Law ( 1951 & 1967 convention on the treatment of #refugees ). They can easily extend my visa, so I can get medical care and food. I have reported to them several times that I am in pain, and need food. They keep on harassing me.

It seems to me that the #JapanPM has decided to make same mistake that Japan made in #WW2 - siding with #corruption

Please boost this message.

Also please advise where I may turn for immediate help.

#MAGA #USA #America #Patriot #USPol

#Government #HumanRights #HumanRightsReport #UN #UnitedNations #Amnesty #AmnestyInternational #NAACP #ACLU #RedCross #EqualRights #Justice #Veteran #EFF

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15 Famous Poems About Veterans

1. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
2. “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke
3. “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae
4. “The Death of the Hired Man” by Robert Frost
...
#Poems #Veterans #wolink #nevermorepoem
https://www.nevermorepoem.com/archives/17192

April 21, 1898 was the start of the Spanish-American War.

It is the date that defines who and what a veteran in the United States means.

This is why this is such a significant day in Veterans' advocacy.

We can stop making veterans, especially with elective wars that accomplish nothing and make things worse.

#Veterans #VeteransAdministration #ThisDayInHistory #IranWar #TrumpWars #TrumpEpsteinWar

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-joe-kent-saga-lays-bare-the-real-trump-derangement-syndrome/

The REAL #tRump derangement syndrome. Spoiler alert: #Maga #Republicans are who has it & suffers from it.

#Politics #SeattleTimes #GOP #War #Budget #FiscalResponsibility #Israel #Iran #IranEpsteinWar #epsteinfiles #blame #USPol #USPolitics #Military #Veterans #JoeKent #PNW #Crazy #Insane #BatGuanoCrazy #NutJobs #ShitForBrains #NoPlan #TaxDollars #Taxes #Funding #affordability #Deficit #Spending #Waste #Fraud #Criminal #Bankrupt #Pedophile #Rapist #Conman #Grifter #Pig

Accenture Federal Services

Fatcats, getting rich while the Veterans they are supposed to serve, suffer.

Then persecuting me as a whistleblower.

https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/

#EvilCompanyNames #HashTagGames #NoEffort #AFS #Whistleblower #Veteran #Veterans #VeteransDay #USVeterans #Corruption #Accenture

https://youtu.be/hEnqlWM2wrA
🛑🇺🇸Trump uses military in his forever war while using Musk and DOGE to destroy the VA (MS Now VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #Musk #ElonMusk #BoycottTesla #Tesla #X #US #UK #EU #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #VA #Veterans
#VeteransAdministration

Thursday, March 5, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-5-2026/

https://www.fogolf.com/1146365/disc-golf-tournament-to-honor-veterans-raise-money-for-lee-county-honor-flight-shaw-local/ Disc golf tournament to honor veterans, raise money for Lee County Honor Flight – Shaw Local #business #Dixon #fundraiser #Golf #GolfNews #LeeCounty #veterans

Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.

Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
#willyfjamesjr #ww2 #blacksoldiers #veterans #trump #netherlands #eventothier

@mekkaokereke Here's an update you'll like: the satirical Dutch newsprograms 'Even tot hier' ('Up until here') has placed duplicate panels just outside the US controlled grounds, including panels about Trumps discriminatory executive orders, and spelled out the name William F. James Junior in hay bales in an adjacent field. Unfortunately, all panels were soon removed by the police; they are now looking for a permanent location. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLiberators #Margraten #Veterans #BlackFedi

Trump Cuts Veteran Employees, Benefits Under False Claims of Fraud – Rolling Stone

Trump Is Turning the Screws on Vets So the Rich Can Get Richer

The president claims his administration’s cuts to the VA and care for veterans is due to fraud — despite a lack of real evidence

November 14, 2025

Donald Trump has long insisted that no one cares about America’s veterans more than him. He continued to do so while delivering a Veterans Day address from Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, claiming his first administration fired “thousands” of government employees — “sick people” and “thieves” — who didn’t take care of veterans, only to see them rehired by Joe Biden.

“We got rid of them,” the president said of his new administration. Trump also praised Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect who is overseeing the administration’s cost-cutting spree. “What a good job he’s doing, cutting, cutting, cutting,” Trump said.

The speech came as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was struggling through the longest government shutdown in modern history — during which the Republican Party has wasted no time advancing Project 2025 and stripping veterans of their earned disability payments. Trump’s VA is also cutting 30,000 employees — many of them service-disabled veterans — after initially planning to cut 80,000 of the “sick people,” as Trump calls them, who are somehow defrauding the system. The cuts come as the department is already hemorrhaging medical professionals, and as the Trump administration has imposed strict hiring limits that prevent replacing those who leave.

Along with gutting federal agencies like the VA, Project 2025 calls for narrowing the list of medical conditions eligible for disability compensation, automating claims decisions, and tying future payments to “work incentives.” Its authors frame these proposals as modernization, but the effect would be to de-rate veterans — to downgrade or deny legitimate claims under the guise of efficiency. Veterans with pending applications could lose eligibility altogether, while those already receiving compensation could see their ratings reduced by algorithm. 

This is all by design, and Trump and his administration are building a case against our veterans with lies. Fraud within the system is exceedingly rare. According to the VA inspector general, few VA fraud cases involve veterans themselves, and most of those are isolated, small-dollar offenses.

So, what is this really about? It’s simple. It’s the same thing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was about, the same thing Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill was about. It’s about dismantling the U.S. government and diverting trillions of dollars away from veterans, the poor, the uninsured, and other less fortunate Americans — all to enrich a handful of well-connected, Trump-aligned billionaires.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Cuts Veteran Employees, Benefits Under False Claims of Fraud

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OBAMA SHOWS HOW A PRESIDENT SHOULD ACT

https://substack.com/@krassenstein/note/c-176022920?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios

https://www.fogolf.com/1096017/trump-marvels-at-europes-ryder-cup-putting-on-pat-mcafee-show/ Trump marvels at Europe’s Ryder Cup putting on ‘Pat McAfee Show’ #2025RyderCup #AI #Branch #Competitions #DAY #Donald #DonaldTrump #Enabled #executive #ExecutiveBranch #Golf #highlights #International #InternationalSportsCompetitions #National #NationalSports #NEUTRAL #news #nfl #overall #OverallNeutral #Politics #RyderCup #sports #SportsNews #Story #StoryHighlightsAIEnabled #trump #veterans #VeteransDay

On Veteran's Day, we joined over 170 actions nationwide to honor our vets and remind Trump that oaths are taken to the Constitution, not him. Thank you, veterans, for your service! #nooathstotrump #protectveteranshealthcare #thankyouforyourservice🇺🇸❤️ #veterans #veteransday #visibilitybrigade

YONKERS VOICE: #WestchesterCounty held its annual ##VeteransDay Ceremony on at Lasdon Public Gardens and #VeteransMemorial, in #Katonah.

Media personality Sir Shefik Macauley was on-hand as Correspondent for #YonkersVoice, speaking with the event presenters County Executive Kenneth Jenkins and #Veterans Service Director #JoshuaGaccione, as well as special guests, such as #NewYork State Senator #PeteHarckham and #UnitedStatesArmy Veteran #RosaRamirez....

https://youtu.be/9TTJst6iOd4