If you work in #healthcare, and are not wearing a #mask
Or worse, wearing it incorrectly
We are judging you, and not trusting the quality of care from you.
#COVIDIsNotOver #MaskUp #masking #qualityofcare
#va #veteransadministration
#veteransadministration
I'm very disturbed by the administration's attack on nurses--firing them from the VA, deprofessionalizing them and the work they do. We need more nurses and they deserve our respect and support.
#nurses #VeteransAdministration #VA
https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/nurses-for-democracy-resources#federal_workers
Trump Cuts Veteran Employees, Benefits Under False Claims of Fraud – Rolling Stone
Donald Trump at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 11 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI /AFP / Getty ImagesTrump 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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3/N...effect everywhere. No part of the country's infrastructure has been spared. The #NationalWeatherService, Centers For Disease Control, National Institutes for Health, #VeteransAdministration, #EPA, #FDA, #FEMA, and on and on. All victims of the same Trump/Musk wrecking ball and Republicans in Congress. And for what ?
This is the kind of destruction and malfeasance you expect from external adversaries. It's utterly bizarre
Please watch and share!!! THIS IS HANDMAID'S TALE LEVEL SH*T OMG #VeteransAdministration
Experiences with the VA? #VeteransAdministration #theVA
Either as a vet or insider -- please get in touch
Another example of investigative journalism @propublica.org
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4h5r2albulagzxvhp634tof/post/3lw4udpw5sk2r
'Blatant Attempt to Bust Our Unions': Trump Admin Moves to Gut Labor Protections at VA
"This administration wants to break the spirit of working people in this country, but we will not be broken," said #NationalNursesUnited.
from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Aug 07, 2025
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins notified the American Federation of Government Employees (#AFGE) and several other unions that he was implementing an executive order signed by President Donald #Trump, which required the termination of collective bargaining agreements for agencies whose missions are related to national security.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-afge
#WorkersRights #Workers #Unions #Labor #LaborMovement #LaborUnions #USA #US #VA #USPolitics #sindicatos #VeteransAdministration
#press #news #politics #USPolitics #healthcare #medical
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION STAFF CUTS
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: #beccabalint #democrats #donaldtrump #eightysix47 #uspol #uspolitics #veterans #veteransadministration :
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION CAREGIVERS HAVING THE "RIGHT" TO REFUSE TO GIVE CARE TO VETERANS
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CCEqg1XRJ/
Eightysix47
: #beccabalint #democrats #donaldtrump #eightysix47 #uspol #uspolitics #veterans #veteransadministration :
VA INDIVIDUAL STAFF "RIGHT" TO REFUSE TO TREAT VA PATIENTS
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Having worked in a hospital for over twenty years, the idea of refusing to treat a patient seems foreign. But the VA gave veterans a chance to speak to the proposed rule changes (see the attachment) and they ran the changes by veterans organizations and oversight committees in the US House and Senate and everyone was cool with it. Right? Well, I'm just going way the heck out on a limb and guess no the VA didn't. Whether or not the VA checked with interested parties, if I was a VA clinician and I refused to treat red-capped MAGA veterans, the VA would have no problem with my decision. Right?
It would be characteristic of Trump to value veterans only to the extent that he can fake it.
Eightysix47
: #democrats #democrats #donaldtrump #eightysix47 #uspol #uspolitics #va #veterans #veteransadministration :
Happy birthday, #usmilitary ! Greatly appreciate all who served.
P.S. sorry someone is trying to hijack your day, someone who dodged service, and slashed funding for the #veteransadministration
THAT NORTH KOREA-STYLE MILITARY PARADE WILL BE JUST THE THING TO DISTRACT FROM CUTS TO VETERANS PROGRAMS
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: #democrats #donaldtrump #uspol #uspolitics #veterans #veteransadministration :
More on our evolving VA mental health situation -- for therapists working internally at the VA:
V.A. Mental Health Care Staff, Crowded into Federal Buildings, Raise Patient Privacy Alarms
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/veterans-affairs-mental-health-privacy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek8.rIgF.r70z0QzHxtJq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Make sure to watch the short video at the beginning. Two therapist desks stuck in the windowless copy room with the office copying machine. Even if you are inclined not to read the article, scroll to the bottom to see the photos of actual workspaces.
I'm posting this for the obvious reasons -- to decry the conditions for both staff and veterans, and in a hope that our professional associations take yet another task on to fight this.
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"In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members."
"And in South Florida, psychiatric nurses have been treating veterans with mental health conditions in a hallway near a bathroom, sitting down with them in a makeshift medical bay jury-rigged out of filing cabinets and a translucent screen."
"'People walking by can hear everything that’s going on,' said Bill Frogameni, an acute care psychiatric nurse at the Miami V.A."
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"The cramped conditions are the result of President Trump’s decision to rescind remote work arrangements for federal employees, reversing a policy that at the V.A. long predated the pandemic. Since Mr. Trump’s order, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been scrambling to find adequate office space for tens of thousands of health care employees, even those who see most or all of their patients virtually, while maintaining the legal requirement of confidentiality."
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"...clinicians say they are being asked to administer mental health treatment or discuss sensitive information in open settings where conversations can be overheard."
"Veterans have noticed the lack of privacy, clinicians say. They described patients newly hesitant to discuss issues like legal problems, substance abuse and intimate partner violence, limiting the effectiveness of their treatment. Some clinicians said they had trouble hearing patients over the phone or during video calls in their new, telemarketing-style work spaces."
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But really, just read the whole article. I could quote the whole thing.
-- Michael
V.A. Mental Health Care Staff, Crowded into Federal Buildings, Raise Patient Privacy Alarms
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/politics/veterans-affairs-mental-health-privacy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek8.rIgF.r70z0QzHxtJq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #military #militarypsych #militarypsychology #militarycounseling #APA #Division19 #militaryhealth #DeploymentPsychology #UniformServicesUniversity #VA #veteransadministration #nursing #healthcare #medicine #DOGE #federalgovernment #psychiatricnursepractitioner
See above article. A must read.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #military #militarypsych #militarypsychology #militarycounseling #APA #Division19 #militaryhealth #DeploymentPsychology #UniformServicesUniversity #VA #veteransadministration #nursing #healthcare #medicine #DOGE #federalgovernment #psychiatricnursepractitioner
Thousands of veterans face foreclosure after Trump's VA ends key mortgage program
from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [USA]
May 1, 2025 5:00 AM ET
By Chris Arnold and Quil Lawrence
"The U.S. #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs, as of Thursday, has ended a new #mortgage-rescue program that so far has helped about 20,000 veterans avoid #foreclosure and keep their homes.
The move leaves millions of military #veterans with far worse options than most other American homeowners if they run into trouble paying their home loans. And it comes at a time when nearly 90,000 #VA loans are seriously past due, with 33,000 of those already in the foreclosure process, according to the data and analytics firm ICE."
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-5382448/va-veterans-affairs-mortgages-foreclosure-vasp
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press
#Veterans #VeteransAdministration
#USGovt
#MentalHealth
#VeteransAdministration
So, I have been thinking about trying to see if VA Medical would help with some Mental Health stuff. Mostly I just want an assessment. It's getting harder and harder to focus on things when I am not at work. I kinda want some help with that and maybe just figure out if anything is wrong.
Ever since I ended up on my folks couch after I broke my leg they have made comments basically saying "We always thought there was something wrong with you, but we never bothered to look into any of it. Not our fault."
... So after YouTube started offering up Autism videos I started looking at potential options I have.
Not sure if I will yet or not.
From @muellershewrote on 🦋:
Boat derangement syndrome.
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Me:
#TrumpTariffs #Medicare #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #SBA #USDA #CDC #HHS #FEMA #Education #VeteransAdministration #TaxCutsForBillionaires
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