My 83 yo dad is out protesting in rural Tennessee 😭💕

I swore an oath to the CONSTITUTION #NoKings

...and the hotline designed to help is closed due to govt shutdown.

I am ALSO opposed to kicking and dragging non-citizens

I don't think I can in good conscience encourage kids to enlist if these changes happen. Keep your hands off trainees. buff.ly/Ja68ftg

Trump administration wants you to be toothless, pox-scarred, and brain fogged from long covid

Stand firm for freedom of the press buff.ly/TsXLE8z

Remarkable panel of guests/rockstars at Army Women’s Foundation AUSA Leadership Forum! @kwilliams101.bsky.social @kyleannehunter.bsky.social Kate Germano, Tia Young, Dawn Halfaker

Event planners have exactly two methods: -one somewhat vague set of info; good luck! -detailed instructions communicated across multiple platforms repeatedly There is no middle ground

Veterans know they swore an oath to the Constitution; we believe in freedom of speech; we know what rules of engagement should be.

VA public affairs *also* has carryover funding, so employees aren't furloughed yet, but this admin refuses to let them do their jobs providing info that would help veterans. MAGA doesn't care about veterans or their families. buff.ly/WNUteoD

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” may be bullshit, but when you survive awful shit, you CAN keep growing - in ways that would’ve been unimaginable before.

“Error! Home phone number required!” Ok web form designer a huge percent of people don’t have this anymore

Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans trib.al/PHDR77F

CAN YOU IMAGINE Put people in jail for this shit. Utterly indefensible.

AER, AFAS, NMCRS ready to provide zero-interest loans to troops in need during government shutdown with unprecedented lack of pay

"observers suspect the sign is meant to suggest women are not welcome in the treehouse, or more broadly within within the Joint Chiefs at all. Linguists have pointed out that 'aloud' appears to be a homophone mix-up by the sign’s author."

"There was/is nothing “voluntary” about having to sacrifice childhood dreams and a military career solely to appease other people’s bigotry." buff.ly/qVZ7kTO

"If the JAG advised it was unlawful, the commander owns it now. So, if you think there's something that is unlawful, you need to say so. And that's a point when you put your stars on the table."

"What finally pushed him to finish and publish the book in 2015 were stories of bullied teenagers taking their own lives. White wanted something on the shelf that could signal to them, 'You can hold on for another day.'”

"A vast majority of Americans — both Democrats at 93%; Republicans at 78%; and all adults at 83% — believed that the military should remain politically neutral" buff.ly/fP0UYhL

Impt follow up from piece i shared yesterday:

#resist "The Pentagon has altered its new rules restricting press access in the building" after significant pushback buff.ly/FIyjbRt

Don’t sleep on this fantastic book - I read based on NK Jemisin recommendation and it’s really worth your time, especially now (in some weird ways)

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Interesting - research seems to indicate toxic exposures in the first Gulf War impaired veterans' mitochondria. Diagnostic code should improve tracking, documentation , & hopefully trtmt in the long run. buff.ly/9gqkMJ1

Latest piece by my friend Andrea has some fantastic points. Worth a read. buff.ly/FkksERW

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Government shutdown is on them - and it harms military servicemembers, is dangerous for national security, and is bad for Veterans.

“I know when the Army opened up the Ranger program, the standards did not change at all. Not at all.”

"800 generals and flag officers were brought into that building to hear a pep-speech that would be better delivered by a captain to a bunch of enlisted and lieutenants out in the field" 🔥

Ukraine: making daily advances in how wars are fought Hegseth: TRAINING SHOULD REVERT TO 1990 STANDARDS 🫠 buff.ly/mZuUSuP

Hegseth is a whiny manbaby who is ashamed not to have a Ranger Tab and he should fuck off into the sun

Blasting Fuck Authority by Pennywise and then Golden by Huntr/x on my way to Costco is a perfect encapsulation of this stage of my life

If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach a man to fly fish, he'll spend a ton of money at Orvis and never bring home any fish because it's mostly catch & release and trout are a pain in the ass to clean.

“'We don’t have a military full of Nordic Pagans,' said Hegseth, who has not hesitated to endorse open religious practice as the department’s leader, including hosting Christian prayer services in Pentagon facilities."

DoD wasn't "particularly interested in trying to advance the social agenda... they recognized you can’t have a unified fighting force if the troops are fighting each other, or if you’re actively turning away people who desire to serve their country.”

"Hegseth is currently under evaluation by the DOD IG ... over his use of Signal to discuss upcoming military operations in Yemen."

Virginia governor Youngkin just gave us all tax refunds and bruh you shoulda kept it for stuff like this. I *want* a government that serves the people.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

So … estate planning question. Should I divide my collection of conferences tote bags and crappy coffee mugs evenly between my kids, or give one kid the bags and the other the mugs?

Unprecedented and quite possibly illegal - but unlikely to be censured in this lawless admin

Great piece. www.stripes.com/opinion/2025...

Re-upping my piece from a few (omg 7?!) years ago since it’s apparently relevant again? 🫠

I wanted to report this to VA OIG for investigation but the website is offline supposedly due to the shutdown (this is a lie: others are still up, some with a note that shutdown may affect updates)

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

The false promises of privatizing VA: 89% of U.S. counties are Health Professional Shortage Areas for primary care. Almost half of the adult population lives in a Mental Health Professional Shortage Area.

This piece is GREAT. buff.ly/DxLoqNP

Basically all the "how it started / how it's going" updates this year have sucked.

Random thoughts on Hegseth speech: - Having done both old-school Army PT and yoga, I would pay a thousand dollars to watch an infantry platoon get absolutely fucking smoked in a hot yoga class 1/