Americans know the National Guard. The National Guard are your neighbors. They are members of your community. When deployed, they are there to help the community, not harm them.

Congress eliminated public media funding. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together. Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

I'm having face tingling from fight or flight. That's a normal response to a budget bill being passed, right? That means we've reached ultimate freedom?

If you're an LGBTQ+ veteran or servicemember in the Colorado Springs area, come meet me at Atrevida Beer Co today, June 21st, from 5 to 7pm to have a a beer and camaraderie!

Grateful for the opportunity to message the importance of rest and continuing to truly live our lives in spite of the attacks on our existence, rights, and liberty in Out Front Magazine. #protest #pride #resist #rest #fillyourcup www.outfrontmagazine.com/mental-polit...

Did you know that tens of thousands of active duty service members and their families rely on SNAP?

I am fully enraged about Adriana Smith. open.substack.com/pub/ashwalli...

And of course one must assume that the Chinese and Russians as well as the Qataris will have bugged that plane to within an inch of its life.

Of course he’s trolling. It’s obvious he’s trolling. And yes, he’s probably trolling in an effort to distract. And also: it’s a major problem that a sitting “president” is trolling, and it should be called out because he’s deeply, deeply unwell.

We're in D.C. for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee's hearing on mental health. We submitted a 32-page report—10 is considered long. Lindsay Church of Minority Vets will be among the speakers, and we are right behind them.

Weird how hiring an alcoholic who hasn't worked a real job in a while to run the Department of Defense didn't work out so great.

Cool and Fine: Local and National Nonprofits and generally nice people viewed your profile on LinkedIn Not Cool in 2025: Someone from the Office of Personnel Management viewed your profile on LinkedIn

I'd love to see your application for Minority Vets' Emerging Leaders Program! This all virtual retreat is open for applications! More info in the reply!

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Applications for Minority Vets' Emerging Leaders Program Cohort 5 open on Wednesday, April 2nd! Share with any minority veterans who may be interested!

Minority Vets is moving out of the Seattle office to our new community center set to open before summer. If anyone has the time and willing to help, lunch will be provided! Link below.

I made a tiktok about my VFW folks being interested in advocacy and Not Happy with shit happening, and now I'm being Perceived on the Internet, which is so uncomfortable. Idk how people deal w thousands of notifications. I'm just screaming into the void and hoping people see the important things.

For your entertainment, if you're subjecting yourself to tonight's absurdity.

If you’re at home today, not spending money, and feeling bored, you might be wondering, “What could I do?” Well, task one: you can make random reports on this website: enddei.ed.gov

Dolly Parton spoke.

Today was epic. Tonight, they dripped the trans ban, which is still riddled with legal grey areas, piss poor planning, and animus that will get torn apart by the courts. But today, we triumphed in this hearing. With community, we win. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2mndysP/

Executive Director Lindsay Church (they/them) of Minority Veterans of America testified during a Joint Hearing of Senate and House Veterans Affairs Committees today and left a lasting impression with their words in support of trans, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC veterans. www.instagram.com/reel/DGjFWf7...

Protest just occurred in the Cannon Building at the Capitol against Marco Rubio and Trump.

Attending the Joint Hearing for Senate and House Committees on Veterans Affairs today. We'll be speaking up regarding the issues minority servicemembers and veterans are facing, especially transgender servicemembers and veterans.

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

Here is a thread of all the emails, links & numbers to call regarding Teresa Borrenpohl’s unlawful arrest after being dragged from the Town Hall meeting in Kootenai County, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 🧵 👇

ICYMI: If it’s a Shutdown, it’s not on Dems!

What's happening to federal workers is psychological abuse—which is unsurprising from the abusers in the administration, but immensely disappointing for America.

Can media just start covering every press conference?

Burning bridges with all our allies and teeing up another World War with us on the Bad Guys list on the hopes of getting one fucking awful guy to like you is the worst Pick Me energy yet.

We're a grassroots group of veterans, and we're raising money for causes we believe in. Visit our Bonfire store and get merch of the words we can't say in federal research, grants, etc. www.bonfire.com/store/happywarriors

Reminder that the reason he wants Germany to not feel shame for the past is so you won't view the actions they have planned as shameful.

There are STILL folks with dishonorable or OTH discharges for being LGBTQ+. There were people who were separated or even DEPORTED due to how they self-medicated their PTSD from combat and sexual assault—kicked out instead of given treatment. And they're welcoming these fucks back WITH BACKPAY.

What they won't say & we know: It's majority people like those from the Center for Women Veterans and Center for Minority Veterans, anyone linked to what they deem "DEI" or serving in roles dedicated to minorities. The undeserved will suffer. The entire Department will suffer. Veterans will suffer.

Mitch McConnell voting no on terrible cabinet picks because he doesn’t have to run for reelection is all the proof you need that we must have term limits. You shouldn’t only have a spine because you don’t have to run again. We are breeding chicken shit power hungry electeds.

I started my morning reading Nancy Mace hate, and it felt so good, I think I'll go back to sleep for a little bit. 🥰

So fckn for REAL.

If America doesn't reverse course, its soul will be snuffed out.

Know your rights, Colorado!

I wrote a speech in case it was needed at the 50501 protest today in Denver. Before I left, I recorded it (reading fast) in case I didn't read it on the steps (I didn't), and someone needed to hear it. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2rEAfE6/

Photos taken from the 50501 demonstrations in Denver at the Colorado State Capitol building today. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💜

Get in these streets! Local details: www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/uw...

When it's midnight and you're faced with having to download information off another government site before it's scrubbed or getting sleep because you're running on fumes.

I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there

I don't understand the statements people are making of "Trump should lead," "Trump should resign," as if he has given a single shit about doing the right thing once in his life.

Not just this, go read the second part of this. The ones who refuse to act will use our fear as bait for reelection. Pressure them to do something NOW, or we won't have e democracy by the time when the midterms are supposed to happen.

I just drove back to Seattle from Portland, took a shower, and prepped homemade bread to go with the chicken & gnocchi soup I'm making for residents tonight. While the bread rises, I listen to Andrea Gibson poems and cry. Here's one that might hit with you in this moment. youtu.be/WCX-0zJTEbk?...

If the trees in my yard can enter dormancy and sleep for months why can’t I?

I know people who worked tirelessly, so devoted to this cause and cared so much about their people that it took a huge toll on their mental and physical health. This is cruel and devastating on so many levels.

Zuckerberg, Musk, and Trump are so universally unlikeable as people they thought money and power would make people like them, and they're still not likeable. They try to be gods or cult leaders because it's the only way they get the adoration and affection they never got from their parents or peers.