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This sort of slipped under the media radar, but Republican Governor Youngkin of Virginia gutted a law sent to him to protect contraception in the state. Instead of legal protections for contraception, Youngkin “amended” the law to make it essentially a...
by Merlin196360
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 03:16 PM PDT
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An “Easter tree,” festooned with crosses and a slew of Christian messages and large “He is risen” signs on the walls are what currently greet patients and visitors — Christian and non-Christian alike — at the Audie L. Murphy VA Medical Center in San...
by ChrisRodda
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on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 04:34 PM PDT
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is delivering disability compensation benefits to a record 702,557* women Veterans, an increase of 180,959 over the past five years. This is largely due to the PACT Act, which expanded health care and benefits to...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 03:17 AM PDT
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OK, friends; time to get stuck (if you’ve been smart, again). The CDC recommends an additional Covid-19 booster (4 months after the last inoculation) for us 65-pluses, as well as for certain other age categories; for my fellow vets, VA authorizes the...
by Big Fly
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 09:57 AM PST
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I must start off by saying that the Alaska VA Healthcare System itself is extremely supportive and affirming of the LGBTQ+ veteran community, with its facilities displaying pride flags and prominently placed pride posters and very positive posts on its...
by ChrisRodda
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on Fri Jan 26, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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UPDATE: FTW!!! Bible so big that if a missing man returned they wouldn’t have room to eat is GONE!!! UPDATE: Email just received from Russell E. Lloyd, Medical Center Director, Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center: On the advice of VA’s Office of General Counsel, the Bible has been removed and will not be replaced. Russell E. Lloyd Medical Center Director...
by ChrisRodda
141 comments
on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
with 355 Recommends
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by Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi
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by ProPublica
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM PST
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There is a Special Election in Virginia’s 48th House District, January 9th, 2024. This is particularly exciting because no Democrat has run in this district since, well, forever. Sure, sure, we have to wait until the general election to vote on whether...
by ZenTrainer
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on Sun Dec 24, 2023 at 05:20 PM PST
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As I wrote last week, in a post titled “VA medical center petulantly removes ENTIRE ‘missing man’ table rather than remove Bible from it!,” a VA medical center in Kentucky had removed its entire POW/MIA, or “missing man,” table display from its lobby...
by ChrisRodda
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on Tue Nov 28, 2023 at 01:24 PM PST
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In what can best be described as an “I’m gonna take my marbles and go home” move, a VA medical center in Kentucky has removed the entire POW/MIA table display from its lobby rather than simply removing the Gideons “New Testament — Psalms and Proverbs”...
by ChrisRodda
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on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 11:21 AM PST
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The results were absolutely good for Democrats. Regaining the House of Delegates under a Democratic president was HUGE. I CONCEDE this is not like the 2000s Virginia. But still: HOW COME NO ONE IS MENTIONING THAT THE VA SENATE MARGIN FOR DEMOCRATS WENT...
by jimmie88
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on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 05:44 AM PST
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Virginia Democrats have won both chambers of the state legislature, flipping the state House and holding the state Senate in a rebuke to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. With most results tallied, media outlets have called at least 21 seats in the...
by David Nir
123 comments
on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 08:28 PM PST
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Today I went to the Centro para Adultos Meyor in our Pueblo Magico town some 35 minutes drive from the big city (on a good day). My wife is beginning rehab there having had a hip replaced. I went along with her because the old geezers get together on...
by Adventurist
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT
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If you’re anything like me, you’re probably emotionally wiped out after the last few days. I’m not here to add to that. There’s plenty of people with informed and plenty more with uninformed opinions about what’s going on in the Middle East. We really...
by Turnip50
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 07:26 PM PDT
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It’s (almost) officially here! Autumn! And don’t give me that fall-starts-after-Labor-Day nonsense. Fall is, has been, and always will be starting on the day of the autumnal equinox, which, this year, is Sept. 23. You’d think I’d be a little less...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 02:49 PM PDT
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Veterans Administration, or VA, hospitals outperformed their private, civilian counterparts according to survey made public earlier this month. The VA is the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system, caring for about 9 million veterans, many of...
by cfordlaw
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 12:32 PM PDT
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Confession time: I was never much for dolls as a kid. Barbie, Cabbage Patch, Polly Pocket, Jem … okay I tolerated Rainbow Brite because I was addicted to the cartoons, but also I played way more with Starlite than I ever did with her (and I was into My...
by Carolyn Fiddler
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on Fri Jul 21, 2023 at 02:26 PM PDT
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Just over two months ago, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), acting on behalf of nineteen veterans who receive medical care at the Austin VA Clinic in Texas, got a large, prominently displayed cross removed from the facility’s lobby. The...
by ChrisRodda
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on Tue May 23, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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No, Austin VA Clinic, you can’t display a great big cross in your lobby. [UPDATED WITH FAST VICTORY] UPDATE: WITHIN 90 MINUTES OF MIKEY WEINSTEIN SENDING A DEMAND THAT THE CROSS BE REMOVED, THE CROSS WAS REMOVED!!! Nineteen veterans who receive medical care at the Austin VA Clinic in Texas have asked the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) to...
by ChrisRodda
97 comments
on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Imagine the simple act of tracking your monthly menstrual cycle, being used as evidence in a crime. Well if Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, and his Republican cohorts, have their way, that’s exactly what they intend to do. The day before...
by JessAndersonForVirginia
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on Tue Feb 21, 2023 at 12:00 PM PST
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