Senate Veterans’ Affairs Chair Calls for More Mental Health Care Providers in #Rural Areas
Citing ProPublica’s reporting on the barriers faced by veterans in crisis, Sen. Jon Tester asked VA Secretary Denis McDonough to increase the number of providers and ensure they are “in locations where #veterans need them most.”
#VA#Veterans#mentalhealth
Ugh, I don't have the money to leave yet and my friend just called me.
Apparently, University of Indiana put a bunch of Bullshit on my friend's medical records that indicate that the doctors there tried to have him declared incompetent to make his own decisions.
He went to his primary care provider today and his doctor kept repeating, "Be careful what you say."
My friend is now refusing ALL medical intervention and has decided to go home and simply die.
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This is why people don't seek help. This is why mental health care FAILS so many people.
Seriously, do you want your last moments on earth to be locked up in a mental hospital?
I may not be able to get to my friend before he offs himself.
I asked him for a selfie so I had something from him before he left the Earth.
This is exactly what I didn't want for him :(
I can't feel anything but anger and rage... #VA#Veterans#mentalhealth
The #proHamas protesters are the modern-day version of anti-war protesters who spat in the faces of #veterans returning home from Vietnam. Misguided, on the wrong side of history, ignorant of the facts, and dismissive of the inconvenient reality of the situation they're protesting.
Israel’s crimes have been covered up by our governments for decades:
“Jacob Flickinger killed by Israel in Gaza was a Canadian Forces veteran. This, however, is not the first time a former or serving Canadian Forces member has been killed by Israel. Read about the 2006 killing of Canadian Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener”: #Canada#veterans
As the #AmericaFirst movement of #WWII once again rears its head and gears up for the next elections, it is much better prepared than in 2016 and the #Midterms of 2022.
A racist utterance of a #US military 🪖 leader made me remember a thread I had published on the Birdsite in Sept. 2022.
It focused on the strategic use of #veterans by the #MAGA movement.
As it will happen again, I am republishing...
"...Christian men to fight against the #LGBTQ agenda.
A review of many hours of exchanges between #Bannon and his #WarRoom guests makes it clear that #CRT [#CriticalRaceTheory] is now presented on the far right as an existential threat to the constitutional foundations of the republic, and therefore something to be fought—above all by #veterans from the #military’s elite units—by any means...
"...is to purge the #GOP of “#RINOs,” [#Repuplicans in Name Only]👈 even by the most cautious estimates, at least 20 right-wing #veterans, most of them from the elite units favored by #Bannon, could win seats in November, and the #Republicans need a net gain of only six to flip the chamber and strengthen its most extreme voices—think a #MAGA military caucus of #Marjorie Taylor Greenes [#MTG] and Jim...
...gender diversity, is crucial. 👈 #Veterans for #AmericaFirst, the new incarnation of #VeteransForTrump, highlights 42 endorsements on its website; 17 are for women, and 13 are for people of color. #Bannon might also have added #AsianAmericans to his list,...
👉#LiberalDemocrats, as well as much of the legacy media, have alienated many conservative and swing voters in the #Latino/ #Hispanic community by their insistence...
The issue of #US military 🪖 #veterans is neither limited to #NBC, nor to the #MassMedia, but has an entirely exasperating critical dimension, as I explained in this detailed thread last year: