Tbird's Quiet Fight

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December 2025

What PTSD looked like in my day-to-day — and how ‘barely’ kept me alive.
The vets at the VA hospital used to ask me, “How you doing?”
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The VA Job Cuts: Exposing the Con
How they’re eliminating up to 67,000 positions by pretending jobs they refused to fill were never needed
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Trump’s $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” Is Just Housing Relief Congress Already Approved
The Gist:
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Is He a Veteran or Is He Not? The Confusing Career of Daniel Gade
By Theresa Aldrich and Suzanne Gordon
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When “Mathematically Impossible” Is the Point: The Dismantling of VA Healthcare
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain
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The Real Welfare Queens
The Gist
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They Might Be a Blue Falcon If...
They might be a Blue Falcon if they testify to Congress that veterans receiving disability benefits are “dependent” — while they’re collecting those…
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Congress Gets a Better Deal After 5 Years Than Most Enlisted Get After 20
The Gist:
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F#@k You for Your Service: H.R. 6047 and the Veterans Congress Robs to Pay Other Veterans
They named it after real veterans. They'll fund it by charging disabled veterans thousands in fees they don't pay now. And they'll call it an expansion.
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