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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Veteran’s Benefits Administration employees are being told they are not allowed to talk to government lawyers without approval of a political appointee.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Veteran’s Benefits Administration employees are being told they are not allowed to talk to government lawyers without approval of a political appointee.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Trump administration breaking the contract with veterans to give them legally required healthcare

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Lisa No Thank You @ohseafarer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Thinking a lot about the Bonus Army this year. Veterans now are losing far more to these cuts than the vets at that time stood to lose by occupying DC. The VA obvs, but their shared histories are being erased too. As cuts ripple out into the rest of the economy their paths out of service dry up too

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Any Anabaptists, Mennonites, Quakers, or conscientious objector people or orgs able to contact me?

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A Federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of laid off VA employees, many of whom are veterans.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“My opinion is that most who like to ‘move fast and break things’ have never built anything that anyone actually needs or relies on,” the memo reads, an obvious criticism of Elon Musk’s tech bro mentality.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The official urged other VA employees to be “circumspect in your communications.” Although Elon Musk’s DOGE isn’t explicitly mentioned in the memo, his chainsaw-wielding tendencies are scaring top leadership at the VA.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

how severely impacted the research service is by the executive orders,” the memo reads. “I hope I am incorrect; I can not imagine a worse message than, ‘How dare you tell anyone how bad this is!’”

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“My fear is that simultaneously placing a group of VA researchers around the nation on administrative leave sends the chilling message that we must not let others outside the VA know...

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Supervisors weren’t told in advance that the two employees would be placed on leave, according to the memo, which sounds an alarm about the changes.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

“One of the [people] placed on administrative leave shared with me — and gave me permission to share with you — that there was an allegation of (and I am paraphrasing here) researchers on administrative leave could be “a coordinated effort.”

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s unclear exactly why they were pushed out. But one of them may have said more publicly, or to the press, about the inner workings of the agency than the bosses wanted, according to the memo.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

obtained by What A Day, which adds that others across the country have already suffered the same fate. These are often physicians who help guide studies and treat patients, too.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Two senior employees who lead research teams at a VA branch were recently put on administrative leave, according to an internal memo

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Department of Government Efficiency is also planning to cut hundreds of contracts — including one for research on post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s a core part of gazillionaire Elon Musk’s mission to downsize the government like it’s one of his Silicon Valley startups. But there are other real-world impacts:

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

President Donald Trump is planning to slash 80,000 jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency that takes care of some 10 million veterans in the United States.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Trump administration is rocking the Department of Veterans Affairs with cuts, raising fears about the future of healthcare and services — and the potential consequences of speaking out.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

See you there

Flier with an American flag hanging on the left.

We don’t take an oath to a king. -Gen Mark Miley

Veteran’s March
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith an allegiance to the same.

Project 2025 will decimate programs veterans rely on and has already eliminated programs veterans rely on (Veterans Crisis Line)

Friday March 14th 2025 at Noon in Washington DC and every state capital

All are welcome to stand with us.

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Bonus Army @bonusarmy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

He added: “Is there going to be short-term pain? Is there going to be some issues? Absolutely, and this is what happens with restructuring. But we have to get government back to doing what it’s supposed to be doing, and that’s working for the people.”

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