If you would like to read a thread about the utter lawlessness going on with #military pay -- incredible crimes are being committed -- here's a link

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Given that the ADA requires the executive to essentially prosecute itself in situations like this, how do we fix it going forward? Say in the examp...

This and the now $40B being handed to Argentina without any action from Congress, along with the expulsion of most of the press corps today from the Pentagon, should establish in your brain the fact that the Republic has fallen. The Constitution is no longer in effect. #authoritarianism #fascism

Every day there's at least a hundred more validations of me cutting the Trumpers out of my life 9 years ago. Sometimes I have doubts but then another torrent of Trumpist sadism comes along to remind me I was right. #shame #shunning

Good job from these patriots. (Unknown location or date but it's undoubtedly during a Trump presidency)

Per epidemiologist Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs: The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism. #PublicHealth #MMWR #CDC #fascism

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The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to addre...

This is true. I've had knee pain for decades. I blamed it on all that running in the Army. But in the past couple of years I started doing squats and other exercises that put stress on the knees, with light weights. I could barely do anything when I started. Although I'm still pretty unsteady on lunges, in my 60s my knee pain is basically gone.

ScienceAlert

The Best Medicine For Joint Pain Isn't What You Think, Expert Says

Stiff knees, aching hips and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older.

Please understand that it is nowhere in the Constitution that the military can provide relief against a president who fails to uphold their oath and constitutional duties through malfeasance or infirmity. The military is not the solution to Trump. The Founders provided solutions which may be carried out by 1) the Congress, or 2) the Cabinet. Failing that, the voters have the solution in their hands. The movies like to dramatize the military as the solution, but the military is very well trained to never be in that position.

Today is my mom's birthday, she would have been 86. I was close to her until she voted for Trump and laughed about it, which broke my heart. My dad outlived her by 2 years, during which I had few communications with him. He said during his last year that the previous year since mom died had been the worst year of his life. When I got a message from my oldest brother that dad had died, I was walking out of work with a coworker next to me. I said, stunned, "Oh. My dad died." My coworker asked if he could do anything for me and I said, no, we weren't close. Every year on the anniversary of my younger daughter's death, it's one more spin of the trauma wheel for me, while the older one doesn't even remember the date. She says they weren't close, and that's true. They were separated by 6 years and a lot of unhappy family issues. I was very close to the younger one but never was close to the older. We try. It's not great. When I'm dead I think she'll tell people, "It's ok. We weren't close."

"No more beardos" - yes, they will kick out a percentage of Black men on this rule, but they'll also kick out Sikhs and anyone else who managed to get a special (such as religious) exemption for facial hair.