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The VA Privatization Scam

Dec 9, 2024

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Monday, December 9th, 2024

Today, the Assad regime in Syria has fallen and Russian state media says he has fled to Moscow; ex-Proud Boys leader delivers combative testimony in court; a judge rules that the Naval Academy can use affirmative action for admissions; Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars electing Trump; President Biden crushed the November jobs report; Tennessee state Republican Senator Ken Yager was arrested and charged for a DUI hit and run in Georgia; JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account identified as their employee; Jamie Raskin asks the inspectors general to keep him posted on Trump malfeasance; Pete Hegseth and Doug Collins push to cut veterans benefits at the VA; military leaders are rattled by a list of ‘woke’ officers that a group has urged Hegseth to fire; Nick Fuentes has been arrested and charged with assault; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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Stories:
Employment Situation Summary (bls.gov)

Naval Academy can consider race in admissions, federal judge rules (The Washington Post)

REVEALED: THE OPERATORS BEHIND FOUR MAJOR NEO-NAZI X ACCOUNTS (Texas Observer)

Raskin pledges to back federal watchdogs (Politico)

Tennessee State Sen. Ken Yager arrested, charged with DUI, hit and run in Georgia on Tuesday (The Tennessean)

Military leaders are rattled by a list of ‘woke’ officers that a group urges Hegseth to fire (AP News)

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio delivers combative testimony in ex-cops defense (Ella Lee|The Hill)

Elon Musk spent a quarter-billion dollars electing Trump, including financing mysterious 'RBG PAC' (By Bridget Bowman, Ben Kamisar, Scott Bland|NBC News)

White supremacist Nick Fuentes charged over Chicago pepper-spray incident (The Guardian)

Hegseth and Collins’ push for cutting veterans’ health benefits alarms service members and veterans groups (Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky|CNN)

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