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Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/veterans-affairs-nurses-doctors-cut.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p95#a260303p95

In this episode, we speak with Mary C. Turner, a registered nurse and a member of the Council of Presidents of National Nurses United,
the largest nurse’s union in the US,
which is forcefully calling for the abolition of ICE.
https://therealnews.com/nurses-union-a

Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing: ‘They messed with the wrong profession’
“What Alex did that day was pure instinct, pure professional behavior,” NNU President Mary C. Turner tells us. “That’s just what you do when you're a nurse.“

Nurses Say ICE Agents Lied About Man's Skull Fractures - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/nurses-say-ice-agents-lied-about-mans-shattered-skull/

50 billboards! #Lubach
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5562906/lubach-plaatst-50-billboards-langs-snelwegen-als-reactie-op-vvd

Lubach plaatst 50 billboards langs snelwegen als reactie op VVD
Arjen Lubach heeft langs snelwegen door het hele land vijftig billboards geplaatst met de tekst: Het landsbelang boven Dilans belang. De tv-presentator reageert hiermee op de billboards die de partij van Dilan Yeşilgöz (VVD) langs snelwegen heeft neergezet, waarin de partij verkondigt zich in het regeerakkoord aan haar verkiezingsbeloften te hebben gehouden.

»Mit dem Aufkommen des Walkman Anfang der 1980er-Jahre war die Selbstabschirmung von der Umgebung noch Teil aufgeregter kulturpessimistischer Diskurse. Die zugleich personalisierte, […] anhand der Kopfhörer nun aber auch in der Öffentlichkeit beobachtbare Mediennutzung wurde als Ausweis für Konsumismus und Gier, asozialen Isolationismus sowie Eskapismus einer narzisstischen und hedonistischen Generation gelesen.«
Aus: Christoph Engemann - Die Zukunft des Lesens (2025)

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https://open.spotify.com/track/5bymCzswBkt0deeD1hlTIq

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As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…

How to tear gas children
A family-friend labor march full of teachers and nurses in Portland, Oregon ended with tear gas billowing over several blocks.

Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired (Olivia Little/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/libs-tiktok-doxxing-teachers-and-nurses-who-support-alex-pretti-or-oppose-ice-trying
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p90#a260129p90

“In western democracies, ageing and dying seem to have been reclassified as soluble problems,” clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in writes.
This is delusional – “a retreat from reality, and narcissistic”.
Climate-crisis denial, he suggests, in a striking formulation, can be seen as “the denial of death on an apocalyptic scale”.