Morning Dispatch

Publisher's Roundup 41

Nothing goes right for the Mad King

A White House teardown ordered by a reckless child is the perfect metaphor

The desecration continues because the Republicans allow it

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CNN reporter Biran Todd reports the Trump administration is hanging U.S. veterans out to dry by denying long-term therapy to veterans, many of whom suffer from the threat of suicidal ideation. “We have learned that some VA Hospitals have stepped up the enforcement of a policy which limits the number of long-term mental health sessions available to veterans. That is according to four VA mental health providers and two patients who we spoke with from VA facilities across the U.S.,"CNN reports. While the policy did not start in the current Trump administration, sources tell CNN that the Trump administration began enforcing the policy in earnest and pressuring hospital administration to cut off one-on-one therapy in favor of less effective and more cost-friendly group therapy sessions. “We spoke with one marine combat veteran, Michael — which is a pseudonym. Michael's one-on-one sessions with his VA mental health provider were suddenly terminated recently. He told me it felt like being abandoned,” said Todd. “You're thrown away like yesterday's trash,” Michael said. “I'm not ready to address all my issues on my own yet. It feels like they took the training wheels off before I'm ready. “ “Michael said it took him a long time to find the right VA therapist and to build trust with that therapist, after he had struggled with addiction and was hospitalized following multiple suicide attempts,” Todd reports. Todd said the VA has denied that veterans are not getting the care they need. “But we have been told by VA mental health providers that they were told to stop seeing some patients for those longer, open ended periods,” reports Todd. “In some cases, they say they're offering veterans options like group therapy, which many veterans don't want to do, or they offer them the chance to reapply for one-on-one treatment. But if they reapply, they could wait months to get that treatment. And it's not guaranteed that they will get back with their trusted therapists.” “These providers tell us that for some veterans with severe PTSD, suicidal ideations, and other conditions, it's just not clinically appropriate to do it this way, that some of them are going to need this treatment for the rest of their lives,” Todd added.

‘Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals...’ and antifa too!

The government will have to back up its allegations with evidence at trial, but Trump’s vengeance crusade means a lot is in doubt.

Republicans have replaced Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” with a far darker insult; branding everyday Americans as lunatics, terrorists, and criminals for simply wanting to live.

The MAGA Supreme Court must not condone Trump’s lies

The disgraced former lawmaker concocted elaborate falsehoods about his life and identity, and was later convicted of fraud. Trump commuted his sentence.

Publisher's Roundup 40

The yearning for a king's paternal guidance suffuses the conservative justices' push to affirm the "unitary executive" theory and empower Donald Trump.

GOP panic rises as millions prepare to turn out on Saturday