Jake Pannell

Veteran & Labor Advocate | Experienced Government Leader & US Army Disabled Veteran| Champion for Labor Rights & Veteran Care | Servant Leader, Speaker & Writer

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It’s time to set the record straight about some of the noise surrounding the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act and how it cuts veterans disability compensation.

Call your Member of Congress today to let them know that the best way to take care of America’s veterans is to stop this legislation until cuts to earned benefits are removed.

☎️ U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

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@MyInfo17995997 @USronaldcarter You know about proposed tax payer bill on this right?

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@JerryMoran @OfficialFBOP @DAGToddBlanche You cant retain federal employees who you threaten to fire everyday and dont grant them basic bargaining rights.

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Do You Have a Letter Like This?
Neither do I.
On May 19, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a one-page document declaring that the United States is "FOREVER BARRED AND PRECLUDED" from pursuing any tax claims against Donald Trump, his family, his trusts, and his businesses — for any returns filed before this week.
Not for this administration. Not pending review. Forever.
If you owe back taxes, the IRS can audit you, pursue you, and refer your case for criminal prosecution. That's true for every person and business in this country — with one documented exception, created this week.
The document is framed as a settlement addendum in Trump v. IRS. But settlements resolve claims. They don't typically extinguish the government's future investigative authority in perpetuity. Whether any executive agreement can permanently override the IRS's statutory mandate to enforce the tax code is a question federal courts have never answered in this form. That answer is coming.
What's already here: the man who signed this permanent shield for Trump and his family is the same man who spent years as Trump's personal criminal defense attorney — who sat at the defense table during his New York fraud trial.
A senator told him Tuesday, directly: "You are acting like you're his current personal attorney."
He didn't dispute it. He defended the fund.
You didn't get a letter like this. Neither did I.
Read the full breakdown at PBS NewsHour — no paywall, no slant:
🔗 https://t.co/1ei5Vyxh5h
What do you think — legitimate settlement or something the courts need to unwind?

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This Memorial Day I'm rucking for homeless veterans in Portland with the IAM Veterans Services Steering Committee. It'll be tough — I'll go as far as I can. My brothers and sisters in need are worth every step.

Please donate
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@BasedMikeLee Your right. Americans should, not self righteous politicians

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@curmudgeonatlg @SecVetAffairs @RepJeffHurd @DeptVetAffairs @VAGrandJunction Im still waiting for appointments and everytime I move I have to argue just to stay on same tx plan

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@RepNancyMace Or.....hear me out......lower costs and raise wages.....fix the system and they won't need snap

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@chrisrubio1970 @SecVetAffairs Yea. He fired oig

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@JoshHall2024 Wasn't Trump his boss too?

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@RepJasonCrow 7 to 10 thousand an hour. Glad I paid for his entertainment

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@JDVance Turn that task force on PACs. Fix that first.

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On Easter Sunday, it’s worth asking a simple question: is this an acceptable way for a public leader to speak?
For those who hold this day as sacred, does this language feel consistent with the spirit of the holiday? Not in a partisan sense, but in a moral one.
There’s also a deeper question here. When religious language is used alongside threats, profanity, or political messaging, is it sincere—or does it risk becoming something else entirely? Does it honor belief, or does it instrumentalize it?
And regardless of faith: is this how we expect leaders to communicate? Is this the tone we accept as normal now?
Set politics aside for a moment. Imagine these words directed at you or your community on a day you consider sacred. How would you receive them?
These are not rhetorical questions. They’re worth sitting with.

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Contempt has become ambient. It shows up in how quickly we judge, how easily we reduce people to categories, and how naturally disagreement turns into dismissal. What feels like clarity is often something else—a shortcut. Contempt simplifies a complicated world and relieves us of the burden of understanding it.

Part of this shift is structural. The information we consume is shaped by systems that learn from our behavior, feeding us more of what we engage with. If we reward outrage, we see more outrage. If we engage with contempt, it becomes our environment. Over time, this creates the illusion that the world is as narrow and irredeemable as the slice we’re shown.

But contempt is still a choice. And so is compassion. Not as sentiment, but as discipline—the decision to pause before reducing someone, to hold onto the idea that a person can be wrong without being worthless. This doesn’t require agreement. It requires restraint.

What we put into the world has a way of returning to us, not perfectly but reliably. The tone we reward becomes the tone we live in. Between contempt and compassion, there is no neutral ground. The question is not which one feels more natural in the moment, but which one we are willing to practice often enough to shape the kind of world we—and others—have to live in.

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@Acyn Is this Iran or Us

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@SecVetAffairs @DeptVetAffairs Just staff what we have!

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A nation does not become strong by refusing to yield. It becomes strong by knowing what must never be yielded—and what must.
Compromise is not the abandonment of principle. It is the discipline of deciding which principles make survival possible.

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A nation does not become strong by refusing to yield. It becomes strong by knowing what must never be yielded—and what must.
Compromise is not the abandonment of principle. It is the discipline of deciding which principles make survival possible.

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@SenTedCruz Yall make enough in freebies and fundraising and stocks that you dont need a tenth of your salary. Hell, yall are hardly at work. Gig em Senator