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[Common Defense @commondefense]

The House voted. The Senate is next.

No president gets to take this country to war alone.

Not on our watch.

[Common Defense @commondefense]

The House just voted 215-208 to end Trump's unauthorized war with Iran.

The Senate is next.

No more forever wars.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.

Do you know what nobody ever told me?

That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.

[Common Defense @commondefense]

The VA serves millions of veterans, and it's being dismantled piece by piece.

June 9th in Chicago, leaders in the fight to stop privatization are gathering at Pilsen Community Books at 7 P.M.

Be there. #SaveOurVA

[Common Defense @commondefense]

Two months to see a mental health specialist for PTSD.

That is what @SecVetAffairs and Trump have decided veterans deserve.

Project 2025 planned this. Veterans are living it.

See your facility: https://t.co/YCQQnE5KzB

#VANotForSale #VHAData

[Common Defense @commondefense]

This guy is making a killing off the back of our troops and service members… Don’t forget this every time you fill up your gas tank, go to the doctor, or say goodbye to a loved one.

He does not care about the American people.

https://t.co/5Iiao4L3t0

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned https://t.co/giO1zkDIGV

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Fun fact: A vanilla ice cream cone at this same location, per the internet archive, was $1.75 the day Trump took office.

A 29% increase. MAGA!

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

This is why you don’t leave Fox News media personalities in charge of the United States military.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail.

R - Photo put out by staffer.

[Katie Smith @_ktmsmith]

Absolutely brutal side-by-side for @millermeeks in the @DMRegister

[Governor Mikie Sherrill @GovSherrillNJ]

NEW: @NewJerseyOAG just filed a lawsuit against the GEO Group, demanding that the court grant the New Jersey Department of Health full access to inspect Delaney Hall.

If ICE and the GEO Group – with a $1 billion government contract – have nothing to hide and the conditions inside Delaney Hall are as safe and as sanitary as this private corporation and the Trump Administration claim, then there is no legitimate reason why my health inspectors are being kept from full access throughout the building.

We are going to keep working for better conditions inside Delaney Hall until it is closed for good.

[Common Defense @commondefense]

@TriciaOhio @RepJayapal update?

[Common Defense @commondefense]

Not a good month for @PeteHegseth, he cut 78,000 Pentagon civilian jobs in violation of federal law requiring an impact assessment.

The GAO confirmed it. Project 2025 is gutting military readiness.

He must be held accountable.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I'm a veteran. I'm a proud veteran.

I'm also queer and proudly so.

Every June, I celebrate Pride. Every November, I celebrate veterans.

Every April, I observe Month of the Military Child.

Every May, I observe National Military Appreciation Month and Month of the Military Caregiver.

Of course, it doesn't stop here. Nor should it.

There are the military branch and component birthdays/observances: Army (June 14th), Army Reserve (April 23rd), Navy (Oct. 13th), Navy Reserve (March 3rd), Air Force (Sept. 18th) Air Force Reserve (April 14th), Marine Corps (Nov. 10th), Marine Corps Reserve (Aug. 29th), Coast Guard (Aug. 4th), Coast Guard Auxiliary (June 23rd), National Guard (Dec. 13th), and Civil Air Patrol (Dec. 1st).

There are the various days specifically honoring military families, caregivers, and surviving loved ones: Gold Star Spouses Day (April 5th), National Military Brats Day (April 30th), Military Spouse Appreciation Day (Friday before Mothers Day), Children of Fallen Patriots Day (May 13th), Gold Star Mother’s Day (last Sunday in September), National Day of the Deployed (Oct. 26th), and—because families carry the greatest burden here, I’ll include it in this section—National POW/MIA Recognition Day (third Friday in September).

Then there are are the days honoring those who earned specific military decorations: National Medal of Honor Day (March 25th), Silver Star Service Banner Day (May 1st), and National Purple Heart Day (Aug. 7th).

And also the days honoring specific groups of veterans and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice: K-9 Veterans Day (March 13th), National Vietnam War Veterans Day (March 29th), National Former POW Recognition Day (April 9th), V-E Day (May 8th), Women Veterans Day (June 12th), National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (July 27th), National Buffalo Soldiers Day (July 28th), Agent Orange Awareness Day (Aug. 10th), Navajo Code Talkers Day (Aug. 14th), V-J Day (Sept. 2nd), and National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (Dec. 7th).

Outside of those distinct categories, there are some others: Four Chaplins Day (Feb. 3rd), USO Birthday (Feb. 4th), National Salute to Veteran Patients (week of Feb. 12th), Seabee Birthday (March 5th), American Legion Birthday (March 15th), National Rosie the Riveter Day (March 21st), National Hire a Veteran Day (July 25th), Department of Defense Birthday (Aug. 10th), National Airborne Day (Aug. 16th), Veterans of Foreign Wars Day (Sept. 29th), and Wreaths Across America Day (Dec. 18th).

Oh, and Armed Forces Day (May 20th), which falls at the end of Armed Forces Week (which begins on May 13th).

I hope I didn’t miss any?

At least 120 days on the American calendar are dedicated to honoring our military, fallen service members, veterans, and their families.

That's about a third of the full year.

I think that’s great. I think that’s necessary. Our military, our veterans, and their families deserve that recognition.

I also think that’s ironic given how much our military, our veterans, and their families are left behind in this country when it comes to health care, housing, education, and so many other areas which it seems Donald Trump and the Republican Party willfully ignore.

Maybe we need a National Lip Service to Military Appreciation Day, recognizing politicians and their supporters who only seem to truly appreciate the military when it can be used as a cudgel against people they hate.

The past 18 months have seen members of the military and veterans who are women, Black people, people of color generally, and LGBTQ people broadly erased from any recognition by the Trump Administration and the Department of Defense specifically.

Last year, thousands of transgender service members and their families were kicked out, their lives uprooted, their service cruelly degraded, their characters slandered, all because of a senseless and bigoted policy created to placate anti-trans extremists, signed by a coward who avoided military service.

I’m proud of my service and grateful to all who have served and their families, and there’s plenty of time throughout the year to express that.

June is all for LGBTQ people, veterans and non-veterans alike.

Let us have our month.

[Sam Alberti @sam_alberti]

I cannot express to dem staffers how little appetite their is for shit like this right now

[TJ Adams-Falconer @tommyjusa]

@commondefense @PeteHegseth

[Common Defense @commondefense]

@Fukuelonmus @zuccacat @PeteHegseth Yes it is. 🫪

[Common Defense @commondefense]

The first Secretary of Skedaddling in United States history.

Congratulations @PeteHegseth

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

Washington — A divided federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration's policy banning transgender individuals from serving in the military is likely unconstitutional. https://t.co/IN4tgbs6fJ

[Common Defense @commondefense]

@DavidMiz282 What is the community note going to say?

"This post made no reference to profit or loss"?

[Common Defense @commondefense]

Veterans: Please don’t cut our health care…

Trump:

https://t.co/AR8ORSaYcT

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

New photos show the construction of a UFC arena at the White House:

https://t.co/7nSHS0XAAs

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

In reaction to Pride Month posts, TPUSA’s Nathan Roberts has threatened to cancel ***checks notes*** his season tickets for six teams across six different states.