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🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.

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Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

submitted 47 days ago • 534 comments

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

submitted 47 days ago • 178 comments

Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

submitted 47 days ago • 846 comments

The below blog piece blew up on FB so thought I’d post it here as well. It’s a piece a wrote summarizing an actual conversation I had recently with a Trump/Musk/Doge supporter. For whatever reason this really has resonated with folks. I suspect you also will relate. garyhooser.blog/2025/03/22/t...

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

I drove by a house that used to fly a Trump flag, but now they are flying an upside-down American flag. I have so many questions, and I’d also like to high five whoever made this change happen. Someone in that house is changing minds.

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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!

submitted 50 days ago • 321 comments

Brit is apparently not willing to go along with the New Big Lie being pushed by Hegseth and Fox hosts.

submitted 55 days ago • 1206 comments

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

submitted 58 days ago • 3839 comments

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

submitted 61 days ago • 92 comments

Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?

submitted 61 days ago • 617 comments

HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE.

submitted 61 days ago • 606 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: CHEERS WILDLY (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 61 days ago • 2580 comments

The entire world seems to understand this except Trump, Vance, Musk, many Fox hosts, and their cult.

submitted 61 days ago • 760 comments

“Musk is killing Tesla. His lack of integrity, lack of internal consistency, and deeply fascistic leanings are now on full display for the world to see. And the world has responded by violently throwing up in their mouths.”

submitted 61 days ago • 463 comments

The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.

submitted 63 days ago • 141 comments

holy shit. in a world of Schumers be a McGee.

submitted 63 days ago • 689 comments

every time I wake up in the middle of the night I regret looking at my phone because something insane has happened, exhibit 293973829

submitted 63 days ago • 209 comments

One good reason for Democrats to show up for Mahmoud Khalil is you're all fucking next

submitted 63 days ago • 74 comments

Dictator shit

submitted 63 days ago • 4070 comments

Here's a dictator, on full blast. 🤬🤬🤬

submitted 63 days ago • 102 comments

Who else AGREES with John?! 🤚🌈✨

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It’s not going to be a fun week.

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Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

submitted 63 days ago • 3050 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 63 days ago • 226 comments

#Florida

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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 104 days ago • 1308 comments

If we confirm Kash Patel, knowing what we are getting, we will only have ourselves to blame.

submitted 94 days ago • 1499 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 94 days ago • 1734 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 94 days ago • 3176 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 94 days ago • 607 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 94 days ago • 481 comments

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 94 days ago • 1124 comments

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

submitted 94 days ago • 2077 comments

Forever, the courts have been an important arbiter of what a President can, and can’t do. That is under threat now: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trump-like...

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Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 95 days ago • 1436 comments

Creative accounting AKA Covering your ass

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Of course the Democrats will be going to Houston to find and interview voters who were laid off , to ask them what their expectations of the new administration were and how they feel they are doing at the moment. And posting here and everywhere. Right ?

submitted 95 days ago • 1393 comments

The key to spotting embezzlement is that it involves a betrayal of trust or duty. While this looks different in every state, generally, these four factors must be present: www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...

submitted 94 days ago • 71 comments

14 states file lawsuit arguing Elon Musk’s authority at DOGE is unconstitutional - NBC News

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Filed in District Court today. Judge Berman Jackson making sure the record will always be reflective of what really happened that day.

submitted 101 days ago • 244 comments

A counterintelligence disaster is right. This is a highly unusual request from the White House, and an even more unusual compliance for the CIA. This will put lives at risk.

submitted 103 days ago • 205 comments

What the FUCK

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BREAKING: All overseas missions for the U.S. Agency for USAID, have been ordered to shut down and all staff will be recalled by Friday, CBS News reports USAID has more than 10,000 employees, with about two-thirds serving overseas This outrageous move will only bolster China’s global influence.

submitted 103 days ago • 236 comments

Am I having a stroke or did Trump just talk about the US “owning” Gaza? And maybe sending US troops?

submitted 103 days ago • 1057 comments

REPORTER: You are talking tonight about the US taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation? TRUMP: I do see a long term ownership position

submitted 103 days ago • 1155 comments

Absolute fucking insanity tonight on Gaza. Our country is being run by a madman. Two weeks of complete chaos and lunacy.

submitted 103 days ago • 1063 comments