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SCOOP— Social Security Administration (SSA) will be slashing more jobs at direction of the WH/OPM/OMB, multiple agency sources confirmed to me. This is despite Acting Commissioner Dudek’s assurances two weeks ago that no more RIFs would be necessary this fiscal year after hitting downsizing targets.

submitted 31 days ago • 37 comments

🧵 time so buckle up! So let’s talk about the claim that Muskrat made about SSA giving Social Security Numbers (SSNs) to noncitizens. To be clear, since he did not make this distinction, the chart he showed does NOT mean those people received benefits. The chart was specific to SSNs assigned via 1/?

submitted 33 days ago • 28 comments

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

submitted 38 days ago • 1705 comments

Trump walks to Marine One to head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayers dime. This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.

submitted 50 days ago • 1288 comments

BREAKING: Tesla's windows

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

SCOOP: FEMA's top lawyer was forced out yesterday after less than a week on the job—and sources tell me it was because of his unwillingness to write a memo providing legal cover for the agency's impoundment of $80 million from NYC migrant shelters. Full story:

submitted 59 days ago • 106 comments

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 61 days ago • 102 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 61 days ago • 1202 comments

Commissioner Dudek, who was gifted his promotion by selling out the agency to DOGE, has proposed replacing 800 number agents with overseas call centers. That means a private company in another country will be granted full access to the American public's private data.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Want to know how a mid-level staffer can go from being investigated for a fireable violation to heading one of the U.S.'s most important agencies in less than a week? I'll tell you a story...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

30-90 days sounds about right. DOGE and Dudek are trying to hide the immediate impact by shifting support employees to "public facing" positions without training. Wait times might even go down! But the errors and backlog will be catastrophic. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

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submitted 62 days ago • 116 comments

-> “Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit…is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer & employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the general fund or reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security Trust Fund…” ~Ronald Reagan

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

Whoops, I accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention! Doh, I fired the the bird flu experts! Oops-a-daisy, I stopped the Lutheran Charities foster care and adoption services! My bad, I sacked the nuclear weapons workers! Now can I have access to your tax returns?

submitted 67 days ago • 5 comments

Leland Dudek…what a stand-up guy! 🙄

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

In therapy this morning I talked about the weight of knowing a tidal wave of suffering is coming. There may be ways to mitigate some of it, but it's coming.

submitted 67 days ago • 86 comments

This guy knows how understaffed SSA is yet continues to cut people.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Call to Action: The Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent federal agency that safeguards federal employees in employment disputes, has paused the terminations of six probationary federal workers across various executive branch agencies and departments for 45 days.

submitted 67 days ago • 128 comments

Today in headlines that sound too cartoonishly evil to be true: Social Security Administration (SSA) acting commissioner Leland Dudek has axed the agency's Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. You know, the office that investigates harassment, discrimination, and medical/disability claims.

submitted 68 days ago • 32 comments

People who work or have worked at HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, HRSA and other health agencies - we want to hear from you. Researchers who rely on federal funding from any of these entities, we also want to hear from you. Reach out to us: www.propublica.org/tips/ Or find me on Signal: 347-549-0332 🔎

submitted 69 days ago • 15 comments

Put plainly, Musk has wasted 48 hours of the federal government’s time to fuck with people’s heads under the guise of achieving greater efficiency.

submitted 69 days ago • 107 comments

The guidance for how to deal with Musk’s 5 bullets email (deadline 11:59pm tonight) is all over the place. HHS employees have received multiple conflicting emails from leadership. DOJ and State said don’t reply. SSA, GSA, Treasury, FDIC, VA were told to respond. Total mess.

submitted 69 days ago • 48 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 69 days ago • 2147 comments

I really appreciate @marisakabas.bsky.social reporting on the trauma and physical and psychological effects of how Musk is harassing workers. This kind of workplace abuse wreaks devastating havoc on peoples' lives www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-opm-5...

submitted 70 days ago • 14 comments

New — I wrote about how the 5 bullets email is nothing but an escalation of Musk and the Trump administration’s psychological war on federal workers. Read here:

submitted 70 days ago • 33 comments

on top of this being unenforceable bullshit, many federal employees cannot even access their email on the weekend without a work VPN. others can, but (unlike in musk’s world) it’s actually frowned upon to access off duty.

submitted 71 days ago • 67 comments

Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

submitted 71 days ago • 190 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 71 days ago • 154 comments