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Social Security in turmoil: — SSA website crashed four times in 10 days this month — Phone service a mess following Musk-led cuts — Agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience due to DOGE — Major staff exodus www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The Trump administration is now ordering massive cuts to the Social Security Administration. This could effectively block millions of Americans from getting the benefits they have earned.

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"Anyone surprised by the news of this week’s bizarre leak has forgotten the long record of security failures in Trump’s first term." www.thebulwark.com/p/high-cost-...

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So the administration has just given Jeffrey Goldberg permission to release the entire chat. And he should.

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Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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Yet Republicans lost their minds over Hillary’s emails.

submitted 19 hours ago • 116 comments

Is it a constitutional crisis or not? Don't listen to what they say - watch what they do and how they vote.

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Trump's Social Security nominee just lied to the Finance Committee, claiming he hasn't been involved in any DOGE plans to gut Social Security. My office has a whistleblower that says otherwise. We brought the receipts.

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Circling back on this…

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Top White House officials used disappearing messages on Signal for top-secret national security discussions—violating federal law & risking our security. Even worse? A participant was in Moscow. Congress must investigate. This betrayal cannot stand . adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-signal...

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Our latest: Senate Democrats don't get it

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Donald Trump is trying to break Social Security to pave the way for cuts to your hard-earned benefits. Every Republican who refuses to stand against this is condemning their own constituents to completely needless suffering. It is an outrage.

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NEXT WEEK: There’s an important election that will impact the midterms and 2028. Elon Musk is trying to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and end the liberal majority in this battleground state. Early voting is here, so help us GOTV for @crawfordforwi.bsky.social: mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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@ossoff.bsky.social: It's "open season on corruption, where you've got the White House as a Tesla showroom, the Secretary of Commerce pumping up Tesla stock while Elon Musk's money is what is used to keep Republican senators in line."

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National security leaders put classified information in an unsecure text chain, and didn’t bother to check who else was on it. These people work for Donald Trump, who hid classified documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. The rot starts at the top.

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News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼

submitted 20 hours ago • 112 comments

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

submitted 23 hours ago • 154 comments

🚨An important report on Trump’s sabotage of Social Security was released today. It’s worse than you think. His administration’s reckless policies gutted SSA operations, putting benefits & security at risk. 🧵⬇️

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Was waiting to see what she thought.

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Shortly after senior Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen in a Signal group chat that just happened to include the Atlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join.

submitted 18 hours ago • 76 comments

This is SO much worse than Hillary‘s emails—it’s not even in the same universe. Don’t let them make that bullshit comparison. She wasn’t sharing war plans. She wasn’t in an unsecured text group sharing classified documents and state secrets. She was actually qualified for her job and not a traitor.

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contrarian.substack.com/p/the-real-h... fabulous piece

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Mark Warner calls for Tulsi Gabbard and Trump’s national security team to be fired. Do you agree that is justified here?

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OSSOFF: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct? RATCLIFFE: No. Wait, what?

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This questioning by @ossoff.bsky.social is the kind of energy we need to see from every single Democrat.

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“The question now is: where will Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez channel all this voltage towards?” @premthakker.bsky.social writes about the power of the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez duo as they tour the country and how they could possibly channel it. Read: zeteo.com/p/aoc-bernie...

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Don’t let them scare you. Don’t let them get you to give up hope. This is what they want more than anything. Their evil is never more alive than when we sleep.

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Trump and Musk cut off public funding for cancer research as "wasteful and fraudulent." Now labs in another country will take over and their companies will profit.

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Need more “Hell No!” energy like this.

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Soon, if a new proposal from the Trump administration goes into effect, immigrants applying for green cards or citizenship will have to disclose their social media handles with their application.

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WHOA! Democrat Ro Khanna holds a town hall in VERY RED Bakersfield, California — and draws a HUGE CROWD on Sunday.

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The parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who just died from measles in Texas say they have no regrets for refusing to vaccinate their child. “The measles are good for the body... She’s better off where she is now.”

submitted 4 days ago • 3163 comments

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

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Sanders: We are going to bring legislation to the floor very shortly that says not a nickel more for Netanyahu

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Sanders: We have a president who lies all of the time and one of his worst lies is that he says Ukraine started that war. Mr. President, Russia and Putin started that war.

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The $400,000,000 Trump is withholding from Columbia University is no arbitrary amount. It was the amount Donald wanted Columbia to pay him for land he owned. They refused. And Donald was furious. That was 25 years ago. And petty Donald has not forgotten.

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more and more people are saying this

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Sanders: In our form a government, unless you are a coward, you don’t sue the media because they report on things you don’t like.

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Spread the word: On April 5, we’re coming together to say Hands Off! and push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join us for a national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

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We have a president who brags about sending people to prisons that will treat them inhumanely. Such depravity.

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