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Can’t know specifically why this happened. But the DOGE boys were leafing thru the files and canceling some individual accounts that didn’t look right to them and there have been daily computer crashes at SSA after DOGErs canceled a number of the computer servicing/maintenance contracts

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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 2 days ago • 645 comments

"Until this weekend..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

submitted 2 days ago • 543 comments

I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status. I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.

submitted 2 days ago • 1014 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 2 days ago • 707 comments

"One of the most alarming developments in the second Trump administration is agencies’ apparent defiance of court orders barring them from implementing illegal executive orders...Yet the prospect of holding executive branch officials in contempt threatens a fresh constitutional crisis."

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 3 days ago • 778 comments

In the VA Newsletter of Mar. 5, 2025, the lead story is "A message from VA Secretary Doug Collins" and the "WATCH" link goes to "X" (aka Twitter) to watch the video. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! There's already a VA YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@DeptVetAffa... FYI: @maddow.msnbc.com

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I've been wondering about this for a while..... www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

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This is going to be important: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 4 days ago • 638 comments

@normeisen.bsky.social, @weissmann11.bsky.social, and @marcelias.bsky.social must be doing something right to get under Trump’s skin. I am proud to know them all. They each have more integrity and legal talent in their fingernails than all of Trump’s doj appointees put together.

submitted 4 days ago • 53 comments

Alabama, like other states, depends on NOAA warnings for early preparedness for events like this. Early preparedness saves lives. But Trump & Musk are killing off NOAA. www.al.com/weather/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 109 comments

Call these Senators—tell them to vote no: All begin (202) 224 Cortez Masto 3542 Duckworth 2854 Durbin 2152 Fetterman (is a yes) 4254 Gillibrand 4451 Hassan 3324 King 5344 Klobuchar 3244 Peters 6221 Rosen 6244 Schatz 3934 Schumer (is a yes) 6542 Shaheen 2841 Share far and wide!

submitted 4 days ago • 106 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 7 days ago • 1089 comments

If you haven’t seen this yet, I urge you to watch it. We spent about 3 years working with the directors to center #1898descendants experiences of reckoning with their family history that is also national history. #neverforget #1898wilmingtonmassacre

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"The goal of 'America First' isn’t 'America First.' It’s 'Trump Forever.'"

submitted 10 days ago • 135 comments

From Paul Blumenthal: www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." This is absolute rubbish. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 85 years. Perhaps the bigger "ponzi scheme" is the $38 billion spent by taxpayers to prop up his corporations?

submitted 16 days ago • 354 comments

Thank you, Governor Shapiro.

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submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 17 days ago • 6045 comments

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

submitted 18 days ago • 386 comments

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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After that meeting in the oval office, Trump and Vance siding with Putin is traitorous.

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Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 25 days ago • 50 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 24 days ago • 1575 comments

The Trump-Musk assault on disability rights is monstrous on its own but also the start of a wider assault on other vulnerable populations. Pay attention.

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 33 days ago • 425 comments

You know how, in computer world, we're always told to backup our most important files? I sure hope there are a lot of federal backups safely stored somewhere.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 41 days ago • 1752 comments

How is it that Musk got by Secutity at each of these agencies?

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Folks (and this thing has gone around quickly), it's still unclear what has been "deleted"; as many of you have noted DirectFile remains active. Part of the danger of Government-By-Unelected-Nutball is that what's actually true is a moving target. If you RT'd my initial post, RT this as well.

submitted 43 days ago • 60 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 43 days ago • 517 comments

Elon Musk is NOT a legitimate government official -- he was not approved by Congress, and he has ZERO legal authority. He cannot shut down agencies. He cannot access Social Security numbers and payment info for millions of Americans. Take him to court and SHUT HIM DOWN.

submitted 43 days ago • 272 comments

Members of Congress going into the US Agency for International Development!

submitted 43 days ago • 601 comments

Elon Musk has no business having anything to do with the federal government!!! From the news reports, what he's doing has got to be totally illegal, and is totally unacceptable! GET HIM OUT!!!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Time to impeach Trump. ASAP.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The FTC under Lina Khan: -Stopped anticompetitive mergers -Cracked down on junk fees -Challenged Big Pharma price-gouging -Stood up to monopolies like Amazon -Protected farmers' right to repair She's been an avid antitrust enforcer and defender of working people.

submitted 46 days ago • 59 comments

You know what makes me the most sad? During the Civil War, we praised the Underground Railroad. During World War II, we praised The Resistance and the Partisans who hid Jews. Now a large chunk of America wants to turn in those who hide oppressed people. We’re going backwards.

submitted 50 days ago • 319 comments

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

submitted 49 days ago • 2061 comments