This is terrible. He has done permanent damage to SSA’s reputation and public trust of the agency.
The training issue is very concerning.. I worked in an SSA field office for almost five years between 1976-1981. It takes a couple of years to really feel knowledgeable about the procedures.
7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]
Social Security is a very successful, very popular program. Its financing challenges are real, but can be managed with common-sense changes. It emphatically does NOT need a radical restructuring, as several new proposals suggest.More from Wendell Primus et al:www.brookings.edu/articles/ins…
ICYMI: In 24 years, only 77 “illegals” have voted — representing 0.00000764% of total votes…And the research comes from the far-right Heritage Foundationelectionfraud.heritage.org/search?combi…
Questionable? Outright wrong? Can’t you say they lied?
When an immigration agent shot a man in the leg last month in Minnesota, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man. It was the latest instance of the U.S. government providing an account of a shooting that later proved questionable or outright wrong.
This is why you can't 🤬get ahead🤬Buy a new car🤬Pay off your debts🤬Buy a house🤬Stop using credit cards for groceries🤬Take a vacationIts the billionaires
Two-thirds of Americans think the gap between the richest and poorest is increasing.(Economist / @today.yougov.com)More, via Opinion Today:opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251008-top…
Black women are 3x more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. If you wondered why, here is a clear example of the medical racism we suffer from.It is inexcusable that wealthiest nation on Earth does not guarantee equitable care for ALL women.thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/18/v…
They will cause permanent damage to the US and the planet.
Trump is being modest when he calls gutting our ability to fight climate change the “single largest deregulatory action in American history.”It’s also the largest:— giveaway to Big Oil & corporate polluters— assault on climate science— destruction of decades of progress
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
Bravo to the Environmental Defense Fund and @ucs.org – their lawsuit led a Reagan appointed judge to conclude the Department of Energy acted illegally in creating a panel to review climate change composed of climate denierswww.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c…
A judge ruled that the Trump administration's preposterously fake climate science panel violated federal law, flouting public meeting and open record requirements: http://www.latimes.com/environment/… via @hayleysmith.bsky.social
The opinion section is mostly right-wing trash now.
Days after laying off many of the great climate change reporters I once worked with, the Washington Post published an editorial applauding Trump for ripping up the federal government’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Important column by @sammyroth.bsky.social
The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.
We should be going forwatd with clean energy, not backsliding.
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
Donald Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Oil and Big Coal.He's literally stopping coal plants from shutting down after receiving nearly half a billion dollars from the industry during the 2024 campaign.
And Trump is saying global warming doesn't exist and is pushing coal. Coal. In the meantime other countries like China are eating our lunch with renewable. Just madness.
As CBS News staff quietly brace for another round of layoffs, Status has learned key new details about the cuts executives are planning behind the scenes.Details in @status.news: http://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l…
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.1/3
Immigrants:📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free rideUndocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.2/3