Month: April 2025

Disgraceful SSA replacement of press releases with Twitter posts

I worked for SSA for almost 38 years, This is unbelievable. I believe Wired, not SSA.

We stand by our reporting.

— Brian Barrett (@brbarrett.bsky.social) 2025-04-12T16:08:13.708Z

If you work for the SSA and want bulletins and updates, you have to create a Twitter account. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs…

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-04-11T15:37:00.332Z

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-04-11T17:39:59.624Z

Trump and his cult practice antisemitism

Last year Trump had dinner with antisemite Kanye West and neonazi Nick FuentesThen questioned whether Schumer is actually JewishRecently Steve Bannon also gave a Nazi saluteAnd Elise Stefanik endorsed a candidate who praised HitlerFor Republicans antisemitism isn’t a bugIt’s a feature

— Adam Cohen (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T01:17:01.306Z

Have no words beyond I want to throw up.newrepublic.com/post/193725/…

— FidelisToJustice1 (@fidelistojustice.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T22:22:37.491Z

The Trump administration uses "anti-semitism" as a cudgel while at the same time practicing the very same: http://www.military.com/daily-news/2…

— E 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@voxindie.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T16:23:36.300Z

Trump’s bad idea to bring coal back

He will use the law firms who caved into him to help him.

Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. http://www.msha.gov/notice-stake…

— Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T15:57:54.227Z

I’ve been documenting coal miners’ fight against black lung and attempts to push through these new regulations for the past several years. My @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social investigation into the crisis provides some background: inthesetimes.com/article/coal…

— Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T16:02:41.402Z

Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry … and you thought tariffs were dumb… http://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/c…

— Jen Rubin (@jenrubin.bsky.social) 2025-04-09T02:07:23.669Z

At his coal promotion event at the White House, Trump just said he will use the major law firms he bullied into providing $150 million+ in free legal services to fight state and local government regulations on coal pollution.

— Scott Waldman (@scottpwaldman.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T20:24:34.543Z

This is Scott – a CDC researcher working to help screen coal miners for black lung. His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.

— Senator Mark Warner (@markwarner.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T22:35:11.546Z

President Trump signs executive orders to bolster the country’s declining coal industry, relaxing restrictions on coal mining, leasing and exports in what the White House said is an effort to meet the energy needs of artificial intelligence data centers.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-04-08T21:30:06Z

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T21:39:03.670Z

I grew up around coal miners. For 16 years I was related to many by marriage, including some suffering from black lung and others whose bodies were either broken or on their way to being broken. None of them wanted that life for their kids and those still in it all wanted out. He's a fucking idiot.

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T20:49:37.011Z

Media coverage of the demonstrations was inadequate

@sulliview.bsky.social writes that tamped down coverage of the nationwide demonstrations is a sign that the media "refs have been successfully worked," by a Trump administration that's painted a target on any outlet that doesn't toe the official line.margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes…

— Tim Karr (@timkarr.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T09:51:56.455Z

NYT changed this lackluster, wrongheaded dek…

— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T21:23:57.894Z

Also, there was a lot of lead story reporting on the protests, from NPR to the Anchorage Daily News, but coverage appears to be quite uneven with less reporting in many of the major city dailies like LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. frontpages.freedomforum.org/gallery?regi…

— Omar Wasow (@owasow.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T05:47:52.028Z

newrepublic.com/article/1936…If you went to a Hands Off rally last Saturday, you know that you have to dig to find media coverage. Guess a huge number of people peacefully protesting 47’s actions and policies isn’t “sensational” enough. Thankfully, Rachel Maddow covers what is happening.

— Diane (@pricklypear23.bsky.social) 2025-04-08T16:36:18.955Z
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