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DOGE efforts to rewrite Social Security software are dangerous

DOGE effort to rewrite Social Security code could have catastrophic consequences, experts warn

DOGE’s new plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration is doomed to fail

Sounds like the computer systems at Social Security Admin are starting to get kinda glitchy the more DOGE fiddles talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/situa…

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-04-03T20:19:11.263Z

Social Security tech staff cuts raise concerns amid system failures

Great signs from anti-Trump rallies

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:36:22.020Z

San Diego. This lady for the win.

— Pete Rice (@nightsky99.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:46:20.582Z

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:43:00.034Z

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:41:37.801Z

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:37:38.496Z

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T18:31:01.434Z

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-04-05T16:34:54.288Z

Could you keep your job if you made mistakes 20% of the time?

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke about cuts to his agency, saying that they "are not affecting science," and that of the personnel that were cut, "20% of those are going to have to be reinstalled" due to "mistakes."

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-04-04T16:01:17Z

I don't anyone (except Trump cabinet members) could keep their job if they made mistakes 20% of the time.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-04-04T17:54:56.071Z

Trump’s popularity is dropping

It should. He’s terrible.

It took Donald Trump a little more than two months to completely squander any kind of postelection goodwill he had. His approval rating has steadily dipped from 47% to 45% to 43%, according to Gallup…..www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d…

— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T20:03:38.025Z

Wow, new AP/NORC poll has Trump deeply underwater on economic and trade issues and even underwater on immigration.

— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2025-03-31T18:42:05.158Z

⚡️ 73% of Ukrainians say Trump is bad for Ukraine, poll shows.This is a major spike from December 2024, when only 21% saw Donald Trump as a negative for Ukraine, a recent poll shows.

— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) 2025-04-01T09:26:49.930Z

Trump: "I have the highest poll numbers of any Republican for the last 100 years. We're in the high 70s in many polls, in the real polls."That's nonsense. Today's CBS poll finds 40% of Americans strongly disapprove of him; 11% somewhat disapprove; 19% somewhat approve; only 31% strongly approve.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T17:01:15.080Z

Most Americans Think Donald Trump Is Too Soft With Putin: Poll https://twp.ai/4imDP7

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T16:55:13.000Z

YouGov poll:74% Americans — including 60% of Republicans — say the Trump admin's use of the Signal chat to discuss military strikes is a serious problem.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-03-27T23:50:17.341Z

Some really bad swings on the economy for Trump in the new CBS poll. In January, 42% thought they’d be better off under his policies on the economy. Now just 23% say they are, and 42% say they’re worse off. And almost as many people blame him for inflation now as Biden.

— Andy Kaczynski (@kfile.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T13:54:35.408Z

I donated to Democracy Forward because they are suing Trump

I think the Democratic Party isn’t worth donating to until they remove Schumer as minority leader.

I donated to Democracy Forward which has sued Trump. That’s what needs to be done and should be supported.

Note: There are two parts to it for donations

Democracy Forward Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, and Democracy Forward, a 501(c)(4) organization. Donations to Democracy Forward are not tax deductible.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward sued the Trump administration over its use of the wartime law to quickly deport people, which they say violates due process.

— NPR (@npr.org) 2025-03-28T16:52:43.011Z

This is yet another lawsuit against the Trump admin led by Democracy Forward.“This decision affirms a critical constitutional principle: the President cannot unilaterally shut down an agency created by Congress,” Robin Thurston, the group's legal director, said in a statement.

— Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T22:57:06.883Z

Last night, Democracy Forward filed a Motion for Emergency Relief in a Maryland Federal court on behalf of unions and retirees vs SSA and DOGE to stop DOGE from accessing sensitive data and determine what DOGE is doing in the SSA #Voices4Victory http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog…

— KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) 2025-03-08T17:09:02.291Z

This latest effort to weaponize federal funding will directly harm the health care of millions of Americans.

At Democracy Forward, we’ve successfully taken the admin to court on similar cases, and we plan to use every legal tool to protect the essential care that so many rely on.

Trump has gutted the CDC, FDA and other health agencies

I don’t know how you can ever rebuild them. I assume Trump will be sued but the damage has been done.

It’s incredible how badly they treat people. From a Marisa Kabas post below:

“Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email.”

"The FDA as we've known it is finished."“CDC clobbered. The agency will not be able to function."

— Karen Benjamin Guzzo (@karenguzzo.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T18:42:39.063Z

The CDC has been guttedwww.wired.com/story/cdc-gu…

— David Gilbert (@davidgilbert.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T15:36:10.409Z

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T15:25:36.601Z

For sharing: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T16:14:31.402Z

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is being decimated right now. Mass layoffs happening across agencies (NIH, FDA, CDC etc). Some employees found out by security badge being denied. Others got email.Line outside Health Resources and Services Administration this AM shared with me:

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T13:48:17.885Z

HHS looking at 25% cut overall.Food and Drug Administration will be gutted by 18%; Centers for Disease Control by 19%www.govexec.com/workforce/20…

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2025-04-01T13:53:06.318Z

NEW: No fewer than 10 principle scientists at NIH investigating emerging infectious diseases and neural disorders were among those fired by RFK Jr. today. One is an esteemed scientist awarded for breakthrough research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. By me and @emilymullin.bsky.social:

— Dell Cameron (@dell.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T00:15:00.369Z

Instagram post on Bo Brooks (Baltimore crab restaurant)

The photo below is of the Bo Brooks location on Belair Road which is where it was in the 1970s when I moved here. It was a great place to get crabs.

In the 1990s, it moved to a much more upscale location in Canton. Somehow the old place seemed more authentic. Don’t get me wrong – I would have done what they did and make the new place more upscale. It reminded me of the difference between old Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards,

I was shocked when it closed a few years ago. See the video below on the closing which you have to go to YouTube to see.

Trump’s hostility to foreigners, universities and science will cause a brain drain

Once people have left or don’t come here at all, we’ve lost them. The whole country will suffer for decades because of Trump. Other countries will be glad to have these people and will benefit from them.

Yes–Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

— Karl Jacoby (@karl-jacoby.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T14:42:53.996Z

This is a sad but interesting question. How many grad students will leave and where, if anywhere will they go ?

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T01:33:59.540Z

Real consequences to Trump. Dr. Marc Ruel, one of the world's top heart surgeons, was set to move from Ottawa to San Francisco this year.He backed out because of the political situation here and the mistreatment of Canada by Trump through tariffs and annexationwww.kqed.org/news/1203279…

— DrDinD.bsky.social (@drdind.bsky.social) 2025-03-27T02:04:45.462Z

Stanley said he was leaving for Toronto “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” He told the Daily Nous he was happy at Yale but wants “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat…

— Matthew Hay Brown (@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T00:50:50.247Z

“Asked whether she believes other professors might be encouraged to leave the United States, Shore wrote that she believes many of her colleagues will consider relocating due to the current political climate, which she deemed an ‘American descent into fascism.’”

— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T00:16:58.073Z

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪www.nature.com/articles/d41…

— Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze.bsky.social) 2025-03-27T14:19:04.008Z

Spurred by “alarming political interference in academic research by the Trump administration,” Brussels’s Vrije Universiteit (VUB), or Free University, allocated $2.7 million in funding last week for at least 12 new postdoctoral roles open to “censored Americans.”

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-03-24T20:24:57.599Z

Trump's science denial, racism and sexism will trigger a brain drain that weakens the United States. MAGA is trashing our leading role in the world to wallow in greed and ignorance.

— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T20:58:01.808Z