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Trump’s illegal attacks on unions

This executive order is another example of the Trump-Musk Administration’s war on working people. These two billionaires busted unions in their day jobs and now they’re bringing these same attacks to our government in the biggest presidential attack on unions in history.

— Congressman Bobby Scott (@bobbyscott.house.gov) 2025-03-28T16:02:44.628Z

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workersThis may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

— Eric Blanc (@ericblanc.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T03:17:43.491Z

Trump just took away their union. He’ll come for yours next.Every member of Congress should demand this union-busting bullshit ends now.

— Congressman Greg Landsman (@repgreglandsman.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T16:00:05.786Z

🚨 VA just terminated collective bargaining agreements for most union employees—a direct attack on workers' rights and veterans' care.RM @repmarktakano.bsky.social and @democrats-veterans.house.gov released the following statement: democrats-veterans.house.gov/news/press-r…

— House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Democrats (@democrats-veterans.house.gov) 2025-08-07T15:44:25.023Z

41% of Union members voted for Trump. In case anyone was wondering.

— (@nachyocheese.bsky.social) 2025-08-07T16:52:02.405Z

Trump Begins to Strip Federal Workers of Union ProtectionsThe Department of Veterans Affairs is the first agency to begin terminating union contracts, affecting more than 400,000 workers.www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u…

— Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) 2025-08-07T15:16:43.472Z

Trump’s SSA changes are built for failure

Here’s an article on the new restrictions on calls. Things you can see in the article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/social-security-chief-says-white-house-ordered-rapid-phone-service-cutbacks/ar-AA1BzIZK?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=64cf23166fac44f4b79a68b307490d17&ei=30

They’re doing something rapidly that normally could take two years

Instructions for the staff aren’t ready and training hasn’t been done.

I really believe Trump/Musk want SSA to fail.

I’m fed up with Trump’s lies about Social Security

I worked for SSA for almost 38 years. The amount of fraud is very low. The staff is very dedicated to providing service to the public. We made many advancements over the years,

Trump, Msuk and the MAGA cult are lying. They are trying to destroy the reputation of SSA, Why/ My guess is to privatize it. If the service level is bad because of reduced staffing, they expect the public to be more receptive to privatization. They also want to lower costs to have money for tax breaks for billionaires.

Claims of massive fraud by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are at odds with reams of audits and reports on the Social Security Administration’s spending.But some of the biggest examples of allegedly wasteful spending held up by Musk and DOGE so far have been overblown or inaccurate.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-03-24T13:54:59.714Z

Lutnick’s terrible comments on SSA

Billionaire Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s comments were terrible

  1. most beneficiaries would miss getting a check. They are not billionaires like him
  2. People who would complain are not fraudsters.

Oh no they don't. H3LL no. IDK why the Commerce Secretary has an opinion on Social Security anyway. His job is promoting U. S. businesses. The SSA has never missed a monthly payment. Lutnick needs to think again if he thinks we're OK with a missed payment.www.axios.com/2025/03/21/s…

— Robert Johnston (@robertj1088.bsky.social) 2025-03-22T02:45:28.054Z

Trump approval is declining

% who approve | disapprove of the approach Donald Trump has taken to implementing his policiesU.S. adults 46% | 44%Democrats 8% | 84%Independents 40% | 43%Republicans 87% | 8%ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Re…

— YouGov America (@today.yougov.com) 2025-03-18T17:01:48.533Z

Overreach http://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o…

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T02:19:44.567Z

New Morning Consult weekly tracker is out and it's another bad poll for Trump. His job approval is now 48%-50%, down 10 points since his first week. With independents its 39%-56%. More strongly disapprove – 44% – than approve.

— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2025-03-17T23:33:42.483Z

Even 60% of Republicans say Signalgate is a serious national security breach. Hegseth must resign or be fired. If the Obama or Biden admins had done this, Republicans would be apoplectic and heads would have rolled.

— Mike Levin (@mikelevin.org) 2025-03-28T00:21:02.937Z

Blue state housing restrictions will cost them electoral votes after the 2030 census

Housing really is a ‘decide if you want to win’ issue for the Democratic Party.

— William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T03:04:21.012Z

@yappelbaum.bsky.social: in California cities where the share of progressives votes goes up by 10 percentage points, number of housing permits issued declines by 30 percent http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T19:33:44.827Z

Resegregation posts

Looks like Trump the bigot wants resegregation

In case anyone is still skeptical that the goal is resegregation and the lowing and reinforcement of the glass ceiling. http://www.npr.org/sections/sho…

— Tom Langen (@calocitta.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T18:42:11.583Z

Every day it becomes clearer and clearer that one of the Trump administration's objectives is a great resegregation of American life. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T14:37:44.263Z

Axios and WaPo reported yesterday that the military took down webpages celebrating Native American history. It looks like the purge was much more widespread, however — TPM found many pages describing the military's racial integration have also been removed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago…

— John Light (@johnalight.bsky.social) 2025-03-18T14:33:26.739Z

The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

Trump attacks on Administrative Law Judges (ALJ)

🚨SSA ALJs decided nearly 425,000 cases in 2024. While they hear appeals from Social Security and SSI applicants and beneficiaries, ALJs are particularly important in ensuring fair access to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Trump wants to fire them.🚨www.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Peter Morley 💙 ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T15:39:52.380Z

In Feb, the Trump Admin announced it believes legal protections against firing administrative law judges (ALJs) — independent judges who serve at exec agencies — are unconstitutional & does not plan to follow existing law that protects ALJs from being fired w/o cause. 🧵www.cbpp.org/research/soc…

— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-03-14T16:19:05.012Z

What’s going on with GSA’s property list?

GSA posted a list of government buildings it wants to sell, then took it down and said another list would be posted later.

I am most familiar with the buildings in Woodlawn, MD. This looks like most or all of the Social Security headquarters complex there. Most of the buildings were built around 1960 but were totally renovated in the 2000s. There’s also a building in Wilkes-Barre, PA that was built as a data center in the early 1990s. What is Trump up to? Are they going to contract part or all of SSA’s work out?

This is almost every major federal building in DC, and even includes the HEATING PLANT that supplies steam and cold water to government buildings.

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-03-04T20:25:37.544Z
Feds ID local Social Security buildings for sale, then list disappears
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/federal-buildings-sale-trump-gsa-chaos/

Here’s a Map of the For-Sale Government Properties the GSA Pulled From Its Website

https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-property-disposition/noncore-property-list

Trump disobeys a judge’s order. What happens now?

My guess is not much. Even if the judge penalizes the administration, Trump’s DOJ won’t do anything.

— Jonathan Miller (@jonathan-miller.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T21:59:30.808Z

If court orders are being ignored, we’re having that constitutional crisis that everyone’s been worried about.We’re there, folks.

— Jon Cryer (@mrjoncryer.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T21:45:26.856Z

If the White House doesn’t like a federal judge’s ruling they should appeal it, not ignore it. Absent a valid justification, the government officials responsible should be held in contempt.

— Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-03-16T20:43:07.283Z

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T20:23:44.931Z

So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. http://www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-…

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-03-16T18:18:34.572Z