First, you break the thing. Tell the people, "Oh, no! It broke! How on earth did that happen? Don't worry, we know a guy." And that's how you privatize a federal system.
Last week, I broke news that Social Security wants to cut field office visits by half.
Sens. Warren, Wyden, Gillibrand & Sanders are following up with SSA. "We are concerned that these efforts are in fact part of a plan to ‘quietly kill[] field offices.'"
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Sens. Warren, Wyden, Gillibrand & Sanders are following up with SSA. "We are concerned that these efforts are in fact part of a plan to ‘quietly kill[] field offices.'"
tinyurl.com/2j7meesy
Lawmakers seek details behind SSA plan to slash office visits
Nextgov/FCW first reported the agency’s intention to reduce field office visits last week.
tinyurl.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
First, you break the thing. Tell the people, "Oh, no! It broke! How on earth did that happen? Don't worry, we know a guy." And that's how you privatize a federal system.
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The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
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Savoring this update on a battle that we worked so hard to win. It means dignity—not destitution—for up to 1.5 million older workers who become disabled & for their families, too.
Keep hoping, keep fighting, and celebrate every victory. 🎉
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Keep hoping, keep fighting, and celebrate every victory. 🎉
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Savoring this update on a battle that we worked so hard to win. It means dignity—not destitution—for up to 1.5 million older workers who become disabled & for their families, too.
Keep hoping, keep fighting, and celebrate every victory. 🎉
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
Keep hoping, keep fighting, and celebrate every victory. 🎉
www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...
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The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇
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you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW*
#SocialSecurity #PSA
If you get SSA benefits via direct deposit ON THE 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH & you use Freedom Bank, something went wonky & Freedom SENT October payments back to SSA.
SSA is sending them back out, BUT they are sending NOVEMBER'S payments with it.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS...
If you get SSA benefits via direct deposit ON THE 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH & you use Freedom Bank, something went wonky & Freedom SENT October payments back to SSA.
SSA is sending them back out, BUT they are sending NOVEMBER'S payments with it.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS...
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
#SocialSecurity #PSA
If you get SSA benefits via direct deposit ON THE 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH & you use Freedom Bank, something went wonky & Freedom SENT October payments back to SSA.
SSA is sending them back out, BUT they are sending NOVEMBER'S payments with it.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS...
If you get SSA benefits via direct deposit ON THE 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH & you use Freedom Bank, something went wonky & Freedom SENT October payments back to SSA.
SSA is sending them back out, BUT they are sending NOVEMBER'S payments with it.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS...
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Proper link. Here's the brother on the I'm ADHD, No You're Not podcast, talking about a lot of stuff that will be familiar to a lot of us.
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podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a...
ADHD, Grief & Prince’s Guitar with Ed Byrne
Podcast Episode · I'm ADHD! No You're Not · 23/10/2025 · 1h 2m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Proper link. Here's the brother on the I'm ADHD, No You're Not podcast, talking about a lot of stuff that will be familiar to a lot of us.
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: @oispooky.bsky.social is one of the hardest working public historians, and yet one of the most underrated. Her research into Victorian wrestlers and boxers is fascinating, and I can't wait for her new book - out next year! Give her a follow.
Fantastic list of attractions at a Wakefield fete in 1894.
Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.
Go for the lemon and sheep cutting, stay for the old ladies and fish.
October 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again: @oispooky.bsky.social is one of the hardest working public historians, and yet one of the most underrated. Her research into Victorian wrestlers and boxers is fascinating, and I can't wait for her new book - out next year! Give her a follow.
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Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
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Fact check: Social Security benefits are funded through permanent law, not annual appropriations. They have *nothing* to do with the shutdown. They're being paid on time and in full.
Trump is fearmongering the 70M people who receive Social Security to get his way.
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
Trump is fearmongering the 70M people who receive Social Security to get his way.
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
Social Security, Medicare are "going to be gone," Donald Trump warns
Trump made the comments in response to criticism from a Democrat amid the government shutdown.
www.newsweek.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fact check: Social Security benefits are funded through permanent law, not annual appropriations. They have *nothing* to do with the shutdown. They're being paid on time and in full.
Trump is fearmongering the 70M people who receive Social Security to get his way.
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
Trump is fearmongering the 70M people who receive Social Security to get his way.
www.newsweek.com/social-secur...
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When November hits and nobody gets their benefits, remember this.
When they wanna find money, they can. When you need your money back, they don’t have a dime to spare.
When they wanna find money, they can. When you need your money back, they don’t have a dime to spare.
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
When November hits and nobody gets their benefits, remember this.
When they wanna find money, they can. When you need your money back, they don’t have a dime to spare.
When they wanna find money, they can. When you need your money back, they don’t have a dime to spare.
@kathleenromig.bsky.social FYI if you care to share: the Birmingham AL SSA call center is experiencing major disruption due to a tech issue with their softphones. About 1 in 4 calls is going through.
October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@kathleenromig.bsky.social FYI if you care to share: the Birmingham AL SSA call center is experiencing major disruption due to a tech issue with their softphones. About 1 in 4 calls is going through.
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Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
They have worked 12 days in 3 months.
Epstein Shutdown.
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Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.
So weird how everyone seems to be super confident about how many fraudulent Social Security disability claims are made, & yet no one seems to have ever in their lives asked a Disability Determination Service examiner OR an adjudication law judge about it.
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(cc: @kathleenromig.bsky.social)
October 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So weird how everyone seems to be super confident about how many fraudulent Social Security disability claims are made, & yet no one seems to have ever in their lives asked a Disability Determination Service examiner OR an adjudication law judge about it.
(cc: @kathleenromig.bsky.social)
(cc: @kathleenromig.bsky.social)
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Trump has no legal authority to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits, even during a shutdown.
They're authorized and funded in the Social Security Act--not the annual appropriations process.
They're authorized and funded in the Social Security Act--not the annual appropriations process.
👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Trump has no legal authority to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits, even during a shutdown.
They're authorized and funded in the Social Security Act--not the annual appropriations process.
They're authorized and funded in the Social Security Act--not the annual appropriations process.
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I made this cake in 2013 when I was furloughed. My family asked me to bake another one, but I gotta go to work…so does my federal employee husband, though we won’t be getting his paycheck.
So consider this a PSA: tons of feds are going to work for free today. Be extra nice!
So consider this a PSA: tons of feds are going to work for free today. Be extra nice!
October 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I made this cake in 2013 when I was furloughed. My family asked me to bake another one, but I gotta go to work…so does my federal employee husband, though we won’t be getting his paycheck.
So consider this a PSA: tons of feds are going to work for free today. Be extra nice!
So consider this a PSA: tons of feds are going to work for free today. Be extra nice!
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Trump just said the shutdown will cause disruptions to Social Security services - but Social Security funding isn't impacted by a shutdown, and the staff who run it are "necessarily implied" & continue to work.
If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems
If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump just said the shutdown will cause disruptions to Social Security services - but Social Security funding isn't impacted by a shutdown, and the staff who run it are "necessarily implied" & continue to work.
If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems
If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems
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When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted you're more afraid of children learning than you are of them dying.
October 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted you're more afraid of children learning than you are of them dying.
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I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
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