If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

“We know the playbook, and we’re ready to fight back. The threats are no longer hypothetical. The effort to turn Project 2025 and other dangerous plans into action has begun. We’ve planned for this moment.”

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If you don’t know what “Christian reconstructionism” is, you should get familiar with it.

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I gathered up my reading notes on the deeply fascist new book by Trump's Defense Secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, on my substack, Scenes from a Slow Civil War. I think I may rev that thing up again, too. Please consider subscribing. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-pentag...

regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.

Hannah Arendt, ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism’

“What totalitarian rulers seek is not only the eradication of political opposition but the complete transformation of the political sphere into a realm of total domination, achieved by eliminating all intellectual initiative. [...] This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents,

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