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The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
August 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
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JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage
The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October.
n.pr
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
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The home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) was set on fire early Sunday while he and his family were inside, he said, an incident that state police are investigating as arson.
Arson on Pennsylvania governor’s home caused significant damage, police say
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and his family awoke to the sound of police banging on their door as they responded to the fire at the mansion in Harrisburg.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) was set on fire early Sunday while he and his family were inside, he said, an incident that state police are investigating as arson.
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I’m running out of expressions of outrage. Sliding into _______. Not sure what say anymore. It is all authoritarian.
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I’m running out of expressions of outrage. Sliding into _______. Not sure what say anymore. It is all authoritarian.
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Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer.
So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals
So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals
Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer.
So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals
So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals
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OUTRAGEOUS: Trump’s Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to Twitter (gosh — I wonder whose idea that was?). This comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
OUTRAGEOUS: Trump’s Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to Twitter (gosh — I wonder whose idea that was?). This comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
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They had legal status. Trump revoked it. Now he’s trying to force them to self-deport by revoking their legally-obtained SSNs.
This isn’t protecting the border. It’s purging the population of non-white individuals.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
This isn’t protecting the border. It’s purging the population of non-white individuals.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump seeks to revoke immigrants' Social Security numbers
The Trump administration aims to convince some immigrants without legal status to self-deport by adding them to a database of dead people, thus rendering their Social Security numbers inoperable, an administration official told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
They had legal status. Trump revoked it. Now he’s trying to force them to self-deport by revoking their legally-obtained SSNs.
This isn’t protecting the border. It’s purging the population of non-white individuals.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
This isn’t protecting the border. It’s purging the population of non-white individuals.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin.
I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social
Follow along for updates
I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social
Follow along for updates
April 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin.
I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social
Follow along for updates
I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social
Follow along for updates
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MTG dabbling in insider trading now too
April 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
MTG dabbling in insider trading now too
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
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I’m all for reducing spending, but to do that during a recession is economic suicide.
Anyone who knows anything knows that
Anyone who knows anything knows that
April 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’m all for reducing spending, but to do that during a recession is economic suicide.
Anyone who knows anything knows that
Anyone who knows anything knows that
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has posted this quote periodically for a long time.
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has posted this quote periodically for a long time.
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I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...
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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com
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The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.
April 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.
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Redate this to today and it becomes a stunning moment of self-realization we will never actually experience in this space-time continuum
April 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Redate this to today and it becomes a stunning moment of self-realization we will never actually experience in this space-time continuum
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There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes
The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
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ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
April 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.