Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
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Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disability-eligibility-trump-red-states?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SocialSecurity #Disability #Trump #USPolitics #Government

Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
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Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disability-eligibility-trump-red-states?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SocialSecurity #Disability #Trump #USPolitics #Government

The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center is calling for an inspector general investigation into potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations in the office of border czar Tom Homan related to government contracting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #TomHoman #Ethics #Government #Immigration #USPolitics

MARCO RUBIO: government paying $300 per child every month to not work is socialism.

CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM: we pay senators $15,000 per month to not work so I'm not sure what the objection is here.

#GOP #GreedyBastards #tyranny #government #PredatoryCapitalism #SNAP #Children

Second, you don't normalise with a state for stopping a #genocide. You isolate them until the #genocidal #government has been dismantled, the perpetrators have been #arrested. #prosecuted, & #reparations have been made.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive

Second, you don't normalise with a state for stopping a #genocide. You isolate them until the #genocidal #government has been dismantled, the perpetrators have been #arrested. #prosecuted, & #reparations have been made.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive

Former Veterans Affairs workers: In August, we reported that the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year.

We know that for many of you, the decision to leave the VA could not have been easy. Here’s how you can share your story with us ⤵️
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-leaving-veterans-affairs

#Health #Medicine #Government #Healthcare #PublicHealth #Journalism

MARCO RUBIO: government paying $300 per child every month to not work is socialism.

CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM: we pay senators $15,000 per month to not work so I'm not sure what the objection is here.

#GOP #GreedyBastards #tyranny #government #PredatoryCapitalism #SNAP #Children

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/27/psf-withdrawn-proposal/

#HackerNews #PSF #Withdrawal #US #Government #Grant #Proposal #Python #Community #Fundraising

A week or so ago, I wrote about an absolutely horribly-designed poll from the government of Canada, theoretically asking Canadians what they thought we should be doing about "AI". I said that it was tilted so far in favour of AI - the questions basically embedded assumptions that we need AI, we need to subsidize it, we need companies to build it here - that it may as well have been written by Sam Altman.

It was 99% propaganda.

Well, this fellow has posted the questions and his answers. I encourage Canadians to read it, and answer the poll themselves as well.

Blog: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/24/pattern-recognition-and-repetition/

The poll URL: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership

#Canada #AI #Canadians #poll #government #PushPoll #propaganda #subsidy

Russell Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.

https://www.propublica.org/article/about-russell-vought-trump-shadow-president?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #USPolitics #Government

UK citizen, UK born.

Everytime my job title changed I had to give them my passport to copy (same company).

Every new job I've had needed my NI number.

Those who already take illegal workers will carry on doing so. How would digital ID stop them?

So cut the crap & stop telling us
digital ID will "clamp down on illegal working".

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/starmer-update-digital-id-cards-32742348

#digitalID #tech #digitalexclusion #poverty #government #jobs #work #UK

A week or so ago, I wrote about an absolutely horribly-designed poll from the government of Canada, theoretically asking Canadians what they thought we should be doing about "AI". I said that it was tilted so far in favour of AI - the questions basically embedded assumptions that we need AI, we need to subsidize it, we need companies to build it here - that it may as well have been written by Sam Altman.

It was 99% propaganda.

Well, this fellow has posted the questions and his answers. I encourage Canadians to read it, and answer the poll themselves as well.

Blog: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/24/pattern-recognition-and-repetition/

The poll URL: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-consultations/help-define-next-chapter-canadas-ai-leadership

#Canada #AI #Canadians #poll #government #PushPoll #propaganda #subsidy

UK citizen, UK born.

Everytime my job title changed I had to give them my passport to copy (same company).

Every new job I've had needed my NI number.

Those who already take illegal workers will carry on doing so. How would digital ID stop them?

So cut the crap & stop telling us
digital ID will "clamp down on illegal working".

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/starmer-update-digital-id-cards-32742348

#digitalID #tech #digitalexclusion #poverty #government #jobs #work #UK

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas