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Alex Akselrod
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Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.
One of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News
Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.
One of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News
ProPublica
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A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
#News #Disability #SocialSecurity #Trump #USPolitics #Government
A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
#News #Disability #SocialSecurity #Trump #USPolitics #Government
Carol Cadwalladr on the Great AI Bubble ... and, buried lede, the way the same faces in the Epstein Files keep popping up in the AI Bubble. Odd, that.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115560021315037492
@cstross
as bad as the epstein crimes are, keep in mind that it is a distraction.
The plan is to keep the media from talking about their plans to steal the #socialSecurity money and cut health care to the elderly and poor and destroy the education system.
Keep your eye on the ball or in this case the money.
#democracy is more than voting.
ProPublica
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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
DHS used to only have information on immigrants who’d had contact with the agency.
Under a new data-sharing agreement, the system added information — including full Social Security numbers — on millions of Americans not in DHS databases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-social-security-data-voter-citizenship-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DHS #SocialSecurity #Vote #Data #Election #Privacy #Security #USPolitics
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Republicans to force disabled seniors to work to get their Social Security
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/10/06/disability-social-security-age-benefits-republican-work-requirements/
#socialsecurity @GailWaldby
Republicans to force disabled seniors to work to get their Social Security
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/10/06/disability-social-security-age-benefits-republican-work-requirements/
#socialsecurity @GailWaldby
Alex Akselrod
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Over 70 million #Americans rely on #SocialSecurity for retirement and disability benefits. Without accountability and transparency, that future is at risk.
https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm3_aIiWeFKH7rgL9EHbPrcmSKjD8T2UwEDqDz1Tv9EuW1uPNAYg4l-TnVo8SFOHdwl4axfnDs-7Ixa2-j1TJmHvAczSXojYh48L9QgAbuWyoBAZzpjoWV5qYke6Ba3W9fNAaNohuC9RZDqwmTI40eaejO-uLnhyPAeUiZS6COWRblPp1GFXop1M6ygHMHWSFr5JjqjEvcHqiTdWzuIny9PJJJaxiwm0kkzZHgeNhHEtCw5UwJLQBXwtFy3vmXOWv4nDX61dzPT6aqTh9zPcWXatHzIU0FITw83Ys6O7xfwAgjdaxDyphtjmih7JKM3E2EgLM8U-uwM-jOXnhJwhOzMcRhMQ92LXYtL1U_8_XUxxNL8Pkj0FDQwQ66Yp0WVV9T3_bJ9Wfz9F5_15PE0XSwb1IvhkL2DETLYLHRzleRaxP-lhX1ZdXtLL173F2Zee7_0F9sxfcxYYNJVUL0DgUpkwLTe3--lJf3J9sAJfdPmd8a3qlXx2-VkbFNLC6GIfLSbgB40HVSbAZk9xcWLRMqjsvZX1XU2Wc2SWJSMkVkO446AjJ_cvIoq-gTY4lz0NppRBhBqF9w_zHPJNrFfjekfpCBN8GY9jpPPNjHIqd87XFrg/4k5/eF_jtjq4RJ2LT84vvMbD5w/h2/h001.SwO82pCBmuLt9xjesAPSIc5_U44RarSTtUgq-LZxdoI
Over 70 million #Americans rely on #SocialSecurity for retirement and disability benefits. Without accountability and transparency, that future is at risk.
https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm3_aIiWeFKH7rgL9EHbPrcmSKjD8T2UwEDqDz1Tv9EuW1uPNAYg4l-TnVo8SFOHdwl4axfnDs-7Ixa2-j1TJmHvAczSXojYh48L9QgAbuWyoBAZzpjoWV5qYke6Ba3W9fNAaNohuC9RZDqwmTI40eaejO-uLnhyPAeUiZS6COWRblPp1GFXop1M6ygHMHWSFr5JjqjEvcHqiTdWzuIny9PJJJaxiwm0kkzZHgeNhHEtCw5UwJLQBXwtFy3vmXOWv4nDX61dzPT6aqTh9zPcWXatHzIU0FITw83Ys6O7xfwAgjdaxDyphtjmih7JKM3E2EgLM8U-uwM-jOXnhJwhOzMcRhMQ92LXYtL1U_8_XUxxNL8Pkj0FDQwQ66Yp0WVV9T3_bJ9Wfz9F5_15PE0XSwb1IvhkL2DETLYLHRzleRaxP-lhX1ZdXtLL173F2Zee7_0F9sxfcxYYNJVUL0DgUpkwLTe3--lJf3J9sAJfdPmd8a3qlXx2-VkbFNLC6GIfLSbgB40HVSbAZk9xcWLRMqjsvZX1XU2Wc2SWJSMkVkO446AjJ_cvIoq-gTY4lz0NppRBhBqF9w_zHPJNrFfjekfpCBN8GY9jpPPNjHIqd87XFrg/4k5/eF_jtjq4RJ2LT84vvMbD5w/h2/h001.SwO82pCBmuLt9xjesAPSIc5_U44RarSTtUgq-LZxdoI
Bjørnar (he/him)
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Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Alex Akselrod
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WOW!
Femicidio —the killing of women for being women— is treated here in USA as part & parcel of machismo that only applies to those guys south of the border. but machismo is just Spanish argot for patriarchy.
All across Latinoamérica, localities are passing laws to treat femicide as a hate crime and not a "crime of passion"; Puerto Rico included.
Brasil is going one step further: Lula just signed into law #UBI/ #SocialSecurity for children left orphaned by femicide