Kate Polgreen

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...

1. EXCLUSIVE

An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency.

The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result.

Follow this thread for details.

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The video of Trump’s deportees arriving in El Salvador is horrific.

This is 21st century Nazism.

Identities concealed, trafficked to a foreign labour camp. No due process, no evidence of crime. Dehumanised.

Where is the global outrage?

The crime is historic; the normalisation catastrophic.

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.

Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

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How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.

On Tuesday night, co-presidents Trump and Musk fired half of the workers at the Education Department.

On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down.

That’s their idea of efficiency.

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.

This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech.

@nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

You go girl!

They are getting ready for a smash-and-grab.

They will declare Social Security to be bankrupt, or full of fraud because the goal is to privatize and/or downsize America's most successful anti-poverty program.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Contact - U.S. Senator John Fetterman Hearing from Pennsylvanians is a priority. Whether you have a comment on legislation, an issue you want Senator Fetterman to know about, need help navigating a federal agency, or are planning a trip t...

Just called and left voicemails at both the DC and Philadelphia offices for @fetterman.senate.gov. Took less than 3 minutes. You can do it, too. www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact/

YouTube video by Rep. Ayanna Pressley We're facing a hostile government takeover & Senate Democrats must hold the line.

We're facing a hostile government takeover and @democrats.senate.gov can do something about it.

The Trump-Musk spending bill will make our constituents hungrier, sicker, and poorer.

Listen to your constituents. Do not cede your leverage. Hold the line.
youtube.com/shorts/mL1_s...

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

Pelosi statement opposing the GOP funding bill.

I don't want to raise false hopes, but I don't think this is over. If you haven't called your Dem Senators yet today, now's the time.

Things are moving quickly, but it looks like these Sen's especially need calls from *constituents* to vote NO on cloture:

Angus King (ME)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Jacky Rosen (NV)
Brian Schatz (HI)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Gary Peters (MI)

Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.

A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile" ino.to/Y1acdJ6

Hey Americans, call your senators (especially the ones below, if you're their constituent!). Find their numbers at 202-224-3121 or at 5calls.org. If you don't get a person, you can still leave a voicemail asking them to vote NO on cloture and no on the Republican spending bill.

5. For these reasons, I hereby determine that all efforts, conducted by any agency of the federal government, to control the status, entry, and exit of people, and the transfer of goods, services, data, technology, and other items across the borders of the United States, constitute a foreign affairs function of the United States under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 553, 554. Dated: February 21, 2025. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State. [FR Doc. 2025-04116 Filed: 3/13/2025 8:45 am; Publication Date: 3/14/2025]

🚨 Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov If Schumer votes for cloture and you do not immediately call for his resignation for betraying the ideals of the Democratic Party, I will not ever vote for either of you again, and will use every avenue in my power to make sure you are not re-elected.

Democrats briefly had leverage over Trump and they threw it away as fast as possible because they're scared of power and scared of resistance. Primary every single last one of them. Burn the party to the ground. Ruin their lives for this

The government-subsidized post-war research university system in the US will likely go down in history as our country’s single greatest contribution to the world.

And, for the selfish, likely our greatest source of soft (if not often hard) power.

And it is getting torched to the ground.

298,533 COMMITTED 10,701,467 NEEDED

If you want a general strike you are going to have to work for it. Commitment numbers are still too low.

Commit here: generalstrikeus.com

#3E #GSUS #GeneralStrike

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience. Maine said it wouldn’t break state law to follow President Donald Trump’s order barring transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats targeting the st...

There are two transgender girls in the state of Maine competing in girls’ sports.

There are now SIX federal agencies investigating the state.

Here is our latest @propublica.org story with @bangordailynews.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/main...

If you want to see Dems fight back, celebrate the Dems who are fighting back like this.

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer Rep. Don Beyer Announces He Will Not Attend Trump's Address To Congress

Tonight Trump will address a coequal branch of government for which he has shown total contempt.

Meanwhile my constituents are seeing their livelihoods destroyed by illegal actions.

What he is doing is not normal, it is not acceptable, and I won't be attending.
www.youtube.com/shorts/MlTIB...

Senate Bill 1 bans students from learning views other than state-approved ones | Opinion Cirino’s solution to ending a perceived cancel culture on college campuses is to shut down all avenues of disagreement altogether.

"This bill won’t end students’ curiosity about climate change or LGBTQ history. Instead, students like me will take our tuition dollars, our labor, and our innovation elsewhere, and Ohio’s economy will suffer. Professors will do the same." www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...

Imagine that. 💰

Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana - Nature Nature - Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana

History buffs and youngsters can enjoy the 2000 article here www.nature.com/articles/350... - it was a massive accomplishment and changed the way #PlantSci is done forever. What a wonderful little weed. 💚