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.
17.03.2025 01:34 — 👍 38225 🔁 10789 💬 686 📌 333
youtu.be/H6Avo9T45xk?...
17.03.2025 00:58 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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!
14.03.2025 22:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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:
14.03.2025 13:05 — 👍 8101 🔁 3754 💬 750 📌 971
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...
14.03.2025 11:56 — 👍 1780 🔁 724 💬 32 📌 42
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/
14.03.2025 17:35 — 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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.
14.03.2025 17:16 — 👍 3342 🔁 969 💬 150 📌 51
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
13.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 43 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2Hey 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.
13.03.2025 21:17 — 👍 242 🔁 156 💬 5 📌 7![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]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiavaiwveosvflap6cyxaeqs5xm3au23malhmxi67pzmmslkhdjfvm@jpeg)
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.
13.03.2025 22:41 — 👍 7958 🔁 1871 💬 419 📌 223
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
13.03.2025 22:05 — 👍 1132 🔁 271 💬 64 📌 38
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.
11.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 5848 🔁 2735 💬 174 📌 580
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.
05.03.2025 03:02 — 👍 1836 🔁 268 💬 59 📌 10
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...
"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...
04.03.2025 13:44 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Imagine that. 💰
03.03.2025 19:27 — 👍 17872 🔁 7458 💬 998 📌 704
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. 💚
04.03.2025 10:49 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
