Harish I. Patel

9/ “This affordability crisis is feeding something deeper than broken household economics: disillusionment, division, and despair. And that’s exactly what authoritarian movements thrive on…," said @harishipatel.bsky.social

Very excited to moderate this conversation with such inspiring leaders that do work deep in communities while also holding a national vision for these times. If you are going to @netrootsnation.bsky.social this week, please join us on Thursday at 1 PM for this conversation!

DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

“El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all the hallmarks of a concentration camp”

A Fork in the Road: Is Federal Employee Privacy Compromised? In this interview, I speak to a systems security specialist who found privacy problems surrounding the HR@opm.gov email servers

Back in January, I reported on DOGE entering an agency system, exporting the data, OPM server info left open to the public, and someone signing in from a foreign country using a DOGE account. Almost identical to what the Whistleblower reported to NPR this week www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-fork-in-...

Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.

ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.

Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

Horrifying

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

The Supreme Court’s Redistribution of Rights It’s almost unfathomable to me what the Supreme Court has done to us in the last 15 years, but we all should have seen it coming.

NEW: The Supreme Court is creating a due process gap through the redistribution of rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-suprem...

Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so.

This is a constitutional crisis.

How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?

@gregcasar.bsky.social: "Elon Musk gets $8 million a day in federal government contracts and subsidies. $65 a day is how much your average senior gets on Social Security just to barely survive on after working their entire life."

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

👋 Jared Golden, ME
👋 Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, WA
👋 Henry Cuellar, TX
👋 Ed Case, HI
🤔 See the problem?

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Exactly

My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security

Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

More pain, no gain

Screenshot of a post from Stephen Miller's twitter account, @StephenM "You have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history." 3:29PM, 4/9/25, 487k views, 2.2k comments, 4.5k retweets, 26k likes

This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Who voted for this?’: Trump guts funding for kids history contest

Seriously, who voted for this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_65n...

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows. Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.

Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.

(Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

By more than double -- 46-22% -- independents think Trump is slapping on tariffs to get leverage over companies who will then have to plead with him for relief and show loyalty

Very excited about what's happening in Cook county! Check out one of the stories in the link below:

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident.

We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

All of this is happening while federal programs face brutal cuts. NYC is showing what it looks like when cities lead with care, creativity, public power & Government by the people.

#PublicOptions #NYC2025 #GuaranteedIncome #ClimateJustice #FoodAccess #Childcare #EconomicSecurity