OldCatLady7

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".

But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

Important to remember how it actually started, in light of what’s happening w/ Medicaid right now…

(EVERYONE’S rights are tied up w/ disability rights, whether they realize/acknowledge it or not: we’re the canaries in the coal mine)
#Disability #Medicaid #DisabilityJustice

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Also, there's a standard piece of advice from South America: if they come for you anywhere public, shout out your name and that you are being taken against your will. Do all you can to make sure somebody will tell the world what happened to you.

My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.

American Conversations: Senator Angus King (I-ME), on Paul Revere's Ride YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

It's the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride, and its significance today cannot be understated. Listen to why in this talk with Heather Cox Richardson and Angus King from yesterday. King's constitutional knowledge is impressive & should be required of all reps!
www.youtube.com/live/5YHvpx3...

DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data The National Labor Relations Board told employees Wednesday that DOGE staffers would be assigned to the agency, one day after a whistleblower alleged DOGE may have removed sensitive NLRB data.

JUST IN: The National Labor Relations Board told employees Wednesday that DOGE staffers would be assigned to the agency, one day after a whistleblower alleged DOGE may have removed sensitive NLRB data.

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Weaponizing Social Security Imagine, in one Trump administration keystroke, losing your income, your insurance, your bank account, your credit cards, and your home.

The Trump administration is planning to declare legal migrants dead on the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File.

This is an outrageous abuse of power. It will not only create extreme hardship, but kill people.

Elon Musk Faces Billion-Dollar EU Fine for Failing to Curb Disinformation on X X says that would be an 'unprecedented act of political censorship and an attack on free speech.'

🥰 I Love this for him ❤️

www.pcmag.com/news/elon-mu...

I kind of want to go

This is a United States Senator

MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities

BANKS: You probably deserved it

MACK: Why did I deserve it?

BANKS: Because you look like a clown

I would vote for Denmark’s policies.

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

Friend whose spouse passed Feb 2025:

Local SS office has sign posted:
NO WALK-INS WILL BE SEEN

Cannot make appt online.
ONLY via phone.
Took her 3 Wks to get past 'no one can take your call at this time'

Finally got appt:
FOR JUNE 2025!

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

When experts on fascism leave the US over fears the US is becoming a fascist country.

YouTube video by Sandi Bachom 102 Year Old in Danger of Losing Medicaid at Mike Lawler Empty Chair Peekskill Town Hall 3/22/25

If Dee loses her Medicaid. #WeRideAtDawn

At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org

YouTube video by Kentucky Politics Trump Commerce Secretary Says Seniors Won't Complain If They Miss a Social Security Check

Would you be a fraudster if you called the SSA upset because you didn't receive your monthly SS check?

youtu.be/qooyw4AlCYI?...

Rapist drunkard Pete Hegseth and the orange felon are continuing to remove all black excellence from the DOD’s website including the military service of baseball legend Jackie Robinson and hero Medal of Honor recipient General Charles C. Rogers.

Racism has always been the point.

Shameful

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

Americans could learn something from the Canadians.

No one ever said they were creative.

The point was to destabilize and crash the economy.

It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.