The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October.

JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ

Arson on Pennsylvania governor’s home caused significant damage, police say Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and his family awoke to the sound of police banging on their door as they responded to the fire at the mansion in Harrisburg.

The home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) was set on fire early Sunday while he and his family were inside, he said, an incident that state police are investigating as arson.

I’m running out of expressions of outrage. Sliding into _______. Not sure what say anymore. It is all authoritarian.

Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants

Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer. 

So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

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.

OUTRAGEOUS: Trump’s Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to Twitter (gosh — I wonder whose idea that was?). This comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

Absolutely brutal

Trump seeks to revoke immigrants' Social Security numbers The Trump administration aims to convince some immigrants without legal status to self-deport by adding them to a database of dead people, thus rendering their Social Security numbers inoperable, an administration official told Reuters.

They had legal status. Trump revoked it. Now he’s trying to force them to self-deport by revoking their legally-obtained SSNs.

This isn’t protecting the border. It’s purging the population of non-white individuals.

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HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin.

I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social

Follow along for updates

MTG dabbling in insider trading now too

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

I’m all for reducing spending, but to do that during a recession is economic suicide.

Anyone who knows anything knows that

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has posted this quote periodically for a long time.

6 months ago

I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people.

Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts.  @msnbc.com

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

Redate this to today and it becomes a stunning moment of self-realization we will never actually experience in this space-time continuum

U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES

U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.

It's the third highest monthly total on record.

U.S. repeating its worst mistakes with Russia and Ukraine, says former soldier central to Trump’s first impeachment Alexander Vindman is cautioning of what he calls a pattern of foreign-policy missteps undertaken by successive U.S. governments when it comes to Russia and Ukraine

U.S. repeating its worst mistakes with Russia and Ukraine
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

So the administration ADMITS it mistakenly arrested and sent a father to El Salvador, but then can’t right the wrong because, well, he’s in El Salvador?

Is this right?

📌If we lose this Supreme Court election in Wisconsin today, we default to an 1849 law that criminalizes abortion, and the fair maps we FINALLY have up here will be gerrymandered into complete hell.
Please VOTE.
REMINDER: We HAVE same-day registration, which is also on the line if Crawford loses.

Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!

Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote.

If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.

Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.

Two U.S. officials tell WSJ that Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz has created and hosted *multiple* other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members — including separate threads on Russia-Ukraine and military operations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...