If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

This is probably the most accurate take.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

Ridiculous
thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV. 

Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!

Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding

YouTube video by Rep. Al Green Impeachment Announced by Rep. Al Green: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere (MLK).

Impeachment Announced by Congressman Al Green:
Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere (MLK). Injustice in Gaza is a Threat to Justice in America. Watch Rep. Green's floor speech online: youtu.be/N2xG1K0izqs?...

He "can't" or "doesn't want to" talk about his contact with just one foreign leader:

DT: We are having discussions
Q: Ongoing?
DT: Already talking, yes.
Q: So you've already spoken to Putin?
DT: I don't want to say that
Q: Is there a reason you don't want to?
DT: Well I just don't want to say that

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

Bird flu outbreaks are driving up egg prices for families.

Now, Elon Musk wants to shut down USAID, the agency responsible for monitoring outbreaks in dozens of foreign countries.

With egg prices increasing grocery bills, why halt efforts to prevent a U.S. bird flu crisis?

Listening to Donald talk about tariffs (“the most beautiful word in the dictionary—more than love”) and not understanding the simplest things about them, is a reminder why one of his professors at business school said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

friendly reminder that the best case scenario over the coming years is that a lot of people say "I supported Trump but this isn't what I wanted at all" and when they do that it's gonna be really, really important that we say "welcome in," not "fuck you, we told you so"

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies.

The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion.

It is an American triumph.

One we worked hard to achieve and something central to our vision of a peaceful and prosperous world of freedom.

—Ronald Reagan

We need a group of lawyers who are willing to take every lawsuit from every fired federal employee to the max. Bury this admin in lawsuits

That completely strips the distributive bargainer of his power to win or lose, to control the negotiation.

Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who...

Oh. 😳 A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com.

Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…”

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is how the Muskification of the U.S. Government is taking place. Lights out, before our very eyes.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Another week, another Friday night massacre. Interim US Attorney Ed Martin -- an election denialist and champion of pardons for J6 offenders-- sends letter arriving just before 5 pm firing dozens of prosecutors who worked on the January 6 prosecutions. Breathtaking corruption and pettiness.

The amount of experience and talent being lost in our government will have repercussions for a very long time.😥😠

Sure would like to hear from people who voted for Trump or didn't vote at all. Are your lives better? Between a plane crash after Trump worked on eliminating FAA staff and now tariffs which will inflate prices and Musk asking for clearance to social security and Medicare records are you better off?

Also those with disabilities.