Linda Benesch

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

Voters To Democrats: Fight! ​Democrats won big by fighting against Trump’s attempts at tyranny and pledging to do everything in their power to make America affordable for everyone.

From moderate governors-elect in Virginia and New Jersey to a democratic socialist mayor-elect in New York City, and everywhere in between, there was only one message: Fight Trumpism and make America affordable, says @alaw202.bsky.social of @SocialSecurityWorks.org.

Social Security benefits are going up by 2.8 percent next year.

But Medicare premiums are going up by 11.6 percent. And the cost of food is skyrocketing, too.

Trumpflation is stealing your hard earned benefits.

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.

Americans EARN Social Security disability benefits with every paycheck, along with retirement and survivor benefits.

But now, the Trump administration is trying to cut those benefits.

They'll do anything to protect billionaires from paying their fair share.

Someone's never been up for 2+ hours in the middle of the night with a sick or teething baby 🙄

"Shrinking the staff...has made an already difficult situation worse.

Frontline workers, whose morale had already been low for years, say they are asked on a daily basis to do more with less."

Social Security signals potential benefit disruptions this fall for those still getting paper checks Over half a million people still get their Social Security benefits via paper checks. They’ll need a waiver by the end of September to continue to do so, SSA says.

Something to watch next week: the deadline for the Social Security Administration (along with the rest of gov) to stop issuing paper checks.

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This whole thing is such a bleak three-for-one: They get to stigmatize autistic people AND blame and shame women AND they get to specifically blame and shame women trying to mitigate their physical suffering in the only way they're allowed to during pregnancy!

My 15-month-old can't get a COVID vaccine. Even though the American Academy of Pediatrics says he should.

Kennedy is lying.

LOL so you won’t even make him swear to tell the truth in front of Congress so you don’t have to hold him accountable when he does???? Just throw the whole goddamned GOP party away. The whole thing. It’s fucking trash. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

@wyden.senate.gov to RFK Jr.: I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense.

@wyden.senate.gov: Robert Kennedy's tenure is so far marked by 3 calling cards:
❌ Chaos at federal health agencies
❌Corruption that benefits Robert Kennedy, Donald Trump, and their friends
❌Higher health costs for families

NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.

Hope you feel better soon, Peter!

Social Security turns 90 today. The cornerstone of FDR's New Deal keeps millions out of poverty every year. How is the Trump regime celebrating? By shrinking the SSA workforce, crashing its website, increasing wait times, and replacing humans with AI chatbots.

Post from Cassidy on Twitter that says It is unfortunate that the Secretary just canceled a half a billion worth of work, wasting the money which is already invested. He has also conceded to China an important technology needed to combat cancer and infectious disease. President Trump wants to Make America Healthy Again and Make America Great Again. This works against both of President Trump's goals. forbes.com/sites/siladity...

Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) has a case of the sads about a well-known anti-vaxxer, science denier, and fraud whom Bill Cassidy voted to confirm as HHS Secretary.

It’s not “unfortunate”, Bill Cassidy, it’s catastrophic, and it’s on you.

Cassidy can’t even bring himself to say Kennedy’s name.

Social Security’s Staffing Crisis: Field Offices Report Widespread Losses Amid Rising Demand for Services Social Security’s more than 1,200 local field offices are the community-based front door for the agency, serving over 119,000 visitors per day on average. Americans visit their local Social Security A...

Their source is a report from the Strategic Organizing Center, which is an org that partners with unions to fight corporate power.

Social Security offices lost estimated 20% of staff this year, causing delays Americans applying for benefits at their local Social Security field offices are facing delays, workers say.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has pushed out 20% of the staff at Social Security offices.

Often the most experienced, highly skilled staffers.

Seniors, people with disabilities, and families are paying the price.

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons

"But if something that used to be a normal childhood activity is now seen as so dangerous that parents who let their sons walk in the neighborhood are considered felons, the problem is not just with how we enforce our laws but also with how we allow cars to define how we live."

Your call to a local Social Security office may be picked up by someone who can't help Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case, employees say.

The latest "government efficiency" from the Trump administration:

"Phone calls to local Social Security offices are currently being rerouted to other field offices — often to staff who don't have jurisdiction over the caller's case."

Of note: The Union for Reform Judaism is the largest Jewish denomination in the U.S.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Protect Our Checks For 90 years, Social Security has been a vital source of income for families across the country. It's not a handout. It's a hard-earned right. But now, that promise is under attack by Republican lawma...

90 years ago, America made a promise: that we could retire with dignity and wouldn't be left behind.

That promise is Social Security.

Now, Donald Trump is trying to destroy that promise.

This August, join us and and our partners for events across the country to protect what’s OURS.

If you suppress the voices of the Brad Landers of the world, you’re going to leave voices like Tucker Carlson as the ones people are listening to on this. It’s grim as hell.

The Trump administration is keeping the full picture about Social Security's customer service just as locked down as the Epstein files.

And for the same reason — they don't want Americans to know the truth.

Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics The changes are the latest sign of the agency’s struggle with website crashes, overloaded servers and long lines at field offices amid Trump cutbacks.

After sending a misleading & partisan press release to millions, Social Security issued a new release on service "improvements" under the new Commissioner, whom it lavishes w/praise.

But SSA deleted most metrics last month, allowing them to cherry pick data.

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Bowzer, the Guy from Sha Na Na, Is Trying to Protect Your Health Care From Trump Sha Na Na's Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman has become a leading advocate for senior health care. He's not happy with Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill.'

@jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social is:

- A legendary greaser
- The President of our PAC, and one of the country's top experts on Social Security and Medicare
- Donald Trump's worst nightmare

If you want restaurant workers to have more money, create one fair wage.

If you want workers doing overtime to have more money, raise the overtime bonus.

If you want Social Security recipients to have more money, increase benefits.