Jesse Lee

Motherfucking wind farms…

I’ve seen photos like the ones coming out of Gaza before, they were shown to me so I could learn about the kind of evil the world could never let happen again. Crushing then, crushing now.

and does the U.S. state department have a metric for deciding who meets this bar?

and does it involve complex fractions?

and is there a physical test? a DNA test? calipers? maybe a pantone chart?

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Social Security issued a press release yesterday claiming it's improved customer service. I'm skeptical, for 4 reasons:

1. SSA's career comms staff are mostly gone
2. SSA comms are now very partisan
3. Performance metrics are mostly gone
4. SSA is now cherrypicking misleading stats

Receipts in 🧵

If Trump is so proud of his immigration policy, why does he systematically hide the reality of it from the American people? I know why: because every time people hear more about it, they recoil in horror.

Opinion | Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase

"Donald Trump is determined to transform America’s system of justice into his personal political weapon, and now Breonna Taylor’s family bears the fresh pain of a new and terrible miscarriage of justice." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

Alina Habba leaving behind angry staff and portraits of herself on the walls as job ends Former Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba is all but certain to be headed for the door next week leaving behind portraits of herself on the walls and disgruntled staffers after her brief stint as a U.S...

Alina Habba leaving behind angry staff and portraits of herself on the walls as job ends

www.rawstory.com/habba-us-att...

Disbar the crook.

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

Absolutely unacceptable. With flooding tragedies occurring, hurricane season underway, & wildfires burning, the head of FEMA, David Richardson, is MIA.

🧾 www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...

Social Security pulls field office staff to answer overwhelmed phone line The agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website.

After Social Security arbitrarily cut thousands of staff, the only way to “fix” anything is moving them from one critical area to another—most recently, abruptly shifting 1K staff from local offices to the 800 number.

But it’s not a real fix at all…it only creates new problems.

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"Note that in the March 31 email, Percival also asked whether it was okay to assert that Abrego Garcia was not “in immediate danger” in CECOT...This all looks even worse now that Abrego Garcia has confirmed that he was tortured and beaten there."

Oh wow even I didn’t imagine their lie was this dramatic.

Correcting the Social Security Administration About The Big Budget Bill The misleading communication from SSA may add to the confusion many older adults already feel about the complex retirement insurance program.

TPC corrects the record on taxes on Social Security benefits.

Trump Admin claimed "nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay fed income taxes on their bens"

50.9% of filers w/SS bens paid the tax before
47.3% now

Only 3.6% no longer pay

taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/corre...

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

"Big Balls" was one of the earliest DOGE bros. At 19 years, he's a college dropout whose short resume includes a stint at Musk's Neuralink.

And yet he pops up across the government forcing experienced staff to "go over code they had written and justify their jobs." www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

DOGE is still very much at the Social Security Administration.

In fact, since SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano was confirmed, he brought in the 19-year-old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, and elevated Aram Moghaddassi to Chief Information Officer.

Remember those guys? Here's a refresher.

American Bridge President: Republicans Stand By Pedophiles (or are pedophiles themselves)

Watch me run through the list:

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.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Drugmakers Notch a $5 Billion Win in Republicans’ Policy Bill

🚨"The legislation allows more medications to be exempt from Medicare’s price negotiation program, which was created to lower the government’s drug spending. Now, manufacturers will be able to keep those prices higher."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/h...

An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life

Politics in the Trump era: They lied to him, set him up on a fake date, secretly videotaped him without his permission and then distorted his words to create a false conspiracy theory to justify policy changes. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...

I just think the poor kid shouldn’t have his life destroyed by one mistake, and deserves a second chance.

I mean third chance. Probably there’s room for a lot more chances if I’m honest.

Starting to wonder whether putting Big Balls in charge of Social Security was the wisest move after all.

Yesterday the Social Security Administration sent a highly misleading & political press release about the tax bill to my work account, where I'd signed up for SSA updates.

Then overnight I got it again, this time to my personal account. And I heard from lots of others who did, too. 🧵

Just a total own-goal, forfeit, folding with a full house, making us energy-dependent for generations.

A geopolitical suicide pact from the Republicans, jammed through without anybody actually reading it, all so Trump could surrender with fireworks on our Independence Day.

21 House Republicans signed a letter supporting clean energy in their districts.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is keeping them honest: "What are those 21 Republicans going to do when the time comes to vote for this Big Ugly Bill" that guts clean energy jobs?

Tell your reps to #VoteNo TODAY.

"Republicans are actually going to increase costs to energy bills everyday Americans pay by hundreds of dollars a year."

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has been on the floor since 4AM calling out GOP's Big Ugly Bill.

⏰ They could vote ANY MINUTE NOW. Tell your Reps to #VoteNo at (202) 224-3121

Pssst . . . it costs about the same amount to shore up Social Security's finances as it does to make the Trump tax cuts permanent.

But Congressional Republicans are on the verge of shoveling trillions at the wealthiest, while leaving a shortfall in the program we ALL need and love.

The AFL-CIO condemned Senate Republicans today for passing a budget reconciliation bill that raises costs on working people, wipes out millions of jobs and rips health care away from 17 million Americans––all to hand billionaires one of the biggest paydays in history. In a statement, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said: “Senate Republicans claimed to stand with working people, then picked our pockets to deliver a nearly $5 trillion gift to billionaires. Every senator who voted for this budget bill chose to make working families poorer, sicker and less safe. “Senators had a chance to correct the damage of the House version of the budget, but they’ve doubled down to make this job-killer even worse. While we are relieved that advocacy from the labor movement and allies pulled a dangerous provision on the regulation of artificial intelligence, the overwhelming harm of this reckless bill for working families cannot be overstated. “The value of any policy like a temporary tax break on tips or overtime will be more than wiped out by higher health care and energy costs—or worse, the loss of jobs altogether. There are 17 million Americans who will lose their health care, hospitals and nursing homes will close, millions will lose their jobs, and everyone will be forced to pay higher daily costs—all while driving resources to a nasty mass deportation effort that will disrupt the country’s workforce across industries and lead to more layoffs for everyone. “The House of Representatives has one last chance to stop this job-slashing giveaway to the extremely wealthy from becoming law. We urge members of Congress to reject this gift to billionaires and stand up for working people before it’s too late.”

How the Senate Bill Harms Working People: Rips health care away from 17 million people and eliminates 600,000 care jobs, forcing over 300 rural hospitals to close their doors. Spikes health care costs for people with employment-based insurance by nearly $500 per person per year and nearly $2,000 annually for a family of four. Destroys hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in construction, manufacturing and production, and raises energy costs at a moment when working-class households are already struggling. Slashes food assistance for nearly 3 million Americans, and slashes at least 140,000 jobs in food processing facilities, school cafeterias, grocery stores, and farms by cutting billions in SNAP funding. Threatens an estimated 1.75 million construction jobs and over 3 billion work hours, which translates to $148 billion in lost annual wages and benefits. Adds $155 billion in funding for President Trump’s mass deportation agenda to increase raids that target immigrant workers, throw members of our communities and our unions in detention, and rip families apart.

America's unions cannot overstate the Senate budget reconciliation bill's overwhelming harm for working families. We condemn the Senate Republicans for doubling down on a bill that raises costs, wipes out jobs, and rips health care away from 17 million people. aflcio.org/press/releas...

A Path Forward After Trump v. CASA After CASA, the APA offers a path to nationwide relief against unconstitutional executive actions without relying on universal injunctions.

Honored we are publishing this significant piece

After CASA: The Administrative Procedure Act Option for Challenging Birthright Citizenship and Other Illegal Executive Actions

By

Harold Hongju Koh, Obama State Dept Legal Adviser
Alan Charles Raul, HW Bush General Counsel of OMB & Agriculture Dept

"President Trump calls this the Big Beautiful Bill, but it is a big betrayal of the American people."

WATCH @shaheen.senate.gov call out the reckless Republican Big Ugly Bill that would raise energy rates for working families 👇