Holy shit. This is scary.
Congressman Dan Goldman just revealed that Donald Trump and DOGE are doing something sneaky that affects each and every one of us.
While they’ll publicly say they are not going to say they're cutting Social Security benefits, they're making it impossible for the Social Security Administration to process the benefits.
Their first wave of actions — initiating the elimination of 41 jobs and the closing of at least 10 local offices, so far has already caused a strain.
We need to make sure EVERY American sees this and the media stays on top of this story as MORE social security offices close.
#HandsOffMySocialSecurity
@Diane4030275165@MarcoFoster_@MaxwellFrostFL@RepMaxwellFrost The problem is that corporations are allowed to buy up all the single family homes and artificially raise prices by lowering the number of available, affordable homes. Non-liveable wages are also the problem. Trust, there are plenty of homes. Just not for us.
House Rep. Maxwell Frost at his town hall in North Carolina: “The reason you can’t pay your rent has nothing to do with trans people. The reason that you don’t have healthcare has nothing to do with the immigrant. It has everything to do with corrupt billionaires like Elon Musk who have been rigging this system for generations.”
BREAKING: Just now at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Before MAGA flips out, I'm sure the billions that Trump makes from his Meme Coin will be able to pay for a bottle of paint remover.
I'm not saying I support defacing property. In fact I do not. But Trump is defacing our Constitution and you all remain silent.
Christ said what we do for “the least of these” we do for him — so where is Christ today?
Christ is the immigrant deported without due process.
Christ is the protester kidnapped in an unmarked vehicle.
Christ is the student in an overcrowded classroom in a defunded school.
Tim Walz: “They’re all butthurt about the Tesla thing, but they don’t care about the disrespect they have shown to employees at the Minneapolis VA who care for our veterans when they fire them”
If you ever travel to Thailand and want to ride on an elephant's back, remember the photo of this little one... He was stolen from his mother... He was held captive and died! He died because his soul was broken.
You don't ride elephants.
And don't take pictures with drugged tigers.
Or with chained monkeys.
They'll go through hell for a click of the camera.
I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.
The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."
They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.
The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.
But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.
The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.
But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.
Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
Today is a good day to remember that if you paid $1 in federal income taxes you paid more than Tesla, an $812 billion corporation that made $2.3 billion in profits last year and is owned by Elon Musk, worth $313 billion, who is taking a chainsaw to Social Security. Tax the rich.