I spoke with my old pal Sen. Mitch McConnell this morning. He said we should simply scrap the cap on income for Social Security so that billionaires and the ultrawealthy pay the same rate on all of their income just like the rest of us.

Davey Hearn, a celebrated U.S. Olympian, was falsely accused of vandalizing the DC reflecting pool. Join us at 8:30 AM TOMORROW to rally outside the Court and fight these unfounded accusations: https://www.mobilize.us/publiccitizen/event/985930/

Thank you @alaw202.bsky.social for pointing out that social security recipients *also contribute* back into the economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQB...

SSW President Nancy Altman on the consequences of DOGE's Social Security data breaches: "This is people's most personal data, and it's also enormously useful for a scammer. Your medical records, your Social Security number, your bank routing number...it has so much information."

@alaw202.bsky.social Executive Director @socialsecurityworks.org just joined me on Deadline D.C. to push back against the MAGA plot to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Watch the podcast at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GXB... @lesliemarshallshow.bsky.social @masspolprofmo.bsky.social

Organizing works. And we're just getting started. #FreedomVigils

Waiting for lots of apologies from people who got enraged when you suggested abundance was what it obviously was

Monday from 3-4pm ET on 'Deadline D.C. with @bradbannon.bsky.social,' we’ll examine the Progressive and Democratic responses to #Trump’s disastrous policies. Our guests will be @socialsecurityworks.org's @alaw202.bsky.social and @politicususa.com's @politicussarah.bsky.social. youtu.be/QXKVD54MfiM

🚨🚨🚨 If Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, they plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — so that billionaires never have to pay their fair share.

ICYMI: @johnfugelsang.bsky.social spoke with Alex Lawson of @socialsecurityworks.org about how the Trump administration is making it harder for Americans to claim their earned Social Security benefits.

Having trouble accessing your Social Security or other benefits you've earned from the Govt? Excuses? DOGe ate it! Today the great @alaw202.bsky.social Alex Lawson is back on my show to explain wtf. Join us live 3ET/12PT @ youtu.be/XlR2PWHYyRw, nicolesandler.com, pod l8r, nicolesandler.substack.com

Make a Fifth Element sequel!

I can’t believe we’re sleepwalking into this shit.

Trump's steady stream of lies about Social Security is a part of a long-term plan to dismantle trust in the system we've built our entire working lives. Why? To trick us into handing over our earned benefits to Wall Street CEOs, billionaires, and the Epstein class.

Donald Trump is New York today to rally with Rep. Mike Lawler, one of the most vulnerable House Republicans. We're outside the event with a mighty group of protestors. "Mike Lawler grow a spine, you're working on the people's time!"

We're mobilizing EVERYWHERE, to make sure that anybody in this state that cares about democracy shows up to vote." - Chris Alexander, Executive Director of the New York State Conference of the NAACP

"Mike Lawler was the deciding vote for that big bag of BS Bill. that cut $900 billion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. It is not enough to just blame Donald Trump. We need to put it on all the people who enable this to happen. And that starts with Mike Lawler."

Today, Rep. Mike Lawler is holding an event with Donald Trump to lie to New Yorkers about how "great" the economy is. Meanwhile, all five candidates running in the Democratic primary to challenge Rep. Lawler are standing together in a show of unity!

"This administration, with the help of spineless Congressmen like Lawler, is terrorizing our nation and ransacking our national coffers for personal illegal and grossly corrupt enrichment. We will defeat them in November."

Alex Lawson: Why did they cut $1 trillion from Medicaid? Why did they cut food stamps and rip food off the tables of the hungry? Why are they harming the least of us to give trillions in tax handouts to the billionaires that we see in the Epstein files?

Donald Trump and Mike Lawler have worked in lockstep to reward the wealthy at the expense of everyone else — cutting $1 trillion from health care to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Today, we went to his district to send a message: STOP RAISING HEALTH CARE COSTS!

Alex Lawson: Politicians in Washington, DC like Mike Lawler voted to cut $1 TRILLION from Medicaid. They voted to cut hundreds of billions more from the Affordable Care Act, the largest destruction and theft of healthcare in the history of this country.

President Donald Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president’s ballroom in a budget bill, two sources familiar with the request told www.notus.org/donald-trump...

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

“The ghost offices turn into closed offices, and it's all by design. The billionaires are hollowing out the Social Security Administration as an attack on our earned benefits.” – Alex Lawson, Executive Director, Social Security Works @alaw202.bsky.social

#OnTheAir COUNTERPOINT 8- 9:30pmET wpkn.org 89.5FM Bgpt #CT: James Zogby of @aaiusa.bsky.social discusses the dire situation in Lebanon, West Bank & Gaza under Israeli attack; @martinomalley.bsky.social, fmr Soc. Sec. Comm. on Trump decimation of Soc. Sec. services & concern re: predicted shortfall

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Iran predictably rejected Trump's latest "you surrender, make concessions, and everyone says I won" offer, responding with the same "are you kidding, you make concessions" as before. Will US media recognize this pattern? Or will most treat the next "proposal" as an imminent end to the war (again)?

“The rapidly shrinking stockpiles mean that the risk of even more extreme price spikes and shortages is getting ever-closer, leaving governments and industries with fewer options to cushion the impact of the loss of more than a billion barrels of supply,” — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I spoke with the brilliant @alaw202.bsky.social about the tech broligarch theft of all our social security data (aided and abetted by the Roberts Court, of course). youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Every time I see someone driving a Cybertruck I can’t help but think how breathtakingly stupid that person must be.

Total shocker. Alito’s argument for why black people don’t need voting rights protections is based on fraudulent statistics.

Starmer's view is their mistake was that they forgot to tell people that the beatings would be good for them

Reading the @newyorker.com article on SSA will increase your fear for the future & your fury at the willful incompetence with which Trump is supposedly managing our government. This paragraph alone is full of infuriating info: (Link to full article in next post)

Alex Lawson: Let's remind ourselves WHY they cut $1 trillion out of Medicaid. Why 56K people are going to die every year. To give TRILLIONS in tax handouts to the richest people the world has ever known so they can buy another golden yacht to sail to Epstein's Island or whatever it is that they do.

Trump’s detention camps are massively unpopular in every community where they’ve been proposed. But many people don’t realize DHS is planning a concentration camp nearby. That’s why we’re putting up billboards to let local residents know there’s a proposed or existing detention camp in their area.

Put your helmet on.

trump’s Iran war made prices skyrocket in March. Americans are getting crushed while trump and his billionaire friends keep getting richer. ktla.com/hill-politic...

Orban was pretty load-bearing for the global right wing media ecosystem huh

Americans have already paid $16 billion more for gasoline since the start of trump's illegal war.

The rich have privilege, but the people have power. And when the people wake up; we are unstoppable.

it's pretty cool that Saudi Arabia took the money that was supposed to support a post oil future and blew it on golf and paving the desert with some fake city

Israel must release Zeteo contributor Alex Colston and the rest of the flotilla activists and crew. This is piracy:

I got an interview with Rev. Dr. Marti Robison after the event.

Congressional cuts to health care have real human consequences. Thousands upon thousands upon of good people have done everything right. But their medicine and their insurance premiums are just too expensive. This is not a money issue. This is a morality issue. - Reverend Dr. Marti Robinson

Tayyiaba Farooq: My family's story is not unique. Millions of Americans rely on Medicaid for access to care. No one should have to choose between seeing a doctor and providing for their family or forego life-altering surgery to avoid going into thousands of dollars of medical debt.

We represent workers across more than 5 nursing home facilities in #NJ07. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. voted to cut billions of dollars from Medicaid funding that our facility and our patients rely on. - Tamara Henry and Cyrenia Hood, Certified Nursing Assistants and members of 1199SEUI

Patients, healthcare workers, and advocates rallied in Rahway today to protest the over $1 trillion in health care cuts passed into law by Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) and his fellow Republicans. These cuts are devastating working families — even as Republicans spend billions on war and ICE.

Legendary greaser @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social has a message for Rep. Mike Lawler: Stop taking our healthcare!