When SSA can’t be bothered to put a complete certified earnings record in the file we return to the old ways.

If anyone can help out Bex you'd be doing them a lot of good. Homeless and recovering from cancer treatments in the winter is not a place for anybody to have to be. I am absolutely tapped out for the next week or so.

Some Canadians apparently still haven't outgrown their deference to sovereign authority.

All of those pictures of that ICE agent’s face are AI. Here’s the proof.

Except you didn't just share it, you shared it with the caption "gottem" in response to someone saying "Show your face." Clearly *your* intent was to express that now we had an image of his face. You wanted the takeaway to be his face, but instead you're unapologetically spreading misinformation.

This is an AI generated fake image of the shooter and sharing it is deeply irresponsible. It's apparent in all of the footage from the scene that the shooter did not remove his neck gaiter.

is there someone who can send me $30 to get home to pack my belongings please? they're discharging me soon paypal.me/thelongestroad

Via public records request I just got the CV of a psychologist who rendered an unfavorable opinion in a disability claim based entirely on records review. Born '43, residency more than 50 years ago, appears they've basically spent the last 40 years doing nothing but acting as an "expert" for DDS

Comforting the comfortable as they afflict the afflicted.

Have any other two minutes of TV spawned a cinematic universe?

Would just like to point out that US special forces kidnapping foreign leader from their home is the event that gets the ball rolling in Air Force One

We also played a game of Moon Colony Bloodbath and I was reminded of some very pertinent flavor text from one of Dr White’s perk cards.

Badly lost the last game of Galactic Cruise in 2025. Handily won the fist game of 2026. Choosing to consider this a good sign for the upcoming year

Starting out the New Year with another game of Galactic Cruise.

Another thoroughly enjoyed last place finish

Closing out the year with some Galactic Cruising. I continue to love the tactility of this game.

Bad precedent for the teachers currently suing over terminations for Kirk related posts. If privately complaining about the DNC in crude language is enough to show Pickering level disruption then plausibly so is being impolitic over Kirk's assassination

It is fortunate that I have a mouth, for I must scream.

Truly a modern-day Job

When you make a finding of mild limitations as part of the 20 CFR § 404.1520a/416.920a special technique, SSR 96-8p requires those mild limitations be incorporated into the residual functional capacity. And one of these days a district court will agree with me, dammit.

Extremely grateful that the kids I teach at the fencing club are not amongst those who have picked this up.

They've also got this gimmick up in their print advertising. Seems politically unwise to be connecting tariffs and Trump given the public's current reaction to the economic pain they're causing, but I guess that's why I'm not a right-wing advertiser...

Shapiro and whoever this other deep-thinker is are arguing that we need to change a law we already changed more than 40 years ago…

Moments after this was taken, after I’d gone to the trouble to make sure that my caffeine, phone, and TV remote were at hand and settled into the recliner to read my book, Mulligan jumped up to tell me he needed to go outside…

Winner

I think this is a rare bad legal take from Akiva. Even the Warren court said they thought it was possible to include the Bible in public schools for purely literary and non-religious educational purposes. Many school districts have tried to do so, to greater and lesser success (see below). 1/3

It’s official. Threat of falling iguanas for New Years.

Minerva, here depicted in her favorite overseer spot, was apparently feeling a little overexcited for Christmas and decided to leave me a dead palm rat at the foot of the bed this morning, a couple of days early.

Particularly amusing that he's the most underwater on tariffs and this is the advertising currently running for a local pro-Trump radio station.

Senator, this cartoon was supposed to be cautionary...

I really can’t get over this one. People petitioned the government not to fire the teacher, which was disruptive, therefore we can fire the teacher under Pickering.

Injunction denied in case for local teacher fired for Facebook posts re:Kirk. Finds heckler's veto could be sufficiently disruptive of government operations so no evidence that teacher will clearly prevail on the facts (silly). Also found termination is in the past so remedy is damages (reasonable)

If you're collecting SSDI/SSI and SSA asks you to come in for an appointment to discuss your part-time work activity for your spouse's business I promise you it will be a lot cheaper if you contact an attorney BEFORE the appointment rather than after talking to SSA for 10 minutes.

@tznkai.bsky.social, you know who really is just nothing but a profiteering bane on the healthcare industry? Medical records copying companies like CIOX. Look at this. $35 bill to send a one-page electronic medical record. HHS under Obama tried to limit this, but they sued and won under APA.

The 1983 claims for the guy ridiculously arrested and held over a plainly First Amendment protected Facebook post in Tennessee has been filed. Presumably some parts of BlueSky will be angry that FIRE is on the case. @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social

If you're collecting SSDI/SSI and SSA asks you to come in for an appointment to discuss your part-time work activity for your spouse's business I promise you it will be a lot cheaper if you contact an attorney BEFORE the appointment rather than after talking to SSA for 10 minutes.

Obviously this is due to the Trump administration's actions and not the completely normal cyclical decline in rental prices during the winter...

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

@nationalsecuritylaw.org mind if I pick your brain on FOIA? I got a fairly timely response to a request back in 2023 but I just discovered pretty conclusive evidence it was not a complete disclosure. Any remedy beyond filing a new request to specifically ask for the material I now know is missing?

Massie is of course 100% correct. Journalists asking any elected Republican about this will get the now familiar "I haven't seen it. Can't comment" lie. Vaguely curious how Leavitt will manage to respond to any inquiries about it though.

Tremendously reassuring that the local field office (which I was actually able to get through to with only 20 minutes on hold!) agrees that she's not currently in pay but can't figure out any reason why...

Just got a fully favorable decision on a remanded continuing disability review case. Local field office trying to tell the claimant that benefits won't start until April because of the 5-month Title II waiting period. *Continuing* disability review! She went through her waiting period 20 years ago!

Continuing to have fun with Draw Steel’s official adventures. The heroes finished their fall through a couple of stories of the inn in Blackbottom. How sad for the poor polder elementalist that he landed right between two groups of demons.

I love this concept. If Warlocks were like Twitch streamers I might actually play one.

@kenwhite.bsky.social, you and Josh forgot to mention perhaps the most entertaining part of Mace’s airport dispute

Peter, here’s a hint. If when they called her case they didn’t say *United States* v. Tina Peters then the offense she committed wasn’t against the United States. With that detail in mind, I turn you to Article II, Section 2, Clause 1.

Have been able to confirm with three different sources that they no longer have jurisdiction so the egregiously bad letter is going to get a polite "go pound sand" response.

@akivamcohen.bsky.social @toobigtofail.bsky.social

The Naples, FL SSA field office is continuing its more than decade long tradition of being staffed by the rankest incompetents it has been my displeasure to work with.