Great job, Bill Cassidy

"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.

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.

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."

Something to watch next week: the deadline for the Social Security Administration (along with the rest of gov) to stop issuing paper checks. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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."

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.

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. forward.com/opinion/7575...

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.

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...

@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.

Donald Trump is politicizing Social Security — and endangering beneficiaries.

Donald Trump's Big Ugly Bill weakens Social Security. To hide that, he sent lies about the bill to everyone with a MySSA account. The Social Security Administration is funded directly from Social Security contributions. Your Social Security money paid for Trump's propaganda.

WATCH: Republican Rep. Tim Burchett says he's voting to gut Medicaid because sick and disabled Americans should "get off their ass and get a job."

BREAKING: Republicans just voted to steal health care from 17 million Americans and close hospitals + nursing homes around the country — to pay for massive tax handouts to billionaires. Every Democrat in Congress voted NO.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

Thanks to Trump, Musk, and the Supreme Court, "Big Balls" has access to your private Social Security data. What could go wrong?

WATCH: "Wait times are up. People are not answering the phones. No one's in the office. Is it your plan to pretend this is not happening? Will you end the DOGE disaster at Social Security?" Trump Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano refuses to answer.

BREAKING: Sen. Joni Ernst runs away from questions about how the Republicans' Big Beautiful Betrayal would close rural hospitals and nursing homes in Iowa.

Every human being matters. No one should die so billionaires can get even richer. Hands off Medicaid.

President Trump and Congress's "Big Beautiful Bill" threatens to strip health care from those who need it most. On #CareTalk live @lindabenesch.bsky.social @socialsecurityworks.org discusses w/ me @healthcarevoices.org & @louisenorris.bsky.social#CareTalkDiane-Just Care answer your health ins q’s.

Early this morning, House Republicans jammed through a bill to rip health care away from at least 13.7 million Americans. All to give massive tax cuts to billionaires.

This gets the story wrong on a fundamental level because it assumes DOGE was about what Musk claimed. DOGE was about stealing data, getting Musk contracts, shutting down investigations and regulations of Musk’s companies, and terrorizing federal workers. On that front, it succeeded.

Alex Lawson to Rep. Miller-Meeks: Last time you spoke with us you lied to our face and said you wouldn’t vote for Medicaid cuts, but you’ve voted for the largest cuts in the history of the country. Do you have any comment on the health care that 67,000 people in your district are going to lose?

Today is the feast day of Frances Perkins in the Episcopal church. She is a founding mother of Social Security, unemployment insurance, workplace & fire safety standards & much more. She's an inspiration to me both professionally & personally. 🧵 francesperkinscenter.org/2018/01/17/f...

Vaccines are an amazing lifesaving miracle. We should celebrate them + invest in more.

TONIGHT at 6pm ET: Rally to oppose Frank Bisignano, Trump's nominee to run Social Security into the ground. Speakers include @wyden.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @rweingarten.bsky.social @martinomalley.bsky.social. Join us if you're in DC! If not, we'll be posting clips.

Normally, the Social Security Administration is very efficient, spending less than a penny of every dollar contributed on administrative expenses. But now, that money is being misused for political purposes. Not only is the Trump-Musk regime lying to you, they are using your money to do it.

Great @thedailybeast.bsky.social reporting relies on a brave Social Security field office whistleblower (an AFGE union steward) who reports that it isn't just immigrants getting the declared-dead-while-alive treatment from DOGE.

200 angry seniors rallied with me outside the Santa Barbara Social Security office yesterday! I delivered a letter written by @warren.senate.gov & signed by 104 other members of Congress demanding NO office closures! It was addressed to Acting Commissioner Dudek. Public pressure works!!!

Yesterday, Americans rallied at 58 Social Security offices in 23 states to tell the Trump-Musk regime hands off our earned benefits! @maddow.msnbc.com