You really don't want to miss this one, folks. We have an all-star line-up including @kedseconomist.com , @lipstickecon.bsky.social ,Bradley Hardy, and @betseystevenson.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org events.zoom.us/ev/Alhyls42b...

Our response to the court order issued by Judge Williams in the Trump v. IRS lawsuit.

DOGE wielded extraordinary power during the first months of the Trump administration. It was more important than any Cabinet official. The fact it has been completely memory-holed by this administration says much about its purpose and impact. federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...

Trump keeps talking about the US moving to an Australian retirement system (through Trump accounts...lol) but I have a hard time imagining Republicans creating a system with a mandatory annual 12% employer side contribution for every employer in the US www.foxbusiness.com/politics/tru...

Reminder that Balogun accepted the red card & shook the ref's hand after: “There’s still lots of people we’re inspiring, little kids, boys and girls who are watching, and we have to show them the correct way to handle things, even when you think it’s unjust," he said. www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...

I think we still haven’t fully metabolized just how much routine US gov’t comms have been hijacked for Trump propaganda. From SSA form email:

YIKES. My sister has performed on the Mall on July 4. I hate to think of performers like her being in danger from shoddy construction, or whatever the heck is going on here.

Today, SCOTUS upheld more than 125 years of precedent by ruling against a Trump Admin executive order that would have denied birthright citizenship to certain children born in our nation. pifcoalition.org/resources/pr...

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

The bicentennial was before my time, but I can tell ya, Michigan's sesquicentennial in 1987 was way more fun than this. It's a bummer.

This is a big deal: Senators Warren (D-MA) & Moreno (R-OH) joined forces to call for lifting Social Security’s tax cap. Both parties have boxed themselves in with restrictive tax pledges. Finding a way forward—together—is our best hope of saving Social Security. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...

The appropriations process is totally broken, it's a quiet coup, and almost nobody knows about it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Trump administration’s decision this week to put Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of special education programs has sparked backlash from advocates for students with disabilities, who say the move will hurt children and that his views on autism make him unfit for the job.

This week, the Department of Education announced that the Department of Justice would handle civil rights. But the Department of Justice announced a legal opinion saying that states do not need to provide community-based care for people with disabilities. www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-dis...

Federal grantmaking processes are meant to be fair and free of political favoritism or retaliation – but a new Trump Admin rule would allow corruption & politicization of grant award decisions, creating an outsized risk of abuse & coercion.

The proposed rule is one of the clearest articulations to date of the Trump Administration’s assertion that the U.S. government is meant to serve the President and his interests, rather than the public good. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

I get the impulse for autistic people to want to respond by saying that they DID go to college or play baseball or date and work. But that still plays into ableist narratives. Even if an #ActuallyAutistic person does none of these, they still have worth.

Reminder: This is just the latest in a series of Trump Administration attacks on special ed & civil rights for students (which disproportionately affects disabled kids). We wrote on this last year: www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

@kathleenromig.bsky.social explains via @nytimes.com that immigrant workers contribute significantly to Social Security's finances. Those contributions are increasingly important as the program faces a funding shortfall by 2032. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...

The Trump Admin planned to declare 2.7M living people — including U.S. citizens & lawful permanent residents — dead. They described their goal as "making immigrants so miserable that they self-deported or went to Social Security offices for help, where they could be arrested." wapo.st/4uOlIJt

The Social Security Trustees Report is expected next Tuesday, June 9. Want to know more? Join me, SSA chief actuary Karen Glenn, and experts from across the political spectrum at a National Academy of Social Insurance briefing on Thurs 6/11, 12:30-2. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Trump Admin pushed out over 8K Social Security Administration workers over 15 months, compromising service to seniors, bereaved families & people with disabilities. Nearly half the lost staff assisted local office visitors and 800 number callers. www.cbpp.org/blog/new-dat...

Social Security commish Frank Bisignano testifies at Ways & Means Wed 6/10. I'm sure there will be lots of Qs about: -The chaos at SSA during the Trump Admin -Bisignano's sign-off on the $1.776B slush fund -The release of the trustees report the day before waysandmeans.house.gov/event/joint-...

New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements. The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The settlement, @donmoyn.bsky.social told me, provides “financial reward for those who attacked American democracy. The consequence of not punishing Trump for January 6th is that now he rewards his supporters.”

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...

Happy Frances Perkins feast day (Episcopal Church calendar, May 13)! Witness to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, later FDR’s Labor Secretary; she wrote the Social Security Act in her church’s rectory kitchen. She pushed to admit Jewish refugees. Known as FDR’s conscience and author of the New Deal. ⚓️

"Here's the dirty little secret: Trump accounts are Social Security personal accounts," said Ted Cruz, describing them as the first step in a plan to privatize Social Security, which "conservatives in America have been trying to do for 50 years." www.axios.com/2026/05/08/c...

Social Security field offices are not OK after the loss of thousands of frontline employees last year. Terrific new reporting on the human costs of the Trump Administration's deep cuts on older, disabled, and bereaved families. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

You know what else costs $1 billion? 1 year of raising the extraordinarily punitive $2,000 savings limit for poor elderly & disabled people who receive SSI. It traps people in poverty, not allowing them enough on hand for expenses, let alone investments in the future. www.vox.com/2024/4/3/241...

They tried this last year also. GAO is one of the few government actors still doing serious accountability of the executive branch, and they have a particular legal role in calling out impoundments. So Russ Vought and Trump have gone to war against them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/congress-f...

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

Q: How will the new SSI rules impact your family? A: I have no clue Q: But you're something of an expert? A: I know, now imagine how everyone else must feel. Q: Why is it like this? A: Because Republicans love administrative burdens and do it on purpose. from @ms.now

Scoop — Trump admin's new Medicare portal accidentally exposed health workers’ social security numbers. It’s latest setback with DOGE-backed initiative. We flagged the problem to officials two days ago to fix it. with @ence.bsky.social

The Trump regime is pushing for a new rule that could strip as many as 400,000 low-income adults with disabilities of hundreds of dollars per month in assistance. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress just introduced a plan to use taxpayer money to fund Trump's vanity ballroom. Do I have this right?

UPDATE: We obtained new details in our work to hold DOGE and the Social Security Administration accountable, revealing a clear paper trail confirming SSA’s plan to exchange Americans’ personal, private data with an external entity. 🧵Here’s what you need to know:

Wow. The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

Meanwhile they've doubled the military budget request to $1.5 trillion.

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

You should read every word of this powerful piece. For now, I'll pull some highlights about the Trump Administration's proposal to cut or even eliminate SSI benefits for up to 400K families caring for disabled loved ones while struggling to get by themselves. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“People who are not struggling with their weight can be very judgmental,” Dr. Daniel Drucker said. “They never had their brains driving their behavior.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/h...

In July, Trump enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in US history. Then he indefinitely cancelled the survey that measures hunger in America. Meanwhile, official data show the number of people who receive food assistance in America plummeting. Reminder: OBBBA took food from hungry children

🚨SNAP tracker update: We just added March data for the 16 states reporting so far. The # of low-income people receiving SNAP continues to fall. Largest drops since H.R. 1 was enacted in July: AZ: -51% TN: -15% VA: -13% SC & TX: -11% CT, IN, KS, PA: -10%

After Republicans passed the biggest food stamps cut in history, enrollment has declined by 2.5 million people www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

I'm a DC resident--and the mom of teens--and I approve this message.

Frank Bisignano is set to testify before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday. He is simultaneously the “CEO” of IRS and Commissioner of Social Security. During his tenure, some troubling patterns have emerged at SSA and IRS, which impact the millions of people who rely on their services. 🧵

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

“The government’s recent acknowledgments are alarming and raise serious questions about its earlier conduct before the district court,” a federal appeals court said today in a decision vacating limits on DOGE’s access to sensitive data at the SSA. More 👇