I just want to take a minute to say what absolute and utter bullshit this is. Frank Bisignano is, by far, the second worst commissioner SSA has ever had, only behind Leland Dudek. That's not saying much.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

Can't sleep. Gotta rant. There was a time when the Democratic party's core belief was that the government should do everything it could to alleviate people's suffering. We got the New Deal, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, SSI, Food Stamps, TANF, and much more from that party.

Congress could close Social Security's gap tomorrow by acting in the interests of the broader public—and not just the richest 10 percent.

Fuck it. Why not have Batman's Rogues Gallery show up?

Well, that was a fucking ride.

fwiw i don't mean "abandon all hope and start slitting throats" blackpilled, but if the market won't stop this kind of behavior and the law can't prevent it, then both are insufficient and must be amended

If Trump runs for a third term, screw it & run Mamdani. The Constitution doesn’t matter at that point, & Zohran has the Mandate of Heaven

i applaud their messaging going into November. "food, you literally can't live without it and you die a painful agonizing death without it, so really we should be glad to pay maybe 30 dollars a pound for beef because it's great value compared to not eating and dying". GOP 2026!

Donald Trump’s part-time Social Security Commissioner — who has a practiced history of fudging numbers — will appear before Congress today to claim that the agency he gutted has never worked better. Millions of Americans know the truth, and Congress is hearing their voices.[

One of our brave alt friends summarizes what we grapple with running this account We started doing this to keep getting good science out & reveal the behind-the-scenes dumpster fires But sometimes, the perfection demanded from others gets in the way of trying to do good

Lee Atwater was evil, but he understood this point perfectly. Mike Dukakis started the 1988 campaign with a 17-point-lead but Atwater leaned in on the weekend furlough of William Horton, bragging that his negative ad blitz was going to "make Willie Horton his running mate." It worked.

this is incredible

Spoiler: you'll never even know a billionaire, let alone be one

And you said he wasn't passionate about anything

Probably a coincidence, but it seems like infectious diseases are thriving under this administration that doesn't believe in infectious diseases.

Just to be clear, the byline is a bunch of current SSA executives hired by the Trump Administration. For some reason, a news outlet gave them some free space to jerk each other off in public.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Big Tobacco Execs Are Doing the Lord's Work and Smoking Gets You Laid - By Big Tobacco Execs

"Elon Musk is doing fascism the right way" -- Ezra Klein

It's great the Russ "Federal Employees Should Live in Trauma" Vought's OPM wants our help making their job easier. Normally we're all doing the Fed employee satisfaction survery around this time, but they scrapped that this year because fuck our feelings, but we should help him do his job.

🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com

Here ya go

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Here's what's really troubling about this, regardless of whether you think releasing the report would be worthwhile or not: Ken Martin's whole point seems to be that there were a lot of lessons to be learned from the autopsy, but releasing it would create circular fire squads. 🧵

Mussolini was killed on April 28, 1945. "A fitting end to a wretched life,” the NYT declared. "The man who once boasted that he was going to restore the glories of ancient Rome is now a corpse in a public square in Milan, with a howling mob cursing and kicking and spitting on his remains.”

The house just cannot seem to do its job. You know what else is included in that bill to fund #FEMA, TSA, and Coast Guard? A $26 billion replenishment of the disaster relief fund. What exactly is the disaster relief fund? I’m glad you asked. 🧵🧵🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Every day I have to walk past this picture in our office lobby, and I just can't understand why he would think it's flattering. He looks like he's in a coin operated fortune teller machine with bad acid reflux.

It's funny, I didn't really care that much about the autopsy until I'd listened to this interview.

Has anyone ever been fooled by AI and had any other reaction than disappointment? That kind of sums up AI's value.

Internet, please make a Weekend at Bernie's 3 poster out of this without using AI. Thanks.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

it’s so cool how most LA politicians wake up in the morning and are like “how can I make it harder to build housing today” Our only hope to make LA a well-run, pro-housing city is electing Nithya Raman as mayor

the only thing worse than winning a hot dog eating contest is losing a hot dog eating contest. imagine eating 87 hot dogs for nothing.

Heads up, SSA employees! Word on the streets is that Frankie, in his infinite wisdom, has decided that MCS will be decommissioned on 10/1/26 and officially and fully replaced with the 10th level of hell that is CCE 😬😬😬 I wish I were joking but I’m really fucking not. Happy Federal Fuckery Friday 😒😒😒

BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion. More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.

ORBÁN HAS CONCEDED 60% in

"Here's your pizza! It *doesn't* have dirt in it." Not sure I trust this new pizza shop, even though it is conveniently located in my living room, and I really should support a business run by my 4yo.

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah I’m not doing that

If you want the GOP to care about sexual harassment and assault in their ranks then you must also care about it when one of your own gets accused too. Fairness and accountability, not hypocrisy. Let partisanship in politics not revictimize victims. You’re showing us you’re not safe to talk to.

The most irrelevant post I've ever made: John Carpenter made my favorite movies, but trying to make Tom Atkins a leading man was never going to work.

Anyone here in Gottenheimer's district? Just heard heard him on the Bulwark, and it was the most embarrassing performance I've ever heard from a "democrat". Primary that moron, please.

This is for merely laughing at thin skinned Trump on TikTok

NEW: Trump officials give bigger pay hike to Medicare Advantage plans. That's due in *large part* to scrapping an updated risk adjustment model that would have used more recent data for people's diagnoses. Huge win for the health insurance industry. www.statnews.com/2026/04/06/m...

Does Pennsylvania let you recall a Senator?

It can be so disappointing sometimes to realise you’ve just read a metaphor.

🔥 I LOVE Jameela Jamil for giving this devastating critique of liberals - from her view as a fellow liberal. 🤍

Operation Epic Fury has been a complete and total success. In four short weeks, we killed their entire leadership, destroyed their navy, and totally obliterated 168 schoolgirls. Nobody thought we could take out that many schoolgirls at once." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/transcript...

Only note here: I think the NYT might have missed that this could be an homage to January 6, since some pardoned visitors would be undoubtedly familiar with breaking and entering governmental buildings through the windows.

I'd support the next Dem president signing an EO that no federal agency or contractor can have any employees who were ever appointed by Trump, either as an official or a "Special government employee". Extend that to ICE and CBP hires too.