And not a single one of us was paid to be there.

🧵I get a lot of questions about what will happen to Social Security payments. The way I see it, there are 3 factors that will impact payments, all of which will feed off each other to exponentially increase the likelihood that SSA will miss payments: backlogs, error, and system failure.

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

Cory Booker. 👇👇👇

Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

The below blog piece blew up on FB so thought I’d post it here as well. It’s a piece a wrote summarizing an actual conversation I had recently with a Trump/Musk/Doge supporter. For whatever reason this really has resonated with folks. I suspect you also will relate. garyhooser.blog/2025/03/22/t...

I drove by a house that used to fly a Trump flag, but now they are flying an upside-down American flag. I have so many questions, and I’d also like to high five whoever made this change happen. Someone in that house is changing minds.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!

Brit is apparently not willing to go along with the New Big Lie being pushed by Hegseth and Fox hosts.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Would like to report some gang tattoos.

Joe Gallina: If you could speak directly to Donald Trump, what would you tell him? Gov. JB Pritzker: What does Vladimir Putin have on you?

HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE.

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

The entire world seems to understand this except Trump, Vance, Musk, many Fox hosts, and their cult.

“Musk is killing Tesla. His lack of integrity, lack of internal consistency, and deeply fascistic leanings are now on full display for the world to see. And the world has responded by violently throwing up in their mouths.”

The reality here is very simple: Trump thinks there is no limit on his power, that he can spend money how he likes, jail who he likes, rule by fiat, criminalize criticism of himself. He is breaking the law and ignoring the Constitution. And we can either acknowledge that or keep pretending he isn’t.

every time I wake up in the middle of the night I regret looking at my phone because something insane has happened, exhibit 293973829

One good reason for Democrats to show up for Mahmoud Khalil is you're all fucking next

Dictator shit

Here's a dictator, on full blast. 🤬🤬🤬

Who else AGREES with John?! 🤚🌈✨

It’s not going to be a fun week.

Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

If we confirm Kash Patel, knowing what we are getting, we will only have ourselves to blame.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

I thought they were all self-made rugged individualists who didn’t rely on socialism.

Forever, the courts have been an important arbiter of what a President can, and can’t do. That is under threat now: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trump-like...

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

Creative accounting AKA Covering your ass

Of course the Democrats will be going to Houston to find and interview voters who were laid off , to ask them what their expectations of the new administration were and how they feel they are doing at the moment. And posting here and everywhere. Right ?

The key to spotting embezzlement is that it involves a betrayal of trust or duty. While this looks different in every state, generally, these four factors must be present: www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...

14 states file lawsuit arguing Elon Musk’s authority at DOGE is unconstitutional - NBC News

Filed in District Court today. Judge Berman Jackson making sure the record will always be reflective of what really happened that day.

A counterintelligence disaster is right. This is a highly unusual request from the White House, and an even more unusual compliance for the CIA. This will put lives at risk.

What the FUCK

BREAKING: All overseas missions for the U.S. Agency for USAID, have been ordered to shut down and all staff will be recalled by Friday, CBS News reports USAID has more than 10,000 employees, with about two-thirds serving overseas This outrageous move will only bolster China’s global influence.

Am I having a stroke or did Trump just talk about the US “owning” Gaza? And maybe sending US troops?

REPORTER: You are talking tonight about the US taking over a sovereign territory. What authority would allow you to do that? Are you talking about a permanent occupation? TRUMP: I do see a long term ownership position