Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) = CEO of the Government.

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Excellent question here!

https://archive.is/0QAc7

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@lsanger
Hi @ElonMusk. Wikipedia co-founder here. May I ask you to determine what branches of the U.S. government—if any!—have employees paid to edit, monitor, update, lobby, etc., WIkipedia?

Such operations should be defunded, if any. If there are *none*, we’d like to know. Agree?



2/11
@lsanger
For people who don’t know me:
- I left WIkipedia in 2002.
- I have been a critic since 2004.
- The Wikipedia process is almost as opaque to me as it is to you.
- Yes it’s biased, I’ve said so for a long time. See my blog (LarrySanger.org – Technology, philosophy, and more).
- I do Knowledge Standards Foundation.



3/11
@lsanger
Me reading this viral explosion

4/11
@lsanger
Hey @elonmusk does this mean that my X account is now officially unthrottled? This is my first viral post in a few years. Or is the tweet just so awesome that it overcame the throttling?



5/11
@lsanger
What the heck? Is this going to be complementary? Thanks, X team.

6/11
@lsanger
And since everybody is congregating here, I’ll just use this opportunity to advance the Kingdom of God:

How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian – LarrySanger.org



7/11
@lsanger
BTW, President Trump could get this ball rolling just as well:

[Quoted tweet]
Hi, @realDonaldTrump—co-founder of Wikipedia here—could I persuade you to use an executive order to make it a policy that neither federal worker hours nor federal moneys may be used to edit Wikipedia or pay for Wikipedia editing?

Thanks in advance. (I voted for you.)


8/11
@NeuralCatAccel
This is fine but should not be limited to direct employees. After all, NGOs have proven to be the dirty works division of our 'modern' federal government.

Will you revise your request to include NGOs being funded by fed govt / taxpayers?

Agree?



9/11
@lsanger
I agree!



10/11
@RingedEarth
Larry, going by what we have seen at USAID, a deliberate effort could be made by passing it through a layer or two of NGOs and contractors. It is much more likely than having civil servants do it. And would be hard to identify. So how can he answer.



11/11
@lsanger
By assigning people to do research / investigation.




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Judge upbraids Trump admin lawyer for lack of knowledge about how DOGE operates

A federal judge expressed unease with the transparency being provided by the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency during a hearing.

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‘That seems like a knowable fact, doesn’t it?’: Judge upbraids Trump admin lawyer for lack of knowledge and ‘strange disconnect’ about how DOGE operates​

Colin KalmbacherMar 1st, 2025, 12:56 pm

President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File).

A federal judge expressed decided levels of unease with the transparency being provided by the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during a hearing on Friday.

On Feb. 13, over two dozen pseudonymous current and former employees or contractors with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sued Musk, arguing his position violates the U.S. Constitution’s Appointments Clause and separation of powers.

This argument, filed in Maryland federal court, attacks the basic constitutional legitimacy of the cost-cutting organization with an iteration of the exact same argument that spelled doom for onetime special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. As Law&Crime previously reported, a similar lawsuit was filed on the same day by a coalition of 14 states in Washington, D.C. federal court.

Now, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, a Barack Obama appointee, is one of many judges weighing if and how to grant the plaintiffs relief as DOGE comes under a sustained and varied barrage of legal complaints.

During the Friday hearing, the judge drilled down on a more basic issue about the makeup of the evasively-defined organization.

Much consternation – in various lawsuits filed against DOGE, Musk and the administration – has resulted from how, exactly, DOGE is being defined and under what authority the group operates. Part and parcel of this dispute is the fact that the former U.S. Digital Service was renamed the U.S. DOGE Service (USDS). At the same time, however, the administration has been cagey about whether or not this is the group of “special employees” that answers to Musk.

What is clear, now, but only after weeks of questions in lawsuit and during press briefings, is that the USDS administrator is Amy Gleason. Still, where or whether the twain, in fact, meet is an open question.

The judge, for his part, tried to get some answers.

“Who was the head of DOGE before Amy Gleason?” Chuang asked, according to a courtroom report by Anna Bower, the senior editor of Lawfare, a legal blog.

“I can’t answer that,” U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Joshua Gardner conceded. “I don’t know.”

The judge was not satisfied with the attorney’s response.

“I mean, that seems like a knowable fact, doesn’t it?” the jurist asked.

To which the government lawyer replied: “I’m sure it is knowable; I just don’t know it. I’m very conscious of being accurate with the court.”

The judge continued to pull on that thread.

“Have you asked anyone?” Chuang asked.

Gardner initially indicated he had not asked but immediately corrected himself.

“Actually, strike that,” the government lawyer went on. “I have asked previously, and I was not able to get answer [sic].”

Later on, the judge asked whether there was an administrator in place before Gleason – or whether she was the first. Again, the attorney was flummoxed.

“I’m not saying either,” Gardner replied. “Because I don’t know.”

The answers to those questions are likely key to the underlying case – where the plaintiffs allege an “attempted government takeover” by way of “an extraordinary amount of power” granted to Musk. This power, the lawsuit alleges, is in violation of the Appointments Clause because Musk was not appointed subject to the advice and consent of the Senate through the typical confirmation process.

“[E]ven if Defendant Musk could somehow be considered a mere ’employee’ rather than an ‘officer’ of the United States, his exercise of ‘significant,’ seemingly unfettered authority constitutes a grave violation of the separation-of-powers,” the lawsuit goes on.

As readers will recall, last summer, Chief Justice John Roberts and a majority of the justices issued a broad grant of presidential immunity to Trump; then, two weeks later, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon used a concurrence to that opinion by Thomas to squelch the special counsel’s authority and dismiss the documents case against Trump with a novel reading of the Appointments Clause – precisely because Smith himself exercised extreme power without Senate confirmation.

Musk’s actual status, therefore, is instrumental to the present lawsuit – in which he is the first-named defendant.

The judge picked up on that on Friday.

“Is there a piece of paper, like, an appointment paper?” Chuang asked, according to Bower’s report. “Is there one that says Elon Musk, Senior Adviser to the President?”

The DOJ lawyer appeared to feign ignorance about the connection.

“Sorry, now you’re talking about Elon Musk, not the DOGE administrator?” Gardner asked.

The judge lectured, at length:

The plaintiffs are saying Musk was the head of DOGE. You’re saying he wasn’t, but we can’t tell you who was, which admittedly is highly suspicious…I’m not saying that you’re not being candid, but the whole operation raises questions. There’s an affidavit saying he’s a senior advisor of the president. But there’s a “strange disconnect” where he has referred to himself in public as affiliated with DOGE and not as a senior adviser to the president—until recently, after these lawsuits were filed. Having some backup documentation for that would seem to be useful.

Ultimately, the court declined to immediately rule on the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. The judge said he would take the matter under advisement.

 

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Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten ‘interruption of benefits,’ ex-agency head says​

Published Sat, Mar 1 20259:27 AM EST

Lorie Konish

Key Points

• The U.S. Social Security Administration has never missed a benefit payment.
  
• Now the continuity of monthly checks for millions of Americans could be at risk following changes under the Trump administration, former commissioner Martin O’Malley says.

Then Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley testifies before the Senate Committee on the Budget on Sept. 11, 2024.

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Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago.

But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are putting monthly benefit checks for more than 72.5 million Americans at risk, former commissioner and former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley told CNBC.com.

“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley said. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.”

Ahead of any interruption in benefits, “people should start saving now,” O’Malley said.

The Social Security Administration uses multiple systems and technologies that Elon Musk has criticized for leading to errors. As commissioner, O’Malley told Congress the agency needed more funding for IT modernization.

O’Malley said DOGE leaders are now making changes at the agency, and significant staff cuts have already led to system outages. Those intermittent IT outages may happen more frequently and for more extended periods of time until there is a “system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” he said.

Neither the Social Security Administration nor the White House responded to requests for comment by press time.

The Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is not a federal department. And Musk, whom President Donald Trump brought on board to implement DOGE, is not an elected official.

Since its establishment, DOGE has looked to slash spending at federal government agencies.

The cuts have led to leadership upheaval, with the recent resignation of acting commissioner Michelle King following a reported disagreement over DOGE’s access to sensitive data. O’Malley resigned from the Social Security Administration in November to run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a race which he lost to Minnesota Democrat Ken Martin.

Trump has nominated Frank Bisignano, CEO of financial-technology company Fiserv

, to serve as the new commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Bisignano has yet to sit for Senate confirmation hearings.

In the interim, Lee Dudek, who first joined the agency in 2009, has been appointed acting commissioner.

Earlier this month, Dudek posted on LinkedIn that he had been placed on administrative leave from the agency for helping DOGE representatives, The Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 20.

“Our continuing priority is paying beneficiaries the right amount at the right time, and providing other critical services people rely on from us,” Dudek said in a Feb. 19 statement about his appointment.

Yet experts say the benefits Americans rely on could be at risk based on the Trump administration’s overhaul of the agency.

“The American public needs to understand that one of their major social safety nets is in dire jeopardy,” said Jill Hornick, a union official at the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1395, which primarily represents Social Security offices in Illinois.

“It’ll take a while for the effects to be felt, but they’re coming,” Hornick said, predicting what will happen to Social Security is going to be “far worse” than the planned cuts to Medicaid.

For people who are already receiving Social Security benefits, most of that is automated and may not be affected, she said. However, processing new claims — whether it be for retirement or disability benefits — may take longer since those cannot be processed without Social Security employees, she said.

On Thursday, the Social Security Administration sent a notice to employees that gives them until March 14 to decide whether to take an early buyout. Unlike a previous January offer, this now includes service employees, and staffing reductions in that area may impact how quickly the agency processes benefit claims and provides other services, Hornick said.

For example, if a woman files for a survivor benefit after her husband passes away, she needs to provide a copy of her marriage license. A Social Security employee then needs to code the system to verify they have seen that document and the applicant is eligible for benefits, Hornick said.

“Not everybody can do things electronically,” particularly the older adults and disabled individuals who the Social Security Administration serves, said Maria Freese, senior legislative representative at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

“If you don’t have people to run an agency that requires hands-on customer service, then of course there’s a risk that you could end up with benefits being either denied or interrupted,” Freese said.

The DOGE savings web page has a list of about 45 Social Security locations where leases will be terminated, according to Rich Couture, spokesperson for AFGE SSA General Committee, a union that represents 42,000 Social Security employees nationally.

The list provides little information on the uses for the locations that are being closed. Based on the square footage listed, they may be sites used to conduct in-person hearings for disability benefits, Couture said. In one case, the location seems to be a busy New York state field office that provides general services, he said.

“If they’re going to close these offices that are busy in highly populated areas, it would suggest to me that there’s no office in this country that would be safe from having a lease terminated, especially in rural areas,” Couture said.

In a recent statement, Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., said the moves are a “backdoor benefit cut.”

“Let me be clear — laying off half of the workforce at the Social Security Administration and shuttering field offices will mean the delay, disruption and denial of benefits,” Larson said.

In a statement to CNBC.com earlier this week, the Social Security Administration said it has not set any reduction targets, in response to reports it plans to cut 50% of its employees.

As a union, AFGE has been issuing bargaining demands in response to the agency’s recent decisions and plans to enforce employee rights through other methods as necessary, spokesperson Couture said.

While many lawsuits have been filed, it will take time to work through them, especially as the courts are now being flooded with cases tied to the Trump administration’s actions, said Nancy Altman, president of advocacy organization Social Security Works.

The biggest results may come from the pressure American voters could put on elected officials, former SSA commissioner O’Malley said.

“I think many people throughout the country are going to start bringing a lot of heat to members of Congress who have been facilitating, supporting, aiding and abetting the breaking of their Social Security and the interruption of benefits that they work their whole lives to earn,” he said. “These are earned benefits.”

 

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Musk and his team don't seem to know how any of these institutions work. Calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme is ridiculous. I know what a real Ponzi scheme is

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  This should be obvious to anyone who has worked at a large company with many complex systems. How the fukk are Elon musk and a group of recent college grads, who’s only experience is working at twitter, going through dozens of government agencies in just a few weeks and making huge reformation decisions? Theres literally no way they spent enough time to actually understand the systems and the data within them.
  
  It’s super obvious when he tried to get into the details of the social security database that they actually have no idea what they’re looking at. It takes time to understand systems and data, even for experienced data engineers moving to a new field or company
  
  
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  If they were looking for inefficiencies and fraud they would have brought forensic accountants, not computer scientists.
  
  
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  Forensic accountants tend to be very non partisan, they could maybe cause problems for the blatant grifting. 24yr old BigBalls sounds like a decent person to them, so who are we to judge. Hope I don't need the /s

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AOC ripped him apart for his bullshyt.

There was a near unanimous bipartisan bill set to pass regarding pharmacy management reform. Elon tweeted and got it shut down. And he later asked what the bill was about on Twitter. Clearly having no idea on what the pharmacy management situation was.

That is what is happening right now. Elon musk just needs to tweet one thing and the GOP will kill any bill and Elon doesn’t even have any expertise to know what the fukk he is canceling. He’s just doing shyt to feel important.

But because he has all the money and the GOP is scared shytless of him he now unilaterally makes all the calls in the US goverment. On everything. Just for like funsies.

 

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The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)

As we mentioned last night: “Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending may be (is) taking aim at a NASHVILLE office that serves thousands of retirees, people with disabilities and children who have lost parents.”...

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The Tennessee Holler

As we mentioned last night: “Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending may be (is) taking aim at a NASHVILLE office that serves thousands of retirees, people with disabilities and children who have lost parents.” Elon Musk's DOGE website lists Nashville Social Security office among cuts

2/22
‪boudro666.bsky.social‬ ‪@boudro666.bsky.social‬

Cool how nobody, anywhere, knows what the fukk these yahoos are doing

3/22
‪welshielady.bsky.social‬ ‪@welshielady.bsky.social‬

Well this is what Tennessee voted for. Perhaps if they had believed the smart lady that was running we wouldn’t be in this mess.

4/22
‪Börje Brandt‬ ‪@boerjebrandt.bsky.social‬

Hi The Democrats (@democrats.org)

All over USA.

Talk to Republican voters.

Visit their districts, listen to them and their fears.

Is their concern about immigration, overshadowing their cost of living, violation of laws, corruption, education, jobs etc ?

Not everybody joined TrumpMusk cult !

Win them over ♡

5/22
‪sassy-shorts.bsky.social‬ ‪@sassy-shorts.bsky.social‬

Democrats... this is literally the easiest job you'll ever have to do

The talking points are there for the taking. Just get in front of the people and TALK to them about what's going on and how to fix it.

No lectures. No politics.

Take the easy W here guys

6/22
‪HearUsRoar‬ ‪@hearusroar.bsky.social‬

Plano Tx ain’t having it!!!

7/22
‪emmespace.bsky.social‬ ‪@emmespace.bsky.social‬

I send my tax payments to Kentucky. Because McConnell knew that government jobs help communities. But the. He also enabled this shytshow.

8/22
‪ekim61.bsky.social‬ ‪@ekim61.bsky.social‬

Does everyone see? They are set on dropping our population with disease and starvation. Grimes even said it.

9/22
‪tommistephenson.bsky.social‬ ‪@tommistephenson.bsky.social‬

Preying on marginalized populations is such bad form. The cruelty is the point.

10/22
‪Paulita‬ ‪@scarletonly.bsky.social‬

Ia the DOGE coin that good of an investment?

11/22
‪Cindy Arnevik‬ ‪@cabbageridge.bsky.social‬

Has anyone on their team tried to get an appointment at a
SS office ? Have they stood in line when it opened ?

12/22
‪GeoRose‬ ‪@georose.bsky.social‬

Henderson County NC Democratic Party (@myhcdp.bsky.social) League of Women Voters of Wake County (@lwvofwake.bsky.social) Anderson Clayton (@abreezeclayton.bsky.social)
NC Democratic Party House Caucus (@nchousedems.com)
Carolina Forward (@carolinaforward.bsky.social)

Looks like we’ve got some locations here in NC that DOGE doesn’t think are valuable to our communities. Because who needs Social Security & Farm Services

13/22
‪mark607.bsky.social‬ ‪@mark607.bsky.social‬

That is what the voted for. No no it can't be that. Trump would never do that to the working class. Lol

14/22
‪John Mohr‬ ‪@jmohrbsky.bsky.social‬

From Nashville. Anyone that has had dealings with the Nashville office realizes that they need more people, not fewer. But Melon hasn't had dealings with them, has he?

15/22
‪KittyO‬ ‪@kittyo.bsky.social‬

FACT: This is a hostile takeover. A foreign billionaire bought his way into our govt & he’s remaking America into the country *he’d* like to live in. Apparently it’s one that rips our tax $ from wherever they’re working in our communities & pays his companies instead - by the billions.

16/22
‪Josey‬ ‪@josey75.bsky.social‬

While Trump play golf again using millions and millions of taxpayer dollars - you'll have to go to Court to stop Musk/Trump...

17/22
‪Lisa Stewart‬ ‪@redeye1957.bsky.social‬

The voters are getting what they wanted.

18/22
‪SammyTheCat‬ ‪@sammythecat.bsky.social‬

Hey, neo-Nazi efficiency creep, go after your co-conspirator’s wasteful golf trips to FL because that’s one way million$ of taxpayer dollars will be saved! President Biden did not waste our tax dollar$ on stupid golf trips. The traitor felon blew through $10 million in one month on his FL junkets.

19/22
‪Bec1951‬ ‪@bec1951.bsky.social‬

Way to go Grandma Blackburn

20/22
‪ctrebnick30.bsky.social‬ ‪@ctrebnick30.bsky.social‬

TN voted for Trump! Ouch

21/22
‪Ckingpeace‬ ‪@ckingpeace.bsky.social‬

Tell me again why Elon Musk gets to decide?

22/22
‪Liz Harbin‬ ‪@lifeinthesouth.bsky.social‬

It’s shameful what they’re doing

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The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)

Lift the cap.

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The Tennessee Holler

Lift the cap.

2/30
‪tonio5k.bsky.social‬ ‪@tonio5k.bsky.social‬

The answer is that it can never run out of money if the government decides to fund it. The question is loaded to provoke a response.

3/30
‪Luke ‬ ‪@angrypusscat.bsky.social‬

He literally says in that post, he wants there to be NO social security. Slow clap to all the morons who voted for them.

4/30
‪PoochPest‬ ‪@poochpest.bsky.social‬

Taxing billionaires is not "redistribution" of wealth. NOT taxing billionaires is redistribution of wealth.
Let's be clear.
8% of $1 is $.08.
8% of $55b leaves that person $50.6 billion. I think he can still invest and buy eggs

5/30
‪Chris Grumpy&GettingGrumpier‬ ‪@fusewiretheloud.bsky.social‬

Hate the fact he’s called it grok, Robert A. Heinlein must be spinning in his grave.
Grok means to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with, to empathize or communicate sympathetically, also to experience enjoyment!
None of which Musk is capable of!

6/30
‪Sokyle ‬ ‪@sokyle2.bsky.social‬

I make way above the social security payroll cap

I’m not a billionaire - far from it - but would be very happy to pay above the cap if it helps others and my lifestyle would mot be impacted one bit

That’s the Christian thing to do as I understand it

7/30
‪marlajohnson.bsky.social‬ ‪@marlajohnson.bsky.social‬

They should pay more taxes!! All new income and wealth is going to the top 1%! They keep us on starvation wages, making our contribution lower while they have a small cap!! They’ve stolen our wages and our tax dollars and our Social Security!!

8/30
‪ Seasonal Puppermint‬ ‪@sunglows.bsky.social‬

It can be fixed! By getting rid of Elon. Permanently. He can go to Mars with his pet project SpaceX and stay up there.

9/30
‪Keith M‬ ‪@ksecus.bsky.social‬

Billionaires should not be allowed to exist. We can clearly see what it does to them. We have a minimum wage. Now make a maximum wage. Wealth concentration is destroying our world and its people. Billionaires should not be allowed to exist. It is a fatal flaw of Capitalism.

10/30
‪Tea & Sympathy‬ ‪@almedoz64.bsky.social‬

Indeed. No one person can spend 1B in a lifetime. (Unless they're buying stupid stuff like Xitter, or 83 super-yachts.)

11/30
‪bobdogwhisperer.bsky.social‬ ‪@bobdogwhisperer.bsky.social‬

When you vote in billionaires to run the government, don’t expect them to help anyone but themselves. That’s why they are billionaires…

12/30
‪Frenszie‬ ‪@frenszie.bsky.social‬

The poor will just get it on the backend. Once you make it impossible to eat and live, the poor will be forced to rob the rich. Pay upfront, or pay in the end. You choose!

13/30
‪Frenszie‬ ‪@frenszie.bsky.social‬

Though I don’t imagine the rich will be living to talk about it, because the animosity is being fueled and lawlessness will be everywhere.

14/30
‪GHËK‬ ‪@ghek.bsky.social‬

I don’t know, but it won’t get “fixed” by some drug addled billionaire, that’s for sure.

15/30
‪SusanCoxArt‬ ‪@justapickle.bsky.social‬

A handful of billionaires could do so much to end the suffering of many but it will never happen. They’re drunk on their own power.

16/30
‪S.A.N.D.Y.‬ ‪@sandydj2.bsky.social‬

Only have to lift it to $400,000 to make it solvent.
And honey, if YOU yourself are making $400k a year (not business profit), then you can afford to chip in 1.5 percent to keep seniors from starving/dying.
Just start brewing your lattes at home.

17/30
‪Ghost of Maxine Cheshire‬ ‪@maxinecheshirewapo.bsky.social‬

18/30
‪Nick Idler‬ ‪@nickidler.bsky.social‬

The funny thing is, Grok basically outted Musk as a dishonest piece of shyt.

19/30
‪Amelia Patterson L.M.T.‬ ‪@apattersonmassage.bsky.social‬

If they put taxes on billionaires and corporations at a mere fixed 15%, our country would pay off the debt. Back when our country was a booming financial superpower, the corporations were taxed at 53%... during WWII, the rich were taxed at 94%. It wasn't until Regan that it was screwed up. TAX THEM!

20/30
‪Caution: Sarcasm on Board‬ ‪@seektruth2021.bsky.social‬

...and tax the churches.

21/30
‪hammerhandle.bsky.social‬ ‪@hammerhandle.bsky.social‬

Lift? Make the taxing retroactive to the time it was placed!

22/30
‪FalconWarthog‬ ‪@a10falconwarthog.bsky.social‬

SS should never run out of money. Muskrat shut the fukk up. Tax the rich....YOU!!!!! End your gov contacts. Deport or jail your ass.... both. We will be fine.

23/30
‪rickjmartin.bsky.social‬ ‪@rickjmartin.bsky.social‬

They better not touch social security and medicare. They will certainly get the armed rebellion the Republican Party has been wishing for.

24/30
‪Jeanne R‬ ‪@hollijr27.bsky.social‬

It's time for a Revolution.

25/30
‪mifterchip.bsky.social‬ ‪@mifterchip.bsky.social‬

How can it run out of money when people pay into it everyday.

26/30
‪Cupatee‬ ‪@cupatee.bsky.social‬

Maybe the government should replace the money they have over the years taken out of the social security fund. With interest.

27/30
‪nerak56.bsky.social‬ ‪@nerak56.bsky.social‬

This is the reason they’re destroying it… they know this and saw it coming.. they being the billionaires

28/30
‪Butch‬ ‪@butchugal.bsky.social‬

Americans are so fukking stupid. Raise the FICA cap from $176k to $1m and Social Security is funded into the 39th Century. Just that simple.

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‪DeveSpeaks‬ ‪@devespeaks.bsky.social‬

All of the US’s issues have simple solutions, but the plan is to deny the benefits of it all to anyone who isn’t a straight white “Christian.” Poor white Americans will shoot themselves in the foot as long as they keep the hope it ricochets and kills someone Black, Brown, Queer or immigrant.

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Trump, Musk and Doge shuttering Social Security offices means longer lines and some not getting their benefits. A fact-sheet:

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The Tennessee Holler

Trump, Musk and Doge shuttering Social Security offices means longer lines and some not getting their benefits.

A fact-sheet:

2/20
‪JashSF‬ ‪@jashsf.bsky.social‬

But what a great way to save money. That will only get worse.

3/20
‪sooner61.bsky.social‬ ‪@sooner61.bsky.social‬

Destroy everything and the rule with an iron fist. Straight out of Putins playbook.

4/20
‪dxrosemary.bsky.social‬ ‪@dxrosemary.bsky.social‬

We already have to drive an hour to get to a SSA office. I’ve also had an active SSDI application for 18 months. I’m 62. At this rate, I’ll be 67 or dead before it’s processed. If I lose ACA subsidies, I’ll just be dead. While we struggle to live on my husbands SS.

5/20
‪Boris the cat‬ ‪@tigertrout8.bsky.social‬

This an assault on Americans.

6/20
‪Lorenda Patterson‬ ‪@lorendasue.bsky.social‬

I began my journey to start survivor’s benefits from my late husband’s record in May 2024. Didn’t get a payment until this past week. Had to make one in-person visit to the Nashville office to get it done. The wait was 2 hours.

7/20
‪Ivy Lopez‬ ‪@bebrave2025.bsky.social‬

It is stupid for DOGE to go after people in government looking for reductions in spend. Everyone in business knows that the money is not in headcount but in contracts. In addition, the agencies targeted are miniscule in comparison to the Dept of Defense where contracts are in the trillions!

8/20
‪Ivy Lopez‬ ‪@bebrave2025.bsky.social‬

For this reason, it is evident the main purpose is to gut the government to destabilize it. Once destabilized, easier to control.

9/20
‪Divanyst‬ ‪@divanyst.bsky.social‬

NOW is the time to flood the reps offices local & in DC with calls! Show up to offices if its convenient. Once benefits aren't delivered, it will be hella hard to put the genie back in the bottle.

10/20
‪A. Boettger‬ ‪@aboettger.bsky.social‬

Sounds like a great plan, nothing like pissing off a bunch of old people. I mean it’s not like they have all kinds of free time to yell at you.

11/20
‪Hal Cragin‬ ‪@halcragin.bsky.social‬

All this cuts are not about saving money. It’s about fukking the agencies up to unrecognizable mess.

Making sure the pathway to corruption is well oiled before they take up the drawbridge and make sure no one else can enter

This will not offset their horrible tax breaks for zillionaires

12/20
‪Nil Desperandum‬ ‪@nildesperandumvt.bsky.social‬

Republicans have been salivating over getting their grubby hands on Social Security and privatize the system which means there would be big profits to be made by corporations and the already wealthy.

13/20
‪thechaosgarden.bsky.social‬ ‪@thechaosgarden.bsky.social‬

State Senators are tasked with helping their constituents with Federal Issues. This is a Federal issue. Report any and all delays or issues to your state Senator. Daily, if needed.

14/20
‪JodyUNPLUGGED‬ ‪@jpe1974.bsky.social‬

Trump and Musk gutting Social Security so Elon can fund his midlife crisis rocket collection. Seniors left on hold till they’re in the obituary section. Genius plan.

Bluesky
Bluesky
Bluesky

15/20
‪Mattison‬ ‪@mattison.bsky.social‬

Republicans don’t care whether you live, die, can’t pay your rent, can’t get groceries, or if you can afford your medication.

Stop voting for and supporting these horrible people. We can have a good life together, people. Just let other people be!

16/20
‪Sat‬ ‪@satusmax.bsky.social‬

Some of them voted for Trump. Guess they will find out what he was all about the hard way.

17/20
‪Data4Miles‬ ‪@datafourmiles.bsky.social‬

They will take a page out of healthcare;
>delay payments as long as possible
>make the application process as painful as possible
>hoping people will give up or die before collecting their earned benefits

18/20
‪Riotmomm‬ ‪@riotmomm.bsky.social‬

A lot of Boomer Trump voters are about to find out. Perhaps they shouldn’t have cut ties with their anti-Trump kids, because now they have no one to help support them.

19/20
‪mamarox69.bsky.social‬ ‪@mamarox69.bsky.social‬

I just had this very conversation an hour ago w my 29 yr old son. My parents are still so locked into the cult. It’s all heartbreaking.

20/20
‪Lisa Stewart‬ ‪@redeye1957.bsky.social‬

How to kill off "the parasites"

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The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)

DOGE has tapped social security administration offices in NASHVILLE, COLLIERVILLE, and CHATTANOGA for closures. doge.gov/savings

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The Tennessee Holler

DOGE has tapped social security administration offices in NASHVILLE, COLLIERVILLE, and CHATTANOGA for closures.

DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency

2/30
‪The Tennessee Holler‬ ‪@thetnholler.bsky.social‬

*COLLIERVILLE, and CHATTANOGA are not SSA offices, but other gov offices

3/30
‪Betty Ann‬ ‪@vegavannah.bsky.social‬

Collierville is all old rich people.

4/30
‪Keith ‬ ‪@kdvncm.bsky.social‬

Not the people working in the government offices. Am I wrong?

5/30
‪elderreed.bsky.social‬ ‪@elderreed.bsky.social‬

Nashville? Where are people in middle Tn to go?

6/30
‪nls5.bsky.social‬ ‪@nls5.bsky.social‬

The magas will fall in line that this is not cutting social security, it’s funding efficiencies. The ripple effect will take about three months and then we will see about efficiencies. Massive recession coming although a depression and stagflation are getting to be good bets too.

7/30
‪Abbot Mythos ‬ ‪@abbotmythos.bsky.social‬

8/30
‪CRB‬ ‪@crossbaumann55.bsky.social‬

Dopes. There are so many elderly seniors who do not use computers and depend on offices. Wait until the Gray Panthers get reorganized. Hell hath no fury like seniors scorned.

9/30
‪Francis Thomas‬ ‪@rebelyell1.bsky.social‬

MAGA Land. Congrats folks. You got what you voted for. Hope it’s worth it for you to fukk over the rest of us.

10/30
‪Eat the Rich ‬ ‪@sburr741600.bsky.social‬

So much for the Third Rail.

It’s as if they aren’t even worried about re-election.

11/30
‪jetblackbox‬ ‪@jetblackbox.bsky.social‬

just like Putin is never worried about "re-election"

12/30
‪Eat the Rich ‬ ‪@sburr741600.bsky.social‬

Exactly like that.

13/30
‪eaglesfanintn.bsky.social‬ ‪@eaglesfanintn.bsky.social‬

Not a single elected Republican will say a word.

14/30
‪diamondlifeca.bsky.social‬ ‪@diamondlifeca.bsky.social‬

They are probably getting Crypto or kickbacks in Gold Bars.

15/30
‪Star Wars & Hockey ‬ ‪@hawkeyguy.bsky.social‬

They are going to try and steal our GD social security

16/30
‪Alison‬ ‪@alisonkcarter.bsky.social‬

Keep an eye on it, musk was on rogans show calling it a ponzie scheme…

17/30
‪LurkyMcLurk‬ ‪@lurkymclurk.bsky.social‬

All of this shyt combined saves so much less money than “cancel the contract for like two fancy military planes”

18/30
‪ishuwa549.bsky.social‬ ‪@ishuwa549.bsky.social‬

Two in Kentucky. Lexington and Hazard

19/30
‪(hill)Billie Eyelash‬ ‪@return-of-qwain.bsky.social‬

And Hazard was just hit hard by the floods about three weeks ago and nearly washed out. Absolutely horrible and devastating to our people; it doesn't matter how they voted, nobody deserves this.

20/30
‪lydia1020.bsky.social‬ ‪@lydia1020.bsky.social‬



21/30
‪Ginger Redshoes‬ ‪@gingerredshoes.bsky.social‬

Nashville is a major city. That's not like closing a branch office in a small town. That's a sign the whole thing is going away.

22/30
‪Your Future POTUS‬ ‪@yourfuturepotus.bsky.social‬

Democrats need to start organizing in Tennessee right now.

23/30
‪wolfmeis.bsky.social‬ ‪@wolfmeis.bsky.social‬

VOTERS in TN need to start organizing right now.

24/30
‪Your Future POTUS‬ ‪@yourfuturepotus.bsky.social‬

Both.

25/30
‪Heather The Whatever‬ ‪@heatherthewhatever.bsky.social‬

So they've already started cutting phone support for several agencies. Then they're going to start closing brick and mortar. So all that's left will be the AI they set up.

fukking diabolical.

26/30
‪Maxxie Bytes‬ ‪@maxxiebytes.bsky.social‬

fukking ai no one fukking wants

27/30
‪Lynda D‬ ‪@mumshoes.bsky.social‬

STOP THIS INSANITY NOW.

28/30
‪John Grunder‬ ‪@jgrunder.bsky.social‬

So... old people in Tenn can go F themselves according to Musk and Trump... got it...

29/30
‪The Mean Progressive‬ ‪@themeanprogressive.bsky.social‬

They can make it really difficult to get approved or screw something up in the system that’d require you to go into an office to get reapproved but the office is severely understaffed or several counties away.

30/30
‪KanadianRaven‬ ‪@kanadianraven.bsky.social‬

Sure why not close offices of the most efficient govt dept. to save a dime.

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DOGE's Costly Mistake

https://archive.is/Z1Ydj

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1/11
@RobGeorge
DOGE thought that "black site" was code for a DEI project.

[Quoted tweet]
DOGE effort to sell off federal properties inadvertently exposes CIA black site in Northern Virginia — Bloomberg TV


2/11
@OldToad99
"Black sites" are Constitutional and legal?



3/11
@SunshineS58469
Wouldn’t it have just been so much easier if the commander-in-chief and other people running the government legitimately, were not locked out of the deep state shadow government? If the CIA has operations, they should have informed the president.



4/11
@Chunkhead
It's not???



5/11
@Lunytoon95
They outted that site on purpose



6/11
@ultimatejazzfan
@grok is this true?



7/11
@grok
The claim about DOGE exposing a CIA black site in Springfield, Virginia, stems from a now-deleted GSA list of federal properties for sale, as reported by WIRED. The list included a sensitive complex housing a CIA facility, part of DOGE’s effort to reshape the federal government under Elon Musk’s leadership. The CIA’s presence there was previously noted in 2012 by the Washington Business Journal.



8/11
@JFFredrick2
Which member of the DOGE team told you that? Or is this just engagement trolling



9/11
@iiz2c




10/11
@awakeneddragons
Yeah because I'm sure it said black site in the ledgers



11/11
@KingH242





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Everyday, Musk and Trump Spit In Black Americans' Faces

https://archive.is/vqyCt

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@RepTerriSewell
NEWS: Elon Musk and his DOGE bros have ordered GSA to sell off the site of the historic Freedom Riders Museum in Montgomery.

This is outrageous and we will not let it stand! I am demanding an immediate reversal. Our civil rights history is not for sale! Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off




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'Bleeding to death in the dust': Reporter says maternity hospital Musk closed saved lives​

Sarah K. Burris

2–3 minutes

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Elon Musk reacts, on the day he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Blair House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is being schooled about the impacts of his foreign aid cuts that one reporter says have already killed people.

When he came into office, President Donald Trump created the "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)" by executive order and tasked Musk with the responsibility. That initiative has been behind the upheaval and dismantling of government agencies. Websites, grants, programs, and employees have been cut or frozen under the promise that Trump will save taxpayers trillions.

"No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Musk wrote on X. "No one.”

ALSO READ: The new guy in charge of USAID doesn't believe in foreign aid

New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof, who visited South Sudan and Nairobi, Kenya, spoke to MSNBC on Wednesday morning about his bombshell report on the impact of the foreign aid cuts on communities there.

Kristof's piece explained that some "have already died" due to Trump and Musk's cuts.

He said, "It's great" that a judge has restored email access to USAID employees who were put on administrative leave, but that isn't enough.

"This doesn't actually reverse the cancellation of programs that were keeping people alive," said Kristof. "And so, at the end of the day, kids in places like South Sudan are still dying, still not getting their nutritional support."

He specifically recalled visiting a maternity clinic in Sudan, where maternity care has not traditionally existed.

He went to the clinic and began asking questions, and the patients began thinking he was responsible for the clinic.

"And everybody is thanking me. They're thanking America for its generosity. They're saying that women are safe here now. A woman who was then in labor wants to name her baby after me," he continued.

He said they don't know that the clinic is about to close due to the cuts from the Trump administration.

"And those women, again, are going to be bleeding to death in the dust there," he told MSNBC. "I mean, that's just, you know, when you see in front of you these pregnant women who were now were going to be left to to die in childbirth. It just breaks your heart."

He pointed out that Americans celebrate a firefighter who rescues a child. However, "American taxpayers have been doing that on a huge scale with USAID."

"And this was a kind of heroic thing that the U.S. had done. But that just ended in January," he explained.

See the interview below or at the link.

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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social)

Some harrowing new details about the Trump-Musk GOP’s new war on behalf of cancer https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/trump-cancer-research-funding-cuts-patients-researchers-worried/

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1/14
joshtpm.bsky.social
Some harrowing new details about the Trump-Musk GOP’s new war on behalf of cancer www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t...

2/14
danalmont.bsky.social
Don't forget - Biden created the Cancer Moonshot initiative. So since Biden was against cancer, Trump has to be pro cancer.

3/14
queenofcroissant.bsky.social
bingo!

4/14
jfrisco.bsky.social
My father was months away from death when he was given the chance to participate in clinical trials of Thalidomide on treating his type of Leukemia. It turned out to be a miracle. It and the drug derived from the trials, lenalidomide (Revlimid), prolonged his life 12 years.

5/14
fuzg.bsky.social
Trump is running ads saying he is going to eliminate cancer. Crickets from the mainstream media as usual.

6/14
njars.bsky.social
maybe they think cancer is too inclusive??

7/14
anniedz.bsky.social
Who would be so evil to stop funding cancer when it ruthlessly strikes down our loved ones, in every household?

Oh, yeah... those two. Never mind.

8/14
jimmyvluv4u.bsky.social
Have you seen any of the astroturf ads that have been airing in the DC area claiming Trump will solve cancer by 2029? They're very bizarre and completely unavoidable right now in the DC/Northern VA market.

9/14
jimmyvluv4u.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkL1...

10/14
kathrinluddecke.bsky.social
Perhaps it needs some comments on YT?

11/14
stevetownsend0.bsky.social
hmm, I wonder why?

12/14
austinaperson.bsky.social

13/14
tarheel-harold.bsky.social
The article is behind a paywall - can you make it available?

14/14
mitchellmebane.bsky.social


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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social)

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-predicts-doge-lost-half-a-trillion-dollars-for-the-usa

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1/35
joshtpm.bsky.social
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

2/35
exxekhan.bsky.social
I hope when they kill DoE, someone deletes all the student loan records.

3/35
ifindkarma.bsky.social
“No elected office would give [Musk and DOGE] the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal. It is also a coup in its intended effects: to undo democratic practice and violate human rights.”
@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Of course it’s a coup

4/35
dmpro.bsky.social
Exactly correct. I am still waiting for the incompetent REPUBLICANS to do something about it. EVERY SINGLE THING THIS REGIME DOES IS ON THE REPUBLICANS. THEY HAVE THE HOUSE, SENATE AND THE WHITE HOUSE. THEY COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS. THEY CONFIRMED HIS INCOMPETENT NOMINEES.

5/35
fedoraexplorer.bsky.social
It wasn't "lost", but stolen.

It was stolen.

6/35
amanda4chg.bsky.social
so much for efficiency

7/35
andersoncheri.bsky.social
Think how those funds could have fed children, housed the homeless, provided jobs, paid back Social Security Repubs borrowed from, boosted public education.
Those who voted for this are beyond foolish.

8/35
lilbluedevil.bsky.social
So far beyond foolish as to be evil.

9/35
veertjephilips.bsky.social

10/35
weponderj.bsky.social
Putins plan was to weaken and destroy America from within, and business is booming. Is everyone brain washed?

11/35
readyornaught.bsky.social

12/35
yudithrivas.bsky.social
That second photo is a disgusting masterpiece

13/35
readyornaught.bsky.social
the dutch have a way with art. credit: siegfried woldhek

14/35
clywrig.bsky.social
What do they have as overhead besides salaries and theft? Squandered, nah. Stolen, yep.

15/35
kurtweldon.bsky.social
Half a trillion in just six weeks????

Wowsers! That really IS efficient!

16/35
pinemikey.bsky.social
Pretty hard to justify tax breaks when you already gave away the money?

17/35
4horses2dogs.bsky.social
Can we arrest them all now? Or are we going to wait until the United States is completely bankrupt?

18/35
truebluemajority.bsky.social
Yes! We can arrest them all now!

All we have to do is find somebody who has the authority, the ability, and the guts to arrest them!

So far we haven't come up with anyone who meets all three of those requirements...

19/35
deevhutch.bsky.social
Fox News talking heads are telling us that we don't need to bother with due process anymore. So we don't even need to arrest them! Just deem them guilty and ... you know the rest.

20/35
truebluemajority.bsky.social
LOL #FakesNewsChannel talking heads are telling the President that HE doesn't need to bother with due process anymore.

That doesn't apply to the rest of us!
Bluesky

21/35
pattiejack.bsky.social
Oh my God! What a cluster Mysk has turned this into!

22/35
4horses2dogs.bsky.social
This from Trump's first term.
www.propublica.org/article/nati...

23/35
seeyouinnj.bsky.social
We’re going to be paying off the debt just created under Trump for generations, and that’s only if we can go more than 2 terms without pendulum-swinging back to trickle-down Republicans.

24/35
crashtestblonde.bsky.social
Well good news, the funds aren't unlimited, at some point, China will say ENOUGH!

25/35
josalo.bsky.social
“Starve the beast” on steroids.

It boggles my mind that the Republicans had this as an overt strategy for years, and the media still credulously believed that they cared about the federal treasury in a positive way.

26/35
terisu6.bsky.social
Wow that’s really fukking efficient isn’t it?

27/35
tbomberg.bsky.social
It should be renamed DOGI (Department of Government Ineptitude)

28/35
joquarky.bsky.social
Unfortunately, current trends seem to indicate many will soon feel the need to ask "which one?"

29/35
josalo.bsky.social
Department of Gouging Efficiently

30/35
swankywine.bsky.social
DOGE. dikkhead Oligarchs Grabbing Everything.

31/35
thecoffeetalking.bsky.social
That is on top of the unknown millions DOGE is costing the tax payers each week for whatever they are doing.

32/35
hammys-howl.bsky.social
the biggest story not getting covered by the so called “legacy media”. Pathetic.

33/35
fernseasons.bsky.social
This was literally sourced from the Washington Post

34/35
hammys-howl.bsky.social
Good. Gives me hope.

35/35
sa5743.bsky.social
They should change their name to DOGEH: Department of greedy epic heist

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Secret Agent Number Six (@designationsix.bsky.social)

FEMA is being dismantled right now during tornado season just as red states are going to need them. This is what all the winning looks like.

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1/12
designationsix.bsky.social
FEMA is being dismantled right now during tornado season just as red states are going to need them.

This is what all the winning looks like.

2/12
coolhand3333.bsky.social
WTF.

3/12
coolhand3333.bsky.social
None of the reporters today asked Trump about. How does it feel being a felon and no one asked him about FEMA no one asked him about the storms. If it was Joe Biden they would’ve fukking dismantled him, this is why Chuck Schumer needs to go. Does anybody really understand was fukking happening

4/12
jakesdaddio.bsky.social
I pray each night to your imaginary god, for awful things to happen to MAGA families. Is that wrong??
fukk America. fukk MAGA. fukk. Donald. fukking. Trump.

5/12
kyleruggles.bsky.social


6/12
frank791.bsky.social
Another bright idea by the brain of no equal. Moves like this accomplish two things:
1. Causes chaos, this makes us vulnerable. To what???
2. Carves off funds to be diverted to favored recipients. Who??? Follow the money….

7/12
mynahleague.bsky.social
I hate the idea of people suffering, however he’s been whining on about FEMA for months, and so many voted for this. Even after all these cuts it won’t be enough to offset the wealthy tax cut.

8/12
liberalruralmama.bsky.social
47 is planning to play the gracious Lord of the Manor and bestow riches upon his faithful followers.
Blue states are going to be told to suck rocks.

9/12
dawnwilliamson.bsky.social
No, I live in MAGA country. We had people die and many buildings destroyed during the last round of tornados. Trump played golf and never noticed the red states that had damage. It’s up to the states now. Everyone is screwed by Trump and Musk. Call it like it is please.

10/12
angee43.bsky.social
Lmmfao oooooops
They voted for this can't feel sorry for them

11/12
lch3.bsky.social
Perfect

12/12
lyndsay616.bsky.social
I’m sorry as much as I hate him I can’t cheer for this . It’s pitiful

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Kathy Gori (@kathygori.bsky.social)

So, if they're defunding USAID, VOA, VA, Medicaid, libraries, museums, public education, FEMA. Screwing with ACA, PBS, FDIC, SS, and Medicare or whatever else is on their shortlist. What are we paying taxes for? It's not like they're doing anything to help us, just taking stuff away.

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kathygori.bsky.social
So, if they're defunding USAID, VOA, VA, Medicaid, libraries, museums, public education, FEMA. Screwing with ACA, PBS, FDIC, SS, and Medicare or whatever else is on their shortlist. What are we paying taxes for? It's not like they're doing anything to help us, just taking stuff away.

2/25
cartermatters.bsky.social

3/25
brihoff.bsky.social
Tax Cuts for the wealthy...

4/25
kathygori.bsky.social
yep!

5/25
canadianheart.bsky.social
Exactly why pay your taxes how long would it take to track 350 million tax returns (well less because billionaires don’t pay any) not showing up!

6/25
kathygori.bsky.social
yes, and then first a whole cohort of the folks who collect those taxes

7/25
zenloon.bsky.social
All that investment, expertise, institutional memory, and good will that WE funded with our taxes — just hoovered up and tossed out. And now we'll keep on paying — to clean up the phenomenal mess they're making every single day.

8/25
critical-wit.bsky.social
I feel like all blue states should withhold federal income taxes until this is all fixed.

9/25
iamticktickbang.bsky.social
It's for ketamine, underage escorts and million dollar golf weekends

10/25
branders23.bsky.social
To fork over what little wages we get from the ruling class back to them

11/25
deboraht.bsky.social
They’re trying to divert the revenue stream from programs that help people and build a society to the bank accounts of Musk et al.

12/25
prunellla.bsky.social
Tribute to the oligarchs.

13/25
libertyjustice.bsky.social
We're paying taxes so the illegal druggie billionaire boy, and the demented rapist, felon, impeached insurrection inciter can give our money to those they feel really need it--the rich.

14/25
spittingllama.bsky.social
Whats the point of being American?

15/25
145multimedia.neocities.org
There's only a point in it if you are going to exercise your 2A rights, form a militia and stop this bullshyt.

16/25
itsheath.bsky.social
Golf trips and lawyers.

17/25
lawlessinamerica.bsky.social
A thought…

18/25
wearecreatedequal.bsky.social
Taxation without Representation is what it is called.

19/25
fillingtime.bsky.social
Someone has to pay for Rumps weekly trips and security detail at Mar el Crapo, plus the Second Lady’s ‘friendly’ visit to Greenland.

20/25
endhunger.bsky.social
They are takers. Republicans are takers. They want their own stuff and they want our stuff. Classism is always stepping on someone else.

21/25
frankwild.bsky.social
If my SS check doesn’t come. I am pumping gas, getting groceries by handing over IOUs signed by Elmo Techboi.

22/25
psschumacher.bsky.social
National defense.

23/25
145multimedia.neocities.org
From what you racist fukk?

24/25
wfhmom.bsky.social
My thoughts exactly !!

25/25
nihtsky.bsky.social
Exactly!

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1/11
samlmontano.bsky.social
It’s difficult to think of something less efficient (and impossible) than replicating the capacity of FEMA in each state and territory. We are talking about just astronomical costs.

The dumbest timeline.

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Governor Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky) on Kristi Noem's call to eliminate FEMA: "The states cannot do what FEMA does without duplicating certain tasks 50 times over. If you've got an operation that's running well, work with it, improve it, don't eliminate it."
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2/11
slowwatermovement.bsky.social
the other thing is that one state can get overwhelmed by a really bad disaster and so the other states can help them. then later it’s repaid the other way. small states (mostly red ones) can’t fully deal with a massive hurricane or flood. i’m scared for vermont. we didn’t vote for this shyt.

3/11
epremo.bsky.social
Noem, of all people should know that the smaller the state, the less revenue they have to address large scale emergencies and FEMA has been the life blood of response.

I swear to God, all they are doing is breaking down the foundation of this great country- system by system- with a sledgehammer.

4/11
ichamza.bsky.social
The things sacrificed for the price of eggs and hatred of others.

5/11
martinitier.bsky.social
Musk playing with forks and spoons certified it as "interesting" and promising to improve Government exploit... aehm efficiency.

Everything is great

6/11
thecharleyray.bsky.social
He could have beat tRump

7/11
zelon-puss.bsky.social
too much trouble for rich douches.

8/11
too-big.bsky.social
Among many things, FEMA helps a lot of poorer folks who are uninsured or under insured. It's gotta go, Elon and pals need more tax breaks.

9/11
enigma-unraveled.bsky.social
They have the same thought process about SNAP. They are like, local communities can "better manage" the money. That people will be "charitable again". And even though they admit they could never replicate the coverage SNAP provides, they just like the "good feeling" of being the gatekeepers.

10/11
enigma-unraveled.bsky.social
There is no way for local communities, especially small ones, to provide sustainable, long-term food assistance to the level SNAP does. Even though they admit a fraction of their tax money actually goes to it, they want to control who gets their help or not, even when the "help" is far less helpful

11/11
enigma-unraveled.bsky.social
It comes down to this: They would rather help less than helping everyone, because "everyone" consists of people they rather not help. They frame this under "Charity shouldn't be forced" BS. I would never want to be at the mercy of their "charity". That's for dam sure.

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