You REALLY need to listen to Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel explain the shit that #DOGE is doing in the #SocialSecurity administration to access our data & how they are now threatening to shut off SS checks unless DOGE gets access to everything Fed Judge said they can't access.
@lolgop @GottaLaff
Watch/listen at 5ET/2PT youtu.be/Ag835IevNRk, nicolesandler.com, or subscribe at nicolesandler.substack.com.
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.socialOn the other hand, all Musk will have is a petition of people who signed to receive $100...
Elon Musk PAC’s $100 giveaways put Wisconsin voters to the test
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/elon-musk-100-giveaway-wisconsin-petition-voters-rcna197543
Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data
#SocialSecurity #DOGE #Extortion
After the Federal Judge blocked DOGE’s Social Security “Fishing Expedition” the Trump team moves to threats to get their way.
@alaw202 [masthead.social]
It's time to hold rallies at your local SSA office.
@briankrebs is there any evidence that #DOGE is releasing citizens #PII intentionally or otherwise that is being used by #cybercriminals to engage in #identitytheft?
"Senate #Democrats are launching a new #whistleblower portal for public and private workers to dish on how #PresidentTrump and #DOGE are slashing the #federalgovernment"
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/democrats-whistleblower-portal-doge
The Trump administration's 'assault' on Peace
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institute-of-peace-break-in
"Members of #Doge broke into the #WashingtonDC HQ of the #UnitedStates Institute of #Peace (USIP) on Monday in a foreboding act of #violence.
The independent nonprofit institute is not a federal agency...
#USIP owns their building... but that didn’t stop DOGE...
#Trump has no jurisdiction over this organization, but he sicced his goons on them anyway."
Focusing on the 20 or so unknown people who have burned #Tesla s rather than the remarkable success of a grassroots campaign to devalue Musk’s brand is dishonest and just amplifies the right’s propaganda.
The right response is, ‘when you let a deranged billionaire buy and rampage through our gov causing massive harm to the American people you should expect outrage. In a country that venerates violent opposition to tyrants, you should expect a few to take it to extremes’ #doge #elonmusk
Rep Blake Moore (R-UT) is involved with #DOGE so his constituents are nonviolently crashing a #GOP luncheon he's holding tomorrow.
If they can #resist in Weber County #Utah (north of Salt Lake City) we can resist anywhere!
“Friends, we indicated that if we had the House, the Senate and the presidency, there were certain things that we would do. Well in 2021, we had the House, the Senate, and the presidency.”
During his #Austin visit on Wednesday, Congressman Al Green was sharply critical of the failures of the #Democrats and called for mass protest in Washington, D.C. in response to #Trump and #DOGE's attack of vital social services and government agencies. https://austinfreepress.org/no-capitulation/
DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/doge-to-fired-cisa-staff-email-us-your-personal-data/
"The message instructed recently-fired #CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their #SocialSecurity number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment — presumably with the #password needed to view the file included in the body of the email."
The Reddit forum for the #50501movement had a Big List of Protests thread which got removed as spam.
*Please share the BLOP!*
In virtually every state, even Alabama and Iowa, you can find multiple #resistance events on multiple days. The revolution is not being televised, because our legacy media outlets are owned by pro-fascist ghouls, but Americans are rising up.
Yesterday was the Postal Worker Union's National Day of Action, and I attended a protest myself. I now have an APWU "Hands off our public postal service!" sign to take to Tesla Takedown protests.
Here's what was going on around the country, since it's mostly on local news:
So far this year @ProPublica has reported on who's working for #DOGE, the impacts of cuts on agencies like #USAID, and a lot more. Reporting on abuses of power matters more than ever before.
This is the last day of our spring member drive you can give as a member. As always, I would love the #fediverse to be represented in our member base. It matters.
If you have the means, please consider joining as a member through a gift of any amount: https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben #journalism
The hits keep coming, yesterday it was reported that Tesla trade ins have increased 300%+ since this time last year. With the majority of that change occurring in the last few months since Elon Musk became the poster child of US far right politics.
How did SpaceX help Elon Musk become such a powerful figure?
I couldn’t be more happy to have @lorakolodny on the latest episode of #SystemCrash to dig into how SpaceX and Starlink helped Elon Musk on his road to the White House.
Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/episodes/16831958-spacex-and-the-foundation-of-elon-s-empire-ft-lora-kolodny
“Violence is never OK. Burning cars, even Elon Musk’s cars, is wrong.
But you know what else is wrong? Burning down the foundations of our democracy.”-RR
#democracy #constitution #trump #musk #doge #tesla
#Cartoon by #RobRogers for #Counterpoint
#Trump names new acting head of Institute of Museum and Library Services : NPR
“…members of #DOGE showed up at the Institute of #Museum & #Library Services, which helps to fund libraries and museums across the country and whose elimination #Trump called for in an executive order last week.
They sent employees home, swore in a new acting director in the lobby, and proceeded to cancel its contracts and grants.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5335600/library-museum-funding-doge-sonderling
Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data
Paywall Free http://archive.today/f1Kf5
80 #Tesla cars damaged at Hamilton #Ontario dealership, the largest car vandalism event reported in Canada against the U.S. company lead by #Doge #Musk
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/tesla-dealership-vehicles-damaged-1.7488806?cmp=rss
