#ElonMusk didn't show up to the House Oversight Committee to explain what he is doing to #SocialSecurity
Rep Larson (D-CT) demands he explain.
It's time to call your Reps & Senators today folks!
Here's a link to @5calls on the issue of Social Security & DOGE office closures.
https://5calls.org/issue/social-security-ssa-doge-office-closures/
The question isn't whether Mahmoud Khalil has the right to protest. The question is whether government agents can now seize legal residents, hold them incommunicado, move them from prison to prison, and sneer at the courts. Apparently they now can and will. https://mas.to/@gleick/114151675445173005
@Dale_Poole Everyone I know there got very wet, but no major losses of life or property. @soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca
Laid-off federal workers are overwhelming states with unemployment requests, putting a strain on finances
#Maryland #StateStrain #LaidOff #UnemploymentClaims #FinancialPressure
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump order against law firm, calling it a "personal vendetta."
Judge Beryl Howell issued the temporary restraining order from the bench at the conclusion of a two-hour hearing over Trump's executive order against Perkins Coie.
New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/perkins-coie-trump-order-tro
@jgobble What a jerk.
tRump is wrong. The Stock Market is not gonna go up. But it will keep going down as long as he is running things.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/what-is-even-going-on-at-this-point/60229/
@dogzilla Agreed!
Good
Senate Democratic leader #ChuckSchumer said on Wednesday that #Democrats would refuse to help #Republicans pass a stopgap bill to fund the govt through Sept 30, significantly raising the chances of a #GovernmentShutdown at the end of the week.
#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/government-shutdown-funding-bill-senate-democrats.html?smid=url-share
Senate Democrats must vote against the Republican's continuing budget resolution https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-democrats-must-vote-against-the?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Let’s hope so 🤞🏼
Via Prof. Angus Johnston:
"Our caucus is unified," says Schumer.
Team Fight has won the CR battle in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Semafor:
Schumer on Senate floor: "Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path"
"Because of that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified" on the month-long CR #DemocratsInArray
Jaimes has lived for 30 years in the US, starting his own painting bus that supports his wife & 5 children. Now, they're scrambling to find out what may happen to him & how they'll continue their lives💔w/o his support.
The arrest was made outside Arthur Mid School after Jaimes had dropped off his 8th grade son, who's diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Hector said his father had a work permit obtained a few years ago & documentation to live in the US.
#USPol #Immigrants https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/03/07/jose-jaimes-arrested-ice-immigration-customers-enforcement-trenton-middle-school/81852395007/
As Ohio Republicans stuck with Trump and voted to approve a 6-month government funding bill in the U.S. House, that decision came with a price — as the GOP plan denied federal funding for a variety of local projects across the state - via @jamiedupree https://daytondailynews.com/local/local-projects-sidelined-as-us-house-votes-to-avoid-shutdown/2YSIKTHNA5AIPBXXSZQ6ZLVLJQ/
@heidilifeldman "the President can decide, based on his own personal whims..." Is that in the #American King Act?
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