Report: Waltz used Gmail for official work The administration's handling of sensitive information is already under scrutiny, and Gmail is even less secure than Signal.

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and other senior officials used their personal Gmail account for government business, The Washington Post reports.

More than 40% of retired workers apply for Social Security by phone.

Trump wants to end this service on April 14.

This will crowd our Social Security offices, which already have 30 million visits/year, and are facing cuts and closures because of Trump.

This must be stopped.

How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.

Pushback works, part gazillion:

"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
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They meant “doing fraud waste and abuse” not “finding fraud, waste and abuse.”

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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement AOC, solidarity, and people power.

This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.

Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ

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You, me, and Bernie.
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THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country.

When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The employees who attempted to stop Musk staffers at the U.S. African Development Foundation have been placed on administrative leave “effective immediately.” The email also stated that during the administrative leave, USADF employees are prohibited from

I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… I told you so.

Seven years ago:

When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the Black Lives Matter mural, painted in the summer of 2020 on a street near the White House, will be removed as part of planned changes to Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

To our women & girls:

You are powerful.
You are limitless.
Your contributions are brilliant & needed.
Your ideas are substantive.
Your lived experiences belong at decision-making tables.
You deserve a life free from fear, filled with dignity & love.

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth!

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

History shows that stripping the rights of one disfavored group is always just pretext for a larger aim of stripping the rights of others.

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

Yes this is true.

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.

Mr. Hegseth has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military.

Replaces a Black four-star fighter pilot with a white man who does not meet the statutory qualifications supposedly over DEI.

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

Crucial SF-50 forms, detailing job titles, salaries, and Social Security numbers, have disappeared from a federal database managed by the Office of Personnel Management.

Transgender author Jennifer Finney Boylan: The fight is not over Boylan talks to The Advocate about her new book, Cleavage, and navigating a dark time.

JFB in The Advocate: “The fight is not over.”

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Russell Vought would have immense power to enforce Trump’s extremist agenda if he's confirmed as OMB director. Vought has made it clear he will not hesitate to violate laws and norms in service of MAGA.

Today marks the one year anniversary of the shooting death of Hind Rajab. She was shot at 355 times by the IDF while on a call with her mom begging for someone to help her.

Let war be a shameful relic of our collective past and never again a lived reality for anyone, anywhere.