Social Security going back to readjudicating cases where Eric Conn represented disability claimants. As if they didn’t have enough to do. Pointless since the vast majority are on retirement benefits now and the agency waives the overpayments. Has no effect in the real world other than harassment.
Critics call it a death panel for Social Security. The GOP called it “America's Fiscal Future.”
Congressional GOP Gave Harlan Crow Private Hearing In Dallas, Seniors Waited Outside
Critics call it a death panel for Social Security. The GOP called it “America's Fiscal Future.”
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Wow! I live in an NC city and haven’t noticed the blood soaked killing fields, lawlessness, filth or squalor. It’s a wonder that so many people keep moving here.
The News & Observer@newsobserver.com · 2w agoTrump called North Carolina’s cities “blood-soaked killing fields” and its streets “filled with lawlessness, filth and squalor.” | Opinion
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to allow the U.S. Postal Service to carry out parts of a new rule on mail-in voting.
Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s request to implement parts of rule on mail-in voting
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New Ruling on disability determination in young adults. www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-17814
Public Inspection: Documenting and Evaluating Disability in Young Adults; Titles II and XVI
Documenting and Evaluating Disability in Young Adults; Titles II and XVI
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So embarrassing that Lake America is the smallest of the Great Lakes. One more Trump failure.
Banker brought in to modernize Social Security. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/j...
Trump admin taps former JPMorgan Chase exec Matt Zames to advise Social Security agency
Matt Zames is taking an unpaid position to help his former JPMorgan colleague Frank Bisignano tackle modernization of the SSA, CNBC has learned.
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Research on the differences in Social Security ALJ allowance rates. It’s what we already knew. Huge variance. zenodo.org/records/2139...
The Judge Lottery: Within-Office Disparities in Social Security Disability Adjudication, Fiscal Year 2025
A claimant who appeals a denied Social Security disability claim is assigned, essentially at random, to an administrative law judge (ALJ) within a hearing office. Using the Social Security Administrat...
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John Larson, the ranking Democrat on the House Social Security Subcommittee, has lost his primary race for another term in the House of Representatives. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/u...
Rep. John Larson, a Longtime Lawmaker, Loses a Primary in Connecticut (Gift Article)
In an upset, Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford, won the Democratic nomination, capitalizing on calls for generational change.
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A new position for Leland Dudek. I don’t know why they want him. www.acrd.org/about/board-...
Board Members | ACRD Disability Representation
Explore the ACRD Board of Directors, a group of seasoned Social Security Disability attorneys and advocates leading our mission to elevate disability representation standards nationwide.
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No one knows Marco Rubio’s age. It’s part of his mystery. So is his height. Look it up. No one knows. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
A Mostly True History of Marco Rubio
No one knows Marco Rubio’s age. It’s part of his mystery. So is his height. Look it up. No one knows.
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I will have more to say about this later but right now, I’m too pissed. So for now I would just like to extend a very hearty 🖕🖕🖕 to Florence for writing this email in a way that makes us, the very overworked employees, sound like the fucking problem, and the reason customers aren’t being served. 🤬🤬🤬
Oh goody, the guy who used his position at JP Morgan Chase to spy on his colleagues and collect sensitive information to "undermine his rivals" and increase his power now has access to your personal data as Trump's head of Social Security. www.wsj.com/finance/bank...
The Man Who Runs the IRS Spied on Colleagues When He Worked at JPMorgan
Frank Bisignano directed staff to use software to snoop in email of rivals and surveil work of employees; Bisignano, who also heads Social Security, denied he ever spied on co-workers.
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Sorry for the mass layoffs that are making your job impossible. Here are some of my daughters pretzels.
Natalie Alms@almsnatalie.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: The head of Social Security keeps sending SSA field offices pretzel gift baskets from his daughter's company. Staff told me that they haven't had the intended effect of boosting morale... but they have raised questions about ethics. More here 👇 www.notus.org/agencies/soc...
nice to have the methodology spelled out here. If we lose we say it was rigged.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3mo agoTrump: "The game tonight's going to be amazing. We're going to have a full team and Belgium is going to have a full team…If they beat us, we'll say it was — I say it was rigged just like the election was rigged in 2020."
I think we still haven’t fully metabolized just how much routine US gov’t comms have been hijacked for Trump propaganda. From SSA form email:
SSA Commissioner claims major service improvements at agency. As WC. Fields is alleged to have said, “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” www.ssa.gov/agency/commi...
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This is a big deal: Senators Warren (D-MA) & Moreno (R-OH) joined forces to call for lifting Social Security’s tax cap. Both parties have boxed themselves in with restrictive tax pledges. Finding a way forward—together—is our best hope of saving Social Security. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/o...
Opinion | Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren: Our Plan to Save Social Security
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REMINDER: IRS CEO and Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano signed off on the $1.8 billion slush fund to pay off Trump’s cronies and insurrectionist loyalists!