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38 minutes ago, wood said:

nsiap ... More great work here from the totally radical, awesome DOGE bros, ferretting out dead social security recipients who aren't actually dead at all.

Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

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That is an infuriating article 

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Several weeks ago, I mentioned I had a request for additional staff and infrastructure to meet a federal customer's mission to meet some OMB requirements based on an executive order issued under the Biden administration. I sat on the request assuming it would get DOGED.

Last Friday, I was informed that this agency wouldn't be following through with their contract due to the current "political environment". I ended up jumping on a call on Friday to fire the customer. I've never done that for any government entity before, not even some poor ass southern state.

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13 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

That is an infuriating article 

I find it quite nice actually.   Odds are he voted for this shit.  If he didn't it sucks to be him.  But I hope every person drawing SS has to go through steps to prove they are real, alive, citizens, and have old paychecks to prove they paid in.   

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1 hour ago, Nivek said:

I find it quite nice actually.   Odds are he voted for this shit.  If he didn't it sucks to be him.  But I hope every person drawing SS has to go through steps to prove they are real, alive, citizens, and have old paychecks to prove they paid in.   

Odds are, despite his age, that he didn't vote for this shit. He lives in Seattle, where Trump has managed to get 1 vote out of every 11 cast, in all 3 elections, at around 90% turnout.  So, while he fits the demographic most likely to be that 1 of 11, odds remain high that he didn't. 

The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party has very little support here. Nonetheless, they're still feasting. 

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2 hours ago, Nivek said:

 But I hope every person drawing SS has to go through steps to prove they are real, alive, citizens, and have old paychecks to prove they paid in.   

And I hope anyone who supports this has to deal with SS for eternity on behalf of a parent with dementia. With an SS that won't take your call or allow you to start on online account of behalf of said parent.

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1 hour ago, flatdawgs said:

Odds are, despite his age, that he didn't vote for this shit. He lives in Seattle, where Trump has managed to get 1 vote out of every 11 cast, in all 3 elections, at around 90% turnout.  So, while he fits the demographic most likely to be that 1 of 11, odds remain high that he didn't. 

The Leopards Eating People's Faces Party has very little support here. Nonetheless, they're still feasting. 

I had considered that, but in general this type of shit happening to Florida would be preferable.  

 

57 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

And I hope anyone who supports this has to deal with SS for eternity on behalf of a parent with dementia. With an SS that won't take your call or allow you to start on online account of behalf of said parent.

SS can be a PITA when they were staffed, visiting in person, and with my kid who, while visibly running around, was not surefire proof enough that he survived birth.   Sorry you are catching strays on here, but the more this shit happens, maybe more the people will demand we elect competent people not TV personalities, criminals, conmen, and Nazi's.    

 

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All of the town halls are about SS and Medicare, if Republicans don't care about this then they no longer care about elections wink wink.

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Remember when doge reversed their decision to cut SS customer service access to the Infirmed and elderly? Well, they didn’t mean it:

https://popular.info/p/exclusive-memo-details-trump-plan

An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause significant processing delays, and prevent many Americans from applying for or receiving benefits.

The memo, authored by Acting Deputy SSA Commissioner Doris Diaz, purports to be motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks."

The biggest change contemplated by Diaz's memo is to require "internet identity proofing" for "benefit claims… made over the phone." When an SSA customer is "unable to utilize the internet ID proofing, customers will be required to visit a field office to provide in-person identity documentation."

 

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Currently customers can make claims and verify their identity without using the internet or visiting a SSA office. Fraud is extremely rare because there are many safeguards in place. After initiating a call, customers must provide their social security number, date of birth, parents' names, mother's maiden name, and date of birth. After the initial teleapplication is completed, the information provided is checked against tax returns, pay stubs, bank statements, and medical information, depending on the nature of the claim. If there are any discrepancies, a customer may need to mail a copy of their birth certificate to the SSA. About 40% of all claims are currently processed over the phone.

Because the SSA serves a large population that is either older or physically disabled, many cannot access the internet. Under the new system, this would force these populations to visit an office to have their claim processed. The Diaz memo estimates it would require 75,000 to 85,000 in-person visitors per week to SSA's offices to implement the policy.

 

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SSA offices do not currently have the resources to handle an influx of in-person appointments of this size. In 2023, the most recent data available, there were about 119,128 daily visits, on average, to SSA offices. Eight-five thousand more week visits would be a 14% increase. SSA offices no longer accept walk-ins and the wait time for an appointment, even before these changes, averaged over a month.

 

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7 hours ago, Nivek said:

SS can be a PITA when they were staffed, visiting in person, and with my kid who, while visibly running around, was not surefire proof enough that he survived birth.   

This is a major pain in the ass that I went through with my daughter 14 years ago. They never issued an SSN for similar reasons then my health insurance company was demanding a SSN for infant coverage. Total fucking clown show.

I can't imagine having to jump through those hoops again with the current state of things.

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The only good thing about having to go in to a SS office is you get to feel extremely tall standing in those lines. I'm 5'10" and was the tallest person in a 40 person line.

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This was old news, but it's back:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/noaas-storm-prediction-center-facility-planned-doge-cuts/story?id=119882272

 

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Despite the deadly storms over the weekend, one of the core government facilities tracking severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, is listed on the website of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as one with a planned office closure.

The Storm Prediction Center -- one of several entities housed at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma -- issues severe weather forecasts across the nation and identifies threat zones where dangerous thunderstorms and tornadoes could move through days in advance.

 

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A spokesperson with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- the federal agency that studies and reports on the oceans, atmosphere and coasts as well as oversees the Storm Prediction Center as well as the National Weather Service -- confirmed that the "building lease issue is in flux."

With this latest storm, the Storm Prediction Center began alerting about a potential significant severe weather event across parts of the Midwest and South several days ahead of the first tornadoes. The center also tracks which parts of the country could face critical to extreme fire weather conditions -- as Oklahoma, where the center is located, remains under alert for fire danger after being devastated by deadly blazes over the weekend.

 

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Republican Rep. Tom Cole claims that he intervened and that the center in Norman will not lose its lease.

"I am so proud to have advocated for them. As the Representative for Oklahoma's Fourth District, I will always fight for Oklahomans and my constituents!" Cole wrote in a release last week.

But the building is still listed, along with hundreds of others, as a target of DOGE's cuts.

ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment.

 

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When the General Services Administration briefly listed office leases it planned to terminate a few weeks ago, the NOAA locations sent shockwaves through the scientific community especially with tornado season (and hurricane season) coming up.

The Norman facility has, according to local outlets, been impacted by some staffing cuts.

Online the center boasts of some 500 scientists, engineers, meteorologists and climatologists from NOAA, the University of Oklahoma and state agencies. It specializes in storm prediction and advancing radar technology.

"We serve as a national resource for severe weather research and work collaboratively with the National Weather Service to ensure that their forecasters have the knowledge, capabilities, and technologies to remain world leaders in effectively communicating accurate, timely, and actionable forecasts and warnings of extreme weather to the public and commerce," their mission statement reads.

ABC News has reached out to local Oklahoma lawmakers for comment, but hasn't heard back by the time of publication.

 

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1 hour ago, Satchel said:

Remember when doge reversed their decision to cut SS customer service access to the Infirmed and elderly? Well, they didn’t mean it:

https://popular.info/p/exclusive-memo-details-trump-plan

An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause significant processing delays, and prevent many Americans from applying for or receiving benefits.

The memo, authored by Acting Deputy SSA Commissioner Doris Diaz, purports to be motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks."

 

The biggest change contemplated by Diaz's memo is to require "internet identity proofing" for "benefit claims… made over the phone." When an SSA customer is "unable to utilize the internet ID proofing, customers will be required to visit a field office to provide in-person identity documentation."

 

https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama

 

Currently customers can make claims and verify their identity without using the internet or visiting a SSA office. Fraud is extremely rare because there are many safeguards in place. After initiating a call, customers must provide their social security number, date of birth, parents' names, mother's maiden name, and date of birth. After the initial teleapplication is completed, the information provided is checked against tax returns, pay stubs, bank statements, and medical information, depending on the nature of the claim. If there are any discrepancies, a customer may need to mail a copy of their birth certificate to the SSA. About 40% of all claims are currently processed over the phone.

Because the SSA serves a large population that is either older or physically disabled, many cannot access the internet. Under the new system, this would force these populations to visit an office to have their claim processed. The Diaz memo estimates it would require 75,000 to 85,000 in-person visitors per week to SSA's offices to implement the policy.

 

https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama

 

SSA offices do not currently have the resources to handle an influx of in-person appointments of this size. In 2023, the most recent data available, there were about 119,128 daily visits, on average, to SSA offices. Eight-five thousand more week visits would be a 14% increase. SSA offices no longer accept walk-ins and the wait time for an appointment, even before these changes, averaged over a month.

 

Oh man, our ol' boy @Earl Haffler had better hope the regime doesn't cut this program (https://www.nadtc.org/). Otherwise, how the hell is he supposed to get his checks all the way up in Nacogdoches?

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41 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Bianca Sicich, a 30-year-old Texan, was abruptly fired by DOGE two weeks ago. She's so dedicated to protecting the endangered Attwater prairie chicken that she's been working her federal job at a Texas ntl wildlife refuge *without pay* ever since.  Sicich is the antithesis of a lazy federal worker. Before she was fired, she was essentially working two jobs at the refuge, and had grown deeply attached to the land. “Even on my days off, I would come out here and just go birdwatching... It’s really not just work—it’s a place I want to be.”

I hope she has a Gofundme.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-doge-firings-attwaters-prairie-chicken/




 

There is a better than 90% chance that Elon and Trump will make a show of having a dinner featuring Attwater prairie chickens as the entree before the year is out.  Because the utter assholery, and demonstrating that you can do whatever you want, not subject to any laws, is the entire point.  They can eat endangered species, rape an infant on live TV, whatever they want.....and you can't stop them.  You best remember the "and you can't stop them" part...you hear me?

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49 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Bianca Sicich, a 30-year-old Texan, was abruptly fired by DOGE two weeks ago. She's so dedicated to protecting the endangered Attwater prairie chicken that she's been working her federal job at a Texas ntl wildlife refuge *without pay* ever since.  Sicich is the antithesis of a lazy federal worker. Before she was fired, she was essentially working two jobs at the refuge, and had grown deeply attached to the land. “Even on my days off, I would come out here and just go birdwatching... It’s really not just work—it’s a place I want to be.”

I hope she has a Gofundme.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-doge-firings-attwaters-prairie-chicken/




 

My wife was shortlisted for a National Parks gig. We were ready to go.

Now, State of Texas? Nope, she gets to compete with the thousands of experts laid off. We as a state produce a surplus of wildlife people. Unless you are into hunting and game management the laid off feds have all the experience. So she works part time at a refuge here in Central Texas.

Strain from all sides is real for many Americans.

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2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

My wife was shortlisted for a National Parks gig. We were ready to go.

Now, State of Texas? Nope, she gets to compete with the thousands of experts laid off. We as a state produce a surplus of wildlife people. Unless you are into hunting and game management the laid off feds have all the experience. So she works part time at a refuge here in Central Texas.

Strain from all sides is real for many Americans.

She should get a job in one of our new steel mills, or plastic injection molding plants, or factories making cheap articles of clothing.  Those are all coming back to the USA, baby!  GREAT JOBS GALORE!

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

She should get a job in one of our new steel mills, or plastic injection molding plants, or factories making cheap articles of clothing.  Those are all coming back to the USA, baby!  GREAT JOBS GALORE!

Yeah maybe.

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20 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean....say what you will, but that Rosie the Riveter had it going on....

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My point was the strain is really going down into the market like people did not think would happen. I am waiting on the support personnel to get laid off.

If there are 1/3 cuts in DOD, well that is 1/3 less meals being bought.

BRACS which were never of this magnitude killed communities. We are going to see it again. Plus industries.

But yeah, we don't have enough coders, so H-1B visas for all.

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3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

My point was the strain is really going down into the market like people did not think would happen. I am waiting on the support personnel to get laid off.

If there are 1/3 cuts in DOD, well that is 1/3 less meals being bought.

BRACS which were never of this magnitude killed communities. We are going to see it again. Plus industries.

But yeah, we don't have enough coders, so H-1B visas for all.

Oh, you ain't wrong.  Shit, closing a single military base with a few thousand personnel has killed entire towns.  The cascade effects of all of the idiocy taking place are going to be devastating - many of those effects felt hardest in some MAGA territory, by the way - and they are going to be long-lasting.

The odds of a recession are near-certain.  The odds of a depression are shooting up every day.

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MAGA Think Tank: “Why take social security away? They will kill us first that. Let’s just make it super hard, let’s say impossible to access, and it’s the same thing! Win, win am I right?”

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3 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Bianca Sicich, a 30-year-old Texan, was abruptly fired by DOGE two weeks ago. She's so dedicated to protecting the endangered Attwater prairie chicken that she's been working her federal job at a Texas ntl wildlife refuge *without pay* ever since.  Sicich is the antithesis of a lazy federal worker. Before she was fired, she was essentially working two jobs at the refuge, and had grown deeply attached to the land. “Even on my days off, I would come out here and just go birdwatching... It’s really not just work—it’s a place I want to be.”

I hope she has a Gofundme.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-doge-firings-attwaters-prairie-chicken/




 

abbott will make sure she's arrested very soon 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

There is a better than 90% chance that Elon and Trump will make a show of having a dinner featuring Attwater prairie chickens as the entree before the year is out.  Because the utter assholery, and demonstrating that you can do whatever you want, not subject to any laws, is the entire point.  They can eat endangered species, rape an infant on live TV, whatever they want.....and you can't stop them.  You best remember the "and you can't stop them" part...you hear me?

 

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this is trump, it'll be fried by kfc !

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

There is a better than 90% chance that Elon and Trump will make a show of having a dinner featuring Attwater prairie chickens as the entree before the year is out.  Because the utter assholery, and demonstrating that you can do whatever you want, not subject to any laws, is the entire point.  They can eat endangered species, rape an infant on live TV, whatever they want.....and you can't stop them.  You best remember the "and you can't stop them" part...you hear me?

There is a way

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Twenty plus DOGE staffers resign, and sound a warning on their way out the door.

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More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”

“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. “However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”

The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump’s administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.


https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

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8 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Twenty plus DOGE staffers resign, and sound a warning on their way out the door.


https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

Of course, that will be dismissed as some kind of deep state shit.  But those people are exactly the kind Elmo usually likes minus the ideologuy.

This was a pithy quote from the article:

“‘Move fast and break things’ may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that,” said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Breaking: DOGE discovers that the agency in charge of collecting revenue for the FORMER global hegemon has a much larger IT budget than a midsize bank, still trying to understand why though.

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On 3/19/2025 at 5:03 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Bianca Sicich, a 30-year-old Texan, was abruptly fired by DOGE two weeks ago. She's so dedicated to protecting the endangered Attwater prairie chicken that she's been working her federal job at a Texas ntl wildlife refuge *without pay* ever since.  Sicich is the antithesis of a lazy federal worker. Before she was fired, she was essentially working two jobs at the refuge, and had grown deeply attached to the land. “Even on my days off, I would come out here and just go birdwatching... It’s really not just work—it’s a place I want to be.”

I hope she has a Gofundme.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-doge-firings-attwaters-prairie-chicken/




 

God fucking dammit. One of the top 5 most endangered animals in the world, of which there are less than 50 left, is likely toast

 

Ive been to the Refuge multiple times, and taken the family twice. Go soon, before these birds are gone by 2030

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Partner countries in USAID co-development projects want to know where their money is.  Calls are not being returned.
 

So, we’re not just threatening to wage war against our allies, we’re also stealing their money directly.
We have a lawless, criminal, homicidal regime. If the rest of the world declared war on us, they wouldn’t be wrong to do so.
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13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


So, we’re not just threatening to wage war against our allies, we’re also stealing their money directly.
We have a lawless, criminal, homicidal regime. If the rest of the world declared war on us, they wouldn’t be wrong to do so.

Half of the country would support Team World.

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