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New in PN: How Trump's lawlessness emboldens bad cops "An Idaho sheriff who participated in the manhandling of a woman at a GOP town hall appears to be part of a wing of law enforcement that considers itself culture warriors who bear allegiance to Trump" publicnotice.co/p/bob-norris-t…

BROWN: What do you want to hear from the president tonight? WHITEHOUSE: That Musk is being sent packing

We’re off and running for tonight’s American Doom live chat for Trump’s address to Congress. I am tired already. Join us for the madness. bit.ly/43G64W7

A few things I’ll be looking for, in no particular order: - Attacks on Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare - Militarization of immigration enforcement - Warnings to protesters/attacks on free speech/emboldening rogue law enforcement - Signals that the Trump administration

New and exclusive this morning at Rolling Stone and @americandoom : In an email I obtained this morning, Social Security employees have been told to stop reading the news. See the email and read the story, with Asawin Suebsaeng. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Coming up for air on a weekend of non-stop reporting on Social Security. Here’s what’s coming: Following a typical pattern, Trump and DOGE are breaking Social Security so they can say “Look, it’s all broken. Only we can fix it and the only way to fix it is to replace it.”

“They have no idea the public blowback they’re about to get." Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

New at Rolling Stone and @americandoom: two Social Security insiders and former commish Martin O'Malley tell me that Trump and DOGE are going to break the SSA until payments are affected. It's inevitable, they say. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Stifling of speech—and news!—by social media companies is exactly why places like @americandoom exist. Get around all that mess and stay in the know by subscribing. Gettin’ wild out here in this brave new world! american-doom.com/s/subscribe-an…

Every politician saying you don’t need to vaccinate your kids has vaccinated kids Every politician saying you don’t deserve healthcare has healthcare Every politician saying we shouldn’t tax the rich is rich Every politician wanting to defund public schools sends their kids

Just checking: what do you call it when the White House says a judge’s order has “no lawful basis” and ignores it? apnews.com/article/trump-…

Social Security ‘Clawback’ Change Could Bankrupt Seniors As Trump and Musk target Social Security, the administration’s new “clawback” policy will cut off whole checks to seniors who receive an accidental overpayment. More from @americandoom: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

New today at Rolling Stone and @americandoom: Social Security has a new rule under Trump that could bankrupt seniors. Republicans like Rick Scott were against the policy under Biden. Now, they’re silent. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

I have a lot more coming on Social Security, immigration and other authoritarian measures being pushed by the Trump administration. If you want to support my work, sign up for a paid subscription or drop a few dollars to my coffee fund at @americandoom: american-doom.com/s/subscribe-an…

It starts with (allegedly) bad Venezuelan migrants and ends with whoever the regime decides is an enemy. Today’s @americandoom: american-doom.com/p/overloading-…

DOGE and the Trump administration are going to get sued into oblivion for what this judge says is a good argument they violated the Privacy Act.

Donald Trump’s acting Social Security chief threatened to stop the safety net program for seniors if Elon Musk and DOGE can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans More: rollingstone.com/politics/polit… rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

New today at Rolling Stone and @americandoom: Social Security insiders say Trump and Musk could use the data DOGE has accessed at the agency to go after trans Americans, political enemies, dissidents, etc. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Dudek is fighting to have DOGE’s SSA team — run in part by a 22-year-old Musk/Thiel protege — maintain access to the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

The executive order Trump signed today is a full-on election denial initiative. It will re-litigate the 2020 election and call future elections into question, as well as investigate bogus conspiracy theories that will propagated by the right. From the order: