Dudek sounds more serious about shutting down Social Security than I thought. "Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here," he told Lisa Rein

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One interesting takeaway from this wild Atlantic story is that JD Vance is actively undermining Donald Trump in internal meetings when Trump is not present.

Could this be the first real piece where someone went out and talked to the people at the rallies and asked why they’re there? nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opi…

Mark this is less like the covid lab leak theory than the fact that you didn't know that Democratic primary elections were not winner take all. Like that you don't know that a person cannot add themselves to a signal group. But please continue clowning yourself.

Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

Abu Ghraib was a scandal. Now it's an advertising strategy.

🚨 Emails confirm the Social Security Administration canceled contracts with Maine as political payback against Janet Mills. From Rep Gerry Connolly (D-Va) letter called on SSA acting chief Leland Dudek to resign:

Being liberated of $100.

It is happening here, Paul Blumenthal reports huffpost.com/entry/donald-t…

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Now down 4.6% since the tweet

It also helps explain why, once someone goes MAGA, they inevitably start to say more and more ridiculous or absurd things—Trump doesn't let you save face, precisely because supporting him in the first place is to destroy your integrity. To be shocked, shocked by him is laughable

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New: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is moving to have his state boycott El Salvador in response to Bukele's assistance of Trump, ordering a review of pension investments and procurement contracts. Allies hope other Dem states will follow suit.

Related: Senator Chris Van Hollen says Americans shouldn't travel to El Salvador. “Vote with your feet. Costa Rica is a beautiful place." semafor.com/article/04/23/…

Aren't these just the first signs of a recession? Military recruitment is also up, another early recession sign. All we need is Teach for America to make a comeback.

We would not be at this terrifying moment without Biden & his team. Emboldening Netanyahu beyond even Israelis’ expectations (in Gaza + Lebanon), abandoning hopes of a renewed nuclear deal & fracturing their voting coalition, a team that promised stability brought huge danger.