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Airplanista 🇺🇦

@grammargirl Yeah Mignon, I know that drill. Plus I have at least 20+ years on ya, so "keeping it together" takes on a completely new meaning.

These days, I have so many "to do" lists in my head, I need to make a To Do list to keep them straight. Thankfully, it is all small personal stuff. But when I ran my ad agency, I kept a 3-ring notebook glued to my hand so I wrote down everything when I was managing several clients at once.

Now I just have to remember to feed the cat.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Social Security, Buffeted by Turmoil, Awaits a New Leader

The billionaire Elon Musk has become fixated on finding #fraud inside the agency, which provides #retirement, survivor and #disability payments to 73 million Americans each month.
nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/poli

"Musk has claimed that vast numbers of #Americans are fraudulently drawing benefits from the agency, an assertion experts say is demonstrably false."

Headline from The New York Times: Social Security, Buffeted by Turmoil, Awaits a New Leader The billionaire Elon Musk has become fixated on finding fraud inside the agency, which provides retirement, survivor and disability payments to 73 million Americans each month.
#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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Kent Pitman

I just published a blog essay, Games Billionaires Play, responding to Howard Lutnick's recent callous mulling about stopping Social Security payments to see who makes noise.

I make some counter-proposals about other games we could play.

netsettlement.blogspot.com/202

netsettlement.blogspot.comGames Billionaires PlayAn essay expressing outrage over Lutnick's callously reckless idea to skip Social Security payments just to see how folks respond.
#SocialSecurity#SS#oligarchy
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Chuck Darwin

U.S. Postmaster General Louis #DeJoy’s Thursday announcement that the independent United States #Postal #Service is partnering with the Department of Government Efficiency on a cost-cutting crusade that includes a
🔥planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that one of America’s most trusted and relied-upon federal agencies is on a path toward #privatization.
In a letter to congressional leaders, DeJoy said #DOGE will help the USPS “in identifying and achieving further efficiencies.”
The postal chief listed “mismanagement” of the agency’s #retirement #assets and workers’ compensation program,
“unfunded mandates imposed on us by legislation,” and “burdensome regulatory requirements restricting 'normal' business practice” as issues to be addressed.
commondreams.org/news/dejoy-do

Common Dreams · Alarm as DeJoy Teams Up With DOGE to Gut US Postal Service | Common DreamsOne Democratic congresswoman called the partnership "a blatant move toward privatization."
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Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:

Musk is openly trying to break the entire Social Security apparatus, to liquidate it and try to privatize it. Can you imagine the meager pension you paid into now being owned and operated by an oligarch who can privately make & change the rules on a whim, pull you out of retirement? Trumpers, did you vote to have your own SS contributions stolen?
#SocialSecurity #SSA #retirement youtube.com/watch?v=oeBgGg48mp8

YouTube‘They are trying to break it’: Elon Musk’s social security changes putting payments at riskBy MSNBC
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beSpacific

‘Prelude to #privatization:’ #SocialSecurity confirms #workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter offices. Despite most of the agency being exempt from deferred resignations and the government-wide #hiring #freeze, early #retirement and Voluntary #Separation Incentive Payments are now available to the entire agency workforce. govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/ No social security for all of us who paid into the system all our working lives. Where is the outcry or even any push back? Crickets

Government Executive‘Prelude to privatization:’ Social Security confirms workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter officesDespite most of the agency being exempt from deferred resignations and the government-wide hiring freeze, early retirement and Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments are now available to the entire agency workforce.
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Nonilex

As part of #Musk’s govt-slashing crusade under #DOGE, last week the #SSA notified workers it would undergo “significant workforce reductions” as part of an “agency-wide organizational restructuring.” While one anonymous source in the agency told the AP that the agency could cut up to 50% of its workforce, SSA has denied this, saying that it had “set a staffing target of 50k, down from the current level of approximately 57k employees.”

#Trump#SocialSecurity#USpol
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