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kelleynnn<p>Besides his tech based quasi-religious views, more reasons <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> hates the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elderly</span></a>: long memory, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> support systems, and cross-generational <a href="https://mas.to/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ElderRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElderRights</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/elders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elders</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/retirement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retirement</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/socialsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/the-critical-role-of-elders-in-the" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">antiauthoritarianplaybook.subs</span><span class="invisible">tack.com/p/the-critical-role-of-elders-in-the</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>A list of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> offices across the US expected to close this year</p><p> By MEG KINNARD<br>Updated 12:59 PM EDT, March 19, 2025</p><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — "Dozens of Social Security Administration [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSA</span></a>] offices across the country are slated to close this year due to actions taken by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>’s Department of Government Efficiency as part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration’s unprecedented effort to shrink the size of government.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> has published a list of nearly 800 federal real estate leases that it is seeking to cancel. The Associated Press has obtained an internal planning document from the General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, which shows when nearly two-thirds of those cancellations are expected to go into effect.</p><p>"The offices are closing despite a new requirement that tighter identity-proofing measures be put in place to prevent fraud and abuse. These steps will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with agency employees over the phone.</p><p>"The AP also obtained more information about each lease on DOGE’s list through other publicly available datasets, including their addresses, the dates the leases had started and were originally expected to expire, and the landlords who own the properties."</p><p>Read more (includes a list of offices that will be closing):<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/social-secu</span><span class="invisible">rity-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistDOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistDOGE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TakeToTheStreets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TakeToTheStreets</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillTheElderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KillTheElderly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HungerGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HungerGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElderRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElderRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TakeCareOfThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TakeCareOfThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSecurityPayments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurityPayments</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSecurityAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurityAdministration</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Admin Threatens to Stop <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> If <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> Can’t Have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PersonalData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalData</span></a> </p><p>Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data</p><p>by Andrew Perez, March 21, 2025</p><p>"Donald Trump’s interim Social Security chief suggested Thursday night he will effectively turn off the agency that manages the essential safety net program for seniors and the disabled, if Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can’t access the non-anonymized sensitive personal information and data of hundreds of millions of Americans, based on a judge’s order.</p><p>"'My anti-fraud team would be DOGE affiliates. My IT staff would be DOGE affiliates,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeeDudek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeeDudek</span></a>, acting Social Security Administration (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSA</span></a>) commissioner, arguing the order was too broad, according to Bloomberg News. 'As it stands, I will follow it exactly and terminate access by all SSA employees to our IT systems,' he said, adding: 'Really, I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency.'</p><p>"Dudek’s threat to block SSA employees from using the agency’s IT systems — a move that could halt <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSecurityPayments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurityPayments</span></a> — came in response to a judge’s temporary restraining order in a case brought by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AFLCIO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AFLCIO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborUnion</span></a>. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA’s DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code. </p><p>"Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE 'unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers’ license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses.' </p><p>"She added that the 'defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/vvgMF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/vvgMF</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistDOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistDOGE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TakeToTheStreets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TakeToTheStreets</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KillThePoor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillTheElderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KillTheElderly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HungerGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HungerGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElderRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElderRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TakeCareOfThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TakeCareOfThePoor</span></a></p>
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