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Your friendly local SSA agent just trying to survive. DMs are open. Yes there’s 2 of us (Hi Rogue SSA👋). We are #AltGov. Not affiliated with AltNPS. This account is not an official SSA account. FDT. Release the Epstein files. Preferred name: AltSSAssy ❤️

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 9d

🚨🚨🚨 SHUTDOWN INFO:
SSA is open and functioning (mostly)!!!! You should not miss payments you are expecting, if you do, please let us know. Field Offices and phones are open and staffed!!!! Here is the list of things we are not allowed to process during the shutdown so please don’t yell at us for it!

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Mad Houser/AltHUD @madhouser.altgov.info · 4h

Thousands of hard working, dedicated American civil servants are having their lives upended by an evil heartless despot and supposed Christian.

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 1h

They aren’t negotiating, they’re hollowing out *your* government, bc they hate it, bc they hate you. This is fascism rapidly consolidating power. They’re shooting the hostage (that’s you, America) like they were always going to. They wanted us to be their accomplices. This implodes in a month.

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 2h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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larry.earth (he/him) @larry.earth · 11h

«At Tuesday’s presidential “roundtable” on “antifa,” the villain du jour, one of the speakers said that its origins were to be found in Weimar Germany.

The wrongdoers of history, we are instructed from the White House, were those who tried to prevent Hitler from coming to power.»

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

snyder.substack.com

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11h

So this is the difficulty. Not just how do we get to a deal, but how do we get to a deal we trust will be honored when Johnson is here *promising* to let Trump impound and take back whatever he wants from what they pass?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The Republican shutdown continues.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

I’m sure this is fine. abcnews.go.com/US/dominion-...

Dominion Voting Systems sold to company run by former Republican election official

Dominion Voting Systems, which sued Fox over its reporting on the 2020 election, has been sold to a seemingly new election company run by a former GOP election official.

abcnews.go.com

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RebelFema @rebelfema.altgov.info · 18h

The pattern of intimidation continues. #FEMA staff are being questioned & pressed to identify anonymous signers and organizers of the Katrina Declaration. DHS is literally on a hunt . They are trying to instill fear. Let’s give them solidarity. ✊

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FEMA Tells Staff to Name Whistleblowers or Risk Losing Jobs

Investigators are looking for staffers who anonymously endorsed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to disaster funding.

www.bloomberg.com

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 18h

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation.

58 year old Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18h

My quote of the day

We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory

María Corina Machado

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 17h

#GOPShitdown day 10, and OMG y’all we made it to Friday 👏👏👏👏👏 Partial paycheck today to help out so that’s nice. Get your coffee and hang in there ✊✊✊✊

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 17h

I could be wrong but I believe in historical shutdowns there was often a measure passed by Congress to ensure military pay continued so this isn’t new. It’s new that it didn’t happen already during this shutdown. I also think it should be us and military but I’m fine either way ✊

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 1d

It sounds like Trump is trying to order the National Guard to "protect" a Federal courthouse, and the Chief Judge there is telling everyone that they do not need or want the Guard there. This is no way to run a military, or a country.

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Jawbreaker @jawbreaker0834.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS

In case you were wondering what new ways the GOP are planning on cheating, an ultra right-wing GOP election official, Scott Leiendecker, has bought Dominion Voting Systems- a year before the mid-term elections.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

I know stuff is in the works but we get a partial pay this week so first actual missed pay is in two weeks so stay tuned! If it’s needed we’ll be amplifying any and all resources and links!!!

AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

That part. All we got was fucking “concepts of a plan.” I can’t even wipe my ass with “concepts,” bro, GTFOH with this waste of oxygen.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

This. All of this. @democrats.senate.gov hold the fucking line. ✊✊✊✊✊

Federal Workers Have A Request Of Democrats As The Shutdown Drags On

Furloughed federal employees are about to start missing paychecks, but they aren't ready to give in yet: "We are willing to take some temporary pain."

www.huffpost.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Why isn't this major headline news? Why isn't corporate media covering NSPM-7?

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1d

‘We took the freedom of speech away’: On First Amendment, Trump says quiet part loud

A week after the White House boasted that Donald Trump “is a strong supporter of free speech,” the Republican declared, "We took the freedom of speech away."

dlvr.it

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 1d

For those who use Alt Text. Text from tweet:

"Days before the president announced the new TrumpRx website, a BlinkRx rep told one drug company that BlinkRx could be involved w/ running the site on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

BlinkRx also put Don Jr. on its board in Feb."

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

it’s all just a grift

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

*laughsobs in elder millennial*

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 1d

Donald Trump just floated using the Insurrection Act if courts block his National Guard deployments.

The Insurrection Act does NOT allow him to use the military for whatever purpose he wants regardless of the law—and it's dangerous for him to suggest it.

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act

The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

www.politico.com

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Because y’all chopped up the original ACA bill so bad it wasn’t remotely close to what it was designed to be because y’all couldn’t shut the fuck up about it being socialism. It couldn’t do what was promised because of Mitch Fucking McConnell and his band of idiots. So please fuck all the way off 🤬🤬

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a green door and looking at the camera .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a green door and looking at the camera making the hand sign from FRIENDS that means “fuck you.”

media.tenor.com

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