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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 · 7d

🚨🚨🚨 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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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1h

#GOPShitdown day 8 y’all, how we doing????? We still got the coffee and spite flowing freely up in here ☕️🙃What are we listening to today???? I’m still obsessed with the #KPopDemonHunters soundtrack personally 🎶🎵👩‍🎤 “Fit check for my napalm era” is lyrical perfection and I’m so incredibly here for it 💅🏻

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 12h

a woman in a red hat is holding a cup and a ball in her hand .

Alt: a woman in a red hat is holding a cup and a ball in her hand .

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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 22h

Scary new interpretation of the 14th Amendment just dropped!

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 23h

Oh yay!!!!! I’m glad she was able to correct that for you!!!!

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Yes. Please see my pinned post all about it 🥴

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Gift link below. I really wish this article did a better job of explaining exactly WHY this is such a terrible fucking idea 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Frank Bisignano is already wreaking havoc at the Social Security Administration.

If he tries to run his same chaotic playbook at the IRS, it could spell disaster for American taxpayers.

Trump’s new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security

The Trump administration on Monday found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: the head of the Social Security Administration.

www.washingtonpost.com

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Gift link 👇. I said it before and I’ll say it again. They can make policy changes that limit or change who can get benefits and they can say it’s not a cut because it technically isn’t. But it’s semantics. It’s still a cut to benefits. Don’t let them play semantics. Call it what it is. It’s a cut. 🤬

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is plotting to cut Social Security benefits for older Americans — after he promised during the campaign that he wouldn’t touch Social Security.

We must call it out and stop these cuts.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Also Kathleen Romig at CBPP had the bandwidth 👇👇👇

Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 2d

Alarming news this morning that Social Security head Frank Bisignano has been named “CEO” of IRS, a move that raises 3 major concerns:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Bessent Picks Social Security Chief Frank Bisignano as IRS CEO

The Social Security head will do double duty at the tax agency while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent retains his formal title as acting IRS commissioner.

www.wsj.com

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

I had the bandwidth in case anybody is curious 👇👇👇

AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 2d

I don’t have a lot of time so quick thread on exactly WHY what I posted about today is so bad. TLDR: it’s like the most convoluted fucked up incestuous polycule I’ve ever heard of. 🥴🥴🥴

First who is everybody? Scott Bessent is the Secretary of the Treasury so cabinet member from hedge fund land.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

I have actually. It’s very much in the realm of possibility. Unfortunately.

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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.bsky.social · 1d

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Stand your ground because it is OUR ground too. Don’t back down.

#GOPShutdown #TrumpShutdown

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

They're widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is Democrats' chance to shock us for a change. trib.al/MuFFz69

Trump isn’t popular; the Republican Party isn’t popular; doubling the healthcare premiums for millions of people isn’t very popular, either.

For God’s Sake, Democrats: Don’t Cave

They’re widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is their chance to shock us for a change.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Since this weekend. It’s a completely new role they just invented.

AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

a man in a gray shirt is sitting at a table with his arms crossed and the word basically written on the screen .

Alt: a man in a gray shirt is sitting at a table with his arms crossed and the word basically written on the screen .

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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Feds, here’s a survey on how the furlough is going for you. Let’s tell Vought how we REALLY feel.

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Survey: How is the government shutdown impacting federal employees?

Federal News Network would like to hear from federal employees about their experience, now under a partial government shutdown. Please take our short survey.

federalnewsnetwork.com

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

She’s quoting what the judge said about Trump 🤣🤣🤣

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Yes I did. I am not sure the two issues are necessarily related but both are bad for the agency and the people who depend on it.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1d

Never in Social Security’s 90-year history has a commissioner held a second job.

But it always takes less time and effort to destroy something than to build and maintain it.

The Trump administration is allowing Social Security to rot through sabotage and neglect.

Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano is named to the newly created position of IRS CEO

Frank Bisignano has been named CEO of the IRS, adding to his role as Social Security Administration Commissioner.

apnews.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is firing pepper bullets and deploying smoke grenades in Portland, even though protesters are remaining in their designated area and peacefully dancing.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Local Chicago journalists to follow ahead of 2 pm CT hearing over national guard deployment.

(Currently, there's no remote court access for those of us who are based elsewhere.)

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine so. There's going to be a lot happening at 2 pm in the fed court today, check out @jonseidel.bsky.social with the Sun-Times or @jmetr22b.bsky.social with the Trib. I'll also try to cover but have to split time between multiple hearings at 2.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 1d

Yes. The concern is two fold.