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Adam Gurri

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No kings
No dictators
October 18
Nokings.org

October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM

jimvickmusic.bsky.social

@jimvickmusic.bsky.social

So it looks like the Republican administration is at stage 3 now of what Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island described as their plan to destroy and then privatize Social Security, turning it over to Wall Street. And they are only getting started.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I found a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

www.seattletimes.com

March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM

jimvickmusic.bsky.social

@jimvickmusic.bsky.social

YES! But will either of them do it?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption

Leading figures urge Pam Bondi to examine ‘Mr Musk’s activities at the FAA’ amid conflict-of-interest concerns

www.theguardian.com

March 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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Richard Branson

@richardbranson.bsky.social

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...