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Category Archives: Civil Liberties

Social Security News

Social Security News. A service of Hall & Rouse, P.C./© Charles T. Hall. Includes primary documents from DOGE and OPM, emails and chats from/to Social Security employees, author commentary, and articles from reliable media reporting on the fast moving actions to fire, using illegal terminations, as many staff and leadership as possible, around the country.

See also: A Blog For Claimants — Check It Out – “What we cover: Social Security delays and backlogs, Disability Insurance Benefits, SSI disability, Disabled Adult Child benefits, Disabled Widow and Widower Benefits, Work and Social Security Disability, Social Security’s telephone problems, Social Security disability hearings, Social Security attorneys, Long term disability and Social Security, VA benefits and Social Security, Workers compensation and Social Security.”

See also this Reddit post: Understanding the Importance of the SSA layoffs – “This post is mostly for our non-Federal employee allies within the group. I would like to explain the importance of the SSA layoffs of its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. I would then like to implore you to please please please bring the noise. First, let’s talk about what this office is not: DEIA, especially in the bastardized way that it has been used in this administration. There are reports made from these offices that refer to DEIA, but that is a discussion for another day…”

FCC’s Knives Are Out for First Amendment

Fairness & Accurately in Reporting (FAIR): Brendan Carr, newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission, is waging a war on the news media, perhaps the most dangerous front in de jure President Donald Trump and de facto President Elon Musk’s quest to destroy freedom of the press and the First Amendment. Trump’s FCC has… Continue Reading

The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE

“The New York Times [no paywall] identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies. Few members have formal Washington experience. Many are software engineers. All seem to have a clear mandate: Shrink and disrupt the federal… Continue Reading

Database and dashboard – activities, groups and businesses supporting democracy through action

The Team at Horizons Project is keeping up a database about movement activity focusing on the range of activity against various pillars. The Pillars — principled collective action & loving defiance. Subject matter tools, links and resources authored by: government workers; business; faith based initiatives; professional associations; unions. Includes Tactics Used, Links and Further Details.… Continue Reading

Researcher Captures Contents of ‘DEI.gov’ Before It Was Hidden Behind a Password

404 Media [unpaywalled] “A German researcher captured the contents of the White House’s “DEI.gov” during a brief period when it was not password protected. The capture shows that the site contains a list of vague, alleged government-funded tasks and their costs, without sources or context, like “$1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers,” “$1.5 million… Continue Reading

 A Digital Extension of Historical Bias: Arab Americans and the New Frontier of Algorithmic Discrimination

Via LLRX – A Digital Extension of Historical Bias: Arab Americans and the New Frontier of Algorithmic Discrimination – The integration of artificial intelligence into U.S. national security operations has automated and amplified discriminatory practices established in the post-9/11 era, creating unprecedented barriers for Arab Americans. This paper by Natalie Abdou examines how AI systems… Continue Reading

Site tracks how much of Project 2025 has been implemented

Project 2025 Tracker – The site tracks overall progress now at 34% as well as well as detailed objectives specific to each government agency. This is a significant and very disconcerting tool. Thanks go out to the folks at the free project you can support via Patreon. See also Searchable Full Project 2025 Text: Mandate… Continue Reading

DOGE Has ‘God Mode’ Access to Government Data

The Atlantic [unpaywalled]: “The president’s special commission now has an unprecedented ability to view and manipulate information at many federal agencies. The employee’s account, along with the accounts of several others across federal agencies, offers the clearest portrait yet of just how deep DOGE has burrowed into the systems of the federal government—and the sensitive… Continue Reading

Memory-Holing January 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?

ProPublica: “On Jan. 10, the U.S. Department of Justice released a 123-page report on the 1921 racial massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which claimed several hundred lives and left the thriving Black neighborhood of Greenwood in smoldering ruins. The department’s investigation determined that the attack was “so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence.”… Continue Reading

Trumpworld’s War on Words

Vanity Fair [unpaywalled] – “The administration’s attack on the AP, along with efforts to rewrite history and reframe reality, only reaffirms the maxim that language is power. The right-wing war on all things “woke” has relied on a critical weapon: language. Trumpworld’s culture-war arsenal may contain many things—a flurry of social media posts and videos,… Continue Reading