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Our CEO Max Richtman joined @repcohen.bsky.social at town hall in Memphis last night, where residents are worried about Musk/DOGE interference in #SocialSecurity. "They are trying to undermine the program, plain and simple." @repcohen.bsky.social #musk #trump #doge

He appeared to be a nice guy when you bought your car and when most thought he was pro environment. Well we know better. He doesn’t care about people or fair, oversight of his businesses. And we know there are lots of good cars out there.

CEO of committee to preserve social security and Medicare Max Richtman is our special guest at town hall tomorrow night.

Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

Trump and DOGE are dismantling Social Security— firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering offices. Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work. They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.

Taking the “law” into their own hands is treasonous. The executive team doesn’t believe they are bound by the Constitution

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽

@joshuaeakle.com

It’s important you understand this. The people in this photo were residents of the USA that were denied due process. They were rounded up and shipped to a prison in El Salvador—without trial, without evidence—simply on suspicion of gang affiliation. /1

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

The road to perdition and autocracy

Timothy Snyder

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

Steve Cohen@repcohen.bsky.socialMar 15(source)

Bomb not Bob

Steve Cohen@repcohen.bsky.socialMar 15(source)

I suspect even Maga people like dogs and particularly Bob sniffing dogs. Trump doesn’t like dogs, but this is nuts or at best “not normal.”

The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

🐕 Couldn’t make it up if we tried — the same day Trump celebrates K9 Veterans Day… DOGE cuts hit the TSA and they stop feeding and taking care of their bomb-sniffing dogs 😕

Steve Cohen@repcohen.bsky.socialMar 15(source)

They are 100% MAGA

Steve Cohen@repcohen.bsky.socialMar 14(source)

Trump and Musk are destroying the government which is the structure of the United States of America. We have an authoritarian as president and this is scary as Hell.And the Republicans in Congress don’t care.It’s not my country. It may be Trumpsylvania or Muskrat but it’s not the USA. I will fight!

I served a term on conservation and natural resources committee where the chair was Rep.Grijalva. He was fair and courteous to all, but he always stood for the environment.He believed that we inherit the Earth and that we must leave it in a better state for the next generation.He did that. Farewell

CNN

@cnn.com

JUST IN: Arizona Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva has died at 77 due to complications from cancer treatment. cnn.it/3Frkpvb

Reposted bySteve Cohen

Imagine you're a Republican. You control the House, Senate & White House. You spent 9 weeks sucking up to Elon Musk and gutting vital programs. Your "mandate," you said. You draft a budget alone, without Democrats. Everyone hates it. Your own party can't pass it. And now it's Democrats' fault? 🤡

And what does health guru and HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy think about this? Will cutting bike lanes and pedestrian infrastructure help combat obesity or “make America healthy again”? Absolutely not.

The GOP thinks our streets are safe enough. No need for improvement. Now they’re yanking funds for pedestrian safety, biking & EV projects—funding Congress already allocated. Memphis has the highest pedestrian death rate in the US. We need safer streets, not reckless cuts that make roads deadlier.