Notices by Spocko (spocko@mastodon.online)

On the #SanFrancisco bus on the way to the #HandsOff Protest.
Hands off of
Our Freedom
Our Democracy
our Bodies
our Rights

Nerd Reich

#HandsOff Protest in #SanFrancisco
April 5, 2025

@spocko holding a sign that reads,

DOGE Boys, Hands Off
ALL our computer systems

My favorite sign read:

Even the Buddhists are upset.

I loved how his companion gave the Vulcan salute!

This is what I'll be wearing at this Saturday's #HandsOFF rally.

My sign will be:

DOGE: Hands Off Social Security Computer Systems.

Find your rally here;
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#StarTrek #TNG #MaskUP

I always heard that "touching Social Security was the third rail of politics". then why is #Musk
& #DOGE not being electrocuted?

I think part of it is how cuts are started, then stopped after a backlash, so people think the problem has been fixed. But it just let's them adapt their approach.

If I called my MAGA Rep to complain they could say, "Your Social Security benefits won't be cut." (What is not said is "yet." or never)
So we need to keep pressuring them.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/26/nobody-voted-to-cut-social-security/

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

via Matt Novak @paleofuture
#Tufts

It's time to give #PeteHegseth the axe!
(No, not like last time!)

From Jan 15, 2025, A Closer Look on
Late Night with Seth Meyers
written by @salgentile

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxj6trM5Vxn1NjGFVoSrnROKolioj9FKhK?si=wbGFoOYVdku7ZGOq

@nicolesandler read the Atlantic story by Jeffrey Goldberg on the show The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in #yemen
https://www.youtube.com/live/WeFDr3bmg-A?si=Pt3RFPBEIW5Bg6qT

Read #Atlantic Archive link:
https://archive.ph/Y97wY

You REALLY need to listen to Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel explain the shit that #DOGE is doing in the #SocialSecurity administration to access our data & how they are now threatening to shut off SS checks unless DOGE gets access to everything Fed Judge said they can't access.
@lolgop @GottaLaff
Watch/listen at 5ET/2PT youtu.be/Ag835IevNRk nicolesandler.com, or subscribe at nicolesandler.substack.com.

@GottaLaff
Yikes. Also, from this Rolling Stone Article today,
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/
If DOGE can't have access IN defiance of the Federal Judge Lipton Hollander's order.

"According to the Trump administration, Musk and DOGE must have access to everyone’s most personal data — or you, your parents, or your grandparents can’t have Social Security."

Trump Admin Threatens to Stop Social Security If DOGE Can’t Have Personal Data
Trump’s interim Social Security chief says he wants to turn off the program if Musk and DOGE can’t access Americans’ most sensitive data

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-stop-social-security-doge-data-1235300785/

#SocialSecurity #DOGE #Extortion

After the Federal Judge blocked DOGE’s Social Security “Fishing Expedition” the Trump team moves to threats to get their way.
@alaw202
It's time to hold rallies at your local SSA office.

https://HandsOffSocialSecurity.org

"Elon Musk has abandoned Tesla so hard that you'd think it was one of his kids."

#CyberTruck 's getting booed at a parade has "straight guy at a lesbian bar energy"

Some owners are trying to disguise their #Teslas but it isn't working. (See lame attempt to call it a Toyota below)

Full mockery by Taylor Tomlinson on #Musk & #DOGE here:

https://youtu.be/X-9KsveLl5I?si=aglqvQPL4pPqiIPF

Trump says he will label violence on Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism.

This is an important distinction, because using that label would enable severe measures to be taken against American citizens for their opinions, activism or speech.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/anti-trump-activists-target-elon-musks-tesla-brand-protest-doge-cuts-2025-03-06/

#Tesla #protests #Terrorism
#ElonMusk

@androcat there is a tool where Farmers could see how they cuts to USAID was hurting them.

Map of Farmers ruined by #Musk Killing #USAID.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/29fc3a95e8fa4407a96507cc5720609c

Hot tip for Blue Dots in Red States with Red Reps.

Find the Farmer who is hurt in your district.
Call your Rep to complain about THIS SPECIFIC FINANCIAL DAMAGE to The Farmers In your state.
Yes, I made it political.
@GottaLaff @emptywheel

#Maddow

"They're not embarrassed about the reporting that you know if you make a phone call to somebody who can talk to Elon Musk, Elon Musk can get your cancer research cut reversed.
They want it to be known that this is the personalization of power. It's a monarchical type system, and that they want to know that you better cater to them personally, & your physical proximity to the leader will determine whether or not you're served by this government."

This #SocialSecurity updated #TOS sounds like cover for #DOGE "accidents". Question 4 @SocialSecurityWorks @alaw202 @BarbMcQuade #natsec & #infosec folks, is this binding?
If I don't check the box, can they withhold my SS check?

In the article comments some people questioned who this is protecting now & IN THE FUTURE with the use of the DATA that is taken.

IS this preparing for when data gets in to #Musk's AI #Grok?
@brianmerchant
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/4/2307754/-A-curious-clause-in-the-Social-Security-Administration-website-s-Terms-of-Service-Is-this-new

New TOS in #SocialSecurity just dropped.

I agree that the Social Security Administration is not responsible for the improper disclosure of any information that the Social Security Administration has provided to me or any information that is on or from my computer or other device, whether due to my negligence or the wrongful acts of others.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/4/2307754/-A-curious-clause-in-the-Social-Security-Administration-website-s-Terms-of-Service-Is-this-new
I don't think this is normal. Is it?
Question 4 Mr. #Mastodon @briankrebs
what will they say about this on Linkedin?
#infosec

@GottaLaff here is the video

@Nonilex I want you to know I appreciate you. I'm grateful you are covering CPAC. The craziest stuff was always said there, it's now coming true.
Sunday, post Musk's Federal government emails from OPM, will be the hot topic on the morning talk shows, but what Trump said today will be more ominous because no one is challenging him.

@Nonilex I don't know much about you or your background, but your feed was recommend to me by @GottaLaff who I do know & adore. I know that posting gets to her too. I want people know that their work doesn't fall on deaf ears. I try to use what I learn here for action.
Today I have a post up at @crooksandliars about how the cuts are hurting vets & suggesting a way to share stories that can reach the left & right in media & social media so we can stop the madness.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/vets-lives-are-being-destroyed-federal

Musk & Trump will use OMB & his nominee, Russell Vought, to shut off the money to punish groups they don't like.
That includes #USAID, #LGBTQ & #Trans groups, even though Congress has approved their funding.

Here's #Vought describing to #TuckerCarlson how the Office of Management & Budget uses #OMB to "tame" the bureaucracy.

THIS is why #indivisible
@indivisibleteam suggested to people meet with Senators to block the confirmation of Vought.
#elonmusk

Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

#ElonMusk #Raskin #USAID @uspolitics
UPDATED to add subtitles & full text in ALT.
YouTube link to video at @nicolesandler page
https://youtu.be/r_l-eg8ZFm8?si=9YO1f474Iuti7537