Reposted by Farrell01Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐 768158315905
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 02/08/2026In 1985 in a Vancouver airport, a man Karen-ed the employee at a check-in counter until she agreed to defy policy & check his baggage through despite him not being confirmed. He didn't board, the bag was a bomb, it killed 329 people. But "the customer is always right" survived. 000
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Call centers can no longer call field offices via admin lines. It seems very much like a deliberate rupturing of communication between the moving parts of the agency. 000
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This week, with no notice or explanation, attorneys can no longer call Social Security Administration field offices. They are being shunted to the call centers, who can't talk to them if it's been more than 60 days since a case has been decided. cc: @kathleenromig.bsky.social 110
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 01/08/2026They should prob also ask about disruptions to teleservice. Attorneys can no longer call field offices; they're getting shunted to the call centers, who can't help them. The call centers can no longer call the field offices via the admin lines. All changes made with no warning & no explanation. 000
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Address & direct deposit changes called into the teleservice centers, for example, don't process for 60 days. If beneficiaries want their benefits to continue seamlessly, they have to have crystal balls in order to know the future two months in advance. 010
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The Social Security Administration has announced that their employees agency-wide will no longer have advance leave of any kind, sick or annual. They already took away working credit, which enabled employees to earn extra leave. @kathleenromig.bsky.social 022
Reposted by Farrell01Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I have special disdain for the anti inmigrant immigrants. 985222344468
Reposted by Farrell01leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient. 1048287008160
Reposted by Farrell01M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Fix This First,Then We Celebrate... 34690212690
Reposted by Farrell01P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Happy Juneteenth 2590163
Reposted by Farrell01Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Snaps to whoever is running social media at HelloFresh 16812
Reposted by Farrell01TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026#MorningVibe Monroviaboy (IG) had me teary with this one. This is “heavy foot,” — a song for these times. Stay vigilant, stay together. 27702303
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I don't know if anyone's already said, but pick out an item now that smells of her & tuck it away. You're going to want it later. 011
Reposted by Farrell01Beth 💙 @peaceandpurpose.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It’s a mood😉 #vote #pinks #bluecrew #proudblue 614059
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Apropos of nothing, have you heard anything about what's prompting SSA to do new background checks on teleservice center employees? 000
Reposted by Farrell01Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 12/04/2026It took Ireland (minus their government) four days to get on the same page. Tomorrow is a country wide protest. I hope America takes a hintbbc.comIreland fuel protests: Government prepares support deal after blockade pressureTravel across parts of the Republic of Ireland was affected for the fourth day in a row as vehicles, including tractors, blocked roads. 3386
Reposted by Farrell01Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/04/202685 year old Joan Baez and Jesse Welles at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, CA, March 21, 2026 TT: jessewelles 1044408958
Reposted by Farrell01Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Marvin Gaye's isolated vocals from "I Heard it Through the Grapevine": 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s... 2103079621
Reposted by Farrell01Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed. 7151301351
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Except in some cases, where the field office can call the person &, you guessed it, *handle the matter over the phone*. From one phone call pre-Trump to circumnavigating the globe. Such efficiency! 000
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Per my spouse, an SSA teleservice rep in Alabama, wait times are currently upwards of two hours. Then he has to tell many callers that their matter must be handled in a field office...& the soonest appointment is in two months. 100
Reposted by Farrell01Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I thought it was odd last year that SSA’s watchdog didn’t directly get at total phone wait times at SSA. Turns out a draft had that info, but it was taken out, per @merylkornfield.bsky.social, who writes that the OIG is trying to maintain a good relationship with the head of SSA. 31913
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This week, the #SocialSecurityAdministration has said employees can't telework bc the public benefits from hands-on, in-person contact AND there's no reason work from one field office can't be shopped out to offices across the country. SSA truly is ASS-backwards. cc: @kathleenromig.bsky.social 110
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 11/03/2026@kathleenromig.bsky.social My SSA TSC spouse just got this message from AFGE. Seeing as he commutes an hour each way & gas getting more expensive by the hour, it'd be great if this holds up. 010
Reposted by Farrell01Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Midway through Fahrenheit 451, we learn that the U. S. government has launched a series of unprovoked wars against smaller countries, just because it can, while the population is so hypnotized by amusements & devices that hardly anyone knows the wars are taking place. 2318109
Reposted by Farrell01Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Great new article on our report on barriers to access in Social Security disability programs. Read all the way to the end. The closing quote from @ksavin.bsky.social is a banger. 12716
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Field offices are having to take teleservice center calls. It's wild. 010
Reposted by Farrell01Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Social Security Admin staff are being verbally instructed to share information about in-person appointments with ICE, contradicting SSA's written policy and decades of precedent. Worse, recent policy changes are forcing millions more noncitizens to visit SSA offices. www.wired.com/story/social...wired.comSocial Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICEThe recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions. 23820
Reposted by Farrell01Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Notably, Puerto Rico doesn't have Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for low-income elderly and disabled people like those of us who live on the mainland, but instead has a much, much stingier program. www.cbpp.org/research/aid... 165
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 06/02/2026At the same time, they are curtailing what the teleservice representatives are allowed to do for people who call. The Birmingham AL TSC was told just today that, when doing call-backs, they can't proceed with any call screened by Google Assist. Meaning that customer now has to call back & be on hold 000
Reposted by Farrell01Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 20/01/2026As we mark one year of the second Trump Administration, this deeply reported story on the chaos they wrought at the Social Security Administration is well worth your time. 🧵 wapo.st/4qVjA04wapo.stHow Social Security has gotten worse under TrumpCustomer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show. 26431
Reposted by Farrell01Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026This broke me this morning. Thank you @jasmineforus.bsky.social for your deep empathy and courageous words. 19319
Reposted by Farrell01Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/01/2026In functioning democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure. 8794154
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Yup, I typed faster than my brain runs. I was referring to the rep payees with low computer literacy. I'll yeet my comment. Thanks for catching that. 000
Reposted by Farrell01Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 03/01/2026You're calling your reps, I'll be calling the Jezebel witches. We are not the same. 224128
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Get some rest. Me & mine will be thinking of you & yours. 010
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 10/12/2025First, you break the thing. Tell the people, "Oh, no! It broke! How on earth did that happen? Don't worry, we know a guy." And that's how you privatize a federal system. 000
Reposted by Farrell01Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comFDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety StudyThe Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,... 12942544
Reposted by Farrell01Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/12/2025“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read. 3332481274
Reposted by Farrell01Kathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Savoring this update on a battle that we worked so hard to win. It means dignity—not destitution—for up to 1.5 million older workers who become disabled & for their families, too. Keep hoping, keep fighting, and celebrate every victory. 🎉 www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a... 1287
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 14/11/2025And an amendment to prevent shutdowns. It's a Reagan era tactic that serves no purpose. Failure to pass a budget should trigger an election, not a hostage negotiation. 140
Reposted by Farrell01Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇 211282354
Farrell01 @farrell01.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Can we talk about the $30 million earmarked for utilities work at the Capitol building? Social Security employees may or may not get paid come February, but by god, that thermostat better work. Can't have our politicians get chilly. 000
Reposted by Farrell01Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 05/11/2025you're gonna be in a wheelchair a helluva a lot sooner than you'll be in a luxury yacht. talk about accessibility *NOW* 7696131