The Social Security Administration is cutting staff from its communications office, and will rely on social media posts instead of press releases to update the media and the public.

Social Security Commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis told employees in a call Thursday that regional offices will no longer issue press releases or letters. Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public.

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Is there not some kind of law regarding general access to government notices? I shouldn’t have to sign up for a private website to keep up with public services.

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How dare you question? Off to El Salvador.

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Understandable, I’ve never said thank you even once.

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Probably not even wearing a suit smh

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Is there not some kind of law

Maybe. But nobody’s willing to enforce it anyway.

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Purely hypothetically if musk were to become president would x then become a public website

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LOL no, America doesn’t nationalize private holdings. Presidents would (normally) have to divest themselves from the company at least, but trump has set a new precedent there too so who knows if future presidents will adhere.

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Everyone involved in this decision should be shot.

What happened to all the republicans crying about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers”? Oh right, they’re hypocritical little shits that should be in the ground.

So tired of everything trash because like a third of the country has less emotional maturity than a toddler.

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Republicans pick winners and losers in their misanthropic hierarchy. Now they own the government, so the government is them.

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Because X is definitely the right place for that, and something older generations will have access to and know how to use…

Can we stop this timeline now?

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Yeah… This is literally designed to hurt people and help Twitter. Some of my older family members don’t even have a smart phone. And if they do the only social media they use is Facebook.

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Ishamael tried. If it weren’t for that bastard Lews Therin, maybe we would have some peace.

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Don’t ever see a whole lot of casual WoT references lol

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After 20 years of nobody having heard of my favorite, entirely too long to recommend, book series, I am an absolute shill for the show. (Without the “smart enough to get paid for it” part.) 😆

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That needs to be illegal immediately

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snap "it’s illegal. "

-But… But nothing changed?

Since when has the Trump administration cared about following the law or had any consequences for breaking them?

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Elon’s wet fucking dream

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Nazi government uses Nazi platform. We did see this coming.

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