A senior executive at the Social Security Administration was physically dragged from his office this week after clashing with DOGE, according to The Washington Post.
Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services, three people told the Post.
The scheme cooked up by Elon Musk’s DOGE squad falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”
Being entered into the death database cuts a person off from crucial financial services, like the ability to receive government benefits and access a bank account or credit card.
No, it’s hard to train yourself for the unknown. I’m great in a crisis at work since I know things and have experience, and it’s actually where I’ve seen it in action. Coworkers without that expertise standing wondering what to do, they just need a direction and things get done. But could I do the same in a medical situation or a disaster, or in this case a political upheaval? I like to think so, but I don’t know.
You can’t train for the unknown, but you can give yourself the ability to organize and plan your way out of difficult situations by setting clearly definable and attainable goals.
Yes, and for generally anything this is a good idea. From fire drills to bad weather plans (mass shootings in the US, yay), know what to do and where to go. It’s just a bit surreal that we’re now having to talk about doing the same thing for government suppression acts and civil disturbance. But it’s here, apparently.
You know sometimes I forget that not everyone has hyper vigilance from PTSD