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.
https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/palestinian-columbia-activist-detained-ice-sent-louisiana-over
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-wont-say-whether-its-facilitating-return-of-maryland-man-from-el-salvador-prison
https://truthout.org/articles/pressley-tuftss-ozturk-is-a-political-prisoner-who-was-kidnapped-by-ice/
In the context of ICE kicking in your door you absolutely are going to be disappeared, this is how it begins. It’s cool that you’re not in any danger but don’t presume what other people are doing or the threats they face.
I tell people as of ten as I can, now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.’
Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Get a gun (or two) and learn how to use them, things are likely to get very bad over the next decade. If they don’t at least you got to know your neighbors and learned how to repair a brushless motor (for example.)