I keep getting calls from various numbers claiming to be the Social Security Administration saying that legal action will be taken against me, including threatening possible arrest, if I don't call them back.

It's pretty clear this is a scam because the numbers lead nowhere and the messages sound like automated bots.

Has anyone else encountered this?

While the Russiagate stuff was always absurd, allegations of corruption and fraud against Trump are entirely believable. Remember that this is the guy who founded Trump University.

Say what you want about the New York Times, but this one is important. The Capitalist Party of the United States is proposing yet another attack on people with disabilities:

So, I recently took up blacksmithing. Specifically, I began forging metal into functional tools, and hope to eventually do art in the medium. Now, I am by no means an expert, and this is a craft that stretches back to the bronze age, and so it is amazing to think how little thought of it is in this day and age. First off, some appropriate music for a last stand in a righteous cause.

If you smile at me, I will understand. It's something everybody everywhere does in the same language.

From CSN&Y 'Wooden Ships'

THOSE OF US

who used to play on a Certain Other Blog have grown accustomed to reading reams of what I now refer to as "Moulitsian Triple-Speak": lip service to progressive ideals used as a light coating over a heavy core of true loyalty to the Koch brothers and the billionaire class.

Please permit your humble scribe to submit the following article for your consideration. It appeared on the vox.com website, of which Markos Moulitsas is a founder. As I noted in this Comment, it may as well have been written by Markos himself.

The article: Medicare for all: company health insurance at risk under single payer