Joe Leslie

Automotive dealership fixed operations manager. Married to the love of my life, 30 years plus. With 3 bad ass children!

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

You can use the Grok app to test your theories privately. This way you don’t have to publicly humiliate yourself

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@DNIGabbard Hey @grok, did President Trump give Fauci a prestigious medal for his service during COVID near the end of Trump’s first term?

[Jeff Charles, Asker of Questions🏴 @jeffcharlesjr]

This is far more than just a bad government decision on colorectal cancer screening.

It’s how the system actually works.

A company develops a weaker test that misses most precancerous lesions. Instead of improving the test, they push to lower the standards so Medicare will cover it anyway.

And it’s working.

When former regulators like Alex Azar end up on the boards of the companies they used to oversee, and those companies then lobby for rules that benefit their product, this is the result.

Patients don’t get better screening. They get tests that are easier to pass but worse at actually detecting cancer.

Meanwhile, the people who helped write or influence the rules stand to gain financially.

This is what happens when policy follows industry convenience instead of medical evidence. They should be raising the bar for cancer screening, not lowering it to accommodate weaker options.

If we keep letting this pattern continue, don’t act surprised when more of these decisions get made and more people die of cancer.

[Jeff Charles, Asker of Questions🏴 @jeffcharlesjr]

Former HHS Secretary Alex Azar is now on the board of Guardant Health — the company behind the Shield blood test for colorectal cancer screening.

Guardant has been pushing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to change Medicare rules in a way that makes it easier for tests like Shield to qualify for coverage.

The problem?

Shield detects only about 13% of advanced precancerous lesions. It misses the vast majority of the growths that should be caught and removed before they become cancer.

The proposed change would lower the bar by placing less emphasis on early detection and more on finding cancer after it already exists.

Now Azar stands to financially benefit if Medicare expands coverage for a substandard cancer test.

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

@OhMariWesternWX @drhenz_wx Amanda is heading west, away from us anyway

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

@jeffcharlesjr @MattH_4America Who’s Ed Gallrein?

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California just voted to pass AB 2624 aka “The Stop Nick Shirley Act”:
This bill puts journalists at civil risk for investigating fraud and makes it harder to expose fraud in “immigration support services,” including NGOs, nonprofits and health care facilities that receive hundreds of millions from the state of California each year.

This bill would have made it criminal to expose fake hospices in LA or the Somali “learing center” in Minnesota if they then claim “reasonable fear” and the business owner gives a written demand not to post the video.

Plain and simple, California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating fraud in their communities, as they could be sued for an injunction to remove the video + forced to pay their attorney fees + minimum $4,000 in damages.

The Attorney General's wife, Mia Bonta, created this bill and is now trying to make it law. How is this not a conflict of interest?

California is full of FRAUDSTERS!

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

@jeffcharlesjr @DoniTheMisfit It’s a sign

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

@jeffcharlesjr Why is no one asking about the dude who tried to breach the correspondents dinner?

[Jeff Charles, Asker of Questions🏴 @jeffcharlesjr]

Free Dexter Taylor.

[Scott Mason @hypnoksa]

If you don’t understand why the Electoral College exists, you are the reason the Electoral College exists.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

With Birthing Person's Day Over, Families Prepare For Lawnmowing Person's Day https://t.co/3pb386zLxR

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Coder Displaced By A.I. Told He Should Just 'Learn To Mine Coal' https://t.co/ljLDfLomje

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

@jeffcharlesjr @MajToure Prince is way above Michael. Hate to say, but pop is fun, but art is art.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Man, the second the money laundromat was closed in Ukraine, the Democrats never mentioned it again. I’ve never seen a noble cause abandoned so quickly.

They are such phonies.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

NOW: President Trump gets a laugh as he hosts King Charles at the White House.

"I want to congratulate Charles on having made a fantastic speech today at Congress."

"He got the Democrats to stand, I've never been able to do that."

[Joe Leslie @JoeNHavasu]

@jeffcharlesjr Change is near to impossible at the federal level for individuals. People need to start at local, city and county levels and elect, test candidates, and move them on to state and then maybe fed. Big problem is accountability

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

I always love listening to this guy.