MrsWhatever

I'm just me - wife, mom, Grandma

[Spike Brehm @spikebrehm]

they did it. the mad lads actually did it.

i never talked about my time at DOGE last year because it was so controversial and contentious (remember that?)

early last year, @jgebbia recruited a handful of his most trusted early Airbnb engineers to embed at the Office of Personnel Management to solve the "retirement paper" problem.

processing a federal retirement took months, and in the extreme retirees could wait up to 6 months for their full pension to arrive. what was the holdup? paper. remember hearing Elon talk about "the mine" in Pennsylvania? we got to visit it. in deep underground caverns blasted out of limestone, there were literally acres of file cabinets, as far as the eye could see, storing files detailing federal employees' employment and paystub history. a simple "case" might be only a quarter or half inch thick, but really complex cases filled up whole filing cabinets. one famously took up a whole pallet.

each case was hand processed by case workers in cubicles deep underground. they checked calculations, made sure forms were filled out properly (many weren't), and handled a long tail of complex issues. we'd watch as they keyed data into a black and white terminal, transmitting to the COBOL mainframe built many decades ago.

since cases were processed by hand, there were multiple rounds of human review, and additional rounds for complex cases. case files were walked around between one worker's outbox and another's inbox. sometimes it would sit in one place for days, waiting to be picked up.

to OPM's credit, they'd done multiple rounds of "digital transformation" spanning decades, so some systems were newer than others. there was a big effort in the mid-90s. but the systems were disparate, and it was a total maze getting them to talk to each other. there was a big effort to build a web app where employees applying for retirement could digitally fill out the necessary forms — just to be mailed to the mine and stuffed into the paper file. and few federal agencies were even using it.

when we arrived, OPM was midway through a fresh attempt at digital transformation, delivered by a software contractor.

the blackpill was seeing the terrible quality of the software and interacting with the contractors. coming from silicon valley, i couldn't believe how low the talent and quality bar was for selling software to the government. it's clear, as the OG USDS people explained to me a decade ago, the primary skill these vendors have is securing government contracts. it's a huge moat. delivery of quality product be damned.

we fired the vendor and took over the project. they'd been working on it for more than a year, and there was another year before they were going to deliver it. at first we tried to bend it to our will, to actually connect all the various data sources and get to a decent UX for case workers in the mine to use, but we soon realized we were going to have to rebuild the whole stack from scratch.

it was around this time I had to go back to new york — i had a new job waiting for me, a four month old, and a wife whose patience was running out. but i got to watch from afar as the team cranked day and night, hitting early milestones. and now they've fully done it.

huge congrats to Joe and the team. @yatshitcray was the hero in the trenches. indefatigable, unrelentingly optimistic, and determined to see this project through. when i recruited him for "ok i can do two, maybe three months", he stuck it out over a year making this project a reality.

while the retirement project was under the DOGE banner, it operated different from what you heard from the breathless, negative media — we came in with the attitude of partnering with career OPM employees. we were team members determined to bring our software talents to bear on the problem they've been trying to fix for years, which they hadn't had the resources to solve before. they were wary at first, not sure about us, but they quickly saw how authentic and determined we were to work together toward the same goal. props to Joe for developing those relationships, setting the example of how to collaborate together.

what's the end result? lifelong federal employees, veterans, postal carriers get their full pension installments almost immediately. days instead of months. peace of mind for these people to devoted their careers to serving our country. massively streamlined operations inside of OPM. and NO MORE PAPER 🫡🇺🇸

[MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra]

Operation Paperclip discussed today:

The CIA recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists into the U.S. government after World War II to continue their research and experimentation with MK-Ultra mind control.

This was done KNOWINGLY, in direct violation of the Nuremberg Code, and constituted crimes against humanity.

Now we are getting somewhere…

https://t.co/L0DGTIpn0o

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have just finished reading Justice Clarence Thomas's 91-page dissent in the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

It's incredible.

Here's everything you need to know: 🧵

[Paul Sperry @paulsperry_]

BREAKING: Unindicted Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood co-conspirator North American Islamic Trust, the largest custodian of US mosques, has joined forces with unindicted co-conspirator CAIR to raise $2 mil to fortify/militarize mosques and train imams to apply for federal security grants

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

100% of the Medicaid fraud companies @LukeRosiak investigated had Somali, Bhutanese, or other African origin names.

Not some. Not most. 100%.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

NO white person alive today owned slaves. Teach your kids that.

NO black person alive today was born a slave. Teach your kids that.

Not all white people owned slaves back then. Teach your kids that.

Millions of white people fought and died to end slavery. Teach your kids that.

People should not inherit guilt from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.

People should not inherit victimhood from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.

You are responsible for your own actions, not the actions of people who lived 200 years ago. Teach your kids that.

America is not perfect, but it is not uniquely evil. Teach your kids that.

The West is responsible for some of humanity's greatest advances in freedom, science, medicine, and prosperity. Teach your kids that.

Loving your country is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting secure borders is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting safe communities is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Wanting merit over quotas is not racism. Teach your kids that.

Questioning political narratives is not racism. Teach your kids that.

People should be judged by their character, not their skin color. Teach your kids that.

History should be taught honestly, not used as a weapon. Teach your kids that.

A nation that teaches its children to hate their heritage will not survive. Teach your kids that.

Your country is your home. Protecting it is not something to be ashamed of. Teach your kids that.

You do not owe an apology for being born. Teach your kids that.

Never let fear of being called names stop you from speaking the truth as you see it. Teach your kids that.

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

🚨ALERT: In a stunning declaration, Stephen Miller unveiled a plan to reform U.S. education, emphasizing teaching children to love America and be patriots, while ensuring federal funds do not support "communist ideology." This is part of Trump's agenda to counter "woke culture."

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Spain, a NATO ally defended by the U.S. and host to a major U.S. Navy base, has now denied access to U.S. Merchant Marine ships not once, not twice, but THREE times for “ideological reasons”

Maybe it’s time to ask what exactly allies are for.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

Georgia Power is trying to push a family off their farm via eminent domain for a data center:

“I'm fighting for the survival of my cattle farm. I'm here because a massive data center was approved just a couple of miles from my land — and I'm being hounded by Georgia Power for an easement to build transmission lines through my property for the data center.”

“I'm a local farmer, not an industrial developer. These 500-kV lines aren't for me. They are for the data centers that the boards and surrounding counties continue to approve. I have mail from lawyers stacking up on my kitchen table, wanting to take my case because they know my land is being targeted for eminent domain — These easements are permanent.

They affect my ability to graze my cattle, they lower my property value, and they destroy the rural character of this county forever. This board makes decisions to approve these massive, massive projects, but it's residents like me, young people trying to build a life here, who pay the price.

You're voting to turn our farms into a network of high-voltage wires and noisy industrial buildings.

I'm asking you to realize the real-world impacts of your votes. Every time you say yes to a data center, you're saying no to a local farmer. We aren't just numbers on a map. We are the future of the county, and right now you're making that future impossible.“

This project impacts more than 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and, if needed, use eminent domain.

They claim it's to strengthen the grid for Georgia's rising energy demand from new data centers. The lines are widely linked to Project Sail — a $17 billion hyperscale campus by Prologis, Atlas with 9 massive buildings totaling up to 4.34 million sq ft on 829 acres, demanding hundreds of megawatts, roughly a small city's power.

We cannot allow data centers to be prioritized over farmers.

[Cathy O'Brien @RealCathyOBrien]

After 35 years of speaking out on my experience in MK Ultra and healing from it, I have no fear and am willing to testify. National Security was invoked on my 1995 testimony for Congress due to overwhelming evidence of my White House/Pentagon level victimization.

[E M M A ✨ K A T H E R I N E @TheEmmapreneur]

⛔️ Madison Clares (Cupps) disclosed being sex trafficked to Steve Jobs on my podcast. Madison’s father is a 33rd Degree Freemason and built the world’s first online pizza delivery service called CyberSlice alongside Steve Jobs. Madison’s testimony was the original Pizzagate. And now, she’s dead in mysterious circumstances.

[Dave Hayes @praying_medic1]

🚨 BREAKING: The United States withdraws from the World Health Organization TODAY, one year after President Trump's historic executive order from the Oval Office
After 77 years, the USA is no longer a WHO member.
LET'S GO! 🔥
Thank you President Trump! 🇺🇸

[Dave Hayes @praying_medic1]

Epstein Survivor Juliette Bryant just released a message to Melania Trump:

“Hello Melania Trump. My name is Juliette Bryant. I’m an Epstein survivor. You want girls to testify under oath, well here I am testifying that everything I said is true.

[Melissa Dougherty @Meldougherty77]

There are Christians in Word of Faith and NAR spaces who believe the occult can be redeemed and used in the Church.

Once they label the practice "redeemed," then they assume any spiritual experience that follows must be from God and therefore spiritually safe. The experience is trusted before the spirit behind it is ever questioned. Especially if it's a positive outcome.

But if occultic practices can be redeemed, why does God explicitly forbid them? Why doesn't He give direction on how to redeem them? He NEVER does this. Why? Because the occult corrupts. The results *are* the deception. In Acts 19, the new converts from the occult didn't go through their magic books and try to redeem the practices.

They put them in a big pile and burned them.

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

A single accountant stole $53 million from her employer over 20 years and nobody noticed

Rita Crundwell was the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois with a population of 15,000

She opened a secret bank account called “Reserve Sewer Capital Development Account”

For two decades she transferred city funds into it while filing fake invoices

She used the money to become the most successful quarter horse breeder in America

Owned 400 horses, multiple farms, a custom bus, and a $2.1 million motorhome

She won the World Championship in quarter horse breeding four times while actively robbing a small town

Only got caught because a substitute accountant covered her desk while she was on vacation

The city had been cutting firefighter jobs and road repairs for years while this was happening

$53 million. One woman. 20 years. One vacation.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Mass calls for investigations are ramping up after nearly a DOZEN of America's top scientists either died or disappeared with few answers

The scientists happen to be tied to "critical secrets."

"This has the hallmarks of a FOREIGN OPERATION."

This is insane. 🤯

"These are some of the most advanced scientists working on our nation's most critical nation secrets."

[Defender of the Republic 🇺🇸 @realdefender45]

My stepfather was part of the Verizon layoffs several months ago after 10 years.

He’s a data scientist.
He’s applied everywhere.
He can’t find work.

He has a Master’s from Fordham University.

This is exactly the kind of person we’re told the economy is built for.
Educated. Experienced. Proven.

And yet, he’s being passed over.

While we’re told there’s a “shortage” of qualified workers.

There isn’t a shortage.
There’s a system that would rather replace Americans than invest in them.

And people like him are paying the price.

[🦅 Eagle Wings 🦅 @CRRJA5]

.@claudiatenney
🚨 Susan Rice memo exposed:
“We gotta figure out how we’re gonna get these illegal immigrants. It’s gonna be challenging to teach them how to make sure we get their votes in the belt.”

Wait… they imported 20 million people and are now teaching them how to vote Democrat?
Is this why they fought so hard for open borders?

This isn’t democracy. This is election rigging in plain sight.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.

I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.

Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.

Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.

Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.

Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.