@JohnJHarwood These morons still don’t know the difference between Medicaid (health insurance) and public assistance. Medicaid subsidizes or provides payments to health care providers, it does not give “free money” to people.
@AC360 Millions and billions of dollars are flowing in and out of the WH and there’s no oversight of where it’s coming from or where it’s going. Where are the controls for this corrupt administration?!? 💸💸
Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀
The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.
Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.
Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.
Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.
Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.
Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.
Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.
@HunterBiden Having family living on Owasco, I’m very familiar with the area but never knew your family connection to Auburn. Very cool!
Skaneateles (aka Skinny-Atlas lol) is a beautiful little town too ⛵️
Your immune system sends out cells every day to hunt and destroy cancer growing in your body. One night of sleeping four hours cuts their ability to fight by 70%. Every night you shave hours off your sleep to get more done, the cancer cells get a head start. The WHO classified disrupted sleep as a probable cause of cancer in 2007.
While you sleep, your brain runs a cleaning system that barely functions when you're awake. It flushes out the same protein that builds up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that protein is 5% higher in your brain after just one missed night. Even a full night's sleep afterward doesn't fully clear what built up.
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon and UCSF monitored 164 healthy adults' sleep, then put live cold virus directly into their noses. People sleeping under six hours got infected 4.2 times more often. Under five hours: 4.5 times. Wash your hands if you want.
Across 474,000 people, researchers found sleeping six hours or less per night is linked to a 48% higher risk of developing or dying from heart disease. Separately, researchers had healthy men in their 20s sleep five hours a night for one week. Their testosterone fell to the level of men 10 to 15 years older, and their bodies were processing sugar the way someone with early diabetes does.
A 25-year study tracked 7,959 government workers across the UK. People who consistently slept six hours or less at age 50 were 30% more likely to develop dementia later in life.
One in three American adults sleeps under seven hours per night. That is roughly 100 million people carrying every one of those risks, every single night. They are not gaining time. They are spending biology they will not get back.
Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher at UC Berkeley who has spent decades studying this, says every major disease that kills people in wealthy countries is directly linked to insufficient sleep. Americans now sleep a full hour less per night than they did in 1942.
Trump cant allow anyone in the Epstein files to be charged because his name would come up in their trial.
The ENTIRE Republican party is protecting Trump & the Epstein Elite.