gopherit10

Thinker and doer. Tech, music, science, religion. Moderate conservative. Family, friends, God & country. Tolerance, compassion, except blindness to truth.

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@tanpukunokami Ask Kirk Cousins where he goes to celebrate a win as the Las Vegas Raiders NFL Quarterback.

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@stats_feed $21.03

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The fact that Abdul El-Seyed’s sister was caught on camera, admitting that Abdul is lying about his positions to fool voters, is simply not getting enough attention.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

Grateful that the @FreeBeacon has exposed this. No one should be shocked by this!

🚨Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed landed a $9,000-a-month consulting contract with Wayne County just six days after launching his campaign, allowing him to bill taxpayers roughly $300 an hour while running for office, the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reports.

Public records obtained by the Free Beacon show that Wayne County approved the deal on April 23, less than three weeks after El-Sayed resigned as director of its health services department. The eight-month contract authorized up to $72,000 for 30 hours of work per month providing “strategic support” during the leadership transition.

The payments were routed through AME Higher LLC, an entity El-Sayed created as a pass-through for consulting and speaking fees. “The news comes as El-Sayed has faced questions over his use of a tax loophole to avoid payroll and income taxes on payments he received through AME Higher LLC,” Goodman writes. His latest financial disclosure shows that he paid himself a $64,000 salary from the company and took another $103,000 as a “member draw,” a common strategy for avoiding payroll taxes, accountants told the Free Beacon.

The Wayne County deal was not El-Sayed’s only consulting work during the campaign. He has also collected more than $82,000 from One Health Partners, a Chicago-area nonprofit health care company that former employees have called a “scam.” The Free Beacon reported that the company focuses on buying medical practices and “exploiting Medicare” to increase revenue. It is run by Ali Karim, one of El-Sayed’s largest campaign donors, who was sanctioned by Wisconsin regulators for defrauding an investor and has been accused of fraudulent business practices in multiple lawsuits.

El-Sayed has bragged about his two-year tenure running Wayne County’s health department on the campaign trail, claiming he “led the rebuild from the studs” of its troubled juvenile detention facility. Investigators, however, found the facility “flooded with sewage and garbage” and littered with “dried feces and bodily fluids.” The facility later lost its full operational license and was placed on probation by state regulators.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

In 2023 Delta CEO Ed Bastian said that Delta chose Viasat over Starlink for airline internet connectivity because Starlink technology wasn't ready.

Bastian: "We understand the SpaceX and Starlink technology. We've tested it. We understand it. It's not ready for primetime."

Three years and about a billion dollars later, Delta is still trying to get internet connectivity rolled out to its entire fleet.

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

Tour Tesla's Semi Factory - 36 minutes

[S.E. Robinson, Jr. @SERobinsonJr]

Want to see inside the Tesla Semi Factory?

Here is the 30 minute video of our tour hosted by Plant Manager Rob Rayl and the factory team during the Semi Rollout event!

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@SERobinsonJr Thank you for the detailed plant tour!

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@HaedonMeyer @DarkoStateNews @Corvus270 @ALknowsball6 @ProNBAtweeter45 It's that big brother syndrome. Remember Jethro Clampett on the Beverly Hillbillies?

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@MediaKing Get the tumbler...

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@cb_doge And Million/Multimillion Mile Travelers

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@michiganstateu @TheRealSparty @USATODAY #2 tries harder!

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@EricLDaugh It's always sucked. Now that everyone is so connected, the airlines and cars and trains that keep you well connected without tolling with ads and selling data will end up winning. Mobility has replaced transportation and it sounds like Delta is still back in the 90s.

[Anna Hoffman @shoesonplease]

For 2 years, I’ve been trying to explain how the entire Dem/DSA ticket corruption scandals are linked and my friend Charlie LeDuff just did it in under 2 minutes.

The hour is late, this is serious, Michigan.

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@MarchMadnessMBB @TheAndyKatz @DukeMBB #2 Tries Harder!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Six gigawatt power generation facility. Eight new large scale nuclear power plants. The crucial Alaska LNG plant.

The Dealmaker-in-Chief, President Trump, has revolutionized American energy. The Trump Administration is ushering in a new era of American energy dominance. 🇺🇸📈

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

Awesome. We got the BIGs!

[Joe Tipton @JoeTipton]

NEWS: 4⭐️ Jaydn Jenkins has committed to Michigan State, he told @Rivals.

The 6-foot-10 center is a top-60 overall recruit in the 2027 class.

https://t.co/7C3y0muvau

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

Incredible news. $200 Billion in S. Korean investment in US Energy Infrastructure! Friends making investments in our country and us!

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: "We're thrilled to announce one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in American history."

President Trump announces up to $200 BILLION in South Korean investment for major U.S. energy projects.

Trump says the plans include a six-gigawatt power generation facility in Texas, eight new large-scale nuclear power plants and the long-planned Alaska LNG project.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: "We're thrilled to announce one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in American history."

President Trump announces up to $200 BILLION in South Korean investment for major U.S. energy projects.

Trump says the plans include a six-gigawatt power generation facility in Texas, eight new large-scale nuclear power plants and the long-planned Alaska LNG project.

[gopherit10 @gopherit10]

@JustinThind Wow, could be just what we need!

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

NEW: RFK Jr. says Medicare spending on wound care patches exploded from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year: "It's all stolen."

Bad actors billed Medicare billions by slapping the most expensive skin grafts on elderly and dying patients who didn't need them.

"The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch."

"So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It's all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year."

"We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars."

In one Arizona case, the owners of two wound care companies pleaded guilty to more than $1.2 billion in fraudulent claims. Medicare paid over $1 million per patient for grafts slapped on elderly patients who didn't need them, many of them dying in hospice.

In June, DOJ charged 11 more defendants over more than $2 billion in allograft claims, including a company accused of issuing sham invoices to inflate what Medicare paid.

It feels like every week I learn a new way people were ripping off taxpayers for billions.