Stan B

CIO at VA Midwest Healthcare Network. SciFi geek, science geek, tech geek, ok...... just geek....

[Alastair McAlpine, MD @AlastairMcA30]

Musk is doing damage control.
I know a number people in SA who lost their jobs because DOGE so recklessly shuttered USAID and PEPFAR.
I know patients who needed meds and were met by a padlocked door.

He doesn’t get to walk that back.
He has blood on his hands.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

James Dorsey is 94 years old. Born on Ellerbe Plantation in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1931. He still does not have a birth certificate because the plantation never recorded his existence. The effects of slavery did not end with emancipation. They followed our people into the most basic records of identity. This is NOT ancient history.

[Maksym Borodin @adnashmyash]

Just imagine if McCain came back to life today and found out that his daughter was protecting an outright traitor-cultist working for Russia...

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself”

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

Zoom in on Vance's laptop. Specifically the CAC (the card). That's not Vance on the picture.

The government posted this as a sign of people working hard to find a solution to an international conflict. Meanwhile, every person who understands security protocols sees an ISSO using a fraudulent credential, breaking IA-2 ID and the non-repudiation arm of the triangle and contaminating any audits.

What I see are clear violations of SAAR/AUP and 8520.02.

Clown administration.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The maximum amount a person can donate to a candidate is $3500.

Miriam Adelson just donated another $25 million.

Citizens United didn’t give corporations “free speech.”

It let billionaires buy elections and legally bribe politicians.

End Citizens United.

[Rep. James Walkinshaw @Rep_Walkinshaw]

President Trump fired 19 inspectors general whose job was to root out waste, fraud, and abuse. At the same time, he’s pardoned convicted fraudsters. 

Why does this administration keep protecting criminals instead of protecting you?

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

🚨🚨🚨A standing ovation for the Washington Post, @wapo . 👏👏👏

You spent a full year investigating whether America's Director of National Intelligence, the woman with access to every classified secret this country has, was being directed by a cult leader who got busted for pyramid schemes in multiple countries.

And you held it until she resigned?

This same cult leader, Chris Butler, has his sect directly tied to QI Group (QNET), a Hong Kong-based company with operations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

So the real question: Which countries now have access to our national intelligence? Which of our spy names are compromised?

And let's not forget, this is the same Tulsi Gabbard who used her position to do a coordinated hit job on Dr. Fauci, a man who spent his entire life saving Americans.

Imagine if this story dropped while she still had her hands on our nation's secrets.

Our press and mainstream media are failing us at every level.

https://t.co/XHlqQZnSNx

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

The deeper story isn't Jim Jordan.

It's the deportation-industrial complex.

A major ICE contractor allegedly routed $250,000 to a Jordan-aligned super PAC. Whether this specific contribution is ultimately ruled legal or illegal is almost beside the point.

Look at the incentive loop:

→ Congress expands detention funding.
→ Private prison companies win larger contracts.
→ Those contracts generate profits.
→ Profits fund political spending.
→ Political spending helps elect politicians who promise even more detention.

Then the cycle repeats.

GEO Group and its subsidiaries have spent years testing the limits of federal contractor donation rules while collecting hundreds of millions in ICE-related contracts.

Watchdogs have repeatedly filed complaints.

The FEC has repeatedly deadlocked.

The money keeps flowing.

The real question isn't whether one check bought one vote.

The real question is whether we've built a system where detention has become an economic development strategy.

More detention.
More contracts.
More profits.
More political money.

At some point, "public policy" starts looking suspiciously like a revenue model.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

Obviously I'm a little biased since I edited this thing but that a story about a killed criminal investigation into a sitting senator wasn't picked up, followed & pushed forward by major outlets is an excellent & sorry illustration of our broken information environment.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Giving the mother of your child an NDA where she isn’t allowed to ever criticize you is the most insecure narcissist moment ever

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Blistering court filing from plaintiffs challenging Trump's name change of Kennedy Center

About the tarp hiding restored signage:

"Willfully sabotaging the Kennedy Center’s iconic façade to assuage defendants’ vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty"

[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

We don't allow banks to call themselves the U.S. Treasury Investment Fund. We don't allow delivery companies to call themselves USPS Plus. So why allow health insurance companies to call private insurance Medicare Advantage? My bill with @repkhanna and @janschakowsky, the Save Medicare Act, would fix this.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

They’ve arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool than they’ve arrested from the Epstein files.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A federal judge has ordered the restoration of historical materials that were removed from national parks and historical sites across this country. These are not just signs and exhibits. These are the stories of enslaved people, civil rights leaders, indigenous communities, women who fought for suffrage, and immigrants who helped build this nation. Even with this ruling, the effort to erase our history continues. We will not look away and we will not back down.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely. 

This is the Justice Department intervening on behalf of a polluter, against the people breathing the air it’s polluting. 

That’s not protecting national security. That’s protecting Elon Musk. 

Elon Musk just became a trillionaire. The community next to his data center is breathing smog-forming nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde. 
 https://t.co/WUnVaV6yfX

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨THIS IS GROSS!

The “Save Our Bacon Act” would allow corporations to pack PIGS in conditions so tight and disgusting, they can’t turn around.

It also PREVENTS states from increasing food standards!

The Senate could act in weeks. A petition for Big Ag to BACK OFF is now viral:

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

How is it possible that this document has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world on the internet but a senior senator on the Intel Committee hasn’t?

[Stan B @xstanbx]

@christinaadoyle @lrozen Ahhhh didn’t realize that… fair point….