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@XrayDFS @mfcannon @UALawSchool 50% of docs graduated in the bottom half of their medical school class. Perhaps they should post their class ranking on the diplomas they hang in their offices?

@mfcannon @UALawSchool As long as the NPs explain their “training” to patients.

MDs want government-imposed barriers to entry for their less-trained competitors, in this case a ban on NP independent practice. That deregulation harms patients is the *strongest* argument MDs have. The @UALawSchool study steelmans and demolishes that argument.

@RealbitcoinMD @mfcannon @UALawSchool So does that mean an Orthopedist setting and casting a simple fracture should get paid more than an FP doing same because the Ortho has more training?

If you would like healthcare to be similar to a hair salon, that would be great. The master stylist would make the most money because they have the most training and experience. If you go to the apprentice or someone with less training, then you will have cheaper care, but potentially less quality. I work with fantastic nurse practitioners, but there is a huge disparity in education amongst them. Please review Bloombergs expose last year. Many of them are very poorly trained by no fault of their own but by the scheming nurse practitioner schools which do not standardize their clinical rotations. They are very inexperienced when they start and do not go through a formal residency. I’m all for free markets, and for lower level problems this structure is great. But just don’t think it is all the same

@Leah742 @cb_doge Why are you affraid of people succeeding based solely on their skill or ability? Giving one group of people an advantage due to immutable charactistics, discriminates against those who do not possess those characteristics. A level playing field will yield diverse winners.

Why does DEI scare maga so much? It helps us all, including the uneducated maga. I dont get why grown men are this scared of diversity. It tells me how embarrassing maga men are to the country and the world, and elon is trying to scare them into hating people. Elon is a South African immigrant, and stupid maga eats this up like the idiots they are. Elon knows how easy it is to indoctrinate and instill fear into the dumb. Maga is so embarrassing!

David Rubin served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022. In 2020, under his leadership, the Academy launched the “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for Best Picture eligibility. These rules, still in effect, require films to meet at least 2 of 4 diversity criteria involving race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in on-screen roles, creative leadership, or crew. Rubin publicly backed the changes and helped appoint the task force co-led by producer DeVon Franklin. He shifted the Oscars from “best movie wins” to race/gender engineering. A film can now be ineligible for the top prize purely for failing demographic quotas, regardless of quality or audience impact. Instead of focusing purely on talent and storytelling, the Academy under Rubin institutionalized identity preferences. Oscars prestige and viewership have tanked. Many see it as performative politics over art. Classics with non-diverse casts would be disqualified. He helped install the DEI machinery that turned awards into checkboxes and accelerated Hollywood’s quality decline.

@Billy_Rock_ @mazemoore Several years ago a close friend said his hospital CEO was excited to get a great deal on surgical gloves from a SE Asia based Co. When they arrived they discovered they were too small for most staff. M/F Asian hands are typically smaller than American/European hands. Ooops.

@mazemoore They were undersized, uncomfortable and had a chemical smell too. Glad to see someone else is highlighting this.

April, 2020. Gavin Newsom gives a no bid, billion dollar contract to a Chinese electric vehicle company to manufacture and deliver face masks to California. When speaking about the deal, Newsom would regularly try to mislead people into thinking the masks were being manufactured in America. "Through a consortia of nonprofits and a manufacturer here in California." In this video, Rachel Maddow accidentally calls him out. The company that Newsom gave the contract to had never made any masks or PPE equipment before. BYD is a Chinese based company and the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the world. The company is notorious for producing low quality products. Due to its reputation for faulty products, close ties to the CCP and possible ties to forced labor, the first Trump Admin barred BYD from bidding on federal contracts. In 2023 Newsom visited BYD headquarters in China and advocated for their vehicles to be sold America. It's fair to think that Newsom and BYD have something going on behind the scenes. Shamelessly, Newsom recently criticized Trump and Elon for ceding space in the EV market to China, even though he's been the one advocating for China to be able to sell more vehicles in America.

@monkeyina83425 @HansMahncke Its one thing to believe something is true, its another to prove it in a court of law. We may believe something is true, but a judge would rule is "hearsay" and thus inadmissible. There must also be "intent". Comey is incompetent but may have plausible deniability on intent.

@HansMahncke Why has no one been prosecuted? The GOP and Trump admin haven't even bothered investigating this aggressively, much less done anything. It's shocking.

On December 20, 2016, the FBI found out that the supposed super source behind the fraudulent Steele dossier, the man portrayed as having access to Putin’s innermost secrets, was in fact a total nobody who had interned at the Brookings Institution. When questioned, the supposed super source told the FBI that the dossier was just bar talk. Despite this, Comey proceeded as though it were real, taking it to the FISA court and briefing Congress on the lies, all while pretending he didn’t know it was made up. Worst of all, he also briefed President Trump, then leaked the fact that he had briefed President Trump, thereby laundering those lies into a full scale investigative and media operation that drove a multi year lawfare campaign against a sitting president and those around him. So when Comey now adopts a sanctimonious tone about the FBI being “under siege,” it lands with a particular irony. He is the one who turned the FBI into the siege engine.

@shipwreckedcrew @RonColeman Investigation of allegations of fraud involving mail or drop box voting are a joke. Review generally involves a recount of votes. There is little to no ability to investigate, in the time frame required, if the person who voted by mail or drop box is the actual registered voter

Let me posit this for you to consider: Was the outcome of the election truly known and without controversy in the first 7-10 days given the never-before-employed use of mail-in ballots on the scale they were used? Set aside for a moment the fact that Pres. Trump was a candidate, did he not still have the responsibility to see that the laws were faithfully executed, including all election laws? From that perspective, while the outcome was still the subject of controversy, was his advocacy for further examination of the vote result -- both the casting and count of the votes -- a legitimate exercise of that responsibility on behalf of the voters who were being told they were on the losing end of the outcome while at the same they were watching those who claimed to be on the winning side rush to shut off every avenue of inquiry? How is that "stealing an election"?

@BlueAlaska4 @mtgreenee The money loans went to employers to enable companies to keep people employed who might otherwise been let go due to COVID. Forgiving the loan was predicated on the company retaining employees during the pandemic. If the COMPANY did that, the COMPANY met their obligation.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of over $180,000 for her business, Taylor Commercial, Inc., forgiven. The loan, totaling approximately $182,300 to $183,504 including interest, was intended to cover payroll during the COVID-19 pandemic and was officially forgiven by the Small Business Administration. Americans footed this. I received $145.00 that I didn't ask for. She has no defense for this because she had plenty of money of her own.

Today’s low information lie is brought to you by Dana Loesch. It’s called construction Dana, ever heard of it? I’m part owner in my family construction company, the same company my father started, the company that has put a roof over my head and food on my table MY ENTIRE LIFE. Contrary to widespread internet lore, I was successful well before Congress so much so I was able to loan my first campaign over $1 million dollars to run for congress in 2020 and had to because Dana Loesch’s favorite Republicans and AIPAC did not like me. I was so offended by the gov debt and always said if I ran my business the way they run the government that I would be out of business and my family would be homeless. And that statement is so true that I hold one of the most conservative voting records in Congress voting NO to things like funding Israel and foreign wars and bloated bureaucratic waste, while my family’s construction business continued to serve our customers. I will not be shamed for achieving the American dream and I’m incredibly thankful to have lived it!!! Add Dana Loesch to the list of people who parrots Con Incs lies, pathetic.

@BulwarkOnline @Comey Sure, Jimbo, you only had a few drinks but slept through agents banging on door, entering room to check in your welfare. Sounds plausible. Curious, how did agents know you were alive and sleeping soundly vs incapacitated? Took your wife's word for it?

“The FBI director gets no vacation...you’re on all the time. And so, I could never be intoxicated.” @Comey on reports of Kash Patel drinking on the job and agents being unable to reach him, and recalling the time agents stormed his room when an emergency button was triggered.

@Suzi_Cats @MikeLevin @CarrollDay Yeah, cause there aren't similar experts at DOD, DOE, CIA, DIA, etc.

@MikeLevin @CarrollDay The consequences of Elons child IT staff, of DOGE? Destruction of Government Employees, is what it seemed. These vital positions were axed. Although, it was obvious of Irans capability to cut off shipments of oil? Why, these important positions were in place to avoid this BS!😠

Just another reminder that six months before this administration started bombing Iran, the State Department fired its oil and gas experts as part of the DOGE cuts. The staff who modeled what happens if the Strait of Hormuz closes were laid off. So were the experts with direct lines to oil and gas companies across the Middle East. The sole staffer tracking sanctioned oil tankers was let go. So was the person who helped coordinate strategic petroleum reserve releases during exactly this kind of crisis. This is what happens when you fire the experts and then start a war. notus.org/trump-white-ho…

@MikeLevin Pretty sure the scenario that is unfolding was "war gamed" (modeled) by DOD/W. You think there aren't similar experts at DOD, CIA, DOE, DIA that also do this work? The ONLY experts in the entire government to do this work are at State? How naive are you?

@MarsyZepata @kilmaofbortyt @RoKhanna Sadly, there are people who probably believe that. A very, very small group, but they do exist.

@bfine56 @kilmaofbortyt @RoKhanna lol well I figured the concept of putting blacks in concentration ghettos would tip you off but that’s the internet

South Carolina, where the first shot of the civil war was fired, where 40 percent of those enslaved came through the Charleston port, is today engaged in an ugly recidivism to draw maps that will deny a Black person the chance to serve in Congress. The stakes could not be higher. Our political fight is not on a playground, but a moral battleground. We must stand for Black representation across the South.

@grok @JudyPatriot76 @BillMelugin_ @FoxNews And, Faucci already got a pre-emptive Pardon from Sleepy Joe's autopen. So I suspect expiration of statute of limitations is not relevant.

Rand Paul has investigated COVID origins, gain-of-function research, and Fauci's 2021 testimony since at least that year, with multiple hearings, referrals for lying to Congress, and subpoenas. The 5-year statute of limitations on the specific perjury referral from May 11, 2021, expired May 11, 2026. This hearing uses a CIA whistleblower to highlight the alleged lab-leak cover-up and agency issues, continuing oversight beyond any one prosecution.

BREAKING: CIA statement to @FoxNews on the active CIA employee testifying in the Senate Homeland Security Committee this AM on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic & a possible government coverup. “The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed-door testimony from the individual previously. The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul. This proceeding amounts to nothing more than dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. As the CIA has already assessed, COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous.” – Liz Lyons, CIA Director of Public Affairs

@MarsyZepata @kilmaofbortyt @RoKhanna Unfortunately, your tongue was buried so deeply in your cheek, it was difficult to see. I THOUGHT that might be your point but admittedly, your irony was missed. Had you put the word "not" at the end of you original post, much angst could have been avoided.

@kilmaofbortyt @RoKhanna I’m make fun of Ro Khanna. I also don’t believe in rounding up all the blacks and putting them in isolated congressional ghettos

@LawrenceForbe16 @jonathanvswan @JessicaTarlov But you miss MY point. Is the IRGC capable of inflicting the damage you suggest? Saying a missle or launcher is accessible - which is what they say - does not mean they are operational. A plane may be operationally accessible but if there's no jet fuel, it is worthless.

@bfine56 @jonathanvswan @JessicaTarlov You kinda miss the point. We can certainly bomb more and take out more n more missiles. BUT...Iran can keep shooting at Gulf oil sites and we get 6$ gas or 7. We get recession?Or if we put in ground forces , it takes a year and we get more casualties, and we use up OUR missiles

New: Classified military intelligence assessments from early this month show Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, launchers and underground facilities. Including: U.S. intel assesses Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait of Hormuz, and ~90% of Iran's underground missile sites are "partially or fully operational." w @Adamentous @maggieNYT nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/…

@MJTruthUltra @RealDeanCain Van Hollen is gonna say that the bar bill was not at taxpayer's expense cause it was paid by his campaign.

@sally_12grands @micyoung75 Under VRA, DOJ required states to create, to the maximum extent possible, "minority majority" Districts. This, they argued, would increase the number of Black Representatives (and more Ds). Basically racial gerrymandering. SCOTUS now says racial gerrymandering is wrong.

@micyoung75 If voter turnout out is huge, Democrats will win, right? What difference does a map make? Sorry, I don’t get how drawing a map can decrease votes of any kind if people still vote in mega-numbers. Am I stupid?

The Guardian piece is worth reading carefully because the evidentiary structure it documents is specific. Alito's majority opinion gutting the VRA rested on a particular factual claim: Black voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout in two of the last five presidential elections, both nationally and in Louisiana. That claim was copied almost verbatim from a DOJ amicus brief. The DOJ calculated turnout as a proportion of total voting age population - which includes non-citizens, people with felony convictions, and others who cannot legally vote. The widely accepted methodology uses citizen voting age population, which excludes ineligible voters. Using that method, The Guardian found Black turnout in Louisiana exceeded white turnout in only one of the last five elections - not two. Using Louisiana's own secretary of state data, Black turnout has not exceeded white turnout in any of the last five elections. The DOJ was asked why it used the inferior methodology. It acknowledged using total VAP. It did not answer the question about why. Michael McDonald, one of the nation's leading voter turnout experts: "If I wanted to manipulate the numbers in a way that was favorable to the government's interest, I would be using voting age population." He added: "Someone knew what they were doing." The racial turnout gap has "exploded" over the last 15 years. The 2013 Shelby County ruling directly increased that gap. The Court's prior decision suppressed Black voter turnout. The new ruling cited the resulting lower turnout as evidence protection was no longer needed.

@nedryun Agree. I really like him. Read his books. Very smart and willing to challenge bureaucracy and status quo.

Smartest guy at FDA and HHS. Shame it couldn’t be long term.

@Kathy4Truth @Scoutfire71 MA GOP Senator Ed Brooke, 1st AA popularly elected to Senate was asked how he got elected in a state that was overwhelmingly D, white and Catholic and he was none of those. He said I asked them to vote for me for what I stood for, not my party, skin color or religion.keep fightin

To be honest, I don't know if it's *just* about color. It could just be about them wanting those who they can control. Or it could be classism. Or maybe I'm too conservative. Or maybe he's this or maybe she's that. It could be a number of reasons. Who knows? However, from simple observation there does seem to be a pretty consistent denominator. And although I don't care about color and you don't care about color, we would be naive to believe all people think as we do.

GOP: “We LOVE Black conservatives!” Translation: Love y’all as props & soundbites. Just don’t try to get any *real* power. Ask me how I know: It wasn't Democrats who lied on me and manipulated our voters when I ran against Dr. Oz. It was Republicans. They fear anything they can't control.

@briantylercohen Hey Bri, it wasnt a "small technical" issue. The Dems completely disregarded the longstanding process for amending the State Constitution. THAT is why the vote to amend the Constitution was invalidated. They violated both the letter AND the spirit of the Constitutional process.

Virginia is "a wakeup call to Democrats across the country - in NJ, NY, MD, IL, OR, WA, CO - this is the time to start fighting back... Republicans don't believe that Democrats have the right to exist as a party. If we don't start fighting back as a party, we're going to good government ourselves into obscurity." h/t @Elex_Michaelson @CNNTheStoryIs