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@#30 ... El-sayed calling himself a physician WHILE UNDER OATH IN HOUSE TESTIMONY... having no residency OR license..... ...

Is Abdul El-Sayed a doctor? Fact-checking Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race
politifact.com

... If your time is short

Abdul El-Sayed has a doctor of medicine degree, commonly known as MD, from Columbia University in New York and a doctorate in public health from Oxford University in England.

He did not do a residency after medical school, which is typically the next step in becoming a practicing physician, instead focusing on a career in public health. He's never been licensed to practice medicine or treat patients.

Michigan law and federal law define a physician as someone licensed to practice. But major medical professional organizations don't have that requirement.
...



@#31 ... Michigan senator Elissa Slotkin tells reporter that she wants maga prosecuted to discourage young conservatives to become politically involved... ...

What she did say was ...

Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin
nypost.com

... "I want young people coming out of school to say, Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,'" Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral.

"I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that,'" the senator went on. "I want that deterrence message sent." ...


So she seems to want the message sent that working within the Trump admin may expose yourself to problems down the road.

She seems to be quite correct in that assessment.


@#3

This?

Russian GRU Offered $200K Bounties' for Every Dead American: Report (2025)
www.newsweek.com

... Russia reportedly paid fighters linked to the Taliban $200,000 for every Western coalition soldier they killed in Afghanistan.

An investigation by the independent Russian news outlet The Insider and German newspaper Der Spiegel sheds light on alleged collaboration between Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, and the Taliban.

American soldiers, as well as troops from coalition and Afghan military forces, were also targeted, the investigation said. ...



@#10 ... What's fascist is giving pardons to terrorists because their terrorism was in an effort to help you steal an election. ...

A lot about those pardons indicates a level of fascism in the White House's Oval Office.

Pres Trump seems to have said and, time and time again, shown his willingness to say, if you support me (and/or give me money) I will give you a pardon in return.

For starters, just look at his sweeping pardon for all the J6 rioters, including those who assaulted law enforcement officers.

Trump offers long-promised pardons to some 1,500 January 6 rioters (January 20, 2025)
www.npr.org

... President Trump issued pardons for some 1,500 defendants who participated in the siege on the U.S. Capitol four years ago, including the leader of a far-right group, fulfilling a campaign promise to exercise executive clemency on behalf of people he's called "patriots" and "hostages."

"We hope they come out tonight," he said in a signing ceremony at the Oval Office on Monday evening.

The order would grant "a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021." That means a pardon for Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman, who had been sentenced to 22 years in the federal penitentiary.

The proclamation posted on the White House website also included commutations for 14 people, including Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers group. The move paves the way for the release of Rhodes and Tarrio, who were both convicted of the rarely used charge of seditious conspiracy.

Trump also directed the Justice Department to dismiss scores of pending cases that stem from the attack on the Capitol.

Rhodes had been sentenced to spend 18 years in prison after a judge said he presented "an ongoing threat and peril to this country ... and to the very fabric of our democracy." ...




fwiw...

StarLink - the civilian product Mr Musk offers.

StarShield - the government and military product Mr Musk offers.

To wit ...

SpaceX differentiates between Starlink and Starshield, but the services are intertwined (August 2025)
fedscoop.com

... By offering two versions of its satellite internet service, SpaceX has attempted to draw a sharp line between its civilian and defense businesses. But despite that delineation, the Starlink and Starshield services appear fundamentally connected. ...

@#6 ... Putin is helping Iran kill Americans. Trump supports him; helps him wage war. ...

U.S. Officials Say Russia Is Providing Iran With Targeting Intelligence Against American Forces in the Middle East (March 2026)
www.thedefensenews.com

... U.S. intelligence officials say Russia is providing Iran with targeting intelligence intended to assist Tehran in conducting strikes against American military forces deployed across the Middle East, according to officials familiar with classified assessments.

The information, first reported by The Washington Post, was confirmed by three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the intelligence. According to those officials, Moscow has been sharing sensitive targeting data with Tehran since the current regional conflict escalated and has continued doing so since the war began on February 28.

Officials stated that the intelligence reportedly includes detailed information about the locations of U.S. military assets across the region. This includes the positions of American warships, aircraft deployments, and other military infrastructure operating in the Middle East. The intelligence is believed to assist Iranian planners in tracking and identifying potential targets linked to U.S. military activity. ...



@#16 ... But I am happy to entertain your explanation of any reasons why they would feel the need to do this in secret that are not to try to use any exploits they find for their own personal gain. ...

Apparently, you are not the only person with that type of concern ...

Republican Lt Gov Warns 60 Minutes Election Threats Are 'Coming From Within Our Own Government' For First Time
www.mediaite.com

... Utah's Republican Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (R-UT) told 60 Minutes Sunday that for the first time, election threats are coming from within the federal government -- and she's all-in on defying the Trump administration.

"In the past two elections that I oversaw as lieutenant governor, the threats were all external," Henderson told correspondent Leslie Stahl. "Non-state actors, cybersecurity threats, and other things. But now we also have threats coming from within our own government."

"Your federal government," Stahl emphasized.

"That's right," Henderson said.

Stahl explained that Henderson is responsible for Utah's elections, "Everything from voter registration to counting the ballots on election day. Keep in mind, Henderson is a Republican in a deeply red state. President [Donald] Trump won the last election here by more than 20 points."

"Last year, the Justice Department zoned in on Henderson and her counterparts in states across the country, demanding their statewide voter registration list,' which includes voters' confidential personal information," Stahl continued. "Henderson had never seen anything like it. She said 'no.'"

"They wanted things that we typically are required by law to keep private," Henderson said. "Social Security numbers, full dates of birth, driver's license numbers."

Henderson said the Trump administration didn't give "very good answers" on why they needed the information, "and we were concerned about what they would do with that data."

"Henderson has been notified that if she knowingly allows any noncitizens to vote in Utah, she could be prosecuted and even sent to prison," Stahl said, telling Henderson, "You could go to prison." ...


More from the article ...

... The arrests are part of a Trump administration effort to root out noncitizen voting ahead of next month's midterm elections, even though data shows that the problem is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.

Federal officials on Monday blamed California officials for the alleged crimes, accusing them of facilitating noncitizen voting through inadequate voter roll maintenance and hiding it from the public. The charges escalated a simmering voter roll fight that came into focus last week when the Justice Department sued California and warned that local election workers who knowingly process or tabulate ballots submitted by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation and potential prosecution.

The Justice Department said the 28 people who were charged as part of a sweep dubbed Operation Protect the Vote are lawful permanent residents " but not U.S. citizens who are permitted to legally vote. They are charged with crimes including making false statements on a naturalization application and submitting fraudulent voter registrations.

"This causes real damage to real elections and real damage to American citizens," Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, said during a news conference in Los Angeles.

Rob Bonta, California's Democratic attorney general, said Monday that there is no widespread voter fraud in California and that while "one-off" examples of voter fraud are possible, those instances are "a drop in the bucket" considering the state has 23 million registered voters.

Bonta said he expects his state to prevail in the federal government's lawsuit, saying the Republican administration "has provided us with no facts of any ineligible voters, just a conclusory statement with no evidence to back it." ...


@#11 ... And you still think the dossier was real ...

The Steele Dossier: A Retrospective (2018)
www.lawfaremedia.org

... Not all of the material in the dossier has been proven. But none has been disproven. As a raw intelligence document, the Steele dossier holds up well. ...

"There was testimony from Amazon pilots that claim Amazon was throwing softballs to DEI hire pilots"

Yeah. That's the racism all right.

Amazon does not hire pilots. Amazon Air is flown by contract service organizations, one of whom is Atlas Air.

search.brave.com

The controversy surrounding Atlas Air and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) primarily centers on online speculation linking First Officer Conrad Jules Aska to the fatal Atlas Air Flight 3591 crash in 2019. Online forums and social media users frequently labeled Aska a "DEI hire," implying his employment resulted from racial quotas rather than merit.

However, official investigations and factual records refute the notion that he was hired due to DEI initiatives. The NTSB determined that Aska was hired because he lied on his resume and omitted previous employment failures from airlines like Mesa Airlines, CommutAir, and Air Wisconsin. Atlas Air's hiring committee rated him as "highly recommended" based on incomplete records, and the airline explicitly stated it would not have hired him had its incomplete background check systems revealed his true performance history.

The "DEI hire" narrative persists in some online communities as a speculative explanation for his incompetence, but there is no evidence from the NTSB or FAA that race or diversity mandates played a role in his hiring. The crash was attributed to inadequate hiring practices, a failure to detect deception, and a lack of comprehensive pilot record databases, rather than diversity quotas.

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