LePerrier
@leperrier.bsky.social
Dad | Engineer | Progressive | Philosophy/History Dude | Disability Advocate
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Little known factoids:
1) Social Security currently has an overhead of a measily 1%, and a >1% fraud rate. 😲
2) Medicaid has only a 4% overhead!
1) Social Security currently has an overhead of a measily 1%, and a >1% fraud rate. 😲
2) Medicaid has only a 4% overhead!
March 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Little known factoids:
1) Social Security currently has an overhead of a measily 1%, and a >1% fraud rate. 😲
2) Medicaid has only a 4% overhead!
1) Social Security currently has an overhead of a measily 1%, and a >1% fraud rate. 😲
2) Medicaid has only a 4% overhead!
Why was Vance even in the room, let alone speaking?
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March 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Why was Vance even in the room, let alone speaking?
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Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦
March 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.
February 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.
Quite a speech today! 💙
youtu.be/KBOJhU2pLMo?...
youtu.be/KBOJhU2pLMo?...
FULL: Gov. Pritzker delivers Illinois State of the State Address 2025
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Quite a speech today! 💙
youtu.be/KBOJhU2pLMo?...
youtu.be/KBOJhU2pLMo?...
Listen carefully...
Lack of tax cuts before 2017 didn't result in economic calamity, and the economy actually grew, in conjunction with lowered deficits, under Obama, after he got us out of yet another GOP-induced recession in 2008.
Didn't need tax cuts then, don't need them now!
Lack of tax cuts before 2017 didn't result in economic calamity, and the economy actually grew, in conjunction with lowered deficits, under Obama, after he got us out of yet another GOP-induced recession in 2008.
Didn't need tax cuts then, don't need them now!
February 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Listen carefully...
Lack of tax cuts before 2017 didn't result in economic calamity, and the economy actually grew, in conjunction with lowered deficits, under Obama, after he got us out of yet another GOP-induced recession in 2008.
Didn't need tax cuts then, don't need them now!
Lack of tax cuts before 2017 didn't result in economic calamity, and the economy actually grew, in conjunction with lowered deficits, under Obama, after he got us out of yet another GOP-induced recession in 2008.
Didn't need tax cuts then, don't need them now!
Waiting for the analysis to include the "opportinity lost" on the other side of the ledger, plus where is the evidence of this "Deep State"? 😂
And fully half of it is a humiliating error where they mistake the value of a contract by 1000x confusing 8 million with 8 BILLION
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
February 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Waiting for the analysis to include the "opportinity lost" on the other side of the ledger, plus where is the evidence of this "Deep State"? 😂
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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.
If #MuskRat isn't the head of DOGE, 'seems nobody is directing those "whiz kids" to compromise the personal identifying data throughtout various FED departments.
If so, sounds like multiple breaking and entering + theft charges are in order. 👍
If so, sounds like multiple breaking and entering + theft charges are in order. 👍
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If #MuskRat isn't the head of DOGE, 'seems nobody is directing those "whiz kids" to compromise the personal identifying data throughtout various FED departments.
If so, sounds like multiple breaking and entering + theft charges are in order. 👍
If so, sounds like multiple breaking and entering + theft charges are in order. 👍
Just like mice 🐀 that get into a home uninvited, #MuskRat is vermin.
Keep him out! 🚫
He's not SME in govt processes.
1) Dead people don't get SS checks. Funeral homes must register every death with SSA. ✅️
2) 150 year olds also don't get checks. Chowderhead didn't understand date storage in COBOL! ✅
Keep him out! 🚫
He's not SME in govt processes.
1) Dead people don't get SS checks. Funeral homes must register every death with SSA. ✅️
2) 150 year olds also don't get checks. Chowderhead didn't understand date storage in COBOL! ✅
February 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just like mice 🐀 that get into a home uninvited, #MuskRat is vermin.
Keep him out! 🚫
He's not SME in govt processes.
1) Dead people don't get SS checks. Funeral homes must register every death with SSA. ✅️
2) 150 year olds also don't get checks. Chowderhead didn't understand date storage in COBOL! ✅
Keep him out! 🚫
He's not SME in govt processes.
1) Dead people don't get SS checks. Funeral homes must register every death with SSA. ✅️
2) 150 year olds also don't get checks. Chowderhead didn't understand date storage in COBOL! ✅
I'd venture to guess that #MuskRat wants to feed all our IRS data into an AI learning model to make some nefarious study on the relationships... 😡
The IRS is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data. IRS data is tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking details, and employment information.
Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records
A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'd venture to guess that #MuskRat wants to feed all our IRS data into an AI learning model to make some nefarious study on the relationships... 😡
Posting a link by which our developmentally disabled communities could really use your help.
...I'm quite concerned that some facilities could become insolvent if they lose federal Medicaid support.
www.ancor.org/actions/pres...
...I'm quite concerned that some facilities could become insolvent if they lose federal Medicaid support.
www.ancor.org/actions/pres...
Preserve I/DD Services—Tell Congress Protect Medicaid! | ANCOR
Congressional leaders are discussing proposals that could significantly reduce Medicaid funding. While these ideas are still in the early stages and remain undefined, they pose serious risks to servic...
www.ancor.org
February 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Posting a link by which our developmentally disabled communities could really use your help.
...I'm quite concerned that some facilities could become insolvent if they lose federal Medicaid support.
www.ancor.org/actions/pres...
...I'm quite concerned that some facilities could become insolvent if they lose federal Medicaid support.
www.ancor.org/actions/pres...
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COBOL is confusing the Dogebros
Admiral Hopper will save us
Admiral Hopper will save us
February 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
COBOL is confusing the Dogebros
Admiral Hopper will save us
Admiral Hopper will save us
Remedial classes in civics and the U.S. Constitution appear to in order here...
Did #MuskRat pay someone to take his citizenship test? 🤣
Did #MuskRat pay someone to take his citizenship test? 🤣
Yes think about how judges are supposed to decide if things the president does are constitutional, and why the richest man in the world who just bought the election might not be into that.
February 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Remedial classes in civics and the U.S. Constitution appear to in order here...
Did #MuskRat pay someone to take his citizenship test? 🤣
Did #MuskRat pay someone to take his citizenship test? 🤣
Would love to see a typical business plan for a privately held prison...
Hey at least the private prisons are happy, that’s what matters! www.tennessean.com/story/money/...
February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Would love to see a typical business plan for a privately held prison...
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Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
ProPublica’s Supreme Connections Database Updated With New Alito, Thomas Filings
Our database of the Supreme Court justices’ financial connections now includes Samuel Alito’s deferred 2023 filing and eight previously missing disclosures from Clarence Thomas dating back to the 1990s.
propub.li
February 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin:
"I want to thank the people of the CFPB who have saved the American people more than $21 billion from con men and scam artists like Donald Trump."
BOOM!
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"I want to thank the people of the CFPB who have saved the American people more than $21 billion from con men and scam artists like Donald Trump."
BOOM!
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February 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Rep. Jamie Raskin:
"I want to thank the people of the CFPB who have saved the American people more than $21 billion from con men and scam artists like Donald Trump."
BOOM!
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"I want to thank the people of the CFPB who have saved the American people more than $21 billion from con men and scam artists like Donald Trump."
BOOM!
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The role of the executive branch is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not. Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “No area seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the purse.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The role of the executive branch is not to make determinations about which promises of federal funding made by Congress it will keep, and which it will not. Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “No area seems more clearly the province of Congress than the power of the purse.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...
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“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”
'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
www.rawstory.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”
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Five former Treasury secretaries warned that recent actions by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Treasury Department raise “substantial cause for concern” that the United States’ financial commitments are being “unlawfully” undermined.
Trump, Musk actions put America at risk of 'a form of default,' former Treasury chiefs warn
Elon Musk and his DOGE team are tasked by President Donald Trump to find government spending inefficiency and cut federal spending.
www.cnbc.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Five former Treasury secretaries warned that recent actions by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE team at the Treasury Department raise “substantial cause for concern” that the United States’ financial commitments are being “unlawfully” undermined.
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Wow! Trump really said the quiet part out loud.
Taking “ownership” of Gaza? Blocking Palestinians from returning? He knows Americans don’t want this & it flies in the face of his whole “America First, no foreign wars” campaign. At this point, he’s not even pretending to care about public opinion.
Taking “ownership” of Gaza? Blocking Palestinians from returning? He knows Americans don’t want this & it flies in the face of his whole “America First, no foreign wars” campaign. At this point, he’s not even pretending to care about public opinion.
February 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Wow! Trump really said the quiet part out loud.
Taking “ownership” of Gaza? Blocking Palestinians from returning? He knows Americans don’t want this & it flies in the face of his whole “America First, no foreign wars” campaign. At this point, he’s not even pretending to care about public opinion.
Taking “ownership” of Gaza? Blocking Palestinians from returning? He knows Americans don’t want this & it flies in the face of his whole “America First, no foreign wars” campaign. At this point, he’s not even pretending to care about public opinion.