Mom, engineer BSIE, software, Rutgers alum, Lyme research advocate. Host of @AroundtheEmpire podcast: war & peace, geopolitics & more
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Joanne Leon retweeted
Thank you for fighting for American workers, @WHFraudTF.
But H-1B is only about 5% of the picture.
Offshore contractors, green card workers, OPT students, humanitarian EADs, and AI substitution are invisible at the company level. No agency measures them.
One Executive Order directing OMB and the ECPC to include 3 NAICS codes in the 2027 review would let the government see the other 95%: xitter.cf/J_Vito_B/status/210784…
Transparency First. Accountability Follows.
— JVB —
Joanne Leon retweeted
The American health insurance system is a scam
RFK JR says “The whole system is corrupt.” They found
- Hip replacement in Boston costs $17,900 at one hospital, and at a nearby hospital, it costs $74,000 for the exact same surgery
- Researchers have found MRI prices varying as much as 9x within a single city
- One analysis found that 60% of insurer-negotiated hospital rates were higher than the hospital's own cash price
“Think about that. The insurance company, who is supposed to be negotiating for all of its members and beating down the price, has actually negotiated a price that is higher than if you just walked into that hospital off the street and asked for that procedure”
“The whole system was corrupt. It was crooked. And there was no marketplace, and that was deliberate. That was by design. There was no marketplace and those are not signals of a functioning market. Markets cannot discipline prices that they cannot see”
I looked into this exact study, over 2,300 hospitals were looked at and what they found was
- Cash price is better nearly 60% of the time
- Cash discounts averaged about 64% of normal price, this is often cheaper than insurance rates
Insurance is a scam
Moronic post. These are so called experts?
BREAKING: The US is now directly posturing for a potential ground invasion of Iran, sending a third aircraft carrier strike group and up to 10,000 additional sailors and Marines toward the Middle East, while the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group deploys more than 2,000 Marines trained for amphibious operations, according to US officials cited by Al Jazeera and the Wall Street Journal.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group departed San Diego on September 27, while the Makin Island ARG followed with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard. The force includes USS Makin Island, USS John P. Murtha and USS Anchorage, with F-35B Lightning IIs and MV-22B Ospreys.
If the deployment proceeds as planned, three US aircraft carriers and two Amphibious Ready Groups could be positioned near Iran by the end of November, adding up to 9,000 to 10,000 personnel to a region where more than 50,000 US troops are already stationed.
Washington has also deployed two additional Patriot batteries, one to protect a Saudi oil facility and another to protect a Qatari gas installation, amid fears of Iranian retaliation against Gulf energy infrastructure if major US strikes resume.
Note there's a phase 2 Lyme mRNA vax on that list. Disaster waiting to happen imho
Think we're freaking out over nothing? Every traditional vaccine is eventually going to be replaced by mRNA. Here's where things stand just with Moderna. By keeping mRNA on the market, FDA has proven it does not care about safety. I am therefore telling my patients not to get ANY vaccines - FDA has lost all credibility.
Joanne Leon retweeted
NEW FAUCI RECORDS @SenRandPaul
- US government funded high risk experiments during Obama Administration
- One example: Aerosolizing Ebola virus
- Fauci and others appear to abuse "classification" authority to bury high risk projects and data
"The DoD (Defense Department) folks said that they wanted to publish the data. I said I thought it should be classified and the NSC (National Security Council)...agreed with me."
Full Documents 👇
Joanne Leon retweeted
The Boston Globe is lying.
There is absolutely no observational evidence to support this. And it isn’t supported by physics either.
Extratropical cyclones (which is what nor’easters are) are baroclinic storms. That means their energy is derived from available potential energy stored in large-scale temperature gradients: cold continental air versus warmer maritime air. The stronger the latitudinal (equator-to-pole) temperature difference, the higher the vertical wind shear, and the faster a cyclone can grow by converting that stored energy into kinetic.
The first-order thermodynamic effect of polar amplification (a byproduct of global warming) is to reduce that gradient and starve baroclinic storms of their primary energy source.
Monster nor’easters are growing stronger thanks to climate change. Boston is ‘fundamentally’ unprotected. trib.al/6wNnVp4
Joanne Leon retweeted
This nor'easter is an absolute beast.
If this were January, the Jersey shore would be getting buried beneath FEET of snow right now.
An “eye” is trying to clear out. But it's baroclinic; this is not a hurricane, folks.
You mean that thing you're enabling every day? For years?
Our message to corporate America is simple: We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.
whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2…
Joanne Leon retweeted
Is there a full moon tonight? The 2026 harvest moon peaks this weekend and will shine for several nights. Saturn will be visible nearby after sunset. northjersey.com/story/news/2…
"Then they started the ‘Boomer’ psyop in an attempt to shift the blame from the legislators ( both sides of the isle) that made those free trade deals."
I have watched the entire sordid affair..
It began around the 80’s with ‘Free Trade’ agreements that offshored the jobs that provided a middle class life for our parents.
They said “those are dirty jobs, you don’t want them, we’re moving to an information economy”
People went out and got IT and computer science degrees (they racked up a lot of college debt).
Almost immediately they offshored a lot of those jobs to places like India.
The jobs they couldn’t easily offshore were good paying and could support a family.
Now they’re ’In Shoring’ those jobs via H1B and telling everyone we’re moving to a ‘service economy’
Those service jobs don’t pay well and folks are having to work 2-3 of them to support a family.
Then they started the ‘Boomer’ psyop in an attempt to shift the blame from the legislators ( both sides of the isle) that made those free trade deals.
The youth are angry and it’s easy to blame boomers for their plight.
Meanwhile the congressmen and Senators children were give great jobs with the corporations that offshored all our kid’s jobs.
As long as they can keep the boomer psyop alive there will be no torches or pitchforks ( only division and anger between generations).
Joanne Leon retweeted
Yep. I made this chart back in the beginning of the year based off of a layoffs.fyi chart that I just added the H1B+ numbers to.
Joanne Leon retweeted
JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position
Joanne Leon retweeted
A federal sting exposed a shocking scheme: 15,000 fake nurses buying diplomas sold for as little as $16,000 – no clinical training required. Watch Full Measure this Sunday:tinyurl.com/3ueu8awr
Joanne Leon retweeted
"Sports aren't rigged by Vegas"
Explain this:
Joanne Leon retweeted
Listen man…I am not a “cheater, rigged” guy in sports. I’m really not.
But there is absolutely zero camera angles or evidence that 1 second should’ve been added to that clock.
Western Michigan just got cheated out of that win. That is absolute dogshit.
Joanne Leon retweeted
The facts emerging now demonstrate why CDC waited for the evidence rather than allowing political grandstanding to dictate its reporting. Governor Shapiro, by contrast, politicized these two tragic deaths before the underlying causes had been established.
The Lancaster County Coroner has now publicly stated that measles caused only the second infant’s death and has also publicly stated that the infant had Amish lethal microcephaly, a rare genetic condition in which infants typically live only about six months, received palliative care continuously from birth, and died at approximately two months of age. The Coroner continues to state publicly that the first infant died from a lacerated spleen, not measles.
The National Center for Health Statistics does not currently have any death records from 2026 that indicate measles is the underlying cause but will update as it receives and reviews submitted records. CDC will continue to update its reporting as additional information becomes available and relevant reviews are completed.
Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported our Commonwealth’s first two measles-associated deaths in 35 years.
Then, instead of listening to the real doctors and public health experts, RFK chose to sow doubt, play politics, direct the CDC not to acknowledge these deaths, and even accuse me of fabricating these tragedies. That led to a firestorm of conspiracy theories that denied these families’ pain, invaded their privacy, and undermined public health.
It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives, report these deaths accurately on the CDC dashboard, and heed the guidance of actual medical experts so people get accurate information to discuss with their trusted health care providers and can best protect themselves and their children against this deadly disease.
Joanne Leon retweeted
Rutgers invented college football in 1869 and has spent the last 160 years regretting the decision
Joanne Leon retweeted
FAUCI LEGAL EXPOSURE GROWS
FAUCI 2012 EMAIL calling for destruction of government records appears to fall outside the Biden Pardon window (for actions between 2014-JAN 2025)
FAUCI; "...delete this email then delete from the deleted file.."
There are two statutes that criminalize the destruction of government records, 18 U.S.C. § 2071 and 18 U.S.C. § 1519
Via @emilyakopp
SCOOP: Emails I obtained show Fauci again asking an aide to delete an email in violation of federal law.
"PLEASE DELETE THIS EMAIL THEN DELETE FROM THE DELETED FILE," Fauci wrote.
The emails involve Fauci's infamous 2011 op-ed defending gain-of-function research despite the risk it would cause a pandemic: "A FLU RISK WORTH TAKING."
Fauci griped about two New York Times op-eds that presciently warned gain-of-function research could lead to DOOMSDAY. He was rattled by the op-ed saying he was risking the NIH's reputation.
Fauci has been caught ordering the deletion of federal records twice before, despite testifying under oath he never did.
Joanne Leon retweeted
SCOOP: New docs CONFIRM Fauci's connection to the CIA.
Fauci's institute at NIH provided cover for CIA research on bioterrorism.
The CIA would help NIH obtain the viruses. The CIA had to give permission before any data were shared. NIH research would "augment and complement" CIA R&D.
The U.S. signed a treaty banning biological weapons, and this may skirt the line.
@R_H_Ebright: "President Cheney assigned Fauci to head US biodefense research programs in 2002, including bioweapons-agents-development and bioweapons-agents-characterization research programs that approached, and arguably crossed, red lines set by the Biological Weapons Convention."
Joanne Leon retweeted
I have been highly critical of LNP because of their partisan activities/unethical conduct in recent years, but this is one of the most objective articles that I have seen from them in a long time. It answers real questions people have, puts some new and important information about an important story on the record, and confirms many of the facts I have reported over the last several days.
Key points:
"Lancaster County’s coroner said Thursday he was surprised by Gov. Josh Shapiro’s claim at a news conference earlier this week of two measles-associated deaths of Lancaster County residents: as of Thursday, his office still had zero measles deaths..."
Confirms the facts I have been discussing since the Governor's press conference - Lancaster County actually has zero confirmed measle's deaths.
"Yes, a newborn male who died of a 'splenatic rupture' tested positive for measles, Diamantoni said, but measles was not the cause of death — the laceration to the spleen is the cause. And measles was ruled out as a contributing factor because, Diamantoni said, 'there was no swelling or enlargement whatsoever' of the spleen and there was 'massive blood loss' from the laceration."
This confirms my prior statements, but adds some slightly new information, which is important, to the public record. Measles was not the cause, or a contributing cause to the death.
"Shapiro said both deaths involved unvaccinated people - but a newborn wouldn’t have been vaccinated, Diamantoni said."
This is an important point I have been making. The PA Secretary of Health says she thoroughly reviewed the cases. So she would know that vaccination was impossible for a baby who died at birth. Thus, emphasizing in the press conference that the individual was unvaccinated - ie making it seem like this was by choice, shows deception by state officials.
"Diamantoni had no information about the second measles-associated death announced by the state, and DOH has not released any information."
Confirms the information I have been reporting. Why do we still know nothing about the second purported case?
"Coroners and medical examiners in Lancaster’s border counties — Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Lebanon and York — told an LNP | LancasterOnline reporter on Thursday that they had no records of measles-related deaths, and calls by the reporter to coroners in other parts of the state are ongoing."
Thus, the already highly unlikely scenario that a person from Lancaster County died of measles in another county and it was reported to another County Coroner, is made even more unlikely. This is also new information, and is actually real reporting work that journalists used to do.
“'The law is: they should be reported to us,' he said."
Confirming what I had already reported that, yes, any measles death must be reported to the County Coroner. This is the law. Thus, State Officials saying there can be a second measles death out there that is unreported to a County Coroner is either false or they are potentially in violation of the law.
Now, LNP take the next step and actually ask hard questions to the people who held the press conference.
Full Story here:
lancasteronline.com/news/hea…
