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What a way for that guy to muddy the waters. Research innovation at publicly subsidized universities is the same as government infiltration if the research in question is government-funded miltech.

Vigneault highlighted Beijing as the main culprit, saying it was using a combination of cyber-attacks, infiltrated agents and recruitment among university staff to acquire sensitive technologies.

Ah, there it is. He won’t say it bluntly, but the problem is that the PLA is essentially stealing missile tech and/or CBW research “that we totally weren’t planning to use for miltech, guys.” (/s)

Speaking as an American, maybe we wouldn’t have to worry so much about Chinese infiltration and theft of university-derived missile/robo tech if Lockeed (& ilk) weren’t constantly sponsoring student competitions as an avenue for recruitment.

If not valid military intelligence target, why military intelligence target shaped? :/

ETA:

University staff were recruited by foreign powers based on either naivety, ideology or greed, he said.

Have they tried paying in another currency other than peanuts?

Get what for free? Get stipends for free?

Are you saying things like Fulbright/AAUW should be more than merit based?

I have no sympathy for Karoline, but this is such a fucked situation.

Do nothing: "You’re such an evil woman that you’d deport your own brother’s wife "

Do something: “Oh, of course. You’ll deport other people’s wives and mothers but the moment it affects someone close to you, suddenly the whole ‘the law is the law’ schtick evaporates.”

The mental gymnastics she’ll be doing is gonna be gold metal worthy.

Oh look, another too-big-to-fail.

What could possibly go wrong?

Yeah, because a lot of flight controllers STILL have to pickup gig work or else resign from their positions in order to pay the bills.

That means less air coverage, which in turn means mandatory flight reductions.

Even if the government 100% reopened this minute, it’ll still probably be around another 2 weeks before the first round of paychecks go out, and even then it won’t be enough to cover nearly a month and a half without income.

The effects of this shutdown will still be felt for months.

This is fucking nuts.

Guy with dual Israeli citizenship who provided fraudulent testimony to the FBI that materially damaged a presidential candidate’s reelection* efforts, and who was deemed an extreme flight risk, was … just … granted the equivalent of unsupervised work release? And now nobody knows where he is?

I can only facepalm so hard. ; _ ;

So all of this is a big lie. Immigrants aren’t given free healthcare; hospitals are required to give emergency healthcare regardless of whoever walks in the door, then left with the bill if/when their patients end up not being able to pay.

Literally the entire situation is the direct result of Ronald-fucking-Reagan signing the 1986 EMTALA Act that effectively creates an unfunded mandate of care for virtually all hospitals. They mandated healthcare but refused to pay for it.

Every year U.S. hospitals treat all kinds of people in their emergency rooms. Federal law prohibits hospitals from turning anyone away from emergency care, no matter the reason.

A percentage of the people treated are what are colloquially called “indigent care” (basically, so poor that you couldn’t make them pay if you wanted to). The bar for whether hospitals consider them “indigent” is whether or not they would ordinarily qualify for Medicaid in their state—regardless of citizenship status.

Every year, hospitals can submit claims for a certain percentage of their states’ Medicaid funds in order to help the hospital make up for the deficit they incur from treating people who have not paid their bill—as long as the hospital can provide documented evidence of a the bills that were not able to be paid.

There’s other restrictions and things involved, but the important part is that the hospital has already eaten the cost—they’re only trying to scrape back some money to break even.

Based on both personal experience as well as public data, undocumented immigrants account for less that 1% of the claims submitted by hospitals for Medicaid reimbursement. Moreover, many (many) hospitals make up for the huge deficits they run each year by relying on several of these reimbursement schemes.

Gutting Medicaid reimbursement to states will effectively render poor hospitals insolvent and—if they’re"lucky"—candidates for being bought up by private equity (or even worse, monopolistic conglomerates like Kaiser).

“Hey kids! Sorry, we can’t eat this week because the neighbors voted Trump. Oopsie.”

At least 16 million of them could not possibly have voted for this.

An estimated 39% of SNAP recipients are children.

“I will admit it’s worse than even I expected, but I did warn y’all!” The crowd at a sports arena in Norfolk, Virginia, half-laughed and half-groaned.

Told who exactly? What a wild thing to say in Norfolk—where the surrounding cities (Norfolk included) overwhelmingly voted Harris in 2020.

Voters told YOU (and the DNC) to back someone other than Biden, and YOU didn’t listen until it was way too late. If anyone fumbled the election, it’s the folks who had Biden’s ear and said nothing.

“I told you so” smug assed energy—get the fuck outta here and say that to Michiganders or Pennsylvanians, you tone deaf dickhead.

The way some people throw themselves all over this man…

:/

It’s operating on top of a federal airstrip (yes, located in the middle of the Everglades) that was used as a staging ground for CIA extraordinary renditions.

That airstrip has ALWAYS been used for doing what they’re doing now—they’ve just scaled up operations. It’s ALWAYS been a ‘disappearing people’ center. Seriously.

The government started construction on it forever ago (it was initially supposed to be a 39 square mile international airport) but construction halted and they decided to just keep it for classified CIA/FBI/military activities. Source: am Floridian and also “Wilderness on the Edge: A History of Everglades National Park” by Robert W. Blythe.

We’ve always been the baddies. :( :(