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Erik
@renznest.com
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Data nerd hell bent on improving data literacy, amicable disagreement, and I also love medical science. He/Him.

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… estimate of expenditure. Looking at the adults column for 2023 (attached. This doesn’t include ACA expansion of Medicaid. So let’s take the ACA expansion as worst case scenario of $6.5k. That’s about $12 bil (probably less given the make up of that category of beneficiaries). CBO estimates a…
Adults defined as enrollees ages 19-64 who are not eligible due to a disability or newly eligible for Medicaid by the ACA Medicaid expansion.
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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What a shot. It’s not even juxtaposition. It’s the fake mask that’s been placed on our country. The relay people that make this place up don’t support insurrection and violence, but stand together for our community.
Man in January 6th baseball cap next to a military tank and the Trump parade
June 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Looks like DOGE has more bogus claims regarding regulations. If you’d like to familiarize yourself with their first “transparent” approach, check it out:

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Now they are claiming savings after removal of 1k words in the billions.
DOGE wall of regulatory savings. Lists regulation names, actions, the affected CFR Provisions, Date, Savings, and words removed.
May 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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A huge thank you to all involved in this.
Thanks to the power of over 50,000 voices standing up for the autism community, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has walked back plans for a national autism registry.
April 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Screenshot of where I felt it fell but others obviously did not share the sentiment.
Screenshot from Nextdoor guidelines of acceptable posts showing “Sharing of a personal experience of how a societal issue affects of has affected you or your community.”
April 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Hmmm. Interesting take MTG. Care to explain this from last year?

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Screenshot from USA Today piece covering Majorie Taylor-Greene’s town hall meeting: "How people should handle their business is in the voting booth," Greene told reporters after the event. "There's no reason for screaming, yelling, ridiculous, outrageous protesting. That disrupts the entire event for every single person that is there." Greene praised the police officers on X and shared a video of a protester grabbing an officer's shirt collar while others intervened to separate the two men. "For anyone questioning or criticizing the police at my townhall last night, the GREAT police officers conducted themselves in textbook fashion and protected every single person there by keeping the peace!!!!!" Greene wrote. "These protestors were deranged and aggressive and lost control of themselves the second the town hall started," she said. "And the press knows it because it happened right in front of them!!"
April 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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To further this cause and make it clear to those who are not familiar, here is the point of contention between the judicial and executive branches… and this badass of a judge has put the point squarely and with the context of the SCOTUS decision.
Quote from the judicial order to enter discovery in the Garcia case: ‘Instead, the Defendants obliquely suggest that “facilitate” is limited to “taking all available steps to remove and DOMESTIC obstacles that would otherwise impede the alien’s ability to return here.” ECF No. 65 at 3 (emphasis in original). The fallacy in the Defendants’ argument is twofold. First, in the “immigration context” as it were, id. facilitating return of those wrongly deported can and has included more extensive governmental efforts, endorsed in prior precedent and DHS.’ ‘… publication. Thus, the Court cannot credit that “facilitating” the ordered relief is as limited as Defendants suggest. Second, and more fundamentally, Defendants appear to have done nothing to aid in Abrego Garcia’s release from custody and return to the United States to “ensure that his case is handled as it would have been” but for Defendants’ wrongful expulsion of him. Abrego Garcias, 604 U.S. -, slip op. at 2. Thus, Defendants’ attempt to skirt the issue by redefining “facilitate” runs contrary to law and logic.’
April 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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And then this gem from our smarmy VP… the reason #DOGE has so much work is because they don’t know where to look or how to actually conduct the analysis. We’ve already figured out the “150 year olds”collecting fraudulent checks… if you missed it, it was a data error… by DOGE. Big balls <> big brains
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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“…make sure the app is not spying on people…”

[subtext: Pete Hegseth is far more efficient #DOGE]

But remember, leaks through signal aren’t a huge mistake.
April 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Obi-nobi. Thanks @christophscheuch.bsky.social
Line chart showing Cunulative performance of the DOW Jones stock index across administrations, starting from their inauguration and days since the inauguration. This includes Obama’s first and second terms, Trump’s first and second terms, and Biden’s term. Positive performance for Obama’s second, Trump’s first, and Biden’s, all around 6%, 36 days since inauguration. Obama’s first term marked the lowest performance around -12% at 36 days although increasing thereafter, and Trump’s second term is currently showing a sharp downward trend around -8%.
March 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Let’s reverse this, “only method of interpretation” crap:

Keeping the government open could rest with Democrats… OR Republicans could approach the table without a screaming toddler (make that 3 if you count Musk and his son). This was a decision made FOR Democrats BY Republicans. 🎬 the 💩.
From Shelly Moore Capito (Republican, W. VA): “Keeping the government open ‘rests squarely with Senate Democrats: barrel us into a government shutdown or choose common sense and vote to keep our government open for hardworking Americans.’”
March 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen, a lesson in absolute ignorance and misunderstanding of cause/effect… I give you, DOGE:

Point the first - all of these research areas impact the wider community

Point the second - the sexually related programs (based off title and inference) appear to be looking at…
Screen capture of a DOGE post highlighting recent NIH cuts including: - LGB+ teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys - studying cannabis use among sexual minority gender diverse individuals - examining social networks among black and lation sexual minority men in New Jersey - assessing sexual health among LGBTQ+ LatinX youth in an agricultural community - researching structural racism
March 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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So we’re clear, the man who says he will manage is own conflicts of interest is certainly gaining from certain programs. Someone correct me but I haven’t see. Anything about budget cuts here.

These were taken from the 10-K filing to the SEC from TSLA.

Remember: SpaceX is still private…
February 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Bad dude. Source: his X profile…
February 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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His account, now:

@aoc.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @commerce.senate.gov @senatefinance.bsky.social @senatepress.bsky.social @repcasar.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @pressley.house.gov @beyer.house.gov @jayapal.house.gov

His parents are..? Pinned
= criminal intent? At least a spanking.
Screenshot of Edward Coristine’s X profile featuring a banner of DOGE, stating he’s retarded, that AI said he has a big penis, he has huge balls, and a pinned post, quote: “Might fuck around and steal people’s identities.#IDGAF”
February 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Oh, #crossfit, what the hell? You allow someone to drown on your watch, don’t release the investigation, and now have the border patrol as one of your “sponsors”…

@crossfitgames.bsky.social @davecastro.bsky.social (if those are your channels)
Screenshot of email from CrossFit regarding open events, with US border control listed prominently as a sponsor under Rogue.
January 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I hope your home is a safe space for your child because that circle just got smaller.

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January 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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I’ll go with a very simple example: it’s not a coincidence that in the same year there was a decline in vaccination rates and increase in exemptions, notably in GA, that I received an email from our preschool stating too many teachers were out sick from COVID and Flu. www.cdc.gov/schoolvaxvie....
Vaccination map by state for DTaP/DTP/DT from the CDC with lighter colors with lowest vaccine coverage rates. Among the least vaccinated: Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, Georgia, Florida.
January 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
Beach scene from a cliff. Overlooks an endless ocean with a touch of clouds in a sun kissed sky and small rock formations jutting out of a calm ocean.
November 16, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Surely it’s time to take some of these remarks to their logical conclusions, right? How about we kick it real old school Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, and go back to when black mRNA nd women also couldn’t vote?

I don’t understand these thought processes - of the supporters or the candidates.
June 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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… list the similarities? Oh let me count the ways.
Excerpt from Supreme Court ruling on Donald Trump’s removal from the Colorado State ballot, stating section 3 of the 14th amendment was, “…designed to help ensure an enduring Union by preventing former Confederates from returning to power…”
March 4, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Ok so I understand the legality of this in that we’ve set up the powers to allow for Congress to reverse the decision by States. Not necessarily for that given today’s climate but that’s where we
operate from now. This is not an action to stop prosecution though. It’s time to re-up efforts…
March 4, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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… Apparently, they don’t have the money to set this straight, but they certainly can help bolster those politicians platform:

Thanks @opensecretsdc.bsky.social

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Annual lobbying spend by UnitedHealth Group from 1998 to 2023. Increase over time is approx. $1.2 million, with an average around $3 million and a stark increase to almost $11 million in 2023. Graphic from opensecrets.org
March 4, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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This can’t be a good idea. Do we not care about public health at all???
March 2, 2024 at 1:04 AM