Neuroscientist, NASA Analog Astronaut. The only straight white male Millennial GOP professor tenured in America during DEI. Whistleblower, Children’s Author✝️

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Story from the Mar a Lago awards w/ @OKeefeMedia
Words can't express how honored, humbled, & grateful I am to be recognized among much bigger heroes with this award for courage, integrity, & truth from @jamesokeefeiii & @okeefemedia at the President's Mar a Lago for catching over $76M in fraud by Florida Tech's President and refusing to sell out to his $96k offer of hush money. Thanks to everyone standing for truth in a world of lies. With all my heart: THANK YOU for this Honor of a Lifetime 🙏
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Its weird, because I am and always have been a big supporter & ally of Isaacman, and of NASA (where ive done several missions and sent students to, and gave invited talks to). Hoping alls well that ends well. 🚀 🇺🇸
First Amendment Question: Is it legal for Government Officials to block commenters on their official accounts while doing Official Government Business as below by the Senate-Confirmed NASA Administrator @NASAAdmin (whom I've always supported vigorously)? Hopefully just a coincidental mistake easily corrected. Isn't there SCOTUS case law on this? Is it OK to do in response to someone objecting & opposing DEI at NASA, which has been an issue there admitted to by recent prior Administrator nbc16.com/news/nation-world/…?
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SCOTUS in Lindke v. Freed (2024) holds that blocking on an official account used for government speech is state action if the official has authority to speak for the state and exercises it. NASAAdmin is the Senate-confirmed Administrator's official account for NASA business. Viewpoint-based blocking after DEI criticism would likely violate the First Amendment. EEOC activity or job-candidate status adds potential Title VII retaliation claims but does not alter the core 1A analysis. This is not legal advice.
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Didn’t we have a Supreme Court ruling that said government officials couldn’t block people? Not a good look when government officials are blocking accounts that are calling out DEI in their agency
First Amendment Question: Is it legal for Government Officials to block commenters on their official accounts while doing Official Government Business as below by the Senate-Confirmed NASA Administrator @NASAAdmin (whom I've always supported vigorously)? Hopefully just a coincidental mistake easily corrected. Isn't there SCOTUS case law on this? Is it OK to do in response to someone objecting & opposing DEI at NASA, which has been an issue there admitted to by recent prior Administrator nbc16.com/news/nation-world/…?
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Yes - it’s gotten this bad. And when the threats aren’t physical, we’ve learned speaking out against rampant abuse and defrauding of the broken visa system usually ends up in a layoff.
I take threats against people exposing fraud seriously. Report the fraud and any threats to @DOLOIG at 1-800-347-3756. If you’re in immediate danger, call 911. We’re also working on a campaign to help whistleblowers understand their rights, protections, and how to report retaliation.
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We appreciate your response. We have evidence which strongly indicates that someone in.position of power is targeting fraud whitsleblowers. This person/teams are routing the phone calls to their call center styled teams to dilute & divert the reporting/complaints.
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I take threats against people exposing fraud seriously. Report the fraud and any threats to @DOLOIG at 1-800-347-3756. If you’re in immediate danger, call 911. We’re also working on a campaign to help whistleblowers understand their rights, protections, and how to report retaliation.
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Replying to @scotus_wire
Just like us citizens have had to do all the time to preserve our Constitutional & Civil Rights rights when judges (appointed by Both parties) preemtively strip them ex parte and with no valid reasons of evidence. This needs to change.
The Government wasnt even allowed a chance to respond before the Judge ruled against you? Sounds exactly as is allowed everday for the rest of us citizens when ex parte restraining orders are illegally issued by judges for false claims against everyday Americans like @JamesOKeefeIII & I both had happen recently in FL(!) to strip our 2nd Amend @CivilRights, later overturned as illegal (mine was by an H1B UK foreigner who lied to ludge in filing, @USLaborIG). Why not stop those abuses, work with @FLGunRights since you now what it feels like to be held hostage to such judicial tyranny? We would support, and its line with Chief Justice Roberts statement below: Kaley v. United States, 571 U.S. 320, 355 (2014) (“Common sense tells us that secret decisions based only on one side of the story will prove inaccurate more often than those made after hearing from both sides.” (Roberts, C.J., dissenting)); see also United States v. Sineneng-Smith, 590 U.S. 371, 375 (2020) (“In our adversarial system of adjudication, we follow the principle of party presentation. As this Court stated in Greenlaw, in both civil and criminal cases, in the first instance and on appeal ..., we rely on the parties to frame the issues for decision and assign to courts the role of neutral arbiter of matters the parties present.” (citation omitted) (Ginsburg, J.)).
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SCOTUS in Lindke v. Freed (2024) holds that blocking on an official account used for government speech is state action if the official has authority to speak for the state and exercises it. NASAAdmin is the Senate-confirmed Administrator's official account for NASA business. Viewpoint-based blocking after DEI criticism would likely violate the First Amendment. EEOC activity or job-candidate status adds potential Title VII retaliation claims but does not alter the core 1A analysis. This is not legal advice.
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Parents: This is not an exaggeration. This happens👇
Every Parent should watch this video. Now I understand why that father followed his daughters to the toilet despite the backlash he faced. We live in very dark times
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Sounds like all of these places should be indicted for using illegal immigration.
A joint statement from Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association regarding the ongoing ICE operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas: “The Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle Feeders Association are closely monitoring reported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity affecting agricultural communities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. Our organizations respect the responsibility of federal agencies to enforce the law. At the same time, cattle producers, feedyards, dairies, livestock markets, processors, and other rural businesses depend on a stable workforce to care for animals, protect food safety, and keep the supply chains operating. Sudden workforce disruptions can create immediate animal-welfare, operational, and economic consequences that extend well beyond an individual business. These ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table and keep the cattle supply chain moving. Additionally, these types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers. Reported impacts to our organizations throughout the past few days have been: - Thousands of fed cattle slated for shipping to processors now delayed, resulting in millions of dollars in lost revenue and additional costs. - Workforce disruptions at numerous supply chain chokepoints such as feedyards, dairies, processors, feed and grain companies, transportation hubs, and community services. These disruptions come at a time of enhanced focus and pressure on the cattle and beef supply chain. They are a costly and unnecessary impact to cattle producers already suffering from unwelcome political interference to both the markets as well as the physical supply chain. Frustratingly, the harm these actions cause to cattle producers last for days and weeks after such operations conclude. We urge federal officials to conduct enforcement actions in a lawful, orderly, and transparent manner; respect due process; and communicate clearly with affected employers and communities.”
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First Amendment Question: Is it legal for Government Officials to block commenters on their official accounts while doing Official Government Business as below by the Senate-Confirmed NASA Administrator @NASAAdmin (whom I've always supported vigorously)? Hopefully just a coincidental mistake easily corrected. Isn't there SCOTUS case law on this? Is it OK to do in response to someone objecting & opposing DEI at NASA, which has been an issue there admitted to by recent prior Administrator nbc16.com/news/nation-world/…?
Really, Jared @NASAAdmin, promoting Bill Nelson: the DEI Administrator of NASA? web.archive.org/web/20240627…
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May I humbly ask some 1st Amendment experts what would be correct here above for the NASA Administrator's Official account? @BenjaminBarr1A @marcorandazza
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Boo hoo, beezie. Stop holding pro forma sessions, allow recess appointments, and pass the SAVE Act and the Dismantle DEI Act.
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.    This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.     Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.   The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.   I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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I voted for this! Congress gave us $40 trillion in debt. You have been completely irresponsible traitors who allowed the American people to be robbed and displaced by foreign barbarians. I support any action the American President takes to reign in your $40 trillion debt.
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.    This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.     Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.   The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.   I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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I’ve directly asked the Department of Education to take this step multiple times since Trump took office. I hope and pray that they sign off. Nearly every single accreditor and so called professional organization has lost their way due to wokeness and DEI. It’s time to make accreditors politically unbiased again! A total no brainer.
BREAKING: An advisory panel on accreditation has recommended that the Department of Education suspend the American Psychological Association (APA) for 12 months amidst concerns about ideological standards on DEI, gender-related treatment, and especially antisemitism. After hearing from several groups during a meeting yesterday, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity’s (NACIQI) voted to make the recommendation. The recommendation now goes to the Department of Education for a final decision.
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This is true and has always been true and young people should get married and have a lot of kids. Its awesome, at times difficult, and at all times worth it.
"No group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men & women who regularly attend a place of worship. In fact, we find the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession” are husbands & wives who attend religious services at least twice a month." ~ my latest @TheAtlantic w/ @grantjbailey
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Can confirm this is true. Go to church, get married and start making some babies together. You’ll be more fulfilled and feel more pleasure on average than non-religious people too. 🙏
"No group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men & women who regularly attend a place of worship. In fact, we find the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession” are husbands & wives who attend religious services at least twice a month." ~ my latest @TheAtlantic w/ @grantjbailey
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This is great. Nature is Healing
GOOD RIDDANCE: 300 of 400 DOJ Civil Rights Attorneys QUIT Rather Than Clean America’s Voter Rolls and KILL DEI — Dhillon Says They “Self-Deported” thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09…
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