Financial Planner, Volleyball Coach and Political Junkie. Likes are my way to save posts and don't always equal a like.
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Greg Schepens retweeted
Why does the CDC's cancer data stop at 2022?
How is it we can track measles cases by the day but have a 4 year lag in cancer data?
@CDCgov @CDCDirector @SecKennedy
Greg Schepens retweeted
A San Francisco Federal Reserve paper recently found that the influx of unauthorized immigrants under the radical left accounted for 20% of rent growth during the 2021-2024 Bidenflation surge.
By contrast, President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are producing the opposite effect. State-level data show a strong association between increased immigration enforcement and more affordable rents.
@POTUS will always put American families FIRST.
Greg Schepens retweeted
Remember when @AleshireLaw obtained years worth of Austin City Council credit card expense reports?
I've collected more.
Combined, we have data from October 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026.
Since the City still hasn't posted it online, I've published it to Rise Up Austin sites.google.com/view/riseup…
You are welcome to download it and analyze it yourself.
Greg Schepens retweeted
The COVID shot was never one vaccine. It was three, stacked on top of each other, and each one was a place where safety lost to speed.
A choice was made to bury how the shots were built.
The CDC knew they were causing myocarditis in young men and strokes in seniors and said nothing.
Subpoenaed records show the agencies sat on a myocarditis signal from Israel in February 2021, drafted a public alert, then chose not to send it. They even shared that alert with Pfizer and Moderna before telling the public.
When the stroke signal appeared in their own safety data in late 2022, they still kept recommending boosters for adults over 65.
The antigen chosen when building the shot was the positively charged spike protein, which is inherently toxic. The lipid nanoparticles that carried it damage every cell membrane they touch. And the mRNA was built with a synthetic building block that does not exist in the human body, so it resisted breakdown and kept producing spike protein for months or years after injection.
That is why spike protein injuries have become one of the most widespread and complex illnesses we face, and why there are still no established protocols for treating them.
I spent a long time on the question of what actually helps, and this article covers the treatments that have consistently worked, why most of the popular ones fail, and what we now know about shedding.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-c…
Greg Schepens retweeted
The City of Austin is paying an NGO $310,000 to help immigrants figure out how they can get more power and money from the City of Austin.
The contract tells researchers to identify "systemic shifts" that would give immigrants a "redistribution or democratization of power" over city decisions.
It also has them review how they can extract resources from the city's budget.
The study will reach 340 people, at a cost of $912 each. They get gift cards and don't have to give their names. Researchers are told to avoid asking about immigration status and are barred from tracking IP addresses. So there's no reliable way to confirm that respondents are immigrants, live in Austin, or answered only once.
The contractor (The National Center for Farmworker Health) can change the study's goals "if federal immigration enforcement activities significantly increase in Central Texas." Its outreach network includes RAICES, Grassroots Leadership, and the Austin Sanctuary Network.
The money comes out of the city's budget reserve, and $226,391 has already been paid.
Greg Schepens retweeted
Talarico in 2026: "I had 45 students in one classroom. There weren't enough desks...so I had students sitting on the air conditioning unit."
Obama in 2012: "She might have 45 students in a class. They don't have enough desks, so they've got some kids sitting on the floor."
He's just recycling..
Greg Schepens retweeted
Candidate Jeff Bowen writes the City has been routing ~$8.5M a year in ACL money to a private foundation while only booking ~$103k for the city itself.
Parks look broke. So they’re asking voters for a $260M bond.
The real money never hits the city’s books. Taxpayers still get the bill - ridiculous.
district8dispatch.substack.c…
Lots of stories this week regarding ZILKER. district8dispatch.substack.c…
Attended and spoke at the Austin Parks commission on Monday. Did not think the working group was going to pass.
6 for / 2 Abstained/ one off Dias. Just took a while to get there.
This was not difficult.
Greg Schepens retweeted
NEW: The New York Times reports that the story James talarico tells to explain why he decided to enter politics — a story he has told potentially hundreds of times on the campaign trail over the years — is not true.
talarico often claims he taught 45 kids in one class period his first year as a teacher.
School records show otherwise. He never had more than 29 that year.
It's another lie. #TXsen
Greg Schepens retweeted
‼️ The PHONY "Daniel Sullivan" of Alaska who is running as a spoiler, has ONE campaign expense…
A law firm in DC called Caplin & Drysdale. Known for representing high-profile Democrats.
The Senior Counsel for that law firm is Trevor Potter.
Trevor Potter formed The Committee to Modernize Voter Registration (CMVR) in 2009 with none other than MARC ELIAS.
Their goals were more lenient voter laws and a modernized automated system using government databases to automatically register eligible voters (with an opt-out). 🤯
Potter is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute.
Phony "Dan Sullivan" sent Trevor Potter’s firm 10K.
Greg Schepens retweeted
Trump is trying to "steal your democracy" by running for office.
Meanwhile, Democrats are. . .
Importing millions of fake asylum seekers to political battleground states to create one-party Democrat rule.
Pack the Supreme Court to remove it as a separate branch of government.
Remove the filibuster to neuter the minority party.
Censor and jail dissenters as "misinformation."
Control the entire news industry to keep the public uninformed via a mesh network of hoaxes, from Fine People Hoax to the J6 Insurrection Hoax.
Bankrupt and jail independent political voices.
Maintain a voting system that cannot be fully audited, by design.
Fake pollsters support any suspicious vote outcomes.
Take away your most useful firearms.
Weaponize assassins of political opponents via media messaging.
Greg Schepens retweeted
California to the Ninth Circuit:
"Because we have already begun tabulating mail in ballots and there might be illegal ballots among those already cast that we can't segregate, we are obligated to finish this election out by continuing to count illegal ballots for consistency."
Greg Schepens retweeted
BREAKING: Rioters have broken into the Colosseum in Rome.
What has happened to Europe?
Greg Schepens retweeted
DEMOCRATS FOR PROP I (eye). The boogeyman political tactic to make Prop I a partisan issue is absolutely deceitful. As I've been saying (and seeing) ever since the petition drive for Prop I, there is a broad coalition of Austin taxpayers who are very disappointed in the Austin City Council, its high taxes, and waste of those taxes. They support a charter amendment to mandate a thorough review of City operations and spending and its Affordability. Over 40% of the petition signers are Democratic Party primary voters. Judge Prop I on its merits, but don't fall for deceitful tactics by anyone. This went out today. Check out yesforpropI.com
Greg Schepens retweeted
The grift that keeps on gifting… to friends of council.
A City of Austin reviewer wrote in 2023 that a sickle cell services contract "is funded at 3-4X the rate that contracts providing comparable services are funded."
Austin City Council renewed it three more times. The recommendations never mentioned these reviewer's concerns: arclightaction.com/insights/…
Greg Schepens retweeted
In Austin, you can hand prosecutors 4K footage of a thief stealing repeatedly and prosecutors will still throw it out with no attempt to prosecute.
AUSTIN MAN teamed up with a woman to walk out of a South Austin HEB with 9 steaks and baby wash in his backpack -- just months after prosecutors threw out a felony drug case and 7 shoplifting charges against him on the same day.
HEB says Charles Rivera has cost them $5,700 since 2024.
In December 2024, he was arrested with meth. DA Jose Garza's office declined to file charges. Eleven days later, he rolled a purple wagon into the HEB on South Congress, already loaded with Tide Pods containers, grabbed three more, and walked out.
Over the next four months, cameras caught him stealing from three HEB stores six more times.
In April 2025, he was arrested with meth again. A grand jury indicted him on a felony. Prosecutors put him in pretrial diversion.
That September, he was booked on two warrants covering all seven thefts. Eleven days later, Garza's office dismissed the felony drug case because he'd completed diversion. That same morning, County Attorney Delia Garza's office dismissed both theft cases.
Diversion didn’t work. By May 2026 he was back. Six cans of deodorant, four bottles of Dr. Squatch body wash. Then the steak run on Brodie Lane -- $457 in merchandise, split between them in the smoking area outside.
In August, he was arrested with more than 4 grams of meth, a felony that carries up to 20 years. He bonded out for $7,000.
Last month, he was finally picked up on the theft warrants. A judge ordered him to stay away from every HEB in Travis County and waived his pretrial bond fee.
Nine thefts on camera, three meth arrests, no convictions.
Greg Schepens retweeted
Elissa Slotkin: “We’re going to target you if you help Republicans.”
Also Elissa Slotkin: “Trump is targeting me because I’m a Democrat!”
You can’t make this up.
Greg Schepens retweeted
The city spent $1.7 billion plus on homelessness. Not the $179+ million cited – That's $1.7 *billion* with a “b.”
And they did it across dozens of different nonprofits/NGOS and LGCs – which is why they couldn’t answer the question correctly or accurately.
No central tracking system – very few tracked outcomes.
So why, then, did homelessness go up?
City hall can’t answer basic questions here: we had to do significant amounts of research to start to put the actual figure together. It shouldn't be this hard: we want to see the books.
Taxpayers deserve accountability; the vulnerability deserve care. Vote “aye” on “Prop i” this fall.
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More on homeless spending and the $1.7 billion figure here --> austinreform.substack.com/p/…
Greg Schepens retweeted
Austin paid more than $5 million to Workers Defense Project, an immigrant-rights group that also runs a political operation to get city officials elected.
In 2020, the group campaigned for Austin's Project Connect transit tax, which included $300 million for "anti-displacement."
Then it got $2 million of that money for "tenant and worker power."
Its PACs helped elect Council Members Fuentes, Velásquez and Siegel. Mayor Pro Tem Chito Vela used to chair its board.
DA José Garza used to run the group and drew a salary from it. The group's PAC backed Garza's 2020 campaign for DA.
So the group that helped put Austin's top prosecutor in office is the same group he used to run, and it's also collecting millions from the city.
Campaign for the tax, collect from the tax, elect your own people to spend it!
Greg Schepens retweeted
🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution "how-to" 🚨🚨
His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis.
The day after Trump's 2016 election, Cash co-founded "The Steady State" — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an "existential threat".
When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden's DHS. His own words: "we disappeared."
Then Trump won again. "Suddenly the existential threat was back." The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends "Bringing Down a Dictator" — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as "a how-to."
Meanwhile, Cash's company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because "disclosure would compromise national security."
His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active.
I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
