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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

The question most people may find interesting is not, "Who is Akash Bobba," but where is he and what is he doing these days.

One headline gives you the nutshell story, add a little text, and Crabgrass readers might choose to follow the link.

Who is Akash Bobba, 22-year-old Indian-origin engineer hired by Elon Musk's DOGE?
Akash Bobba, who has expertise in AI, data analytics, and financial modelling, is now a part of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Akash Bobba has joined Elon Musk's DOGE
India Today News Desk
New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 4, 2025 10:23 IST
Edited By: Priya Pareek
In Short
Akash Bobba is a 22-year-old Indian-origin engineer
Bobba began as a standout coder at UC Berkeley
He worked as intern at Meta and Palantir

The beat goes on.

And Liz writes a long letter. That letter would make a hell of a good start at a Democratic Party platform w/o bullshit, if the party insiders have the balls to run on it. Sorry, sexist - have the courage, etc.

Why will that not happen?

Schumer,

Pelosi,

Clyburn,

Harris,

Jeffries, and others. Others such as Hogg, touting his money raising potential as reason he is relevant and should be big in DNC, beyond his single issue gravitas.

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https://weeklybyte.substack.com/

All I know is what I read on the Internet. Which is why I try to read a spectrum.

Each in an individual way, Liz and this guy write convincingly. How apart are they? And does Liz write her own stuff, or do the final editing?

You don't read answers to stuff like that on the Internet. Few even pose the questions.

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If you look at that Weekly Byte website you might see -

The revolving door between the Pentagon and defense contractors has eroded accountability and warped priorities. Few cases highlight this corruption better than Lloyd Austin, who sat on Raytheon’s board before approving billions of dollars in contracts that directly enriched the company during his tenure as Secretary of Defense.

So, what might Elon and his engineering troupe be looking for in getting access to the disbursement database of the Treasury Department? I have no idea, since all I know is what I read on the Internet. I even have to wonder whether JD and Elon have much to say to one another, whether a conversation trail exists. But at least the question can be asked. And what should I make of this -

A Vulkan mindmeld, or Elon just wanting to get to Mars so he can be back home.

FURTHER: That Austin/Raytheon business got me to web searching and guess what -

Tenet Board Appoints Two Independent Directors

May 29, 2018

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced the appointment of two independent directors to its Board: General Lloyd J. Austin, III and Meghan M. FitzGerald, DrPH.

Bob Kerrey, [Link added] Lead Director, said, “As a retired four-star general whose career spans more than four decades in the U.S. Army, Lloyd has demonstrated a powerful commitment to service and leadership with integrity. Meg has an impressive background that combines experience across different aspects of healthcare, including policy, innovation, business development and strategy. We are thrilled to welcome our new directors, and we are confident they will add tremendous value.”

Ron Rittenmeyer, Executive Chairman and CEO, said, “We have been steadfast in our commitment to accelerate change across the company. This applies to all facets of operations and all levels of leadership – including adding five new directors to our board in the last seven months. Lloyd and Meg have remarkable experience and will offer new and valuable insights as we continue to improve performance and drive value for our shareholders.”

Biographical Information (General Lloyd J. Austin, III)

Austin is a retired four-star general who served for 41 years in the U.S. Army. From March 2013 through March 2016, Austin served as the Commander of U.S. Central Command responsible for military strategy and joint operations throughout the 20-country Central Region that includes Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Prior to that, he served as the 33rd Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from January 2012 to March 2013 and as the Combined Forces Commander in Iraq from September 2010 through 2011. He is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards, including the Silver Star, five Defense Distinguished Service Medals and the Legion of Merit. Austin currently serves as a director of United Technologies Corporation and Nucor Corporation. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and holds master’s degrees from Auburn University (Education) and Webster University (Business Management).

Biographical Information (Meghan M. FitzGerald, DrPH)

FitzGerald is a Managing Partner at L1 Health LLC, an investment fund specializing in healthcare. She also serves as an Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Columbia University. From May 2015 to October 2016, FitzGerald served as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Policy at Cardinal Health, a healthcare services and product company. From 2010 to 2015, she served as President of Cardinal’s Specialty Solutions division. FitzGerald serves as a director of two other public companies, Arix Bioscience plc and Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She holds a DrPh in Healthcare Policy from New York Medical College, a BSN in Nursing from Fairfield University, and a Master of Public Health from Columbia University.

About Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a diversified healthcare services company with approximately 115,000 employees united around a common mission: to help people live happier, healthier lives. Through its subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, including United Surgical Partners International, the Company operates general acute care and specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers and other outpatient facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Tenet’s Conifer Health Solutions subsidiary provides technology-enabled performance improvement and health management solutions to hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, physician groups, self-insured organizations and health plans. For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.

Doors revolve and directorates interlock. Academia, government, military, healthcare. Who would have guessed? But, you read it on the Internet, and sources seem legit. So, what Elon is doing will likely flesh out after it's done. There are voices being raised in opposition. If Elon's young braintrust fucks up, we can believe we will hear of it. Or read of it. On the Internet.

Men in Black

Yes, Jensen, we both are exceptional at recruiting smart people. Your guys make great chips and my guys are building those chips in a Memphis place into Colossus, 200,000 chips in scaling planning and able to grow beyond that. You build the chips and I build the device capable of rigging the crypto market. And you know what happened in Memphis. Your chips can go into linking and aiding the world's banking hegemony to eliminate corruption, while my Colossaus can service the money launderers. We've got finance by both ends, like the alimentary canal.

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.