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NEW: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub, as of this week. The staffer, Jordan Wick, also created a repository for a Twitter DM-downloading tool just 3 days ago. He posted work on geospatial data in Jan—undersea cables, ports & “critical minerals.” Image
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Last May, Wick’s hyperlocal SanFran-based startup (AccelerateSF) expanded to sell AI efficiency systems to the federal govt, changing to “AccerateX.” They claimed 2 large “transit agency” clients. (DOGEr Anthony Jansco was also behind the group: ) wired.com/story/elon-mus…Image
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On Feb 18, Wick uploaded “org chart_viewer” to his GitHub (), with fields for employee union status, full-time status, location, & a “satisfaction” rating (out of 5). He also uploaded fields to filter searches for depts in the Small Business Adminstration. gist.github.com/JomanwImage
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On Feb 24, Wick uploaded code related to a search tool that allows viewers to filter employees by office, union status, and whether positions are statutorily mandated. (Project 2025 seeks to dismantle federal govt unions.) Archived: ghostarchive.org/archive/mvDXyImage
The Twitter DM downloader: From Feb 25-27, Wick uploaded and updated a tool for downloading Twitter DMs. It’s entirely unclear what the hell this is for. Archived: ghostarchive.org/archive/ZSVD5
Again, Wick’s GitHub is currently public. It’s not clear if he knows. He has 10 followers and follows 53 accounts. Here are the people currently following him. Image
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Here are the 53 GitHub accounts Wick follows. Image
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In early January, weeks after DOGE staff—including Wick’s business partner—reportedly began recruiting for DOGE, Wick uploaded repositories for sensitive geospatial data. They include int’l ports, undersea cables, and multiple nodes for mineral deposits. Image
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Last May, Wick and fellow DOGEr Anthony Jansco launched AccerateX, an AI-powered govt efficiency startup converted from their SF-focused Accelerate SF. That month, the site began redirecting to AccelerateX, which sells AI govt operating systems. accelerateSF.orgImage
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In Feb 2024, an AccelerateX LLC was incorporated in Whitefish, Montana, a ski resort town. The company’s principal office, however, is in Ft. Lauderdale. The LLC isn’t registered as a foreign entity with the state of Florida. XX Image
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Well, I spelled AccelerateX wrong 2 out of 4 times. To be clear: It is not AccerateX; it is AccelerateX.
Update: Wick’s GitHub is no longer public
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@LanceTreyark @HambrechtJason Is he stealing nuclear secrets, like Trump? Zero evidence. But he was — and apparently accidentally or thinking no one would know — revealing non-public information about his work
@clkbsfth @HambrechtJason I don’t care if some people want to shrug that off and be contrarian, that’s their view, but it is objectively newsworthy. These actions are not standard practice in the fucking US govt
@LanceTreyark @HambrechtJason I’m not concluding anything. I am saying what he literally did. Ask career federal employees if this is standard sanctioned behavior. You have your view on how serious it is. I’m not taking a position there. He can explain if he wants. But it is newsworthy.
@clkbsfth @HambrechtJason There is non-public information there — such as the specific metrics like union membership, for instance, which would alarm many federal workers. It also reveals some of their internal process. You’re not an expert on federal administration, your opinion of this is just yours

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NEW: In 2014, Mohamed Al-Hanooti—Hamas fundraiser & unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing—was back at Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, as the DC-area mufti, or top Islamic cleric.

That year, he presided over Rep Cory Mills’ marriage in a religious ceremony. 1/X
Here’s the marriage certificate. Fairfax County confirmed to me the info on this document matches their official records. For officiant address, Hanooti, who died in 2015, listed Dar al-Hijrah mosque, where he also previously served as imam. Anwar Al-Awlaki was also a DAH imam. Image
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NEW: Rep Cory Mills said on his Bronze Star papers he saved this man's life. Troops in the battle told me it's a lie. Yet here he is months after his star—after taking $2000 from the man's dad. If the claims I have are true, Mills lied about his war heroics. Did he have help? 1/X Image
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The Daytona News-Journal investigated Mills' Bronze Star last year. It led to this headline, seemingly confirming it was settled & Mills' claims checked out. But his claims *don't* check out. He got re-elected & currently sits on Armed Services. news-journalonline.com/story/news/loc…Image
The officer who awarded medals for the events—Col. Shannon E. Nielsen—told me Mills wasn't involved, barely recalled him. Statements from troops who lived the events—in a complaint filed with the Ofc of Cong Ethics—say Mills wasn't there. Here's one from a man Mills said he saved Image
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In response to Cory Mills blocking me, let’s talk about his nonprofit.

If you didn’t know Mills had a nonprofit, I don’t blame you—the House Ethics Committee didn’t, either. While he’s never disclosed it as required, that sure did not stop him & his office from promoting it!
On 9/8/2021, Mills created the group—Never Forgotten, Inc—in VA, home to his weapons company (the group’s reg agent) and until 2023, to Mills himself. But Never Forgotten doesn’t appear in the VA charity registry, nor Florida’s (pictured), where they opened a branch last December Image
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Off the bat: Nonprofits must register with states to fundraise there. Never Forgotten seemingly isn’t allowed to raise $ in its homes. But now NF claims it never raised money—all revenue from govt or people paying for its services. And those services are: Foreign rescue missions!
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The chair & chief legal officer of Rep. Cory Mills' arms company—Joseph Schmitz—is a Pentagon IG who left amid a contract scandal in 2005 to become COO & general counsel of Erik Prince's Blackwater mercenary group. He was in that role during the Iraq massacre. But there's more...
In 2020 Prince tapped Schmitz as potential foreign agent to lobby for his $10B plan to put a private army in Ukraine. Schmitz was with Mills' company—PACEM—at the time. PACEM sold arms to Ukraine while Mills was in Congress, including a state-owned company Image
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Schmitz was a 2016 Trump campaign adviser, which resurfaced his Pentagon scandal—including alleged antisemitic boasts about firing Jews & Holocaust denial, like "Ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews." (Schmitz denies.) Mills hired him 2 years later. timesofisrael.com/trump-adviser-…Image
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In 2021, Mills ran for Congress in Florida as a MAGAfied war hero & won, despite owning & living in a McLean VA mansion. But when he ran, his arms company was in money trouble. And Mills made some financial moves that happened to coincide with his campaign.
It’s probably easiest to center this story on Mills’ company. PACEM Defense (and related entities) is an int’l arms dealer. (For a sense of where we’re headed, PACEM has an unpaid federal tax lien of $600,000 from 2022, per Va. UCC filings. They paid a separate one last year.) Image
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